$725

Contact:

Mona Krieg txpolassoc@sbcglobal.net 512-458-3140

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 Through lecture, hands-on instruction and active class participation, the officer will be instructed on dynamics of attacks and appropriate and reasonable force options.

 

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$175.00

Contact:

Ramona Krieg txpolassoc@sbcglobal.net 512-458-3140

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This is a Texas Police Association sponsored course. To register please click on the link at the bottom of the page.

This course is for investigating officers and laboratory technicians who work with fingerprints and is designed for beginners. No experience is necessary. The objective is to train an officer or laboratory technician in fingerprint pattern typing and to compare and identify fingerprints. There will also be some basics on fingerprint testimony, such as with Pen Packets.

Note: This course does not include work with latent prints.

Equipment needed: Fingerprint magnifiers

$300

Contact:

512-424-7214

This is a Texas Police Association sponsored course. To register please click on the link at the bottom of the page.

This class is presented by a police officer with an extensive background in the information technology field. This course is designed to introduce law enforcement personnel, with a basic knowledge of computers, to the world of cyber crimes and their investigations. Some of the topics that will be covered: examples of cyber crimes; recognizing potential evidence in cyber crimes; identifying types of electronic hardware that can potentially contain forensic evidence; finding on-line evidence and internet crimes; and identifying physical crimes that have a cyber crime attachment. Students will be introduced to the basics of setting up a computer/network for on-line investigations, collecting and preserving evidence; and introduced to on-line investigative tools. Students will get hands-on training in deciphering emails, tracing domain names and ISP numbers.

Note: Students are encouraged to bring a wireless enabled laptop computer to the class, however, it is not necessary to have a laptop to attend the class.

$250

Contact:

512-424-7214

 The Texas Police Association will conduct a twelve (12) hour seminar on the "Police and Fire Civil Service Act, Chapter 143, Local Government Code," at the DoubleTree Hotel in Austin on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, November 2 – 4, 2010. 

This course has been especially designed for agency administrators, personnel officers, legal staff, civil service directors, civil service commissioners, and others who may be involved in employment and disciplinary proceedings.

 

$225.00 early registration.  $275.00 late or on-site registration.

 

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Contact:

Mona Krieg txpolassoc@sbcglobal.net 866-997-8282

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Texas Police Association Sponsored Training. This course will teach the basics of interviewing and interrogation including suspect interviews, witness/victim interviews, communication, rapport, verbal and non-verbal behavior, culture and gender, interviewing children, persuasion theories and strategies for interrogation designed for the investigator. Students are welcome to bring tapes/disks of interviews or interrogations for evaluation or sharing with the class.

INSTRUCTOR RON HILLEY is a retired FBI Agent/Polygraph Examiner and Interview & Interrogation Instructor. He is currently a Certified Polygraph Examiner, Security Consultant and continues to lecture throughout the United States and overseas on the topics of Interviewing and Interrogation.

$400.00, plus meals provided. Dormitory is unavailable.

Contact:

Sgt. Brock Molter brock.molter@txdps.state.tx.us 512-424-7235

his is a Texas Police Association sponsored course.

This course will teach the basics of interviewing and interrogation including suspect interviews, witness/victim interviews, communication, rapport, verbal and non-verbal behavior, culture and gender, interviewing children, persuasion theories and strategies for interrogation designed for the investigator. Students are welcome to bring tapes/disks of interviews or interrogations for evaluation or sharing with the class.

INSTRUCTOR RON HILLEY is a retired FBI Agent/Polygraph Examiner and Interview and Interrogation Instructor. He is currently a Certified Polygraph Examiner, Security Consultant and continues to lecture throughout the United States and overseas on the topics of Interviewing and Interrogation.

Prerequisites: Student must be a commissioned Peace Officer.

$400.00

Contact:

512-424-7214

This is a Texas Police Association sponsored course. To register please click on the link at the bottom of the page.

Upon completion of this course students will be able to: (1) Recognize types of bloodstains associated with violent crimes; (2) Identify various databases used with firearms and bloodstain evidence; (3) Explain the use of chemical tests used to identify firearms evidence at violent crimes; (4) Describe proper collection and packaging techniques for bloodstain and firearms evidence; (5) Demonstrate use of chemicals to enhance latent bloodstain evidence; (6) Identify proper photographic documentation techniques; (7) Define biohazards and safety procedures.

$250.00

Contact:

512-424-7214

Prerequisite: Cyber Crimes Investigations - Basic

$250.00

Contact:

512-424-7214

This is a Texas Police Association sponsored course. To register please click on the link at the bottom of the page.

Instructor: Dr. Lawrence J. Simon is a nationally recognized expert on sexual deviance and author of the book Murder by Numbers: Perspectives on Serial Sexual Violence. He has an extensive background in psychology, including a Master?s degree in Science in 1998 at Nova Southeastern. He recently completed his doctoral degree requirements in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in forensic psychology in Miami, Florida. He has interviewed and conducted research on hundreds of cold-blooded killers and violent sexual offenders within the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Florida Department of Corrections. His doctoral research project involved investigating personality differences and specific methodologies of weapons selection conducive to multiple homicides. Dr. Simon was featured in Univision regarding the aspects of mass murder, specifically related to the Virginia Tech massacre and was contacted by CNN to consult on the Nevada child pornography case and appeared on CNN discussing the minds of serial murderers.

$200.00

Contact:

512-424-7214

This is a Texas Police Association sponsored course. To register please click on the link at the bottom of the page.

This course is designed for the street officer or investigator who takes statements in the course of an investigation. The course will help in analyzing and interpreting written statements of suspects, witnesses and other persons so the investigator can draw logical conclusions regarding the veracity of the statement. Students will be introduced to actual statements for analysis and discussion during the class.

$250.00

Contact:

512-424-7214