KLETC Campus

Investigations

Courses & Events

This course takes a comprehensive approach to examining threat groups in rural communities, with a particular focus on the nexus of gangs, hate groups, domestic and international terrorist organizations as they converge for the purposes of criminal enterprise.


Thursday, March 27, 2025, Parsons KLETC Regional Site
The use of confidential sources and informants is a necessary evil in law enforcement. A good informant managed properly can be the difference in solving a variety of crimes, up to and including homicides. But a poorly managed informant can create a disaster for the officer and the department. Far too often officers are using informants without the proper knowledge on how and when they should be used.


Tuesday, June 10, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
This is a one day course designed to provide an introduction to digital photography, camera operations and basic scene photography. This course will help students understand camera functions in order to create crisp, clear digital images. For crime scene photography we will focus on depth of field, overall, mid-range and close-up photography. We will also look at techniques for low-light and laser photography.


Wednesday, March 19, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, Washburn University KBI Forensic Science Center
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
Criminals conducted at least $24 billion in illegal crypto transfers in 2023 alone. While many users are increasingly familiar with online activity, including social media, only a small percentage have ventured onto the Dark Web. This course is meant for novices and experienced web collectors alike, with three main objectives: accessing the Dark Web safely and securely, understanding the structure and resources on the Dark Web, and effectively collecting information and intelligence from the Dark Web for use in any kind of investigation, including creating a chain of custody for evidence and how to write a warrant for seizing cryptocurrency assets from popular crypto sites and exchanges.


July 21-22, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
This course will highlight many of the concerns and issues that face property room managers today. Our intention is to give property managers the necessary tools to succeed. All of the course material is based on Acceptable National Standards. Administrators are encouraged to attend this training as well, in order to have a better understanding of the issues that plague department evidence personnel and how to prevent your agency from becoming a national news item.


April 14-18, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
The FBI will provide a federal overview of criminal civil rights statutes related to Color of Law, Hate Crimes - Bias & Uniform Crime Reporting, and FACE Act violations. Video examples of the use of force and color of law incidents will demonstrate state and/or federal criminal and department violations.


Tuesday, June 17, 2025, Johnson County Community College
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, Kansas City KS Comm College Tech Ed Ctr
This 4-hour training will cover how information is compiled, analyzed, and/or disseminated to anticipate, prevent, or monitor criminal activity. The different forms of intelligence will be covered, how to obtain the information, and finally what to do with it.


Thursday, May 1, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
From Victim Identification to Prosecution is a practitioner-led interactive training course for all Kansas-certified law enforcement officers and non-commissioned analysts. The course is designed to increase recognition and investigative skills in combatting human sex trafficking.


Friday, May 16, 2025, Zoom Facilitated Sessions
This 12-hour course is designed for patrol officers or detectives that would like to learn some more advanced methods of processing crime scenes. The class will focus on recovering fingerprints, pry marks, shoe tracks, and locating and collecting DNA. The methods that will be taught in the class are with products that would be affordable to any agency; therefore, limiting the need for expensive equipment.


April 8-9, 2025, Tomahawk Ridge Community Center
Stalking is a prevalent, dangerous, and often misunderstood crime. This course explores the dynamics of stalking, focusing on the highly contextual nature of the crime by discussing common tactics used by perpetrators, stalking's co-occurrence with domestic violence, the use of technology to stalk, and the use of risk assessments in stalking cases, as well as tools to plan for victim safety and hold offenders accountable.


This course contains no sessions
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.


Monday, April 28, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
This course will focus on providing law enforcement officers, from any rank or agency, with the training needed to conduct evidence-based interviewing and interrogation techniques that are shown to 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.


June 2-3, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
August 14-15, 2025, Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, Learning Center Classrooms 5-8
September 22-23, 2025, Overland Park KLETC Regional Site
October 6-7, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
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.


Thursday, March 27, 2025, Zoom Facilitated Sessions
Thursday, May 22, 2025, Zoom Facilitated Sessions
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Dodge City KLETC Regional Site
The course is designed to increase the student's knowledge and awareness of Mexican Cartel influence and their trafficking activities. MCTC is managing the registration process.


May 21-23, 2025, Dodge City Municipal Services Building
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.


April 8-9, 2025, Hays KLETC Regional Site
June 9-10, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
When responding to crime scenes, it is important to recognize probative evidence conducive to 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 applying various powders on basic and complex surfaces. In addition, they will test and experiment with a number of lifting techniques including tape, gel, hinge, and casting material. Students will also learn and perform a method for taking known prints that do not utilize ink, yet still provide 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.


Wednesday, April 23, 2025, Washburn University KBI Forensic Science Center
This training session aims to equip law enforcement officers with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively understand and engage with individuals who identify as sovereign citizens.


Thursday, May 1, 2025, Learning Center Classroom Bldg
This course provides law enforcement officers with essential knowledge and skills to conduct effective, victim-centered sexual assault investigations. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of sexual assault and how trauma impacts victims and investigations.


Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Johnson County Community College

Certificate Programs

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.