This proactive course covers many important legal issues for proactive officers and detectives. Topics include undercover operations inside homes, anonymous tips, Miranda, and much more.
Goal
This course will help students become proficient in various advanced criminal investigation techniques, including handling informants, dealing with homes, and arrests.
Outcome
Students who complete the course will:
Understand vanrious advanced search and seizure related issues, including:
Burdens of proof
Fourth Amendment standing
The Single Purpose Container Doctrine
Managing informants
Anonymous tips
Collective knowledge
Constructive possession
Home entries based on deception
Dealing with hotel rooms
Reduce or elminate lawsuits
Make good case law
Training Modules
1. All about burdens of proof, including a deep dive into probable cause.
2. We train the legal issues regarding the most used search and seizures by narcotics officers, in particular:
What one of three exceptions an officer needs every time a search and seizure is conducted.
How to effectively articulate citizen-consensual encounters
How to articulate any consensual search, and what are the many pitfalls to avoid
What is apparent authority to consent to search, and what if officers are mistaken
How to conduct an investigative detention, and how to transition to a P.C. stop or back down to a consensual encounter
Stops based on anonymous tips
3. Building solid probable cause, including these topics:
Confidential informants
Reliability of "citizen informers"
The two knowledge doctrines
Articulating constructive possession offenses
4. Dealing with homes, in particular:
Warrantless entry to prevent the destruction of evidence
Entries based on deception or ruses
Hot pursuit entries and plain view seizures
5. How to articulate constructive possession.
6. The two types of collective Knowledge Doctrines.
7. All about searches incident to arrest, along with the judicial push-back on "lunge area" searches.
8. Interview and interrogation law.
Training Methods
Our training is high-energy, interactive, and not boring legal training!
Completion
All students receive a completion certificate and the Search and Seizure Pocket Guide.