Tag: Traffic Stops

R4 Blue to Gold Advanced Traffic Stops- Idaho Falls

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 19, 2022

Times: 0830-1700

Credit Hours: 7.5

Location: Idaho Falls Police Department Training Annex, 577 D St., Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Cost: $159.00 ($399 if you attend all three Blue to Gold Courses. Adv. Search and Seizure (Jan 18), Adv. Traffic Stops (Jan 19), Bulletproof Report Writing (Jan 20))

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 Operation RUSH Criminal Interdiction Course- CANCELLED

Course Number: R4210D

Course Description:

Operation RUSH is a criminal interdiction course developed to challenge both new and experienced officers to look beyond the traffic stop and recognize criminal activity. Criminals are most vulnerable while in transit going from point A to point B and they are also their most dangerous.  Learn how to conduct tactical vehicle approaches which provides officers a superior advantages over traditional traffic stops

One of the biggest legal challenges officer’s face in court is the extension of the traffic stop.  Legally extending the traffic stop by building reasonable suspicion and how to articulate it in your report is the key to a successful criminal interdiction traffic stop.  Articulation of key components of the traffic stop in the officers report lays the foundation for courtroom testimony and successful convictions

The course will also provide officers pertinent information on current case law, current drug trends, drug ingestion, contraband concealment methods, and search techniques along with the deployment of K9s.

Dress is casual and a flashlight is needed.

Dates: May 17-18, 2021

Times: CANCELLED, LACK OF REGISTRATIONS

Credit Hours: 15

Location: Teton County Sheriff’s Office, 230 N. Main St., Driggs, ID

Cost: $249.00

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

Deadline:

Instructor(s): J. Keil

Remarks: To register contact J. Keil at 920-323-2354 or email info@operationrush.com  

 

R2 Criminal Interdiction for Patrol -Meridian

Course Number:   240D

Course Description:  Criminal Interdiction for Patrol

Proven techniques on how to recognize and build criminal cases from the onset of the traffic stop and beyond.

Course Topics:

  • Patrol’s vision and the importance of interdiction
  • Officer safety, ethics, and the 4th Amendment
  • Trends and pre-text stops
  • Vehicle and person indicators
  • Roadside interview (Deception)
  • Importance of documents
  • Legal considerations, including K9 case law
  • Consent
  • Concealment methods
  • Money seizures
  • Report writing (Importance)
  • Informants
  • Importance of officer networking

 

Dates:  April 27 – 28, 2021

Times:   0800-1700

Credit Hours:  16 hours

Location:

 Idaho POST Academy
Building 3, Classroom B
700 South Stratford Drive
Meridian Idaho

Cost: Tuition FREE

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

Deadline:  April 26, 2021    REGISTER early only 22 seats are available

Instructors:

Sgt. Curt Sproat- ISP
Sgt. Chris Cottrell- ISP
Cpl. Bradalyn Crapo- ISP

Registration:

Email Brandalyn.crapo@isp.idaho.gov include your full name,
agency, email address, and telephone number 

Remarks: do not send registrations to POST

A R (1,2,3,4) Criminal Interdiction for Patrol template

Course Number:   240D

Course Description:  Criminal Interdiction for Patrol

Proven techniques on how to recognize and build criminal cases from the onset of the traffic stop and beyond.

Course Topics:

  • Patrol’s vision and the importance of interdiction
  • Officer safety, ethics, and the 4th Amendment
  • Trends and pre-text stops
  • Vehicle and person indicators
  • Roadside interview (Deception)
  • Importance of documents
  • Legal considerations, including K9 case law
  • Consent
  • Concealment methods
  • Money seizures
  • Report writing (Importance)
  • Informants
  • Importance of officer networking

 

Dates:

 

Times:   0800-1700

Credit Hours:

Location:

 

Cost: Tuition FREE

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

Deadline:

Instructors:

Registration:  

Remarks: do not send registrations to POST

R4 ARIDE Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement- Idaho Falls FREE

Course Number: R4121

Course 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 combination of both, to enable them to effectively work with law enforcement to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes.

FACE MASKS ARE REQUIRED- 25 student maximum

PREREQUISITES

Students must have completed a full SFST training course such as the one taught during the POST Patrol Academy, or college law enforcement program.

Dates: March 11-12, 2021

Times: 0800-1700

Credit Hours: 16

Location: Bonneville County Sheriff’s Ammon Field Office, 3750 E. Lincoln Rd., Ammon, ID 83401

Cost: FREE

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

Deadline:

Instructor(s): Zeb Graham

Remarks: To register for this course, send your contact information to Det. Zeb Graham at zgraham@co.bonneville.id.us

R4 Criminal Interdiction for Patrol- Pocatello

Course Number: R4240D

Course Description:

Proven techniques on how to recognize and build criminal cases from the onset of the traffic stop and beyond.

Course Topics:

  • Patrol’s vision and the importance of interdiction
  • Officer safety, ethics, and the 4th Amendment
  • Trends and pre-text stops
  • Vehicle and person indicators
  • Roadside interview (Deception)
  • Importance of documents
  • Legal considerations, including K9 case law
  • Consent
  • Concealment methods
  • Money seizures
  • Report writing (Importance)
  • Informants
  • Importance of officer networking

Dates: March 15, 2021 all day, March 16, 2021 half day

Times: 0800-1700 first day, 0800-1200 second day

Credit Hours: 12

Location: Idaho State Police District 5 Training Room, 5255 S. 5th Ave., Pocatello, ID 83204

Cost: FREE

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

Deadline:

Instructor(s): ISP Sgt. Vance Cox, ISP Cpls. Jared Shively, Tyler Sheierman, Chad Braswell

Remarks: To register for this course, email ISP Cpl Jared Shively at jared.shively@isp.idaho.gov

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/