Training

FC099 Basic Level Spreadsheeting Skills

This one-day course provides foundational spreadsheeting knowledge and skills to enhance workplace productivity. The course covers basic navigation of Microsoft Excel by combining live demonstrations and hands-on exercises.

Work with multiple worksheets within a workbook
Hide, unhide, and protect worksheets
Adjust rows and columns
Use copy and paste options
Find, select, and sort data

IA300 Advanced Criminal Intelligence: Tradecraft and Analysis

This three-day course is dedicated to studying the fundamentals of quantitative and qualitative data analysis and how to formulate arguments in support of criminal investigations and intelligence. Students will learn about data management techniques and a disciplined process to clean and standardize data in preparation for analysis. The course will also explore several common investigative objectives, including the discovery of associations between people and entities, the correlation between unlawful activity and suspects, behavioral affinities, and predictions. The course will introduce the Enterprise Theory of Crime and how to use network analysis to formulate conclusions about the structure of criminal organizations, their players and roles, the identification of facilitators, charting of financial arrangements, and connections to unlawful activity. The course enables the production of valuable, accurate, and efficient logical inferences produced by collecting data related to unlawful activity.

Digital Evidence Basics for Non-Technical Investigators

This is the replacement class for Securecube.

This course will familiarize Non-Technical Investigators related to the fundamentals of handling digital evidence which may present in the course of their investigations. The course will address the digital evidence source landscape, collection and preservation, examination and authentication, and considerations for managing third party sources. The student will receive a broad and balanced understanding of how digital evidence can enhance their investigations and the fundamentals of handling such evidence.

Presented by:
Jim Emerson, Vice President, High Tech Crimes, NW3C

IA103 Introduction to Strategic Intelligence Analysis

This course introduces analysts to the broader concepts of connecting the dots through link analysis. A critical portion of conducting a successful analytical investigation is the ability to link together and understand the complexities of the connectedness between people and organizations. Introduction to Link Analysis (ILA) expands on the basic principles of link and association analyses explored in the Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training (FIAT) while building a framework for more advanced methods such as social network analysis.

Expanding basic knowledge of link and association analysis
Explaining the process of social network analysis
Understanding the visual mapping and mathematical components associated with link and social network analyses

IA102 Introduction to Link Analysis

This course introduces analysts to the broader concepts of connecting the dots through link analysis. A critical portion of conducting a successful analytical investigation is the ability to link together and understand the complexities of the connectedness between people and organizations. Introduction to Link Analysis (ILA) expands on the basic principles of link and association analyses explored in the Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training (FIAT) while building a framework for more advanced methods such as social network analysis.

Expanding basic knowledge of link and association analysis
Explaining the process of social network analysis
Understanding the visual mapping and mathematical components associated with link and social network analyses

Centralized Services in Pretrial: What’s Working in Three Leading States

This webinar will discuss centralized pretrial functions, drivers for the change to centralized functions, evaluation of centralized functions, and lessons learned during the transition from previous operations to centralized operations.

Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Trauma Informed Victim Interviewing Training & FBI ViCAP Training

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), in partnership with RTI International are excited to announce a 2024 Trauma Informed Victim Interviewing Training, supported by Grant No. 2019-MU-BX-K011. This event will be hosted at RTI International's campus in Research Triangle Park, NC on September 4th and 5th. Additionally, the FBI ViCAP team will provide a full-day hands-on training on September 6th.

What are the Top Digital Evidence Issues in 2024?

NW3C conducted listening sessions for BJA hosted by the Massachusetts Attorney General at the National Cyber Crime Conference in April 2024. Join us to review the comments of your colleagues from across the US as we posed a range of important questions regarding digital evidence, legal complexities, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Presented by:
Jim Emerson, Vice President, NW3C

NW3C does not share attendees personally identifiable information with any third party without opt-in consent given during registration.

Intelligence Analysis: Asked and Answered Cohort 2

Join experts from NW3C and the National Network of Fusion Centers as they provide thoughtful and detailed answers to the intelligence analysis questions you submit. In this session, our panel has a wealth of experience with managing intelligence analysts and intelligence projects. This panel will provide perspectives from large and smaller intelligence units at the local and state law enforcement levels.

Presented by:
Heaven Henwood, Lae Enforcement Analyst Supervisor, Philadelphia Police Dept.
Deepak Kukade, Itelligence Analyst, Minnesota Fusion Center
Randy Stickley, Lead Intelligence -Targeting Analyst, KACE Company
Trevor Knight, Production Managern District of Columbia Fusion Center

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