Training

Webinar - Strategies for Reaching Overdose Survivors, Including Peer Support

Communities across the country are employing innovative approaches to counter the rising number of overdose deaths. This webinar will introduce nontraditional responses to overdoses with a focus on the use of peer support specialists – individuals with lived experience who are themselves in recovery. Peer support specialists engage with survivors soon after their overdoses and remain an important resource to the individuals in navigating life in their communities, including facilitating access to treatment and other services.

Basic Training for Street Gang Investigators

About the Training

This training is made possible through funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance. The three-day class offers basic, entry-level training to sworn officers newly assigned to work with street gangs or those with limited experience and/or no formal training in street gang investigations. Course topics may include:

Webinar - Project ChildSafe®

The Bureau of Justice Assistance, in partnership with the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Native American Rights Fund, announced a webinar session on Project ChildSafe®, a grant program that makes free gun locks and firearms safety information, including information on suicide prevention, available to tribal law enforcement and health organizations, for distribution in their communities. Learn more about the program and how to access these materials for your community.

Tor, Onion Routers, Deepnet, and Darknet: A Deep Dive for Criminal Investigators

Many criminal investigators and analysts have heard of virtual private networks, proxies, and Tor. But, most would not feel comfortable conducting an investigation in which one of these tools was deployed. Similarly, both the Deepnet and Darknet are widely discussed but often not understood. At the same time, criminal investigators and analysts increasingly are required to conduct investigations and collect criminal intelligence information in these spaces or when these tools are being used.

Webinar - OJJDP Funding Opportunities for Gang Suppression

This webinar will highlight the two Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Gang Suppression solicitations available to prevent and reduce gang-related crime and violence. Key components will be discussed, to include eligibility, goals, objectives, deliverables, and budgetary requirements. The National Gang Center will also highlight ways in which jurisdictions can introduce and/or strengthen comprehensive approaches to develop strategic gang-reduction plans and/or to implement coordinated gang suppression strategies.

Webinar - Practical Approaches to Sustaining Innovative Policing Initiatives

On September 13, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) team will present a webinar on “Practical Approaches to Sustaining Innovative Policing Initiatives.” This online, interactive seminar will engage both the law enforcement community along with state and local government officials on how SPI sites are planning and sustaining new innovation.

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program: Specialized Workshop (Dallas, TX Area)

Subject experts in domestic and international terrorist/criminal extremist groups and individuals will offer investigative strategies for effectively identifying pre-incident behaviors and activities and will detail how local communities and law enforcement agencies are impacted by current terrorism trends. 

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program: Specialized Workshop (Raleigh, NC)

This workshop explores the current domestic and international terrorist threat, provides investigative strategies for effectively identifying pre-incident behaviors and activities, and details how local communities and law enforcement agencies are impacted. The discussion includes criminal threats from militias, sovereign citizens, and white supremacists, as well as single-issue terrorism. 

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program: Specialized Workshop (St. Louis, MO Area)

Subject experts in domestic and international terrorist/criminal extremist groups and individuals will offer investigative strategies for effectively identifying pre-incident behaviors and activities and will detail how local communities and law enforcement agencies are impacted by current terrorism trends. 

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program: Specialized Workshop (Catoosa, OK)

Course topics address the basic beliefs of sovereign citizens and the threats that the criminal extremist element of sovereign citizens presents to law enforcement officers. Emphasis will be given to the problems that sovereign citizens present in court and other legal situations.

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