| Title | Description | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| search Warrant Prep | Course will provide the skills necessary to conduct enforcement activities associated with search warrants, and to prepare such warrants. | 2023/06/01 | 2023/06/02 |
| 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. | 2023/06/08 | 2023/06/08 |
| Officer Survival: Vehicle Stop Techniques | This unit of officer survival establishes sound strategies, principles, policies and procedures for conducting both known high risk vehicle stops and unknown risk stops. Students will need their handcuffs and duty belts but no weapons for training. The class schedule includes evening exercises. | 2023/06/13 | 2023/06/13 |
| Grant Writing for LEO | Grant funding can make a big difference in law enforcement budgets. This course will provide tips and assistance for locating and successfully completing grants for law enforcement. | 2023/06/15 | 2023/06/15 |
| Tactical Handgun | Through lecture, classroom discussion, demonstrations, practical exercise and live fire exercises, the student will be able to demonstrate the techniques and perform live fire drills during live fire tactical handgun shooting. | 2023/06/19 | 2023/06/20 |
| UAS Drone Intro/Public Safety | .This course prepares public safety/emergency responders for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS)/Drone flight certification. Topics include 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. | 2023/06/19 | 2023/06/22 |
| Tactical Mindset | Tactical Mindset is an intense course that will challenge the officers. This course is designed for the patrolman, detective, school resource officer and SWAT operator. Officers will be challenged through lecture, discussions, and video footage of fellow officers that has been involved in a shooting. This will be classroom and class participation will be requested. This course will explore the officers mentally and physically. Tactical mindset will assist the officers in preparation for that deadly encounter. It is also designed to open the mindset to understanding the obstacles that will be encountered after the shooting. This course will provide ideas and things that need to be in place and already shared to love ones in the officer’s life when this day comes. This course will also assist the officers in preparing for supporting their fellow officer and family after a deadly encounter or just a use of deadly force encounter. The course will allow officers to face reality and challenge themselves as for getting ready mentally and physically. It will get deep into the psychological and physiological aspects of a shooting. At the end of this block of instruction every student will take something back home and also leave with a stronger commitment to be more dedicated, motivated, obligated and determine to be ready for the fight when it shows up. | 2023/06/21 | 2023/06/22 |
| Advanced Interview and Interrogation | This course is for officers who have previously attended the Basic Interview and Interrogation course and is designed to enhance the skills and techniques covered in the basic course. Students will work on developing their skills to obtain complete, accurate and truthful information from suspects, witnesses, and victims. | 2023/06/26 | 2023/06/30 |
| Specialized Firearms Instructor Development Course | This course is designed to teach the Specialized Firearms Instructor to truly begin or to continue their journey to being a genuine subject matter expert (SME) in firearms training. This training will stand you apart from the field of other trainers in firearms by correcting any current problems you have first, then teaching you how to fix your students’ issues. This course will give the firearms instructor the information they need to diagnose problems and issues with shooters much more quickly than they would be able to without years of experience in firearms training. This course is the result of over 30 years of firearms instructor knowledge and over 20 years of being a nationally and internationally ranked and sponsored professional USPSA Grand Master pistol competitor. This course will assist the current firearms trainer in shortening that amount of time it takes to learn exactly how to help shooters overcome problem areas encountered on the range and on the street. | 2023/06/26 | 2023/06/28 |
| Drone Mapping & Traffic Reconstruction | Whether aerial mapping is needed for crash reconstructions, structure layouts for active-shooter responses, or cataloging critical infrastructure; the principles of this course can be used in a variety of areas within public safety. Drone Mapping and Traffic Reconstruction covers various areas of UAS (DRONE) implementation to include, Crash Reconstruction, Crime Scene analysis, and mapping for tactical LEO response. Participants will review the basic hardware and software required to successfully conduct investigations andmissions, hardware calibration, measuring ground control points, and practical application. This course is ideal for first responders, emergency management, and traffic investigation personnel. FAA Part 107 and equipment are not required to attend this course. This course is intended for law enforcement officers, corrections, officers, campus security, fire services and emergency management personnel. | 2023/07/17 | 2023/07/17 |
| Indoor Drone Tactics | This course exposes students to various indoor drone technology available to Public Safety personnel and teaches them to operate drones confidently in confined spaces and indoor environments. This class is ideal for operators needing to enhance their skill level of flying drones indoors for tactical operations. P.S.U. has partnered with major Drone manufacturers to provide participants with top-of-the-line equipment and training, allowing operators an opportunity to familiarize themselves with indoor-drone thermal abilities, tactical communication abilities, turtle mode, and other indoor uses. This course is intended for law enforcement officers, SWAT operators, corrections officers, campus security, fire services and emergency management personnel. The class will consist of two-eight-hour days for: four (4) hour classroom portion explaining how drones are used indoors and various tactics specific to indoor flight operations; the next 4 hours will be spent in an open area environment, allowing participants to complete obstacle courses to familiarize themselves with flying indoor drones. Day two (2) will consist of 8 hours of indoor flight time and tactical scenarios. | 2023/07/18 | 2023/07/19 |
| Digital Photography | This course is designed to provide the student with the working knowledge of a digital camera, and how to use it effectively as a tool in criminal investigation. | 2023/07/24 | 2023/07/26 |
| 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. | 2023/07/31 | 2023/08/04 |
| School Resource Officer Training | This course meets the NC Justice Academy requirements for SRO certification. This course will present students with guidelines on operating as a school resource officer as it relates to the fourth amendment and other legal issues concernig juveniles and law enforcement. | 2023/07/31 | 2023/08/04 |
| Introduction to Financial Crimes | This course is in development. It will be geared for the new investigator who will conduct such investigations as forgery and uttering, financial transaction card fraud, identify theft, obtaining property by false pretense and embezzlement. | 2023/08/07 | 2023/08/08 |
| School Rampage Shooter | What causes a “normal” teen to becoming a mass murderer? Can they be predicted and prevented? This course examines the various theories of the cause of school shooters, warning signs, assessment and interventions. This course can stand alone or be combined with the course on threat assessment. This course can also include case study presentations of two would be mass murderers. One who planned to use homemade destructive devices rather than firearms, another 14 years old and was subsequently tried as an adult. | 2023/08/15 | 2023/08/15 |
| Sexual Assault Investigation | y its very nature, most sexual assaults occur in private, that is without witnesses to the crime and occur when there is some kind of relationship between the offender and the victim. The defense is “nothing like that happened” or the victim consented rather than revisited. Additionally, victims may wait before reporting the crime to the police. These circumstances may make it very difficult to successfully prosecute the offender for his crimes. Research and experience has shown that the completeness and accuracy of victims’ accounts are important factors in whether or not the case is solved. However, victims’ reports of crimes, particularly involving sexual assault and domestic violence, are sometimes known to be incomplete and partially incorrect, often viewed by others as “unreliable”. This course will explore the ways of determining when a victim or witness is mistaken or has memory gaps due to fear, anger, shame, guilt, psychological and physical trauma, and alcohol and drug intoxication. Also covered in depth are various investigative techniques including pretext telephone calls, search warrant applications, victim interviews, compliant victims of sexual assault, late reported sexual assaults, case preparation to present for prosecution. Particular attention is given to investigation of “late reported” sexual assaults. | 2023/08/16 | 2023/08/17 |
| Patrol Carbine | The class is two full days and one full evening / night of training. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: nomenclature, assembly, disassembly, cleaning, maintenance, ballistics, best practices regarding proper application and deployment of the weapon system, malfunctions, reloads, and practical use of the weapon system in a real life, dynamic environment from a law enforcement perspective, and legal considerations. Officers will also qualify on the weapon using a qualification course that has been vetted by the NCJA as being one of the only quals in the state that accurately mimics real world conditions and use of the weapon. The class is taught by IBX Tactical, LLC. which is comprised of current NC law enforcement officers with a vast amount of expertise in this subject area. These are seasoned and vetted instructors with real-world experience using and deploying this weapon system in law enforcement environments and encounters. | 2023/08/16 | 2023/08/18 |
| Cellular Phone Analysis | In this three day 20 hour course, officers will be exposed to the basic knowledge of social media and cellular information and records and how those records can be obtained and used as part of a criminal investigation. The course will further cover such topics as basic cellular theory and function, how to properly and legally obtain cellular and social media records, examination and exploitation of call details records, cellular mapping techniques, NC electronic surveillance laws, pen registers, global positioning, call records research, and the use of electronic surveillance as part of fugitive operations. | 2023/08/28 | 2023/08/30 |
| Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (A.R.I.D.E.) | This course will train law enforcement officers to observe, identify and articulate the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or combination of both, in order to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes which result in serious injuries and fatalities. | 2023/08/31 | 2023/09/01 |
| Cell Extraction | This course is designed to prepare and equip the administrator, trainer and officer in implementing procedures and subject control tactics when responding to a "forced" cell extraction/insertion of an unresponsive prisoner. The emphasis of this training program is to focus on the developing systematic procedures which utilize a team approach when faced with a cell extraction which maximizes both officer and prisoner safety. | 2023/09/01 | 2023/09/01 |
| Ground Defense | This class is designed to expand on the concepts of basic ground defense to include the use of advanced level ground techniques as well as the S.P.E.A.R. system to avoid takedowns and quickly penetrate and move suspects in raid type situations. | 2023/09/05 | 2023/09/06 |
| Academic Checklist | This course is designed to prepare Criminal Justice Instructors with the tool to navigate MS Word and to prepare PowerPoints for the CJ Instructor Training Course. This course is mandatory for all students taking the General Instructor class. | 2023/09/11 | 2023/09/11 |
| Radar Operator Recertification | 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 (910-525-4151) to obtain necessary copies of the current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement. | 2023/09/11 | 2023/09/12 |
| 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. | 2023/09/12 | 2023/09/29 |
| High Risk Warrant Service | High Risk Warrant Service Entries is a class designed for line officers, drug detectives and SWAT operators. This class covers a variety of areas that will expose the officer to what he/sher encounters during a high risk warrant situation. This includes preparationf or a briefing, scouting to gather intelligence prior to mission, high risk entries with threshold evaluation drills, open air take downs, vehicle take downs and how to move and functin in a team concept during a mission. There will also be scenario with simmunitins andlive fire room clearing. This is a demanding class that will challenge the officer in stressful situations and prepare them for real world evolutions to deal with controlled aggression and decisin making under stress. A great deal of emphasis will be placed on conducting a scout on the target location to make sure that operators understand the importance of going to the right place versus the wrong place. Equipment needed: 1. Duty holster and handgun / rifle if available 2. Rap around Eye protection, ear protection – helmet if available 3. Tactical gear if available (full kit) 4. Binoculars 5. Secondary flash lights 6. Ballistic vest 7. Flash Bang (1) if available for each agency 8. 400 rounds handgun / 300 rounds rifle or submachine gun 9. Gas mask with filters 10. Ballistic shield 11. Sim gun / 50 rounds of ammo if available 12. Plenty of water 13. Boots / BDU style pants / ball cap 14. Outline will be passed out in class or online from college | 2023/09/18 | 2023/09/22 |
| 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. | 2023/10/02 | 2023/10/06 |
| 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; methods, techniques and strategies that may be employed for acquiring factual information; body language and deception, and special techniques for interviewing children. | 2023/10/09 | 2023/10/13 |
| First Line Supervision | This course is designed for officers who are newly assigned to supervisory positions and/or officers serving in supervisory positions without any formal training. Concepts and techniques that have been effectively utilized in the management of human resources are introduced. Instruction will focus on determining an officer's communication/personality traits through a Myers-Briggs assessment, communications skills, legal aspects of supervision, supervising the problem employee, supervision of search and seizure situations, and performance evaluations. Students will need a 3-ring binder to collect lesson plans and handouts through out the week. | 2023/10/16 | 2023/10/20 |
| Opioid Homicide/Death Investigation | This course will provide instruction on the methods, techniques and strategies utilized in investigating homicides Crime scene processing analysis and management will be featured topics. This course will be directed toward both investigators and patrol officers. The instruction method will include lectures, video programs and review of actual homicide cases. | 2023/10/16 | 2023/10/17 |
| Basic S.W.A.T. | This is the BasicS.W.A.T. course that will cover every area of tactics for a basic operator. This will be an intense course that will be physically and mentally demanding. Some of the taactical areas taat will be covered is an overview of S.W.A.T. physical fitness for the S.W.A.T. operator, CBQ Thresh hold evaluation, tactical dynamic and static room clearing, combative fighting for close quarters with and without weapons, tactical firearms (handguns, rifles, submachine gun), ballistic shields, down man rescue, entry drills, dry/live fire, vehicle takedowns, legal issues for S.W.A.T. operators, S.W.A.T. callouts during night operations dry/live fire evolutions, use of tactical Robot, SIMS evolutions and several more intense block of instructions. Equipment needed: 1. Duty handgun and holster; 2. If available duty rifle, submachine gun; 3. Gas mask mandatory with filter; 4. Tactical entry and protective kit including helmet (TACTICAL GEAR); 5. If available elbow and knee pads; 6. 1 of each - smoke, gas CN or CS and flash bang; 7. Ammo - handgun - 450 rounds; 8. Ammo - submachine gun - 350 rounds; 10. Flashlight/secondary light; 11. Ballistic shield; 12. Rap around eye protection, hearing protection is mandatory; 13. Ballistic vest or tactical ves is mandatory (helmet); 14. Recommend gloves, boots, baseball style hat, BDU style pants; 15. Plenty of water; 16. Outlines are mandatory - will be handed out in classroom or on college website; 17. SIMS handgun 9mm, 50 rounds or SIMS if available. | 2023/10/16 | 2023/10/20 |
| 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 apprehensiion from time warrant issued until the offender is secured. | 2023/10/23 | 2023/10/27 |
| 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. | 2023/10/23 | 2023/10/27 |
| Officer Survival: Building Search Tactics (Force on Force) | (Force on Force) This unit of officer survival establishes effective strategies and techniques for responding, approaching, entering, maneuvering, searching and surviving a high risk building searches. Students will need their handcuffs and duty belts but no weapons for this training. This block of training does include evening hours. | 2023/10/26 | 2023/10/26 |
| Intermediate Traffic Accident Investigation | This class covers post-BLET at-scene accident investigation techniques including speed from skid, drag factor and use of several mathematical formulas. This course is required to attend Advanced Traffic Accident Investigation, which is offered in conjunction with Traffic Accident Reconstruction in a three-course sequence. Students will need a Northwestern Traffic Institute Template (available from Lawman's Supply) and a hand-held calculator with square root functions. | 2023/11/06 | 2023/11/10 |
| Police Law Institute (PLI) | The goal of this course is to provide the skills necessary to conduct enforcement activities associated with search warrants, warrantless searches, interviews, eyewitness identifications and nontestimonial identification orders and to avoid liability while conducting such activities. Attendance is required at all class sessions. The student must participate in class and practical exercises, successfully prepare search warrants and nontestimonial orders and successfully attain a required score on a written examination administered by personnel rom the North Carolina Justice Academy. Students are required to have the most recent copy of the textbook "Arrest Search and Investigation in North Carolina " written by Robert Farb, and supplemental books, available from the NCJA Bookstore, Telephone 910-926-6099. Reading and other assignments will need to be completed in the student's evening hours. | 2023/11/06 | 2023/11/17 |
| Police Culture/Implicit Bias | This course is designed to provide training on dealing with some of today's toughest topics in law enforcement. Students well be taught to identify and overcome unconscious bias and the advantages of embraing diversity and inclusion | 2023/11/08 | 2023/11/09 |
| DWI Detection and SFST | This course is designed to introduce the patrol officer to methods, techniques, and strategies utilized in detecting impaired drivers and establishing evidence necessary for successful prosecution. Standardized methods of field sobriety testing are intorduced, and students are taught techniques of Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus in establishing evidence of impairment. Practical exercises and controlled drinking exercises take place during the afternoon and evening hours of the class. | 2023/11/14 | 2023/11/16 |
| 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. | 2023/11/28 | 2023/11/30 |
| Tactical Mindset Seminar | Tactical Mindset is an intense course that will challenge the officers. This course is designed for the patrolman, detective, school resource officer and SWAT operator. Officers will be challenged through lecture, discussions, and video footage of fellow officers that has been involved in a shooting. This will be classroom and class participation will be requested. This course will explore the officers mentally and physically. Tactical mindset will assist the officers in preparation for that deadly encounter. It is also designed to open the mindset to understanding the obstacles that will be encountered after the shooting. This course will provide ideas and things that need to be in place and already shared to love ones in the officer’s life when this day comes. This course will also assist the officers in preparing for supporting their fellow officer and family after a deadly encounter or just a use of deadly force encounter. The course will allow officers to face reality and challenge themselves as for getting ready mentally and physically. It will get deep into the psychological and physiological aspects of a shooting. At the end of this block of instruction every student will take something back home and also leave with a stronger commitment to be more dedicated, motivated, obligated and determine to be ready for the fight when it shows up. | 2023/11/28 | 2023/11/29 |
| Field Training Officer Training (Hybrid) | 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. | 2023/12/04 | 2023/12/08 |
| Officer Survival: Vehicle Stops (Force on Force) | This unit of officer survival establishes sound strategies, principles, policies and procedures for conducting both known high risk vehicle stops and unknown risk stops. Students will need their handcuffs and duty belts but no weapons for training. The class schedule includes evening exercises. | 2023/12/05 | 2023/12/05 |
| Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (A.R.I.D.E.) | This course will train law enforcement officers to observe, identify and articulate the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or combination of both, in order to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes which result in serious injuries and fatalities. | 2023/12/11 | 2023/12/12 |
| Death and Homicide Investigation | You will learn a systematic process for handling the crime scene from the initial approach through scene documentation and evidence collection. The student will be introduced to wound interpretation, bloodstain pattern analysis and crime scene reconstruction. Different motivators for murder will be identified and compared to case examples. Also, follow-up investigative procedure and techniques will be identified. | 2023/12/11 | 2023/12/15 |
| Officer Survival: Robbery Response (Force on Force) | This unit of officer survival establishes sound strategies, principles, tactics and procedures for responding to known or suspected robbery in-progress calls. Students will need their handcuffs and duty belts but no weapons for this training. | 2023/12/12 | 2023/12/12 |
