Event Details

Must be employed or appointed as a law enforcement officer by a State or local law enforcement agency or be a federal law enforcement officer. Fees may apply for federal and out of state law enforcement.

Tuition is FREE for all students.  Visit www.rcta.org to register.

Class Schedule

March 9th: 8am-5pm

March 10th: 8am-5pm

March 11th: 8am-5pm

Total Hours: 24

Location: Public Safety Building, JCC Main Campus

Instructor: Regional Counterdrug Training Academy (RCTA)

This course is a comprehensive advanced course for law enforcement that focuses on the many issues that are encountered during criminal/drug interdiction patrol stop. This course also concentrates on improving the officer’s conversational and observational skills to facilitate the development of reasonable suspicion/probable cause. Through these learned techniques the patrol officer will be able to detect and apprehend traveling criminals. The

student will be taught how to identify and locate manual, and electronic controlled aftermarket compartments in passenger and commercial motor vehicles that are widely used today by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO).

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student will have an in-depth knowledge of the proper working skills set of the Proactive Criminal Patrol in the following objectives:

- Have a better understanding of Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO)

- Criminal drug interdiction concept

- Articulate initial contact observations

- Observations prior to lawful traffic stops

- Key to successful interdiction of drug couriers.

- Other crimes that are discovered during traffic stops.

- The importance of the ethical approach during a traffic stop.

- The importance of the Domestic Highway Enforcement (DHE) Resources, El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) Resources and National Seizure System (NSS).

- Properly process the US Currency Detention.

- Explain the difference between Indicators and Items of Interest.

- Three threats of a traffic stop.

- Officer safety issues during traffic stops.

- History and facts of Fentanyl.

- Three types of police-citizen encounters.

- Explain probable cause and reasonable suspicion.

- Importance of the roadside interview.

- Types of concealment options in passenger vehicles & commercial motor vehicles.

- Evaluate commercial motor vehicle documents.

- Officer safety issues with meth oil during searches.