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.

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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.

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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.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025, Kingman Expo Ctr

Essential Spanish for Law Enforcement and Corrections is a 2 1/2 day 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.

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August 26-28, 2025, Leoti Fire House

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.

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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March 30, 2026 to April 1, 2026, Integrity Auditorium

The Summit provides attendees an opportunity to learn from fellow practitioners, meet with colleagues, and establish partnerships from across the Midwest.

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October 28-30, 2025, Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown Hotel

This hands-on course will focus on providing Law Enforcement Officers the free resources and practical expertise to utilize open-source intelligence (OSINT) in policing.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025, Edwards Campus KLETC Regional Site

This eight-hour, management-level instructor-led course focuses on rural correctional facilities as unique environments for threat group recruitment and radicalization.

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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.

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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.

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Thursday, September 11, 2025, Sedgwick County Child Advocacy Center

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

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July 29-30, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site

The KLETC Certificate in Criminal Investigations will provide investigators with the knowledge and skill set required to be successful in their role. In today's changing climate, criminal investigators are faced with a multitude of situations. Beyond traditional investigation methodologies, criminal investigators must now be experts in human trafficking, internet and financial investigations, drug conspiracies, crimes against children and interview and interrogation to ensure the investigator is fully equipped with the competencies needed to meet the rigorous demands of the environments in which they will be working. Successful completion of the Certificate in Criminal Investigations will provide participants the ability to conduct professional and ethical investigations, improve their case management and documentation skills.

Learning Competency:

• Participants will employ best practices as they investigate any crime from its beginning to its eventual disposition; either as an individual, or as part of an investigatory team.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to conduct professional investigations.
• Participants will be able to adhere to ethical standards.
• Participants will be able to improve case management and documentation skills.
• Participants will be able to investigate a wide variety of crimes.

To compliment and balance your educational experience, a final capstone project is also required.