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 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

R4 NTOA Basic SWAT- Rexburg

April 21-25, 2025

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4270

Description:

Individuals who have recently been assigned to SWAT and have not received basic SWAT training will benefit from this
comprehensive introduction to tactical skills. Students will be introduced to basic SWAT topics, tactics and techniques including a
historical overview of SWAT, team organization and structure, resolution of barricaded suspect situations, covert individual and
team movement, searches and room clearing, chemical agents, less-lethal options, warrant service and multiple field training
exercises. This is a hands-on, high-intensity course in which students practice tactics and techniques in the field.

Instructors: NTOA Instructors TBD

Location:

Madison County Sheriff’s Office

145 E. Main St.

Rexburg, ID 83440

Registration Details:

Registration deadline March 7, 2025. To register for the course, click the following link- https://training.ntoa.org/CourseRegistration/default.asp?num=20251630&cost=&or=

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R4 Front Line Leadership- Idaho Falls

April 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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R4 Winning a Gunfight- Idaho Falls FREE ($25 donation recommended) CANCELLED LACK OF REGISTRATIONS

CANCELLED

Credit Hours: 8
Course Number: R4139

Description:

Does physically surviving a gunfight mean you won? Not by a long shot. Many people survive gunfights. In fact, most people who are in a gunfight survive. But there is a difference between surviving and winning. Surviving means you continue to exist. Continuing to exist and winning are not the same.
Everyone who carries a gun for personal protection or the protection of others needs to understand what they will face before, during, and after a gunfight. This seminar, based on Winning a Gunfight, helps prepare the modern warrior to win in the event they face a deadly foe.

Instructors: Timm Rupp

Location:

Bonneville County SO
Ammon Field Office
3750 E. Lincoln Rd.
Ammon, ID 83401

Registration Details:

Go online to register:
TheStrongBlueLine.org/seminars/
Email: office@TheStrongBlueLine.org
Call: (208) 206-1215

Remarks:

R4 Suicide is not an Option- Idaho Falls CANCELLED LACK OF REGISTRATIONS

CANCELLED

Credit Hours: 8
Course Number: R4138

Description:

America’s law enforcement officers are significantly more likely to die by suicide than being murdered in the line of duty. For years mental health professionals have come alongside officers with treatment, assistance, and counsel. Yet, the suicide rate continues to increase. Can this ever-increasing suicide rate among these warriors be stopped?
In this seminar, Law Enforcement Chaplain Tim Rupp approaches suicide from a spiritual health perspective. Rupp argues there is meaning to life beyond the individual. Humans are not only physical and mental beings, but spiritual beings who yearn for a yet to be experienced life beyond. This eternal hope instilled in every person gives meaning to life and a reason to hope. Hope for more, hope for new, hope for better. Rupp believes that this intrinsic hope is a key to reduce the suicide rate among our warriors.

Target Audience: Law enforcement officers, military, chaplains, mental health professionals, peer support team, and clergy who minister to LEOs

Instructors: Tim Rupp

Location:

Bonneville County SO
Ammon Field Office
3750 E. Lincoln Rd.
Ammon, ID 83401

Registration Details:

To register:
TheStrongBlueLine.org/seminars/
Email: office@TheStrongBlueLine.org
Call: (208) 206-1215

Remarks:

R4- ASIST- Suicide Prevention- Idaho Falls

Sept. 5-6, 2024, 0830-1630

Credit Hours: 14
Course Number: R4251

Description:

Click on the attached link for information and registration- Idaho Falls_ASIST Flyer 830-900

Instructors: TBD

Location:

Bonneville County Sheriff’s Ammon Field Office

3750 E. Lincoln Rd.

Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Registration Details: See attached link above.

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R4713 Leadership and Mastering Performance Management, Phase I and II- Idaho Falls

July 29-August 2, 2024

Credit Hours: 40
Course Number: R4713

Description:

This five-day, forty-hour seminar will draw on much of the work that has dramatically impacted the subject of supervisory leadership in the last two decades. Beginning with an overview of the development of our knowledge of what leadership and management are, there will be an emphasis placed on the leader as communicator, trainer, developer of people, and their role as an extension of management. Attendees will better understand the need for communication and assessment skills and will be taught how to use them to assist themselves and their officers to better perform their roles.

This session introduces The Seven Layers of Success© The Leadership Test©, the DISC® and The Q6 Performance Leadership Model© as teachable tools that will improve the skills and abilities of supervisors and managers to both manage and lead. These sessions are taught utilizing much of the current thought of adult education principles to accelerate learning. There will be active class participation and application of the material presented. This session can greatly enhance the supervisor’s ability to properly lead given a variety of circumstances.

Bill Westfall, who instructs this seminar, has proven to be one of the most acclaimed and requested public safety leadership instructors in the United States today. One who appreciates the lessons of history, Bill has the ability to see trends that will affect the future and is able to describe the evolution of society and the public safety profession, relating back to the fundamental values of leadership that assist organizations and people to reach their full potential.

Instructors: Bill Westfall

Location:

Idaho Fish and Game

4279 Commerce Circle

Idaho Falls ID 83401

Registration Details:

Idaho Fish and Game Regional Conservation Officer Barry Cummings at barry.cummings@idfg.idaho.gov,208-596-0451. Make checks payable to Idaho Fish and Game: Westfall Leadership I &II and mail to address in class location above.

Remarks:

The class requires a minimum of 30 students and is capped at 40 students. Minimum 14-day cancellation to avoid incurring any charges.

R4228F Officer Involved Shooting and Use-of-Deadly Force- Idaho Falls

November 4-6, 2024 0800-1600 (Half day on Nov. 6)

Credit Hours: 20
Course Number: R4228F

Description:

This is a 2.5-day class; therefore, the first two days of class will be from 8:00am-4:00pm local time and the last day of class will end at 12:00pm local time.

Today almost every officer involved shooting or in-custody death will garner some national media attention and scrutiny. Law enforcement officers and the citizens they serve, deserve a professional and unbiased investigation of these incidents. This 3-day course provides 20 hours of training to prepare officers to conduct investigations into critical incidents / officer involved shootings and in-custody deaths (OICI). This course covers the four important phases of the OICI including the initial assignments, incident scene investigation, involved officer interviews and case completion. Other topics that will also be covered will be legal issues, media relations, and court preparation.

This program will prepare investigators to professionally investigate officer involved shootings, in-custody deaths and uses of force that result in serious injury. This course is intended for those investigators who are specifically assigned to the criminal investigation of officer involved shootings and in-custody deaths. It is also appropriate for those detectives or uniform personnel who may be required to assist in these types of investigations. During the course students will be instructed on the four phases of the officer involved critical incident investigation:

Phase I- Assessment, triage, resource allocations, assignments.

Phase II- Incident scene & witness interviews.

Phase III- Involved Officers interviews.

Phase IV- Case completion and submittal

Instructors: John Kempf

Location:

Idaho Falls Police Department

775 Northgate Mile
Idaho Falls State 83402

Registration Details: Click the following link for course and registration information https://publicagencytrainingcouncil.arlo.co/w/seminars/539-officerinvolved-shooting-and-useofdeadly-force-3day-kempf/744