Course detail: Strangulation: A Hidden Danger
- Participants providing service to domestic violence and/or sexual assault victims will recognize and understand strangulation.
- Participants will gain knowledge on effective approaches and interview skills to enhance response, investigations and prosecutions.
- Understand the correlation between strangulation and homicide.
- Identify signs, symptoms and terminologies of strangulation.
- Understand how to use the lethality assessment to assist victims possibly at risk.
- Understand the danger of minimizing a strangulation investigation.
- Understand what the trauma of strangulation does to the brain.
- Law Enforcement Officers - regardless of rank or assignment
- Prosecutors
- Victim Advocates
- Forensic Lab Personnel
- Lecture Scenario Course
Course Requirements:
- 100% attendance
Notice of Availability of the KLETC Annual Security and Fire Safety Report:
The University of Kansas has determined that the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) main campus in Hutchinson and its regional sites in Dodge City, Hays, and Parsons are separate campuses. This determination was made in consultation with the Department of Education. The report is available online t: https://civilrights.ku.edu/clery.
The report contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; the procedures the institution will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred On-Campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Non-Campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the institution or a recognized student organization; and on Public Property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.
A paper copy of the report will be provided upon request. If you would like to receive a paper copy, you can request that a copy be mailed to you by calling 785-864-6414 or emailing civilrights@ku.edu or arrange for pick-up at a KLETC location.