Law Enforcement Training
App Testing
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Update: We are currently awaiting DOJ approval to begin beta testing. If you're interested
in beta testing, please submit the form and we will inform you when the DOJ allows
us to proceed.
By participating in our beta testing, you will be able to:
- Keep the app (free!)
- Be sent a testing period update of the app (free!)
- Help law enforcement across the nation facilitate the documentation of the initial
crime scene for crime scene processing unit and investigators
Exclusive Training Opportunities!
Does your department have more training needs than training budget? The Forensic Institute
for Research and Education (FIRE) is holding specialized online training programs
that are vastly different from anything you've ever experienced in law enforcement.
These workshops are appropriate for computer rookies and veterans alike, and since
they are offered online, they will allow officers the freedom to advance at their
own pace over a four week period. They will also allow departments to schedule training
time for officers that will not negatively impact budgets, overtime, or shift work.
Each interactive online workshop is taught by experienced law enforcement experts
and will be submitted for 24 hours POST approval.
Although there is no c

ost for the workshops, approval is required from your Sheriff, Chief, or Training
Director so that we can ensure your department's commitment to this program (24 hours
over a four week period). Don't miss this opportunity to experience an interactive
approach to cutting edge law enforcement training (most classes include interactive
crime scenes from actual case files!). Class sizes are limited to 15 participants,
so apply now!
Each workshop will be:
- No cost to law enforcement
- Limited to 15 participants
- POST approved for 24 hours*
- Conducted over a 4 week period
- Taught completely online in an asynchronous format
- Created and instructed by experienced and established law enforcement professionals
- Hosted and managed through the Tennessee Board of Regents' secured online learning
management system, D2L (law enforcement will register with FIRE and will not be asked
to register as a TBR or MTSU student)
Basic Forensic Crime Scene Investigation*
- Instructor: TBI Special Agent Mike Breedlove - Bio
- Class Dates: July 15 – August 12
- Requirements: Active duty TN law enforcement; must have less than 5 years' law enforcement
experience
- Class in progress
Child Abuse and EVOC**
- 4 hours POST approval pending
- Class Dates: July 22-29 (Note: one week for 4 POST hours)
- Requirements: Active duty TN law enforcement
- Class in progress
Investigative Intelligence Analysis*
Course description: The officer will walk through the steps of the intelligence cycle
and participate in group exercises that allow the officer to apply what has been learned.
The intent is to provide an officer that has no intelligence background or training
an understanding of the fundamentals to plan, guide, and conduct intelligence operations
at a local law enforcement level. The course walks through the planning, collection,
analysis production, and dissemination of finished intelligence products. Throughout
the course, small groups are provided intelligence reporting. The group is required
to apply the current lesson and evaluate the information provided. The reporting builds
on itself into a culminating exercise in which the group must produce a finished intelligence
estimate of the current criminal activity.
- Instructor: TN Dept. of Safety and Homeland Security Intelligence Analyst Alan Feinstein
- Bio
- Class Dates: August 26 – September 23
- Requirements: Active duty TN law enforcement
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Crisis Intervention for Law Enforcement*
Course description: Communities around the United States have identified the need
to have teams of individuals that bring special skills in dealing with and helping
people in crisis. The goal is to refer individuals to proper community resources rather
than incarceration. Officers will learn about Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) and
their practical application to the role of law enforcement. Officers will develop
an understanding of how the CIT program works and how it fits into the department's
patrol and jail operation. Officers will also learn how to interact with persons in
psychiatric crisis, learn how certain techniques may safely defuse potentially violent
encounters. The state and community mental health system will be discussed to provide
officers with the necessary resources to help mental health consumers in crisis access
community-based services.
- Instructor: Director of Inpatient Services Kim Parker, MSSW - Bio
- Class Dates: Sept. 16 -- Oct. 14
- Requirements: Active duty TN law enforcement
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*24 hours POST approval pending
**4 hours POST approval pending
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Questions? Email us at fire@mtsu.edu