Course detail: Safe Corrections Operations: Restraints, Searches, and Contraband Control

Course Description
This two-day, performance-based course provides law enforcement and corrections professionals with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to safely maintain custody, control, and institutional security.

Through classroom instruction and hands-on training, participants will learn proper restraint application, enhanced restraint techniques, systematic inmate and housing area search procedures, and methods for identifying, documenting, and controlling contraband. Emphasis is placed on officer safety, communication, legal considerations, evidence preservation, and sound decision-making during both routine and high-risk custodial operations.

Participants will apply these concepts through realistic practical exercises that reinforce safe restraint techniques, organized search procedures, contraband detection, and coordinated team operations. Instruction is provided by members of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office Detention Training Unit.

Core Competency
Participants will apply safe and effective custody and control practices by utilizing proper restraint techniques, conducting systematic searches, identifying contraband, and maintaining officer safety and institutional security.

Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate safe application and removal of standard handcuffs and approved enhanced restraint devices. 
  2. Conduct systematic searches of inmates, property, housing units, and common areas using accepted safety procedures. 
  3. Identify common forms of contraband, recognize methods of concealment, and properly preserve and document evidence. 
  4. Perform organized housing unit shakedowns while maintaining officer safety, inmate accountability, and evidence integrity. 
  5. Apply legal, ethical, and agency policy considerations related to restraints, searches, and contraband control. 
  6. Demonstrate effective communication, teamwork, and sound decision making during custodial operations and practical scenarios. 

Instructional Methods
  • Lecture 
  • Guided discussion 
  • Hands-on practical exercises 
  • Scenario-based training 

Who Should Attend
  • State and local law enforcement personnel 
  • Corrections and detention officers 

Course Requirements
  • 100% attendance and participation 

Fitness Requirements and Expectations: ACTIVE




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 Session Information: LE27111F

Schedule: Every day, starting on 10/20/26 and ending on 10/21/26
Times: 08:00am-05:00pm CDT
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Attendees should wear a standard-duty uniform for corrections operations that includes Law Enforcement identification, as the training occurs inside an active correctional facility. Participants are responsible for their own travel, meals, and lodging as necessary.

Instructors

Name Additional Resources
Dustin Wileman

Facility Detail

New Century Adult Detention Center
27745 W. 159th St
New Century, KS 66031