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Course detail: Basic Narcotics Investigations Course

This course is restricted to local, state, and federal civilian law enforcement employees including criminal analysts and corrections officers and US military law enforcement personnel.

Tuition/Fees: There is no cost to attend this training.

Registration: Midwest Counterdrug Training Center

Course Description:

This course is designed to give new narcotics officers an overview of the significant responsibilities that they will need as narcotics agents or investigators. It is designed to be hands-on, with students conducting practical exercises on Informants, Investigative Interviewing, Physical Surveillance, Undercover Operations, and Warrants. This course will better help a new Narcotics Officer handle a new case from beginning (intelligence) to end (prosecution).

Topics Included:

Drug identification and recognition: measurement, pricing, and slang
Current narcotic trends and threats relating to Transnational Criminal Organizations
Operating in a multijurisdictional environment
Informants: vetting, development, management, control, and use of informants
Tactical operational planning
Intel Planning and collection
Writing search warrants and conducting warrantless searches
Micro lab investigations
Physical and Electronic surveillance
Narcotics crime scene management: report writing, evidence inventory
Conducting consensual encounters and searches
Basic drug enforcement operations

Course Length Basic Narcotics Investigations is a 10-day (80-hour) course, scheduled Monday-Friday for two consecutive weeks.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites to attend.