This forty-hour class is the foundation of effective school-based policing programs across the United States. The attendees will be given the basics that are needed to work effectively as a school-based law enforcement officer. The triad approach of teacher, counselor, and law enforcement officer is the format that is presented in this block of instruction. The attendees are given the skills that will make them effective on campuses of schools in any setting. Any school-based law enforcement officer, school security officer, educator, administrator, supervisor, dean or parent will benefit from attending this class.

This forty-hour class has been developed as a direct result of the success of the Basic School Resource Officer Course. The skills that are developed in the basic class, or the practical experience that the officers or administrators have obtained, are refined and developed. Students will be given the opportunity to share the problems in their program and work to find solutions, with the help of the other attendees. There will also be an opportunity for the student to discover ways to improve their performance and their entire program by developing new resources and discussing other specialized programs that they can adapt to better serve their students, schools and communities. Completion of the Basic School Resource Officer Class is not a requirement for taking or being successful in this class. Attendees for this class should be school-based law enforcement officers, school security officers, educators, administrators, supervisors, deans, or parents.

This twenty-four hour class has been created for school-based law enforcement officers and educators to assist them in the development of comprehensive strategies for combating and preventing the violence in our schools. The class will give the attendees a look at programs that have worked and help them in the development of strategies to work more effectively together to create an environment where all students and teachers are safe and secure.

This twenty-four hour program has been designed by the supervisors and managers in the field. The management of this very different type of law enforcement officer and program will be discussed. The attendees of this class will discuss the School Resource Officer's position from the selection interview, through performance reviews to the removal of problem officers. This course will benefit the school administrator that has been assigned the responsibility of supervising the program. Also, any supervisor or manager that has been given the responsibility for a DARE program, school resource officer program or any other school security effort should attend.

In this sixteen-hour class the attendees will be given the skills needed to identify, intervene and treat the epidemic of youth gangs that is infecting schools across the country. There are gangs in every part of our society, regardless of the economic status of our young people. The disease of youth gang involvement has crossed all racial, ethnic and sexual barriers. This class will provide the attendee with facts and information that will make them effective in the prevention and treatment of this disease.

In this sixteen-hour program the attendees will be given the input needed to place their School Resource Officer Program on a solid foundation. This course has been designed as a combined workshop for the law enforcement agencies and educators that will be working with these officers. We will assist in the development of contracts and guidelines for the program and assist in the problem solving process for existing programs.

This twenty-four hour class has been developed for law enforcement officers that are taking on the additional task of being responsible for crime prevention in their areas. The attendees will be taught how to do safety and crime prevention surveys for schools, businesses, and residences. This is not a class to learn locks and windows. However, the officers will be taught to plan, develop, present and implement crime prevention strategies that work.

This sixteen-hour class has been presented in the Southeast and received very high evaluations for its content and timeliness. The attendees will be shown some of the obstacles in the development of an acceptable pool of applicants for law enforcement in today's society. The humor needed to interview and evaluate the applicants as well as the background procedures and policies will be discussed. How can we expect the recruiters of the nineties to still be asking the questions and using the policies of the fifties?

This is a sixteen-hour course on how to develop, manage, and present the ideas of a citizen police academy. The class will allow the attendees to have a fully developed curriculum and program when they complete the class. What law enforcement agency does not believe that they need the support of an educated, supportive community to accomplish the task of policing in the nineties? This can be the backbone of a well defined community policing program.

This eight-hour class has been developed for communications personnel who must first deal with people in crisis situations. The attendee will be taught basic skills that help them to better cope with these callers, and how to extract the information responding officers will need to assure their safety.

This class has been designed for officers with all levels of experience. The class is twenty-four hours in length and is taught by John Bowden, a retired twenty year veteran. John uses the time-line method that he developed to keep the reports on task and allow for the development of the best incident reports possible.

All law enforcement officers must talk to suspects, witnesses, victims and get the most out of each encounter. This class will help the student to become aware of all that is taking place during the interview. The student will be taught how to plan and conduct a successful interview and to make sure that all the necessary information is obtained. The interview and interrogation class is a twenty-four hour class.