Tag: Patrol
R4 238 Motor Officer Refresher Course- Pocatello FREE
April 20-24, 2026, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4 238
Description:
Motor refresher training for officers who will be riding motorcycles for patrol.
Equipment needed for this course:
- Department motorcycle.
- Helmet
- Glasses (shatterproof, clear, and tinted).
- Other riding gear to include boots, gloves, etc.
- Bullet proof vest.
- Duty belt (to be worn during on the road training rides).
Instructors: PPD Officers Russell Olsen & Jason Weinheimer
Location:
Pocatello Police Department
911 N. 7th Ave.
Pocatello, ID 83201
Registration Details: To register for this course contact Jene Purman at 208-234-6129 or email jpurman@pocatello.gov
R3 121D ARIDE – Twin Falls FULL
CLASS IS FULL
January 16-17, 2026
Jan 16th 0800 – 2100 (includes wet lab)
Jan 17th 1000 – 1700
Credit Hours: 20
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 a 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 a 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 two or more years and desire to have more training in the area of detection and apprehension of drug impaired drivers.
ARIDE is the prerequisite for the Drug Recognition Expert School.
Instructors: ISP Sgt. Ben Foster and TFCSO Deputy Brook Prudent
Location:
Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Complex
2469 Wright Ave
Twin Falls, ID
Registration Details:
Email name, agency and contact phone number to: cazevedo@tfco.org
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Maximum: 20 students
R4 161L Use of Force Liability – Idaho Falls
January 5, 2026 0800-1700
Credit Hours: 8
Course Number: R4161l
Description:
Instructors: Matt Bloodgood, Matthew Lovell (Lovell Law)
Location:
Idaho Falls Police Department
775 Northgate Mile
Idaho Falls State 83402
Registration Details: Click the following link for course and registration information
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Point of Contact – Sgt. Jason Hendrian 208-612-8662 jhendrian@idahofalls.gov
R4 First Line Supervision (LE700)- Pocatello FREE
October 6-8, 2025 0800-1800
Credit Hours: 24
Course Number: R4602
Description:
This course is open to all sworn or non-sworn Command Level Supervisors, or above, in any division of Law Enforcement or related public service agency personnel.
The POST certified course has received EXCELLENT reviews from those who have attended it!!
Presented through a combination of classroom lecture and practical exercises, this 3-day course will provide new FTO’s and First Line Supervisors with principles and techniques that will help them become successful supervisors.
Topics will include:
Management Styles, Coaching Employees, Problem Employees, Generational Differences, Performance Evaluations, Employee Discipline, Civil Liability
Instructors: ICRMP Chad Sarmento
Location:
Pocatello Police Department
911 North 7th Ave
Pocatello, ID 83201
Registration Details:
For more information or to register, please contact Chad Sarmento csarmento@icrmp.org
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Agency contact: Jene Purman 208-234-6129 jpurman@pocatello.gov
R4 227 Interview and Interrogation-Chubbuck
August 25th-28th , 2025 0800-1700
Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4227
Description:
Based in Northern California, the Interview and Interrogation Institute (III) has provided superior law enforcement interview and interrogation training in the Western United States since 1982. This investigator training class specifically covers interview and interrogation techniques for law enforcement investigators, featuring hands-on, experiential, proven interrogation techniques.
Click the link below for full course description
Chubbuck 40 HR Int Course Flyer 2025
Instructors: Sparks, NV Police Lt. Jason Woodard
Location:
Chubbuck Police Department
5160 Yellowstone Ave.
Chubbuck, ID 83202
Registration Details:
Click the following link for registration information- https://www.getconfessions.com/courselist/investigator-08-25-25-chubbuck-id/?
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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 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
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2325 Via Caporatti Drive
Pocatello, ID 83201
208-417-2100
Room Rate: $110 per night plus tax (single/double room)
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Cutoff Date: August 7, 2025
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
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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
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Cutoff Date: August 7, 2025
R4 Front Line Leadership- Idaho Falls
July 22-24, 2025
Credit Hours: 24
Course Number: R4805
Description:
Course Description
This Track II course is for those who would like to enjoy more out of their
career and their life. Students completing this course will develop their
understanding of leadership and self to improve their work and personal
relationships with others. Information and skills developed in this course
will assist in gaining a broader perspective of the law enforcement
profession, the personalities that exist in it, functional vs
dysfunctional teams, culture, history, building trust, building credibility,
building teams, and real-life modern leadership. Topics of instruction will
include Assessing Leadership, Positive Teamwork, Police Cultures, the
Challenging Employee, Integrity of Policing, 360 Relationships, and Resilient
Leadership. This course is a “must” for all Front Line Leaders!
Target Audience
All commissioned peace officers, corrections officers, non-commissioned
personnel, FTO’s, supervisors, middle managers, command staff, and
executive staff of all ranks, tenure, and assignment will benefit from this
Front Line Leadership course. This course is for everyone in our profession.
Instructors: Ron Bayne
Location:
Bonneville County Sheriff’s Ammon Field Office
3750 E Lincoln Road,
Idaho Falls, ID
83406
Registration Details:
Call 866-855-6772 or at http://joppatraining.com
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