Tag: Search and seizure

R4 Blue to Gold Advanced Search and Seizure- Chubbuck

Course Number: R4247

Course Description:

This is the premier Blue to Gold Course and the only search and seizure training Nationally Certified by IDALEST. This course is designed for experienced law enforcement officers who already possess a background knowledge and functional experience in search and seizure law. The instruction is advanced and fast-paced and uses case studies to explain the development and the current status of the legal aspects of searches and seizures.

Topics Covered/Overview

Goal

The goal of Advanced Search and Seizure is to help officers independently analyze and solve Fourth Amendment problems.

Outcome

Students who complete the course will:

  • Understand when the Fourth Amendment applies

  • Understand that every search or seizure requires consent, a recognized exception, or a warrant

  • Reduce or eliminated lawsuits

  • Make good case law

Training Modules

  1. First, acquire a solid understand of the Fourth Amendment:

    • What are the key words in the Fourth Amendment that need to be understood by officers

    • What are the three Golden Rules of search and seizure

  2. Next, we explain when the Fourth Amendment is implicated. In particular, we discuss the requirement of state action.

  3. We then discuss what is a Fourth Amendment search and seizure:

    • What are the two searches recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court

    • When does a seizure occur of a person

    • When does a seizure occur of property

  4. Finally, we discuss the legal issues regarding the most used searches and seizures by police officers, in particular:

    • What one of three exceptions an officer needs every time a search or seizure is conducted

    • How to effectively articulate citizen-consensual encounters

    • How to articulate any consensual search, and what are the many pitfalls to avoid

    • What is apparent authority to consent to search, and what if officers are mistaken

    • How to conduct an investigative detention, and how to transition to a P.C. stop or back down to a consensual encounter

    • Legal land-mines regarding First Amendment statements and protesters

    • Hot pursuit into homes

    • Emergency entries into homes

  5. And much more!

Dates: January 26, 2021

Times: 0830-1700

Credit Hours: 7.5

Location: Chubbuck Police Department 5160 Yellowstone Ave Chubbuck, ID 83202

Cost: $159.00 ($379 if students attend all three Blue to Gold Courses, Adv Search (Jan 26), Adv Traffic Stops (Jan 27), Bulletproof Report Writing (Jan 28)

All students receive the extremely popular and useful Search & Seizure Survival Guide. We designed this book from the ground up for all police officers. The book guides officers on practically every search and seizure scenario, including advice on how to articulate the necessary legal doctrines in police reports

(Attendees are responsible for meals, travel, and/or lodging)

Deadline:

Instructor(s): Blue to Gold Instructors TBD

Remarks: To register for this course, go to the Blue to Gold Training website located here- https://www.bluetogold.com/

R4 Blue to Gold Advanced Traffic Stops- Chubbuck

Course Number: R4247

Course Description:

This advanced course covers practically every legal issue regarding traffic stops. Topics include community caretaking and reasonable suspicion stops, warrantless searches, Miranda, consent searches, inventories, and much more. The latest cases regarding K9 searches is also taught. Students completing this course will know how to handle practically every search and seizure scenario they run into involving vehicles.

Topics Covered/Overview

Goal

Officers will be taught both black letter law and real world “best practices,” making them more professional on video and reducing their exposure to civil lawsuits.

Outcome

Students who complete the course will:

  • Understand important case law regarding traffic stops

  • Understand that every search or seizure requires consent, a recognized exception, or a warrant

  • Know the rules regarding the six most common motor vehicle searches

  • Reduce or eliminated lawsuits

  • Make good case law

Training Modules

  1. The history of the motor vehicle exception and its rationale

  2. A thorough understanding of the Jones decision, which outlined when a trespass onto a constitutionally protected area becomes a search under the Fourth Amendment

  3. Pretext stops under Whren

  4. How the scope of a traffic stop is based on its underlying mission

  5. Issues regarding involuntary transportation

  6. Questioning occupants in light of the Rodriquez decision

  7. The four methods that allow an officer to inquire into other criminal activity without unlawfully extending the stop

  8. Under what circumstances passengers may be identified

  9. When passengers may be forced to stay in the vehicle

  10. Gaining lawful consent to search, and complying with any scope limitations

  11. Warrantless vehicle searches, including:

    • Protective sweep for weapons

    • Search incident to arrest

    • Search for arrest-related evidence

    • Inventories

    • K9 sniffs

    • Probable cause searches

Dates: January 27, 2021

Times: 0830-1700

Credit Hours: 7.5

Location: Chubbuck Police Department 5160 Yellowstone Ave Chubbuck, ID 83202

Cost: $159.00 ($379 if you attend all three Blue to Gold Courses. Adv. Search and Seizure (Jan 26), Adv. Traffic Stops (Jan 27), Bulletproof Report Writing (Jan 28))

All students receive the extremely popular and useful Search & Seizure Survival Guide. We designed this book from the ground up for all police officers. The book guides officers on practically every search and seizure scenario, including advice on how to articulate the necessary legal doctrines in police reports.

(Attendees are responsible for meals, travel, and/or lodging)

Deadline:

Instructor(s): Blue to Gold Instructors TBD

Remarks: To register, go to the Blue to Gold Training website located here- https://www.bluetogold.com/

R4 Blue to Gold Training Bulletproof Report Writing- Chubbuck

Course Number: R4141

Course Description:

The goal of Bulletproof Report Writing is to teach experienced police officers solid fundamentals that will help them write defensible police reports. Additionally, officers need the skills to write a report that will allow prosecutors to charge defendants without asking for follow-up information. Law enforcement officers need to know how to be fully prepared to not only answer the direct questions asked by the prosecutor, but also answer the cross-examination questions by the defense attorney and know how to respond to impeachment attempts.

Topics Covered/Overview

Goal

To teach students how to write a police report that causes the reader to believe that your actions were reasonable, appropriate, and defensible.

Outcome

Students who complete the course will:

  • Discourage filings for motions to suppress evidence

  • Encourage guilty pleas

  • Serve as a roadmap for the prosecution

  • Provide for a basis to fully refresh your memory for trial

Training Modules

  1. Learn the Three Golden Rules of report writing.

  2. Explain the four goals of a police report, along with the eight audiences who typically read your reports.

  3. Learn straight-forward and effective report writing techniques, including:

    • Whether or not you should use CAPS

    • When to use paragraphs

    • Learn why a true professional writer uses topic headings to subdivide your report

    • When to use bullet points to make important legal conclusions

    • The value of identifying people by their role in the incident, not just their name

    • How to write short and direct sentences

    • Learn the seven elements of an effective synopsis

    • Describe how a true chronological report is written

    • Learn how to write a report summary (hint: it’s not like a college paper summary)

  4. Students will also learn how to articulate criminal elements in their reports, including two “hidden” elements for every crime

  5. Discuss how to effectively narrate on BWC without offending rules of evidence

  6. Learn the Rule of 5 for RS and PC articulation

  7. Learn how to “reverse engineer” case law in order to write better reports

  8. Explain how the importance of articulating legal conclusions

  9. Throughout the training students will do several engaging articulation exercises (this part is unique to our training)

Dates: January 28, 2021

Times: 0830-1700

Credit Hours: 7.5

Location: Chubbuck Police Department 5160 Yellowstone, Chubbuck, ID 83202

Cost: $159 ($379 if attending all three classes- Adv. Search and Seizure (Jan. 26) Adv. Traffic Stops (Jan 27), Bulletproof Report Writing (Jan 28))

(Attendees are responsible for meals, travel, and/or lodging)

Deadline:

Instructor(s): TBD

Remarks: Register via the Blue to Gold website, located here- https://www.bluetogold.com/

 

R4 Advanced Search and Seizure: Narcotics- Idaho Falls

Course Number: R4233B

Course Description:

This course is perfect for proactive narcotics and street officers. Topics include undercover operations inside homes; executing drug warrants; knock and announce issues; and more.

Dates: September 23, 2020

Times: 0830-1700

Credit Hours: 7.5

Location: Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office Training Annex, 577 D St., Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Cost: $149 ($349 if attending all three classes- Adv. Search: Warrantless, Adv. Search: Narcotics, Report Writing)

(Attendees are responsible for meals, travel, and/or lodging)

Deadline:

Instructor(s): TBD

Remarks: Register via the Blue to Gold website, located here- https://www.bluetogold.com/training/idaho-falls

 

R4 Advanced Search & Seizure: Warrantless Searches- Idaho Falls

Course Number: R4233B

Course Description:

This is the premier Blue to Gold Course and the only search and seizure training Nationally Certified by IDALEST. This course is designed for experienced law enforcement officers who already possess a background knowledge and functional experience in search and seizure law. The instruction is advanced and fast-paced and uses case studies to explain the development and the current status of the legal aspects of searches and seizures.

Dates: September 22, 2020

Times: 0830-1700

Credit Hours: 7.5

Location: Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office Training Annex, 577 D St., Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Cost: $149 ($349 if attending all three classes- Adv. Search Warrantless, Adv. Search Narcotics, Report Writing)

(Attendees are responsible for meals, travel, and/or lodging)

Deadline:

Instructor(s): TBD

Remarks: Register at the Blue to Gold Training website, located here- https://www.bluetogold.com/training/idaho-falls