Community Awareness for Public Safety

The goal of this course is to teach basic security skills to non-law enforcement personnel. This training is particularly valuable for those who work at theme parks, sporting arenas, malls, and other target-rich environments. The cornerstone of CAPS is behavioral assessment training. Participants will learn to recognize certain behavioral characteristics that are commonly exhibited by individuals who have harmful motives. This includes a lesson on surveillance indicators – clues to suggest that someone is surveilling your organization/establishment in preparation for a future attack or other criminal activity.

Participants will also gain a basic understanding of threat and vulnerability analyses, and learn simple security precautions that everyone can take to be safer in the workplace. CAPS also discusses layers of defense and supports the idea that security is everyone’s job.

The skills acquired during this course can be implemented quickly and easily in any work environment. There is no equipment to purchase or maintain. There is no physical element to this training. Employees need only to be able to observe their surroundings and report those observations to the appropriate person when necessary.

CAPS is a four-hour course and is offered in a two-day package. Over the course of the two days, the host agency will receive three sessions of CAPS training and one CAPS Train-the-Trainer session. Each CAPS session can accommodate up to 40 participants and each Train-the-Trainer session can accommodate up to 20 participants.

CAPS was developed from training materials that have been certified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Critical Incident Response

Critical Incident Response is offered by LEIC on behalf of D-Prep, LLC, a California-based training provider. 

This course is designed as a Multi-Hazard approach to prepare Patrol Senior Field Officers, Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Executives to be effective leaders at a Critical Incident – barricaded gunman, hostage taking, terrorist act, disasters, etc.

The course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of current field tactics, with an emphasis on the use of a four-step Critical Incident Response Plan that will allow class participants to take command of any critical incident or disaster.  Participants will be exposed to case studies and will participate in tabletop exercises that will allow them to apply the Critical Incident Response Plan to a wide variety of emergency incidents facing local law enforcement agencies today.

Topics covered in this class include:

• Role of the Field Leader
• Department Initiated vs. Suspect Initiated Events
• Common Points to All Critical Incidents
• Active Shooter Incidents
• Advantages of the Suspect vs. Responding Officers
• Mutual Aid Issues
• Evacuation vs. Rescue
• Role of the Fire Department in Critical Incident Response
• Law Enforcement Role in a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI)
• Crisis Media Relations
• Development of the Four-Step Critical Incident Response Plan
• Development of a Critical Incident Checklist
• Terrorism Response Issues
• Crisis Negotiations for the First Responder
• ‘Real World’ Law Enforcement Incident Command System
• Unified Command Concepts

To register, go to the website at: www.dprep.com – Select ‘Law Enforcement’ then the class title, Select ‘Enroll Here’ for this specific class and complete the registration form.  If you have any questions: (916) 761-9130 or info@dprep.com.  As soon as you register you will receive an immediate e-mail letter with a map to the training site, hotel information, payment information, etc.

Homeland Security Training for Law Enforcement

Basic Homeland Security Training for Patrol Officers

This basic-level training is a POST-certified, 32-hour course. The course provides patrol officers with training on the skills and techniques required to properly detect, prevent, and respond to various acts of terrorism.
The course is composed of four modules. They include the following:

• Defining and Understanding Terrorism
• Community Policing and Terrorism
• Combating Terrorism
• Street Officer Safety and WMD Response
  
  

"...we have to be risk-based in our approach to our activities, and that means focusing on consequences, vulnerabilities, and threats, and allocating our resources."
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff

Threat and Vulnerability Assessment Training

This advanced-level training is intended for law enforcement supervisors and training officers. This 40-hour course is POST certified, and it provides officers with the essential skills needed to identify and respond to vulnerable targets and prospective threats of terrorism in their local jurisdictions.

Trainee Goals:

• Describe different threat assessment methodologies.
• Recognize, identify, and understand threats and weapons that terrorists use to conduct attacks.
• Identify and glean information from the types of targets that terrorists have historically attacked and be able to distinguish potential targets in Tennessee.
• Understand that terrorists pose an enhanced threat to critical infrastructure, information technology, and special events.
• Describe a risk management approach to threat assessments and identify various preventive safeguards and measures to protect critical infrastructure.
• Conduct and update a vulnerability and threat assessment of potential targets.

Terrorism Briefings for Law Enforcement Executives

This executive-level training is a POST-certified 16-hour seminar held in Nashville biannually for law enforcement chiefs, sheriffs, and other executive-level officers. The purpose of the briefings is to inform and network the capabilities of the various police departments and sheriff offices across Tennessee in order to prevent, deter, and combat potential acts of terrorism. Internationally respected homeland security experts share insight and intelligence those attending.

Past Seminar and Briefing Topics Have Included:

• Targeting Al Qaeda and Associates in Tennessee
• Cyber-terrorism
• Protocol for Law Enforcement Dealing with Suicide Bombers
• Media in the War on Terrorism
• Tennessee in the Global War on Terrorism
• Terrorist Operations and Intelligence

Secured and Prepared Schools (DHS-certified)

This professional development initiative is DHS certified and was established to help schools identify and adopt best practices in the area of school security and emergency preparedness. Using a broad, multi-hazard approach, the project addresses challenges ranging from school shootings to natural disasters to terrorist incidents. This joint effort is successful in training school authorities on methods by which to make their respective schools safer and more secure from the impacts of natural and fabricated disasters.

Training is delivered using a 3-tier model and includes:

Basic School Security and Preparedness Training

This level serves as a "train-the-trainer" course targeting both school staff and teachers. Representatives from various school systems across Tennessee may attend these training courses to better equip themselves to train their own school employees by offering similar workshops and best practice in-service programs.

Who Should Attend: School, staff, or teachers.
Class Size: 75-150 participants (min-max).
Cost: Please contact us.

Advanced Training for Building Administrators and Other Key Personnel

Tier Two is based on a security team approach. Participating school districts will send a multi-disciplinary team of four to five persons. Security teams typically are composed of central office staff, building administrators, transportation or facility directors, student support personnel, school resources officers, and other identified key personnel.

Who Should Attend: School district security teams.
Class Size: 75 participants.
Certification: 16 hours of TASL, POST, or CEU credits.
Cost: Please contact us.

Executive Seminars for Directors of School Districts

This level comprises a series of regional executive seminars to provide both directors of schools and superintendents with an overview of the Secured and Prepared Schools of Tennessee Program. Further, the seminar assists executives to identify best practices for their schools and to adopt appropriate policies for school security and emergency preparedness.

Who Should Attend: Executive-level school personnel.
Class Size: 20 participants.
Certification: 6 hours of CEU credit is available.
Cost: Please contact us.

Transit-Oriented Screening of Passengers by Observational Techniques (Approved for the State-Sponsored Catalog)

The goal of this course is to teach behavioral assessment skills to frontline transit workers, including bus operators, customer service staff, maintenance personnel, and any others who have frequent contact with the riding public.

Transit Oriented Screening of Passengers by Observational Techniques (TO SPOT) targets civilians who have had no law enforcement training. This course teaches them to recognize certain behavioral characteristics that are commonly exhibited by individuals who have harmful motives.

TO SPOT is a four-hour, DHS-certified course and is offered in a two-day package. Over the course of the two days, the host agency will receive three sessions of TO SPOT training and one session of TO SPOT Train-the-Trainer (TTT). DHS grant money can be used to pay for the course.

Participants who successfully complete the TO SPOT TTT will be certified by the LEIC to conduct TO SPOT training for their own agencies. All certified TO SPOT trainers will be provided with instructions for scheduling these deliveries as well as reporting attendance and performance data.

Course Details

The TO SPOT course is delivered according to the following schedule:

	Day 1	Day 2
0800 – 1200	TO SPOT 3 hours classroom 1 hour practical exercise	TO SPOT 3 hours classroom 1 hour practical exercise
1200 – 1300	Lunch	Lunch
1300 – 1700	TO SPOT 3 hours classroom 1 hour practical exercise	TO SPOT Train-the-Trainer

Capacity for each session is limited as follows:

	Max Attendance/Session	Prerequisite
TO SPOT	40	None
TO SPOT TTT	20	TO SPOT*

* This requirement will be waived for anyone who has successfully completed the Transit Terrorist Tools & Tactics (T4) course within the past 12 months.