Archive for the ‘In-service’ Category
Friday, May 18th, 2007
The revisions to the Department of Criminal Justice Services in-service training regulations became effective in February of this year. The section pertaining to the use of electronic training delivery systems (multimedia training programs in DCJS lingo) changed significantly. As a result, I recently revised our multimedia training policy ...
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Anyone that is involved in the recruiting process for a criminal justice agency knows that it is getting increasingly more challenging to find qualified applicants. Candidates that look good at first blush are often eliminated due to criminal or serious traffic convictions, past employment issues, drug use, financial missteps ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
On February 12, 2007, an 18 year old Salt Lake City resident entered the historic Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City around 6:44 P.M., armed with a handgun, a shotgun and several rounds of ammunition. He began shooting randomly at customers, ultimately killing five people and wounding four ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Earl Hardy, from NHTSA, requested that the following information be forwarded to all interested law enforcement officers. He has included links to a child booster seat video that would be good for roll call training and a like to obtain additional information on this issue.
Since 2000, more than two-thirds ...
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
This is a short video demonstration of a four shot cell phone gun. The video speaks for itself but make sure that you inspect electronic devices like cell phones, pagers, etc. to make sure they are what they appear to be.
Cell Phone Gun Video
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
This video vividly demonstrates the dangers of relaxing too soon during any situation. An incorrect assumption about the bad guys nearly costs two officers their lives.
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Georgia Police Shooting
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Recently, I received some comments suggesting that I include more training videos, along with some commentary, in the blog. When Mack Pettigrew, my co-host on CopCAST, sent me this video, I knew this was one that had to go on the blog. This is not the type of ...
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
If you have ever visited YouTube.com and waded through the thousands of homemade videos that would have been better left on the cutting room floor, you may be asking why Google spent over a billion dollars to buy it. If you are anticipating an answer to this question, you ...
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
On a positive note, a city police department (who will remain unnamed for the purposes of this article) will stop planting unloaded weapons, fake drugs and other props in unsuspecting civilians' cars as a way to help train officers to search vehicles. Of course on the down side, you ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
With some limited modifications, the lecture model has been the traditional delivery method for training criminal justice officers for many years. Although we have significantly increased the amount of practical exercise training in the entry level training environment, the predominate training methodology still revolves around herding students into a ...
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Most agency administrators and trainers recognize the value of conducting regular roll call training. However, the burden of preparing the lesson plans for these mini training classes usually falls on the patrol sergeant. Unfortunately, preparing roll call lesson plans is often low on the priority list during busy ...
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
In the law enforcement profession, we give a lot of lip service to the concept of "ethics". I have attended and taught numerous courses on professionalism and ethics and I have heard a long list of definitions of ethics. The one thing that I have concluded after all ...
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Most cops probably had that range master who constantly remindied you to keep your finger off the trigger unless you were going to fire your weapon. It has probably been a while since you attended entry level training but the message is still just as important. Check out ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
We will be conducting a V-200 course at Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy on October 2 - 3, 2006. This course will satisfy the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) mandates for training on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS). ...
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