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Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center

Criminial Investigations

Featured Courses

Alternative Lethal Force for Officers: Knife Defense

This course contains no sessions
Click here to be notified about the next scheduled program. This course will familiarize the officer with selection, carry and use of a knife when a firearm cannot be worn or is positioned in such a way it cannot be quickly deployed. The legal, policy and use of force considerations of knife use by law enforcement will be examined to provide a framework for officers to decide the relevance of this ancient tool to the unique needs of the modern law enforcement officer.

Criminal Interdiction and Roadside Interviewing

This course contains no sessions
Click here to be notified about the next scheduled program. This course is designed to provide law enforcement officers with the knowledge and the confidence to identify clues provided through criminal interdiction and how to conduct roadside interviews following appropriate state and federal laws surrounding search and seizure.

Domestic Violence, Protection Orders and Risk of Lethality

04/15/20 - 04/15/20

04/22/20 - 04/22/20

A three-hour, one-day 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.

Essential Spanish for Law Enforcement

This course contains no sessions
Click here to be notified about the next scheduled program. Essential Spanish for Law Enforcement is a class designed to assist the officer who has little to no knowledge of the Spanish language. Students will learn the basics of the Spanish language and will be required to learn phrases and words that are helpful when dealing with Spanish speakers.

Upcoming Courses

Domestic Violence, Protection Orders and Risk of Lethality Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Domestic Violence, Protection Orders and Risk of Lethality Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Social Media & Open Source Investigations June 11-12, 2020

Financial Crimes Against Seniors Seminar Monday, June 15, 2020

Interdiction for the Protection of Children Training June 16-17, 2020

Featured Courses

Alternative Lethal Force for Officers: Knife Defense

Criminal Interdiction and Roadside Interviewing

Domestic Violence, Protection Orders and Risk of Lethality

04/15/20 - 04/15/20

04/22/20 - 04/22/20

Essential Spanish for Law Enforcement

Courses & Events

Financial Crimes Against Seniors Seminar

This FREE course promotes a multi-agency approach to the problem of financial exploitation of senior citizens.Please register at: https://www.nw3c.org/classroom-training/financial-crime-course-list#FCSS

Monday, June 15, 2020, Goodland Police Department (Goodland , KS)
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, McPherson Community Building (McPherson, KS)
Friday, June 19, 2020, Pittsburg Fire Dept (Pittsburg, KS)

Gold Shield: Mass Shootings - Case Studies & Lessons Learned

The Parkland, Florida School shooting and the Century 16 mass murders will be examined in an effort to successfully address future mass shooting incidents.

This course contains no sessions

Instructor Development School

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.

August 4-7, 2020, KLETC Campus Learning Center Classroom Bldg (Hutchinson, KS)

Interdiction for the Protection of Children Training

Interdiction for the Protection of Children is designed to make patrol officers aware of the variety of resources available to assist them in establishing the status of a child who may be missing, exploited, or at risk of exploitation and what courses of action are immediately available.

June 16-17, 2020, Regional Police Academy (Kansas City, MO)

Kansas Anti-Human Trafficking Training: A Multidisciplinary Focused Approach

This training will provide an overview of human trafficking in Kansas, review Kansas human trafficking laws, discuss vulnerabilities that may place a child at risk for trafficking, explore the impact of trauma on victims and appropriate responses, clarify the roles of different disciplines and address the importance of a collaborative approach.

This course contains no sessions
Click here to be notified about the next scheduled program.

Kansas Lethal Weapon Course: Investigating and Prosecuting DUI Related Fatalities

This course is specifically designed for Kansas prosecutors who handle and charge vehicular fatal cases and officers that deal with fatal crashes.

This course contains no sessions
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KBI Lab Services Training and Outreach

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, Kansas Bureau of Investigation has developed a comprehensive Lab Services Training and Outreach Program.

Tuesday, August 11, 2020, Bicknell Family Center for the Arts - Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS)
Wednesday, August 12, 2020, Lyon County Sheriff's Office (Emporia, KS)
Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Washburn University KBI Forensic Science Center (Topeka, KS)

Midwest Vice Investigators Summit

The Summit is an investigator led training event designed to exchange best practices, emerging trends, and investigative strategies related to human trafficking, commercial sex, and gambling.

This course contains no sessions
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Midwestern Conference on Investigative Genetic Genealogy

The Wichita Police Department is hosting a two-day conference with the "A-Team" of the revolutionary crime-solving technique of investigative genetic genealogy. Conference topics will include law enforcement's use of IGG, use of public DNA databases, sample processing, genetic genealogy, prosecution, best practices.

This course contains no sessions
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Officer De-Escalation Techniques

In today's world, Law Enforcement Officers must be efficient physically, mentally and verbally. This class is designed to give today's Police Officers the tools needed to effectively communicate with citizens in a way that everyone is safe, and situations are handled with the highest amount of respect and professionalism.

This course contains no sessions
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Practical Report Writing for the Line Officer

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.

This course contains no sessions
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Social Media & Open Source Investigations

This two-day Social Media & Open Source Investigations course is designed to teach law enforcement personnel how to legally utilize and exploit Open Source and Social Media intelligence in their respective roles. Students will be taught how to conduct online investigations while using advanced searching techniques. Students will be shown relevant and current case studies to reinforce some of the unconventional investigative techniques taught in the course. Students will learn the most current case law that allows them to use these techniques in their investigations. The investigative techniques taught in this class apply to Patrol Officers, Detectives, SRO's, Dispatchers, Crime Analysts, etc.

June 11-12, 2020, KLETC Campus Integrity Auditorium (Hutchinson, KS)

Sovereign Citizens & Domestic Terrorism

This eight-hour class will help participants identify, prepare for and respond to the Sovereignty Movement and to protect themselves during encounters.

This course contains no sessions
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Tactical Narcotics Debriefing Course

The Tactical Narcotics Debriefing Course is a unique training program that teaches the art and science of Tactical Debriefings for narcotics related situations. A Tactical Debriefing is defined as an interview with someone for the purpose of acquiring intelligence information. Tactical Debriefing is a tactically designed and deployed strategic interview conducted by a law enforcement officer(s) with a new arrestee, prison (or jail) inmate, or an offender on probation or parole, for the purpose of obtaining actionable intelligence information and human sources of intelligence (HUMIT).

Please register at: Tactical Narcotics Debriefing Registration

This course contains no sessions
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Undercover and Off-Duty Concealed Carry

This course will train officers in critical issues surrounding concealed carry and deployment of their firearms. Limitations in capabilities, gear selection, legal and policy issues will be discussed. Officers will train in methods to safely draw and re-holster with a concealment garment, as well as, how to minimize danger when uniformed personnel arrive.

This course contains no sessions
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