R4 Speed Measurement Radar/Lidar- Idaho Falls FREE COURSE

January 15, 2025 0900-1700

Credit Hours: 7
Course Number: R4245

Description:

Radar and Lidar certification course

Instructors: Neil Stevens

Location:

ISP District 6 Training Room

550 W. Sunnyside #3
Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Registration Details:

Email Neil Stevens at neil.stevens@isp.idaho.gov or call 208-716-6132

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R4 114 Crime Scene Investigations- Chubbuck

April 28-30, 2025

Credit Hours: 24
Course Number: R4114

Description:

This 24-hour Basic Crime Scene Investigations and Management course is designed to instruct the proper methods and techniques that can be applied when investigating the crime scene to maximize the potential of the evidence at the scene. The course is primarily intended for new crime scene technicians and investigators, death investigators, patrol officers, and detectives as well as individuals interested in seeking employment in the field of forensics. Experienced investigators will also benefit from much of the course content.

This Crime Scene Investigations course is also designed for first responders such as fire and EMT personnel. It instructs these personnel on how to identify potential crime solving evidence while performing life-saving measures at the scene. Stress is placed on interdepartmental cooperation and the sharing of information between these personnel and investigators.

Identifying the evidence as well as techniques that should be employed in its collection and processing will be addressed.

Topics:

Day 1 – Initial Response to the Scene
Includes response to the scene, interviewing eyewitnesses, processing the scene, scene documentation, and practical exercises

Day 2 – Introduction to Crime Scene Photography
Includes first responder photography and practical exercises, use of scales and close-up views, and nighttime photography

Day 3 – Latent Print and DNA Processing
Includes DNA and fingerprint collection, latent print processing, friction ridge skin impression characteristics, and exercises

Instructors: Shelly Dill

Location:

Chubbuck Police Department

5160 Yellowstone Ave.

Chubbuck, ID 83202

Registration Details:

Click link- https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0027-0031-ca414892c6f24f008f8d512e7b93e14b

Remarks:

Home2 Suites by Hilton Pocatello
2325 Via Caporatti Drive
Pocatello, ID 83201
208-417-2100

Room Rate:   $110 per night plus tax (single/double room)

Amenities:   Free Wi-Fi, Free Parking

Booking Info:   Call the hotel directly or Click Here to receive this special rate.

Cutoff Date:   April 13, 2025

R4 Sexual Assault Investigations- Idaho Falls

June 19-20, 2025 0800-1700 (0800-1200 Day Two)

Credit Hours: 12
Course Number: R4228C

Description:

Sexual assault cases are some of the most challenging types of investigations that criminal investigators face. Delays in reporting, uneasy victims, lack of evidence, and credible suspects often reduce the likelihood of successful prosecution. Participants in this course, whether new investigators or seasoned veterans, will learn innovative, courtroom-proven investigative techniques. Attendees will examine types and sources of evidence, rapport building with victims, suspect interview techniques, supportive services, beneficial pretrial motions, case law, and issues surrounding false reports. Case studies illustrate key points.

The course instructors are veteran sexual assault investigators who offer proven methods and are passionate about conducting aggressive investigations that lead to positive outcomes. Participants will leave with increased understanding, tools to conduct more in-depth investigations, resources to better manage victims, and tactics to obtain information from suspects.

This training is recommended for officers new to law enforcement, veteran investigators, and police supervisors.

Instructors: TBD

Location:

Idaho Falls Police Department

775 Northgate Mile

Idaho Falls, ID 83401

Registration Details:

To register for this course, click the following link- https://lawenforcementseminars.com/courses/idaho-falls-id-jun-2025

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R4 Shooting Reconstruction- Idaho Falls

June 2-6, 2025 0800-1700

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4280C

Description:

This comprehensive five day course is designed for crime scene investigators, detectives, crime laboratory analysts, and others in the field of forensic science that have the basic training and skills for crime scene examinations. This course will assist law enforcement officers in connecting all of the forensic pieces for the purpose of crime scene reconstruction involving shooting incidents. It will also elaborate on the thorough and accurate documentation of physical evidence at the scene. The attendees will learn protocol and methods by using string, dowel rods, scientific calculators, and/or lasers to determine the flight path of the projectile from the moment it leaves a firearm muzzle to the moment it strikes the final target and is recovered. Also, students will examine the firearm residue for estimated distance determination from the position of the shooter to the victim and/or final target. Mock scenes are designed for the course to assist the student by providing hands-on experience with the concepts learned throughout the lectures and discussions.

Instructors: TBD

Location:

Idaho Falls Police Department

775 Northgate Mile

Idaho Falls, ID 83401

Registration Details:

To register for this course, click the following link- http://forensicpieces.com/lists/5-csi-and-recon-courses/items/451-shooting-reconstruction

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R4 Basic Blood Stain Pattern Analysis- Idaho Falls

April 7-11, 2025 0800-1700

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4280C

Description:

This comprehensive 40-hour workshop will provide participants training and assistance in the proper recognition of bloodstain pattern evidence. This includes actual laboratory experimentation of blood flight characteristics of motion and force. These experiments will be augmented with lecture material and case presentations for the ultimate purpose of reconstruction of the sequence of events which occurred at the scene of the crime. This is a hands-on workshop that will allow the participants to work individually and in small groups as they acquire the necessary knowledge and skills required of a bloodstain pattern analyst. The bloodstain evidence that will be analyzed will include that which is present at the crime scene, in or on a vehicle, on a victim and/or suspect’s clothing, or on discarded evidence such as knives, firearms and other weapons.

Instructors: TBD

Location:

Idaho Falls Police Department

775 Northgate Mile

Idaho Falls, ID 83401

Registration Details:

To register for this course, click the following link- http://forensicpieces.com/lists/5-csi-and-recon-courses/items/450-basic-bloodstain-pattern-analysis

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R4 PATC Leadership for First Line and New Supervisors – Idaho Falls

May 19-23, 2025

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4602E

Description:

The pure essence of Leadership is influence and everyone has the power to increase theirs. One of the challenges during times like these is understanding the fundamental principles of ethical influence. A huge part of becoming a leader and assuming a leadership position is figuring out where you are with those you are commissioned to lead and shifting our focus to recognizing their potential. Stepping into a new leadership role can offer many new demands. At times new positions come with limited exposure to proven principles to maximize the leader dealing with these new set of demands. It is Darryl’s hope to share some definitive principles accompanied with real life application to help in day-to-day operations that the supervisor’s role entails.

Participants will be exposed to the following principles and discussions:

  • Why Does the World Need Leaders?
  • The Difference in Supervisory Roles and Leadership Roles
  • Legal Authority/Departmental Authority Versus Moral Authority
  • Proper Work/Life Balance
  • The Importance of an Evaluations System
  • Media Relations
  • Definitive Steps to Increase your Leadership Influence

Leaders First Priority: Define Reality!

Dealing with Criticism: If you can’t avoid it you have to learn to deal with it.

Defining Moments in Leadership: When they show up, you need to.

A Leadership Atmosphere: How to create and maintain it.

Every Leaders Common Mistake: Acknowledge it or repeat it. .

What Separates Leaders from Great Leaders: Good leaders are good talkers, Great leaders are good listeners .

Every Leaders Best Teacher: It is not Experience .

Questions Every Leader Should Ask: Where are you.

Dealing with Challenging People: Because Good leaders need to master it .

Instructors: TBD

Location:

Idaho Falls Police Department

775 Northgate Mile

Idaho Falls, ID 83401

Registration Details: Darrell Rivers

To register for this course, click the following link- https://publicagencytrainingcouncil.arlo.co/w/seminars/243-leadership-institute-for-first-line-and-new-supervisors/868

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R4 280 Death Investigations- Chubbuck

September 8-12, 2025

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4280

Description:

Death investigation requires a team effort consisting of detectives, crime scene technicians, and forensic personnel. Positive outcomes are best realized when these components work together to collect, evaluate, reconstruct, and derive meaning from the available evidence.

The challenging 5-day (40 hour) Death Investigations course was designed for detectives, crime scene technicians, medico-legal death investigators, and others involved in the investigation of deaths. Through both lecture and practical exercises, investigators may expand their skill sets by learning and practicing methodologies for objective investigation and analysis of death scenes. Key concepts are reinforced through practical exercises. This is not a “checklist” course. Attendees will use critical thinking skills to analyze and investigate “hands on” historically based homicide investigations.

Classroom instruction and practical exercises include:

  • Procedures for managing crime scenes and addressing constitutional issues
  • Case management techniques to assess, organize, plan, and delegate investigation
  • Methods for identifying and evaluating physical and biological evidence, wounds, bloodstains, ballistics, witnesses, and other evidence
  • Evidence associated with child deaths, self-inflicted death, domestic violence, and accidental deaths
  • Capabilities and limitations of forensic analysis
  • Identifying basic bloodstain pattern characteristics in a crime scene
  • Identifying and evaluating evidentiary relationships to reconstruct events
  • Evaluating subjective and objective evidence through application of critical thinking
  • Flowcharts and timelines as investigative and analytical tools
  • Interview techniques to increase subject cooperation
  • Behavioral characteristics of violent crime offenders
  • Presenting investigations for prosecutorial evaluation

Course Requirements:

​The Death Investigations course is designed for personnel currently working or moving into death scene investigations.  Course materials are provided in electronic format.   Attendees should bring an electronic device with USB connection, basic office suite software, and preferably a laptop computer to access/save handouts, case materials, and fillable forms used in both lecture and practical exercises.

Instructors:

Location:

Chubbuck Police Department

5160 Yellowstone Ave.

Chubbuck, ID 83202

Registration Details:

Click link- https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0027-0031-b22ef126e5fa4f8aa3c00085d641d4f1

Remarks:

Home2 Suites by Hilton Pocatello
2325 Via Caporatti Drive
Pocatello, ID 83201
208-417-2100

Room Rate:   $110 per night plus tax (single/double room)

Amenities:   Free Wi-Fi, Free Parking

Booking Info:   Call the hotel directly or Click Here to receive this special rate.

Cutoff Date:   August 7, 2025

R1 121D ARIDE- Post Falls FREE COURSE

December 16 – 17, 2024

December 16th – 8:00 am – 6:00 pm (wet lab in the evening)
December 17th – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Credit Hours: 16
Course Number: 121D

Description:

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. In addition, this course will educate other criminal justice professionals (prosecutors, toxicologists, judges, etc.) to understand the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or combination of both, to enable them to effectively work with law enforcement in order to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes.

This class is intended for officers who have been patrolling for one or more years and desire to have more training in the area of detection and apprehension of drug impaired drivers. In addition, ARIDE takes the place of the 8-hour drugs that impair driving class as the prerequisite for the Drug Recognition Expert School.

Students must have successfully completed a full SFST training course. The full SFST course is regularly taught during patrol academy sessions at POST and at college-sponsored law enforcement programs. Refer questions regarding course requirements to the course contact.

Instructors: Sgt Tulleners

Location:

NIC POST Annex
500 Clearwater Loop
Post Falls, ID 83854

Registration Details:

SEND Email with name (for certificate), agency, and contact phone number to Troy.Tulleners@isp.idaho.gov

 

R4 Shooting Incident Reconstruction- Chubbuck

June 23-27, 2025 0800-1700

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4228F

Description:

Modern investigators are frequently faced with the investigation of incidents involving the discharge of firearms.  Whether the incident is a criminal act, an act of self-defense, or the use of deadly force by law enforcement, the outcome of these investigations often has far-reaching consequences.  It is essential that investigators effectively and accurately analyze these scenes so facts surrounding these incidents can be demonstrated in a court of law or where otherwise required.

This comprehensive 5-day (40-hour) Shooting Incident Reconstruction course is specially designed for case officers/investigators, forensic technicians, crime scene analysts, and others involved in shooting incident analysis.  Through both lecture and practical exercises, students will learn and practice shooting scene reconstruction methodologies and evaluate positions and evidentiary relationships between the shooter, scene, victim, and other evidence.

All main concepts are reinforced through hands-on practical exercises using historically-based case scenarios.  * Includes exercises conducted at a shooting range.

Class Requirements
This course is designed to develop knowledge and hands-on experience for shooting incident scene analysis.  Prior investigative or crime scene experience and attendance at a previous Crime Scene Reconstruction Course is recommended but not required.  Attendees should bring a camera for documenting evidence and an electronic device with USB connection, preferably a laptop computer, to access and save digital handouts, case materials, and fillable forms used in lecture and practical exercises.

​Classroom and firearms range instruction and practical exercises include:

  • Firearms and ammunition design and function
  • Physics of projectile motion
  • Proper identification, documentation, and organization of firearms-related evidence
  • Gunshot wound ballistics and interrelationships of wounds and other evidence
  • Determining muzzle to target distances
  • Mathematics for trajectory analysis in crime scenes
  • Application of the scientific method to field analysis
  • Reconstructing the shooting event through recognizing and correlating evidentiary relationships between evidence in the scene, forensic analyses, and subject/witness statements
  • *Trajectory analysis through rodding, laser, trigonometry, and stringing
  • *Demonstration and analysis of bullet interactions with various materials including glass, metal, concrete, wood, motor vehicles, bone, and dirt.  Commonly held perceptions will be challenged

This course has been approved for the following certification/re-certification training credits: IAI Crime Scene Certification Board – 40 and IAI Forensic Photography Certification Board – 2.

Instructors: Gary Graff, Iris Graff

Location:

Chubbuck Police Department

5160 Yellowstone

Chubbuck, ID 83202

Registration Details:

To register for this course, click the following link- https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0027-0031-684f1e15844c47ed81d0cb6a255ef135

Remarks:

For discounted hotel-

Home2 Suites by Hilton Pocatello
2325 Via Caporatti Drive
Pocatello, ID  83201
208-417-2100

Room Rate:   $110 per night plus tax (single/double room)

Amenities:   Free Wi-Fi, Free Parking

Booking Info:   Call the hotel directly or Click Here to receive this special rate.

Cutoff Date:   August 7, 2025

R4 121D ARIDE- Idaho Falls FREE COURSE

February 4-5, 2025 0800-1700

Credit Hours: 16
Course Number: 121D

Description:

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. In addition, this course will educate other criminal justice professionals (prosecutors, toxicologists, judges, etc.) to understand the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or combination of both, to enable them to effectively work with law enforcement in order to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes.

This class is intended for officers who have been patrolling for one or more years and desire to have more training in the area of detection and apprehension of drug impaired drivers. In addition, ARIDE takes the place of the 8-hour drugs that impair driving class as the prerequisite for the Drug Recognition Expert School.

Students must have successfully completed a full SFST training course. The full SFST course is regularly taught during patrol academy sessions at POST and at college-sponsored law enforcement programs. Refer questions regarding course requirements to the course contact.

Instructors: TBD

Location:

Watkins Distributing Training Room
5999 S. Doug Andrus Dr.
Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Registration Details:

SEND Email with name (for certificate), agency, and contact phone number to jmiller@bonnevillecountysheriff.gov

Remarks:

Maximum of 25 students