Training for
Law Enforcement
Would you know how to tell if the child in the passenger seat is a victim?
It is very common for officers to leave our trainings an within days execute on the strategies learned in class and identify victims, and/or make a productive stop of a pedophile or trafficker that otherwise would have gone undetected.
Classes for law enforcement have been designed to yield measurable results including:
- Identification skills that result in officers more frequently extracting trafficking victims from the hands of their traffickers and connecting them with the services they need
- ensuring prosecutors are provided enough evidence to prosecute criminals and help stop reoffending
Special Victim Methodology Course
This course is designed to provide police officers, detectives and victim advocates with a deeper dive into the victim-centered approach, how to create the necessary paradigm shift when working human trafficking investigations, and how to productively work with victim advocates to provide a positive outcome for trafficking victims. Attendees will learn:
- What is the Special Victims Methodology, how is it different than other methodologies and what are its goals?
- What is a victim-centered approach and how do you execute on it?
- Why a paradigm shift in human trafficking is necessary and how it affects the core of policing
- How this approach will allow officers to locate and rescue more trafficking victims
- How this approach will increase trafficking arrests and prosecutions
- How to conduct a Special Victim Methodology interview
- Opportunities to engage in practical scenarios
- How this approach can decrease violent crime
Interview & Interrogation Course
This course is designed to provide police officers and detectives with the skills needed to conduct a complete and thorough interview, when and how to transition into an interrogation and how to conduct a complete interrogation to obtain the truth. Learn the signs and indicators of trafficking activity and victims in the course of your everyday duties. Attendees will learn:
- How and when to move from an interview to an interrogation.
- How to build the right rapport.
- How to use behavior observation questions.
- How to interpret body language.
- How to select the interrogation location.
- How to use props during an interrogation.
- How to develop a theme for the interrogation to address different scenarios.
- How to use touch and social zones during the interrogation.
- How to obtain a confession and use an apology letter.
Human Trafficking Proactive Ops Course
Attendees learn the skills and tactics needed to prepare, set-up, avoid obstacles and operate various types of proactive human trafficking operations, including building a multidisciplinary team for greater success.
Learn:
- Why proactive operations are important.
- How to prepare an operational plan and avoid obstacles before they arise.
- How to set up a multidisciplinary team and why the success of the project depends on it.
- How to use a victim-centered approach during the operation.
- How to use victim advocates during your operation.
- How to conduct casino operations.
- How to conduct truck stop operations.
- How to conduct illicit massage business operations.
- How to conduct "Traveler" operations.
- How to conduct hotel / motel operations.
- How to conduct sex offender operations.
- How to conduct train / bus depot operations.
Human Trafficking Investigations Course
This course is designed to provide police officers and detectives with the investigative tools necessary to conduct a human trafficking investigation, locate evidence and present the case to a prosecutor.
Attendees will learn:
- The different types of responses to a human trafficking investigation.
- The different types of evidence that can be located and collected.
- How to use intelligence tools like Spotlight, Shadow Dragon and Traffic Jam to obtain evidence of possible human trafficking.
- Learn how to conduct an (Special Victims Methodology) interview method with a human trafficking victim.
- How to document tattoos, social media, receipts, electronics and other forms of evidence for your human trafficking case.
- How to develop themes when interviewing the human trafficking suspect.
- How to bolster your case with the financial aspects of an investigation.
- The use of the Tactical Polygraph in human trafficking investigations.
- How to educate your prosecutor on human trafficking cases.
Human Trafficking Interdiction Course
This course is designed to provide patrol officers with the signs and indicators of possible human trafficking victims in the course of their everyday duties, and how to conduct an initial investigation into this type of crime.
Attendees with learn:
- How to recognize the indicators of a possible human trafficking incident
- How to ascertain if a party is a victim of human trafficking and best practices for interactions
- The signs of trauma bonding and PTSD
- How use a victim centered approach (Special Victims Methodology)
- How to identify possible electronic evidence of trafficking on cell phones
- How to transition from a routine call or interview to a human trafficking investigation
- How to interview a possible suspect in a human trafficking case
- What the various multi-disciplinary groups are, how to use them and how to work with victim advocates
- Understand where victims come from and how they are groomed
Illicit Massage Business Investigations Course
This course is designed to provide police officers, intelligence analysts and stakeholders with a comprehensive approach to identify, investigate and dismantle illicit massage businesses in their jurisdiction by using a "Three Phase Approach."
Attendees will learn:
- How to identify illicit massage businesses and how they operate.
- How the illicit massage business model works and strategies for dismantling it
- How to bring together and use a team of stakeholders interested in the same ultimate goal.
- How to set up a landlord engagement program
- How to use civil lawsuits in furtherance of your objectives
- How to collect different types of evidence
- How to close or remove the business
- How to help ensure prosecution of criminals
Human Trafficking Interdiction for Natural Resource Officers Course
This course is designed to provide natural resource and wildlife officers with the signs and indicators of possible human trafficking victims and their traffickers in the course of their everyday duties and how to conduct an initial investigation into this type of crime.
- How to recognize the indicators of a possible human trafficking incident
- How to ascertain if a party is a victim of human trafficking and how to speak to them
- The signs of trauma bonding and PTSD
- How use a victim centered approach (Special Victims Methodology)
- How to identify possible electronic evidence of trafficking on cell phones
- How to transition from a routine call or interview to a human trafficking investigation
- How to interview a possible suspect in a human trafficking case
- What the various multi-disciplinary groups are, how to use them and how to work with victim advocates
- Understand where victims come from and how they are groomed