Tribal Justice Agencies

Webinar: “A Tribal-State Collaboration Model: Poarch Band of Creek Indians’ Journey to Success”

Review the steps Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Alabama’s only federally recognized tribe, took to overcome jurisdictional barriers to achieve implementation of state legislation known as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians—State Police Powers Act (Alabama Act #2018-393). Review the specific barriers that were overcome such as lack of state recognition, no available copies of memorandums of understanding that were in prior existence, inability to use state academy for training, not honoring tribal courts, etc.

Webinar: “Mid-Year Law Enforcement Fatalities Report: Keeping Officers’ Names Off the Wall”

Please join the National Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum for a presentation of the preliminary numbers of U.S. law enforcement fatalities from January–June 2020 as recorded by the National Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum. Reviewing and discussing this data will be a panel of law enforcement and officer safety and wellness experts including a pair of Destination Zero National Officer Safety and Wellness winners, a medical doctor discussing physical health and well-being, and a psychologist addressing mental health issues in policing.

Webinar: “Connecting People Who Have Serious Mental Illness to Care: Trends and Strategies”

The Stepping Up initiative encourages counties to track data along Four Key Measures, including connecting people who have serious mental illness (SMI) to treatment and other services after discharge from jail. Communities across the country are looking for information on how to best facilitate connection to care for individuals with SMI. With the current expansion of telehealth, there is a need to discuss best approaches, other ways to connect to care, and to share tips and strategies from counties.

Webinar: “An Agency’s Cybersecurity and the Integrity of Digital Evidence”

This webinar will examine law enforcement agency cybersecurity challenges resulting from the cyber threats faced by municipalities, counties, and state governments. The webinar will explore how a cyber incident for a law enforcement agency can impact (even lose) a criminal case for the prosecution or negatively impact the agency’s credibility in general. When providing agency cybersecurity, not all postures and solutions are the same.

Presented by:

Carter Schoenberg, Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity Solutions at IPKeys Power Partners

Webinar: “Cumulative Trauma: The Covert Enemy of First Responders”

Drawn from his many years of experience with officer-involved shootings, line-of-duty deaths, and “everyday traumas,” Dr. McDougall will provide the audience with the day-to-day incidents that can cause cumulative trauma and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. McDougall will share clinical scenarios that reveal the numerous ways in which officers’ professional and personal lives are impacted by cumulative trauma.

Webinar: “Cumulative Trauma: The Covert Enemy of First Responders”

Drawn from his many years of experience with officer-involved shootings, line-of-duty deaths, and “everyday traumas,” Dr. McDougall will provide the audience with the day-to-day incidents that can cause cumulative trauma and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. McDougall will share clinical scenarios that reveal the numerous ways in which officers’ professional and personal lives are impacted by cumulative trauma.

FC205 Financial Analysis Methodology (July 8, 2020, Virtual)

This course provides an overview of financial analysis methodologies used to spreadsheet bank records and analyze financial and business records. Students will learn how to obtain financial records and how to organize, enter, and analyze financial data. Topics included are constructing a functional bank record spreadsheet, analyzing a variety of financial records, FinCEN, financial profiling, and types of business records and the illegal activities associated with them.

Attendees will be able to:

  • Construct a functional bank records spreadsheet according to accepted best practices.
  • List and describe the steps of bank records analysis.
  • Describe the use of currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports.
  • Explain the uses of financial profiling.
  • Explain sources and applications of fund analysis.

FC210 Money Laundering and Commingling (July 21, 2020, Virtual)

This course provides basic to intermediate knowledge of the money laundering process and the commingling of funds, as well as an understanding of the ingenuity criminals use to move and hide funds while concealing their identity. The course instruction will use examples of real-life cases to provide an interactive session for students. Students will learn to:

  • Define placement, layering, and integration.
  • Explain why structuring is a common element of many money laundering schemes.
  • List at least four common typologies of money laundering.
  • Define commingling and how it relates to money laundering.
  • List four methods for disentangling commingled funds.

FC210 Money Laundering and Commingling (July 7, 2020, Virtual)

This course provides basic to intermediate knowledge of the money laundering process and the commingling of funds, as well as an understanding of the ingenuity criminals use to move and hide funds while concealing their identity. The course instruction will use examples of real-life cases to provide an interactive session for students. Students will learn to:

  • Define placement, layering, and integration.
  • Explain why structuring is a common element of many money laundering schemes.
  • List at least four common typologies of money laundering.
  • Define commingling and how it relates to money laundering.
  • List four methods for disentangling commingled funds.

FC102 Financial Investigations Triage (July 9, 2020, Virtual)

This course provides an overview of the actions investigators can take at the outset of a financial crime investigation. Students learn to ask critical questions, gather documentation, and analyze information for leads. Topics include obtaining and working with financial records, red flags in financial cases, money laundering, investigative strategies for different types of financial crimes, and commingled funds.

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