Criminal Justice Basic Training

$5.00 lab fee Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to understand the values and ethics required for criminal justice officers, understand the consequences of sexual harassment, describe the criminal justice system, and describe the structure of criminal justice agencies. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

$5.00 lab fee. Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an overview of the law enforcement basic recruit training program and the requirements to become a sworn officer. It describes basic criminal justice ethics and command structure. The course also provides a basic introduction to the criminal justice system. This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisites: This is a limited access course which requires admission to and completion of the Law Enforcement Training Program (LEBRT or EOT). This course is designed to provide substantive course review of the criminal justice standards and training basic law enforcement curriculum. Diligent use of review materials in this course will serve as excellent preparation for the FDLE Law Enforcement Officer State Certification Exam (SOCE).

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should understand the Fourth Amendment related to search and seizure, know what constitutes a lawful arrest, understand the Fifth and Sixth Amendments related to the interrogation of suspects, determine when a crime has been committed and the elements necessary to make an arrest for that crime, understand the legal rules and concepts of evidence, be able to articulate the legal justification for the use of force, understand civil and criminal liability related to an officer?s performance of duties, understand an officer?s duties and options in civil (noncriminal) incidents, and be familiar with the legal considerations when dealing with juveniles. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to identify the elements of, and barriers to, effective communication. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to prepare and conduct basic interviews, gather information, take notes, identify signs of deception, obtain statements; identify types of reports, forms, and logs, including crimes, incidents, use of force, disciplinary, traffic crashes; organize information chronologically and categorically; write reports, apply appropriate grammar and mechanics, apply agency procedures, evaluate report prior to submission, and draft probable cause affidavits. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course focuses on aspects of professional communication officers should use on the job. It explains challenges to effective communication and concepts such as procedural justice, empathy, and professionalism. This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. The course provides foundational knowledge of the law and how officers apply the law to specific situations. The course describes the basics of enforcing laws without infringing on individual rights. This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an introduction to lawful and effective interviews as part of the investigative process as well as the fundamentals of note-taking and report writing. This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

$33.00 lab fee. This course is part of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission Law Enforcement Basic Recruit CMS Certification Program. This course is designed to prepare prospective officers to apply vehicle operations knowledge, principles and techniques to the police driving environment. This course includes classroom instruction and practical application on the driving range. This is a limited access course requiring admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy Law Enforcement Training Program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an introduction to some of the diverse communities officers serve and provides an overview of how to respond with professionalism while keeping everyone on the scene safe. This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

$37.00 lab fee. This course is part of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission?s CMS Basic Recruit Certification Program. It is designed to prepare prospective officers to apply first aid knowledge and techniques to medical emergency situations. This course involves classroom lecture and hands-on practical demonstration. This is a limited access course requiring admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy Law Enforcement Program or Correctional Officer Program.

$513.00 lab fee. This course is part of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission?s CMS Basic Recruit Certification Program. At the end of this course, students should be able to demonstrate safe weapon handling, weapons cleaning and maintenance, handgun drawing and holstering, weapon loading and unloading, basic shooting principles, proficiency on the CJSTC basic firearms courses of firing with a handgun during daylight and nighttime, and a shotgun during daylight. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the Law Enforcement Training Program or Correctional Officer Training Program.

$19.00 lab fee. This course is part of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission Basic Recruit Certification Program. This course is designed to better prepare prospective officers to control subjects and defend themselves using appropriate defensive tactics. At the end of this course, students should be able to make an accurate threat assessment of a situation, use force appropriate to the subject resistance and situational factors, demonstrate a prevailing attitude and the willingness and ability to fight when necessary, use integrated force options, escalate, de-escalate, or disengage in a situation as appropriate, perform defensive tactics techniques with proficiency. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the Law Enforcement Training Program or Correctional Officer Training Program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an overview of the law enforcement techniques and tactics that officers use while on patrol. This course is an introduction to the use of communications equipment, community-oriented policing, and officer safety and survival skills. It also explains how to respond to non-criminal calls and conduct structure and area searches and provides resources that officers use while on patrol. This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to use radio equipment properly, identify the uses of mobile computer devices, and understand the uses of FCIC/NCIC/NLETS and other electronic database resources; understand community-oriented policing and how it is implemented as a problem-solving model, and identify the SARA problem-solving model and its application in real life situations; understand officer safety issues, identify and avoid fatal errors, identify and manage stress, and maintain mental and physical fitness; and prepare to patrol, know what a BOLO is and how to create and cancel a BOLO, respond to a call, approach a suspect, set up a perimeter, conduct a building search, make an arrest, transport a prisoner, and process the prisoner at a detention facility. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to respond to calls for service, including well-being and security checks, building alarms, environmental hazards, transportation requests, animal complaints, death notifications, and special event security; respond to disturbances, including crowd control, civil disturbances, civil standbys, and disorderly or irate people; respond to court orders, including arrests and civil processes, and assist with the execution of search warrants; respond to calls concerning vehicle fires, unattended, abandoned, or disabled vehicles, and roadway obstructions or damage; enforce parking violations, impound a vehicle, direct vehicle traffic, and direct pedestrian traffic; respond to people in crisis, including suicide incidents, threats from mental impairments, and situations involving alcohol or substance abuse. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an introduction to the basics of conducting investigations and describes a variety of crimes involving people such as assault and battery, domestic violence, child abuse, sexual offenses, and human trafficking. It provides the foundational knowledge for initial response and investigation of these crimes. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an introduction to a variety of crimes involving property and society, such as retail theft, fraud, and animal cruelty. It provides the foundational knowledge for initial response and investigation of these crimes. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to conduct an initial investigation of crimes against persons, society, property, and economic crimes. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to process a crime scene, conduct a follow-up investigation, and provide testimony in different types of court proceedings. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course is an introduction to methods for securing, protecting, and preserving a crime scene to avoid contaminating any evidence. The course also explains the importance of collecting, documenting, and maintaining the physical evidence. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to understand the problem of and solutions for DUI, identify the DUI laws and related legal issues, identify the signs of alcohol or drug impairment, conduct a DUI traffic stop, follow the three-phase process of a DUI contact, demonstrate proficiency in conducting the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, make an arrest decision based on specific clues, accurately complete the required documentation for a DUI arrest, and provide clear and convincing evidence of DUI in court testimony. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to safely pull over a vehicle; identify and articulate the stop/violation; obtain necessary information from the driver/passenger; safely complete the stop; safely effect an arrest; and accurately complete the required documentation for a traffic stop. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to define and explain the terms and legal considerations associated with crash investigations, respond to a crash scene safely, assess a crash scene properly, secure a safe work environment at a crash scene, provide emergency medical assistance to injured people at a crash scene if necessary, obtain pertinent information about a crash to determine how and why it occurred, identify crimes revealed during a crash investigation if any, return a crash scene to normal as quickly as possible, complete driver exchange of information properly, take appropriate enforcement action, and document a crash correctly in appropriate crash report form. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program. By the end of the course students should be able to complete and pass Unit 1, IS-100.LEb, Introduction to the Incident Command System and Unit 2, IS-700.a, National Incident Management (NIMS), An Introduction ; understand local emergency response plans, law enforcement duty-to-act requirements, and the role of law enforcement officers as first responders; know how to respond to an active shooter incident; plan for response to a natural disaster; identify weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and properly respond to a WMD incident, including IEDs and VBIEDs; be aware of hazardous material class, name or identification number, identify actions to take to isolate a hazmat incident and choose protective actions to take in accordance with the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG); recognize the indicators of and paraphernalia used in the manufacture of methamphetamine; describe the indicators of chemical suicide; properly respond to a bomb threat, and assess the scene. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Officer or Criminal Justice Technology program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an overview of law enforcement techniques and tactics used when confronting large-scale or critical incidents, including natural disasters, active shooters, exposure to hazardous materials, and explosive devices (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to Law Enforcement Training Program and permission of the Law Enforcement Program Coordinator. This course is part of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission Law Enforcement Basic Recruit certification program. By the end of this course students should be able to improve their scores on the final fitness evaluation; and adopt a foundation for lifelong fitness. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Training Program.

$5.00 lab fee. Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. This course provides an overview of the correctional officer training program and the requirements for becoming a certified officer. This course will also help to provide a legal basis from which students may begin to function as correctional officers and gives instruction on basic criminal justice values, ethics and ways to demonstrate professionalism when interacting with others. Students will also learn the command structure within a criminal justice agency. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement training program or correctional officer training program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. This course provides practical communications skills that will assist new correctional officers in managing and supervising inmates, giving directions, answering questions, and interacting with others in a professional and safe manner. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. This course provides an overview of safety and security concerns, identification, manipulation and deception, contraband, and searches correctional officers deal with on a daily basis. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. Correctional officers are responsible for equipment and materials used to keep correctional facilities clean, safe and secure. It is important for a correctional officer to have a basic knowledge of standard equipment used, including weapons, hazardous materials, and sensitive supplies. Officers must be very familiar with common problems found when managing equipment; this course will help them complete their duty to support the safe and efficient operation of equipment, and to provide a safe environment for inmates, staff and visitors. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. This course will introduce students to the intake, classification, and release processes used by county and state correctional facilities. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. This course will teach students that the primary activity of the correctional officer is the care, custody and control of inmates. By developing supervisory and observational skills, practicing officer safety, and following the policies and procedures of his or her agency, the officer will ensure the safe operation of a correctional facility while fulfilling his or her responsibilities. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

Prerequisite: Admission to Law Enforcement Training Program. This course provides students with the necessary insight needed while supervising special populations housed in county and state correctional facilities. These special populations groups have individual characteristics. The most common of these groups will be discussed in this course. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. This course will discuss that one of the most important duties of a correctional officer is to apply knowledge, training and reasonable judgment to ensure the safety and security of all persons at the facility during an emergency this is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the Chair of Public Safety. This course will offer an introduction into the officer wellness and physical abilities standards set forth by the criminal justice standards and training commission. This is a limited access course and requires admission to the law enforcement program.

This course is part of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission Law Enforcement Basic Recruit Certification Program. This course is the Correctional Crossover Program Updates Section of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission Crossover Training Program for Correctional and Correctional Probation Officers to Law Enforcement. By the end of this course students should understand updated content from the applicable basic recruit training program as provided by the instructor.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course is an introduction to the basics of traffic incidents other than traffic stops and includes lessons on legal terms and the fundamentals of directing traffic, addressing parking violations and conducting vehicle searches. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of conducing traffic stops with professionalism while maintaining the safety of all involved. The course covers the basics of unknown and high-risk traffic stops. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an overview of conducting traffic crash investigations using a systematic approach. The course describes how to respond to, assess, and protect the scene as well as documentation and returning the scene to normal conditions. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides an overview of detecting impaired driving, administering field sobriety tests, making arrests, and recording the evidence of a DUI offense. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

$32.00 lab fee. Prerequisite: Admission to the Basic Recruit Training or Criminal Justice Technology program or special permission of the chair of Public Safety. This course provides foundational knowledge of the operation of conducted electrical weapons (CEW), particularly dart-firing stun guns, as well as the effect on the human body. (Student must complete course with 80% or higher to pass.) This is a limited access course and requires admission the Criminal Justice Training Academy or special permission of the chair of Public Safety.

$32.00 lab fee. Prerequisite: Admission to Law Enforcement Training Program and permission of the Law Enforcement Program Coordinator. This course is part of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission Law Enforcement Basic Recruit certification program. By the end of this course students be able to identify the use of a dart-firing stun gun (DFSG) in accordance with F.S. ?943.1717; identify and articulate CJSTC DFSG considerations and their impact on officers in Florida; identify and articulate the possible effects that a DFSG has on the human body; properly and safely operate a DFSG; articulate (verbally and in reports) the justification for tactical options chosen while participating in DFSG simulated scenarios including the use of verbal skills to de-escalate a situation, and avoid the use of a DFSG. This is a limited access course. It requires admission to the Law Enforcement Training Program.