| Title | Description | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fugitive Apprehension | This course is designed to expand upon the knowledge and skills that officers will need to safely and effectively locate and apprehend violent offenders. The course will place focus on all aspects of apprehension from time warrant issued. | 2025/10/20 | 2025/10/24 |
| Survival Spanish for Law Enforcement Officers | This course is designed for the needs of law enforcement officers who come in contact with Spanish speaking people as a part of their law enforcement duties. Students will be taught to hear, interpret and understand an adequate amount of Spanish to conduct typical law enforcement duties. The instruction will include cultural orientation that will enable officers to interact with the Spanish speaking person in a professional and respectful manner. The officer will also be taught signs of danger in the demeanor or speech of the Spanish speaking person. Oral practice with vocabulary and grammar will emphasize colloquial Spanish and specialized needs. | 2025/11/03 | 2025/11/05 |
| Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training | CIT is a 40 hour training designed to assist our first responders who respond to incidents involving individuals with a mental health or substance use crisis, and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Officers will learn to identify and effectively interact with people who have mental illness, intellectual or developmental disabilities, and/or addictions, basic medication awareness, verbal de-escalation skills and awareness of community resources. | 2025/11/03 | 2025/11/07 |
| Telecommunicator Certification Course | NC Sheriff's Training and Standards Telecommunicator Course | 2025/11/03 | 2025/11/12 |
| Officer Survival: Domestic Violence Response | This unit of officer survival provides information, strategies and techniques for responding to and managing incidents of domestic unrest and violence. Students will need their handcuffs and duty belts but no weapons for training. | 2025/11/06 | 2025/11/06 |
| Basic Criminal Investigation | This course is designed to provide the initial training of a police officer that is responsible for conducting general criminal investigations. The course will expose the student to a variety of successful investigative techniques utilized during the preliminary scene investigation, the follow-up investigation, apprehension, and case preparation. If departments will allow it, students should bring an open criminal investigation case file to class. | 2025/11/10 | 2025/11/14 |
| Latent Fingerprint Comparison | This course will expose the student to the basics of friction ridge skin comparison and identification principles and techniques. The student will learn the ACE-V methodology of fingerprint comparisons and the accepted practices within the science of fingerprints. Heavy emphasis is placed on practical exercises. Students will need a fingerprint magnifier and pointers for class. | 2025/11/17 | 2025/11/21 |
| Field Training Officer Training (FTO) | This course is designed to prepare experienced officers for the task of training newly hired employees who have successfully completed BLET. Course content includes the role of the field training officer, the training function, interpersonal communication skills, ethics, civil liability, report writing and evaluations, leadership skills, performance evaluations, principles of counseling, and problem solving | 2025/11/17 | 2025/11/21 |
| Basic Interview and Interrogation | This course is designed to develop the knowledge and introduce basic skills necessary for conducting effective interviews and interrogations. Course content includes applicable law and legal principles; | 2025/11/17 | 2025/11/21 |
| Search Warrant Prep | This course will provide the skills necessary to conduct enforcement activities associated with search warrants, and to prepare such warrants. | 2025/11/24 | 2025/11/25 |
| Developing and Using Criminal Evidence | This course is designed to train criminal investigators and crime scene technicians in methods and techniques utilized to process crime scenes for physical evidence. Course content includes securing and protecting the scene, scene searches, recognition of evidence, photography and sketching, evidence collection and preservation, use of specialized equipment and techniques, marking evidence for identification, packaging and labeling evidence, forensic lab coordination, and case preparation. Lecture, demonstration and practical exercises are utilized as the primary methods of instruction. | 2025/12/01 | 2025/12/04 |
| Drug Enforcement for Patrol Officers | This course provides information to law enforcement officers on drug trends, North Carolina drug laws, patrol drug enforcement tactics, roadside interviews, search and seizure laws, drug identification, substance field testing, evidence collection, vehicle search techniques, and officer survival skills. | 2025/12/02 | 2025/12/04 |
| Advanced Street Gang Investigator | This 3-day course provides advanced gang training to street gang investigators, security threat group investigators, and intelligence analysts currently assigned to gang investigations who have two to four years of experiences in this field. Topics include: Intelligence- the various types and uses of human and technological information and resources available to gang investigators. Investigations- traditional and non-traditional investigative methods and legal issues in gang investigations and Suppression strategies and tactics- current trends and best practices in gang investigations. | 2025/12/08 | 2025/12/10 |
| UAS Drone Intro/Public Safety | This course prepares public safety/emergency responders for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS)/Drone flight certification. Topics in.clude flight theory, flight operations, and flight training utilizing the Feder Aviation Administration (FAA) Remote Pilot-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Study Guide, North Carolina Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator Permit Knowledge Test Study Guide and North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Division of Aviation UAS flight standards & best practices. Learners will gain an introduction to commercial, government, and recreational drone applications. Coursework will highlight topics such as regulations, weather, airspace, human factors and sUAS performance. Upon completion, students will be prepared to sit for the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Knowledge Test and NCDOT UAS Operator Permit. This course must be taught utilizing the NC Department of Transportation Division of Aviation approved curriculum. Base course content is the same as UAS-3111 Small Unmanned Aircraft System. Please follow the link to order study manual required for course. The manual is also found on Amazon. https://asa2fly.com/2023-remote-pilot-test-prep | 2025/12/08 | 2025/12/10 |
| SFST Instructor Refresher | 2025/12/08 | 2025/12/08 | |
| Narcotic Covert Surveillance | This is an advanced law enforcement course which serves as an introduction to concepts and techniques of covert surveillance and undercover operations. Students will participate in actual surveillance of role players during the training. | 2025/12/15 | 2025/12/19 |
| Radar Recertification | Radar Operator Certification and Recertification is a program offered under the rules and regulations of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and requires 100% attendance; therefore, officers must be in the classroom at 0800 hours for the start of class. Students must have a current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement at the start of class, and a vehicle equipped with a radar unit. Officers field testing on units equipped with front and rear antenna must be prepared to test on full operation of the unit. Agencies can contact the Justice Academy Bookstore (910-926-6099) to obtain necessary copies of the current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement. | 2026/01/20 | 2026/01/21 |
| Radar Operator Certification | Radar Operator Certification is a program offered under the rules and regulations of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and requires 100% attendance; therefore, officers must be in the classroom at 0800 hours for the start of class. Students must have a current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement at the start of class, and a vehicle equipped with a radar unit. Officers field testing on units equipped with front and rear antenna must be prepared to test on full operation of the unit. Agencies can contact the Justice Academy Bookstore (910-926-6099) to obtain necessary copies of the current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement. | 2026/02/09 | 2026/02/13 |
| Community Policing | This course will cover the following subject matter: Overview the history of Community Policing, Identifying Today's Policing Challenges, Police Strategies, Problem Solving with SARA, Relationship between social disorder and community engagement, steps law enforcement agencies can take to improve citizen satisfaction. | 2026/03/17 | 2026/03/17 |
| Criminal Justice Instructor Training | This course is designed to provide the law enforcement officer with a fundamental background in the instruction of other law enforcement personnel. Successful completion of this course allows the student to apply to the Criminal Justice Training and Standards Division for certification as a law enforcement instructor. Each trainee is require to research, develop, and deliver an 80 minute lesson plan as part of meeting course requirements. Trainees must successfully pass the State-administered written exam as well as demonstrate competency in all skill areas in order to be eligible for certification as a criminal justice instructor. | 2026/03/24 | 2026/04/16 |