Courses & Events

Effective police reports will help an officer articulate probable cause for charging cases. This course of instruction is designed to improve upon the first responder's report writing skills; focusing on the intricacies of police reports rather than academic papers. This course will cover the importance of accurate and effective report writing, how a police report should be formatted and what is needed in a police report. The course will include several practical exercises throughout the day.


Thursday, October 30, 2025, Edwards Campus KLETC Regional Site
This is an advanced training for officers who have completed Standardized Field Sobriety Testing training to give them additional skills to recognize signs and symptoms of impairment from drugs other than alcohol.


October 15-16, 2025, Parsons KLETC Regional Site
December 16-17, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
February 4-5, 2026, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
April 22-23, 2026, Riley County Public Works Training Room
May 19-20, 2026, Hays KLETC Regional Site
This dynamic course of instruction is designed to prepare the first responder to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter. This course will cover shooting and moving, threshold evaluation, concepts and principles of team movement, setting up for and room entry techniques, approach and breaching the crisis site, secondary responder tactics, improvised explosive devices, and post-engagement priorities of work. The course will culminate with dynamic force-on-force scenarios.


August 18-19, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
This dynamic course of instruction is designed to prepare the first responder to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter. This course will cover shooting and moving, threshold evaluation, concepts and principles of team movement, setting up for and room entry techniques, approach and breaching the crisis site, secondary responder tactics, improvised explosive devices, and post-engagement priorities of work. The course will culminate with dynamic force-on-force scenarios.


July 14-18, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
This course covers all M16/AR15 type carbine weapons systems made and their variants. Armorers will be certified in the proper maintenance, care, and repair of these weapons systems, including semi-auto and select-fire trigger systems. This program follows the Manufacturer's guidelines and is taught by FBI and NRA Certified Instructors.



November 18-19, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
This 10-day course utilizes National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 921, Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations, and NFPA 1033, Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Investigator and other professional documents to address the technical and scientific knowledge and skills needed to conduct successful fire/arson investigations.


October 20-31, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
This 10-day course is designed for fire department personnel who are tasked with investigation of fires and explosions for their agencies. Applicants will be provided an overview of law enforcement related topics to allow them to successfully complete investigations in accordance with the rules and guidelines established by the Constitution.


July 28, 2025 to August 8, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
When responding to crime scenes, it is important to recognize probative evidence conducive for latent print examination. Learning to apply the proper development and collection techniques will assist in the recovery of comparable latent prints. In this course, students will get hands-on experience with applying various powders on basic and complex surfaces. In addition, they will test and experiment with a number of lifting techniques to include tape, gel, hinge, and casting material. Students will also learn and perform a method for taking known prints which does not utilize ink, yet still provides a full and clear recording of the friction ridge skin. In addition, this course will explain proper packaging and submission techniques for latent print evidence and photographs of latent prints.


Tuesday, April 21, 2026, Washburn University KBI Forensic Science Center
Law Enforcement Snipers & Marksman need to be able to maintain and inspect their rifles to keep them in working order. The course covers the Bolt Action Sniper Rifle systems of the Remington 700 series, Savage 10/110 series, and Winchester/FN 70 series type rifles.
Please register at:Bolt Action Sniper Rifle Armorer Course

For Meals and Lodging at KLETC, please contact Jenny Caywood at 620.694.1449 or jcaywood@kletc.org for reservations.



Monday, November 17, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
This course provides the most recent state and federal case law directly affecting Kansas street officers. During the class, there will also be deeper discussions about current hot topics in constitutional law enforcement practices, policies, and procedures.


Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
This 3-day Instructor course is designed to equip officers with practical offensive and defensive tactics they can immediately apply on duty. The course covers ground fighting, strikes, and takedowns. While most defensive tactics (DT) classes require at least a week to train and much longer to become proficient instructors, this course recognizes that many agencies face personnel shortages and cannot dedicate multiple weeks to training officers in a single system. Therefore, it provides essential skills in a condensed timeframe, making it a more realistic and accessible option.


October 8-10, 2025, Johnson County Community College
The training is designed for law enforcement officers and dispatchers who, in their duties, are frequently called upon to deal with individuals who are suffering from brain disorders and mental health issues.


July 21-25, 2025, Riley County Public Works Training Room
September 15-19, 2025, Salina Police Department Training Room
This course provides enhanced knowledge and skills for patrol officers and supervisors responding to potential barricades, hostage situations, and high-risk suicides. Negotiators will discuss initial response to negotiable incidents, fundamentals of active listening, and negotiation techniques for circumstances that lead to patrol beginning a conversation with the suspect.


Thursday, September 11, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
Cryptocurrency for the Patrol Officer is a 4-hour foundational course designed to equip patrol officers with the knowledge and practical tools to recognize, respond to, and assist in cryptocurrency-related crimes and scams.


Wednesday, August 6, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
A class designed to define domestic violence, protection order, tools and strategies for assessing danger or risk of lethality. Responding to and investigating domestic violence, stalking orders, and lethality will be discussed along with the limitations of protection orders.


Tuesday, September 23, 2025, Kingman Expo Ctr
Proper operation of an emergency vehicle is critical for police officers and public safety. In the Emergency Vehicle Operation course, participants become familiar with terminology, driving skills and liability issues that relate to the operation of a police vehicle, and will equip participants with necessary skills, techniques, and operational principles.


July 23-24, 2025, Pittsburg State University Bicknell Center
September 17-18, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
UAS Data Analytics is a one-day, in-person, instructor-led course that covers how to effectively organize, generate, analyze, and rapidly disseminate geospatial data from imagery collected using Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) imagery. In this course, participants work through a real-world disaster response scenario in which they execute an end-to-end workflow to transform UAS imagery into data products, integrate UAS data with other sources of information, assess damage, and share the data with external organizations. There are no pre-recs for this course.


Wednesday, August 13, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
This course is a 1-day, in-person, instructor led course. This course will expand first responders' abilities to prepare, plan, and execute Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) mission for infrastructure inspection & area mapping. The course will cover UAS within the ICS structure, airspace coordination mission planning for infrastructure inspection, mission planning for area mapping, executing an infrastructure inspection mission, & executing an infrastructure area mapping mission. There are no pre-recs for this course.


Tuesday, August 12, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
This course is designed to prepare you to properly lead and manage an FTO unit. Each Field Training Manager will be presented with ideas and techniques to assist them in becoming more professional and confident in the application of their skills.


June 9-10, 2026, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
The Firearms Instructor School - Handgun is intended to increase the teaching skills of the firearms instructor. All course material will be presented at the instructor level. Only officers who are full-time certified officers and who are or will be assigned firearms training duties should attend.


September 15-19, 2025, Firearms Range and Classroom Bldg
The Firearms Instructor School - Long Gun is intended to increase the teaching skills of the firearms instructor. All course material will be presented at the instructor level. Only officers who are full-time certified officers and who are or will be assigned firearms training duties should attend.


October 6-10, 2025, Firearms Range and Classroom Bldg
From Crisis to Care - Effective Management in Correctional Settings is a 3-day course designed to inform, educate, and/or reiterate the best practices for dealing with detainees who may go through a crisis while in custody.


February 18-20, 2026, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
The Level 1 GST Live Instructor Certification Program (Live ICP) is an immersive 5-day course, with six hours of training per day, totaling 30 hours of instruction. The Live ICP is hosted year-round at various locations throughout the country.


September 22-26, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
This Instructor Development course is designed to provide participants with the fundamentals of course design, lesson plans, facilitation skills and techniques to effectively promote student engagement while managing the classroom.


September 15-18, 2025, Topeka Police Department Training Facility
Introduction to Internal Affairs and Professional Standards is an 8 hour introductory course designed to provide an overview of the role and importance of law enforcement agencies' internal affairs and professional standards units and the ethical foundation and principles guiding internal investigations.


Friday, August 8, 2025, Edwards Campus KLETC Regional Site
This course will provide law enforcement officers, from any rank or agency, with the training needed to conduct evidence-based interviewing and interrogation techniques that produce more information. Participants will gain a better understanding of the importance of rapport, formulating effective questions, disclosure of evidence, and how to obtain more information.


August 14-15, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
September 22-23, 2025, Edwards Campus KLETC Regional Site
October 6-7, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
In this course, students will learn about the comprehensive case analysis of a fire scene, from the investigative beginnings, through the laboratory analysis of samples, to the potential courtroom. The class will be jointly instructed by members of both the State Fire Marshal's office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratory.


Thursday, April 16, 2026, Washburn University KBI Forensic Science Center
This course is specifically designed for Kansas prosecutors who handle and charge vehicular fatal cases and officers that deal with fatal crashes.


September 17-19, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
While many agencies have programs in crime scene processing, the level of training and resources available varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, as does the opportunity to work with evidence. To help these agencies, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has developed a comprehensive Lab Services Training and Outreach Program. The focus of this round of lab services training will be on the laboratory sections that are most utilized in support of violent crime investigations.


Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
This multi-module course provides law enforcement officers and multidisciplinary team (MDT) members with a comprehensive understanding of labor trafficking, including its legal definitions, victim and workplace indicators, investigative challenges, and Kansas-specific case studies. Participants will develop the skills needed to identify, document, investigate, and coordinate appropriate services for labor trafficking victims. Emphasis will be placed on trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches, applicable screening tools, and interagency collaboration.


Tuesday, September 23, 2025, Parsons KLETC Regional Site
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, Kansas City Kansas Community College Tech Ed Ctr
Thursday, September 25, 2025, Edwards Campus KLETC Regional Site
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, Washburn University KBI Forensic Science Center
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Saline County Sheriff's Office
Thursday, October 23, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
This hands-on course will teach Armorers to maintain, diagnose problems, inspect for wear, and repair their agency's shotguns. This program follows the Manufacturer's guidelines and is taught by FBI and NRA Certified Instructors.



November 20-21, 2025, Integrity Auditorium
This three-day course is for law enforcement and prosecutors who want to improve and increase their expertise and knowledge in the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence cases. The interactive, scenario-based class will focus on trauma-informed responses, barriers for prosecution and law enforcement, report writing and search warrants, charging cases, trial strategies, utilizing expert witnesses, forensic nursing and advocacy; attendee self-care, and many other topics. Attendees will work "real" cases from the initial 911 call through the prosecution phase. We strongly encourage law enforcement and prosecutors from the same jurisdiction to attend this class together. At the end of the course, attendees will have a greater understanding of the elements needed for a prosecutable and winnable case.


March 30, 2026 to April 1, 2026, Integrity Auditorium
To provide participants with a basic understanding for the legal and ethical requirements in order to properly operate a professional evidence / property management system.

Please register at: Managing the Property and Evidence Room



February 24-25, 2026, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
The Summit provides attendees an opportunity to learn from fellow practitioners, meet with colleagues, and establish partnerships from across the Midwest.


October 28-30, 2025, Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown Hotel
This course will provide all law enforcement officers in the State of Kansas the knowledge needed to effectively respond to a pipeline emergency by providing resources to identify what pipelines and products exist in each county/jurisdiction, to identify the local operator representing these pipelines, and how to work a coordinated effort in response to a pipeline incident.


Friday, October 31, 2025, Zoom Facilitated Sessions
This eight-hour, management-level instructor-led course focuses on rural correctional facilities as unique environments for threat group recruitment and radicalization.


Tuesday, September 9, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
This course prepares participants through instruction and practice to properly prepare written reports common to the criminal justice/LE community. This course will focus on the structure of reports to include the reason reports are important. Attendees will be able to take good field notes, build a report that best represent what happened on scene, keep the report organized and build a report that will assist in the court hearing process.


October 7-8, 2025, Parsons KLETC Regional Site
This one-day meeting is an opportunity for law enforcement partners throughout the entire District of Kansas who investigate federal Project Safe Childhood cases to participate in training from the United States Attorney's Office District of Kansas, federal agents, intel, forensics, and victim specialists.


Thursday, September 11, 2025, Sedgwick County Child Advocacy Center
KLETC procedure for providing retired or separated law enforcement officers the opportunity for annual firearms qualification.


Friday, September 19, 2025, Firearms Range and Classroom Bldg
This course is an overview for the students to digest the difference between who they were before they began their law enforcement careers and who they have become.


Wednesday, September 3, 2025, Edwards Campus KLETC Regional Site
Over the past several years, active community violence situations have brought attention to how first responders respond. One particular concern is how medical care is provided to victims during the early stages of the response. Usually, law enforcement is the first on the scene, and depending on scene safety considerations, they may be the only responders to provide initial aid to themselves, their partners, other first responders, and civilians. As violence against law enforcement and other first responders continues to increase, research shows that having medical providers near downed officers within seconds of being injured increases the chance of the injured officer surviving the incident.


September 23-24, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
October 14-15, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
Law Enforcement Officers who attend this class will learn how to proactively use social media and the Internet to gather intelligence, track suspects, identify gang members, conduct drug investigations and enhance all types of investigations


July 29-30, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
This course is designed to help participants deepen their understanding of spiritual wellness and explore how spiritual practices can foster strong, healthy relationships both in the workplace and at home.


Thursday, August 14, 2025, Edwards Campus KLETC Regional Site
The Tactical Medical for First Responders program is designed to define a Medical Threat Assessment, to include a medical plan for a tactical operation.


Thursday, November 6, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg

Certificate Programs

Attention Kansas law enforcement executives, command and supervisory personnel, and field training officers!


Are you seeking an innovative and specialized professional development plan for your recent basic training graduates?


KLETC has developed a new Post Academy Training School (P.A.T.) to turn your new officer into a master practitioner. We have created a program to enhance and reinforce the core policing principles through competency-based training. This course will consist of five required (GOLD) classes and a minimum of three elective classes that will average nearly 120 training hours over three years, satisfying the 40-hour continuing education statutory mandate, K.S.A 74-5607a(b).The P.A.T. School will provide a simulated environment for the officer to work through standard police calls reflective of those Kansas law enforcement officers encounter daily.

Each GOLD class will be progressive, allowing additional time and attention to emphasize fundamental skills while holding officers accountable for their knowledge, behavior, and attitude. Creating real-world experiences that provide limited information and deliver stress will engage PAT School participants to scaffold their experiences and strengthen their critical thinking and decision-making skills. These clinical experiences will involve supervised assessments, reasoning, and responses that elevate emotional intensity, confusion, and disorganized thinking that are present during real police calls. Lastly, a three-day, cumulative "Q" (Qualification) School will provide a final opportunity to substantiate officers' competency by demonstrating their fluency in policing practice and set them on a path to accelerate professional growth.



GOLD Class #1: Maintaining the Profession

This class is based on instilling the qualities of professionalism as both a student and a law enforcement officer. Such items as maintaining professional licensure, avoiding professional sanctions, and achieving career satisfaction will be explored. Topics discussed include established codes of conduct, professional ethics, and societal expectations. The student will examine their attitudes toward public service, their duty to act, and the role of law enforcement within their community.
  • KS-CPOST Investigations
  • Training Requirements
  • Professional Code of Ethics
  • Personal Ethics
  • Departmental Expectations
  • Personal Motivations
  • Officer Wellness and Fit for Duty
  • Mental and Physical Injuries
  • Career Satisfaction and Legacy


Gold Class #2: Patrol Responder

This class focuses on when the officer notices criminal activity, receives a call, or becomes aware of a need for a law enforcement response when transitioning to an investigator's role. They will develop good decision-making skills regarding tactics, scene management, and resource allocation. Issues surrounding the intervention of criminal acts, controlling scenes for safety and security, and transitioning from scene management to investigation will be discussed.
  • Patrol Observation Skills
  • Equipment Selection and Maintenance
  • Tactical Skill Development and Maintenance
  • Stress Decision Making and Performance
  • Response Tactics and Route Selection
  • Contain, Control, and Communicate (locking down the scene)
  • Decisive Intervention (Tactical, Medical)
  • Lawful Contacts, Detainments, and Arrests
  • Communication Skills (Personal, Team, Department)
  • Chain of Command Notification and Responsibilities
  • The transition from Tactical to Investigation


Gold Class #3: Patrol Investigation

This class will examine the role of patrol in conducting criminal investigations. The student will develop skills in observing and identifying criminal behavior and determining how to initiate an investigation. Issues involving suspect and investigator interactions and documentation of evidence will be explored. Suspect and victim interviews will be vital in building the patrol investigator's skills. Students will examine when to transition an investigation to specialty-trained investigators or call on additional resources.
  • Identification of Criminal Activity
  • Street Interviews
  • Developing Intelligence
  • Patrol Surveillance
  • Scene and Interview Documentation
  • Protecting and Gathering Evidence
  • Legal Questioning


Gold Class #4: Roadside Investigation

These circumstances may include traffic stops or day-to-day interactions with the community on our roadways and parking lots. Increased knowledge of vehicle laws, drug activity signs, or other criminal activity indications will be stressed. The student will examine safety issues related to the "roadside" environment and how best to utilize safety tactics and equipment.
  • Lawful Contact and Detainments
  • Recognition of Criminal Activity
  • Safe Roadside Tactics
  • Use of Safety Equipment
  • Drug Interdiction/Impaired Driver
  • Traffic Law and Enforcement
  • Proactive Policing


Gold Class #5: Community Service

This class examines the role of the law enforcement department and officers in the community. Students will discuss how their culture and that of the community interact and set foundations for expectations. Issues surrounding trust and transparency will be explored, as well as how individual officers' actions can affect attitudes on all sides. Students will be encouraged to reflect on personal and professional ethics to promote community and career satisfaction.
  • Department Culture
  • Community Culture (sub-cultures)
  • To Serve and Protect (professional and personal ethics)
  • Resilience (Burnout)
  • Community Outreach
  • Community Problem Solving (beyond crime fighting)
  • Nontraditional Police Services
  • Community Resources



GOLD classes will be added to the list as they are developed.