Upcoming Training Courses

Training Category: Supervision & Management

Who Should Attend:

Newly appointed supervisors in law enforcement, detention,

and telecommunicators or those who have yet to have formal training.

Course Goals:

The course will cover the following topics: liability, misconduct and corruption, leadership styles, and motivation.

Course Length:

5 Days

Training Category: Legal

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers wishing to have a better understanding of legal issues.

Course Goals:

This course provides the skills necessary to conduct enforcement activities associated with search warrants, warrantless searches, interviews, eyewitness identifications, and nontestimonial identification orders and avoid liability while performing such activities.

Course Requirements:

Students will have to complete a search warrant and successfully pass the post-test.

Course Length:

10 Days

Required Texts:

Robert Farb’s “Arrest, Search and Investigations in NC” along with two (2) student manuals (Red and Green Book) - Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Supervision & Management

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement, detention, and telecommunicators who will be assigned to provide field training to new officers.

Course Goals:

To provide technical and personal skills to individuals to function as evaluators and trainers of recruits assigned to their respective work areas.

Course Length:

5 Days Total

Training Category: Investigations

This dynamic and immersive training will focuson sovereign citizens and their rapidly increasing problematic contact with allforms of government, with a specific focus on interactions with law enforcementand criminal justice personnel. Basic awareness of this growing threat and howit will directly impact the daily duties and responsibilities of lawenforcement and other government entities will be discussed at length. Attendeesshould expect a general “indoctrination” into the sovereign citizen movement tohelp further awareness, recognition and mitigation of this unconventional andbothersome problem.

Training Category: Investigations

Thisrelevant and timely training will provide law enforcement officers with anintroductory overview of numerous domestic terror indicators and criminallysubversive subcultures encountered by law enforcement professionals on a dailybasis. The course will provide a definition of violent extremism and focus on identifyingindividuals and groups who attempt to advance social or political beliefsthrough force or violence.

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:
This workshop is appropriate for beginning and experienced child protective service workers, law enforcement, and other professionals who conduct initial investigative interviews with children as part of their professional role.
Course Goals:
This two-day workshop provides instruction on the First Call Initial Investigative Interview, a research-based, best practices model for an initial investigative interview for children aged five years and above. First Call Initial Investigative Interview is structured to ensure ease of learning and flexibility for use by multiple professional disciplines while providing professionals with sound questioning techniques for obtaining narrative details from children during case initiation.
Course Length:
2 Days

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:

Patrol officers

Course Goals:

The purpose of this class is to gain complete awareness of the drugs facing law enforcement today and gain the expertise needed to make quality observations and sound judgments in determining drug use. Officers will be better equipped to identify drug distribution and smuggling in roadside situations and the community they patrol. The officer safety issues learned in this seminar will benefit the officers attending the seminar and the members of their community.

Course Length:

3 Days

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:

Street gang investigators, security threat group investigators, and intelligence analysts currently assigned to gang investigations and have two to four years of experience in this field.

Course Goals:

This course emphasizes INTELLIGENCE – the various types and uses of human and technological information and resources available to gang investigators. INVESTIGATIONS – traditional and nontraditional investigative methods and legal issues in gang investigations. SUPPRESSION STRATEGIES AND TACTICS – current trends and best practices in gang investigations.

Course Length:

3 Days

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:

Child protective service workers, law enforcement, and other professionals who conduct initial investigative interviews with children as part of their professional role.

Course Goals:

The RADAR JR Forensic Interview Model is a two-day competency-based training designed for professionals of various disciplines who have already completed training in the RADAR Child Forensic Interview Model. This course presents an adaptation of the RADAR protocol for interviewing children between 4 to 5 years of age.

***Prerequisites: Completion of the RADAR Child Forensic Interview Model***

Course Length:

2 Days

Training Category: Detention/Corrections

Who Should Attend:
All persons who wish to be employed as detention officers at confinement facilities or working at those facilities within their first year.

Course Goals:
To present the basic standard operating procedures for local confinement facilities and develop professional detention officers' roles and responsibilities

Course Requirements:
Attendance is required for all class sessions. The student must score a minimum of 70% on written tests and/or practical exercises for each block and score a minimum of 70% on the final Commission-administered written exam. All students confirmed for this course must provide a completed Medical History Statement (F-1) and Medical Examination Report (F-2).

Course Length:
25 Days

Required Text:
Current Detention Officer Certification Course Manual—Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Investigations
Who Should Attend:  
Current homicide, violent crime investigators, or those who seek this type of assignment.
Course Goals:
This class incorporates real-life scenarios and provides the student with investigative skills and experiences that are true to life.
Course Length:
5 Days

Training Category: Investigations

16 hours.  Course covers topics to include Infant Death Investigations, Suicide Investigations, Child Homicides, Case Presentation, Scene Reconstructions and Scene Considerations

Training Category: Community-Oriented
Who Should Attend:  
This course prepares law enforcement officers to respond to an incident requiring a bicycle.
Course Goals:
This essential training combines Emergency Vehicle Operations for bike officers with patrol procedures, tactics, night operations, mock scenes, and basic bike maintenance and on-the-road repairs.
Course Length:
4 Days

Training Category: Testing
Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Radar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Radar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams.

Course Length:

3 Days

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Lidar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Lidar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. You MUST be Certified in Radar before taking this class and show proof of certification.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Testing
Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar/Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Supervision & Management

Who Should Attend:

Newly appointed supervisors in law enforcement, detention,

and telecommunicators or those who have yet to have formal training.

Course Goals:

The course will cover the following topics: liability, misconduct and corruption, leadership styles, and motivation.

Course Length:

5 Days

Training Category: Legal

Who Should Attend:

Patrol officers or those assigned to a civil process unit.

Course Goals:

This three-day course is designed for deputy sheriffs working in the civil process, the laws, cases, and recommended procedures that govern the enforcement of the post-judgment remedies of executions, exemptions, evictions, and execution sales, including legislative and case law changes approved since 2001.

Course Length:

3 Days

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:

Officers / Investigators / Detectives or agents with limited experience but little formal training in street gang investigations, including Detention / Corrections.

Course Goals:

Instruction on how to recognize and identify gang members and gang insignia; ways to develop sources of information about gang activities within the community; and multijurisdictional approaches to gang investigations

Course Length:

3 Days

Training Category: Legal

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers wishing to have a better understanding of legal issues.

Course Goals:

This course provides the skills necessary to conduct enforcement activities associated with search warrants, warrantless searches, interviews, eyewitness identifications, and nontestimonial identification orders and avoid liability while performing such activities.

Course Requirements:

Students will have to complete a search warrant and successfully pass the post-test.

Course Length:

10 Days

Required Texts:

Robert Farb’s “Arrest, Search and Investigations in NC” along with two (2) student manuals (Red and Green Book) - Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Radar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Radar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams.

Course Length:

3 Days

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Lidar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Lidar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. You MUST be Certified in Radar before taking this class and show proof of certification.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar/Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Testing
Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Testing
Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Who should Attend:
Public Safety Leaders who may have to interact with the media.
Course Goals:
This course is designed to equip public safety leaders with the essential skills and strategies to excel as a Public Information Officer (PIO) in both routine and crisis environments. Participants will learn how to effectively manage media relations, control the narrative, and ensure the timely dissemination of accurate and transparent information to the public and news media..
Course Length:
5 Days

Training Category: Detention/Corrections

Who Should Attend:
All persons who wish to be employed as detention officers at confinement facilities or working at those facilities within their first year.

Course Goals:
To present the basic standard operating procedures for local confinement facilities and develop professional detention officers' roles and responsibilities

Course Requirements:
Attendance is required for all class sessions. The student must score a minimum of 70% on written tests and/or practical exercises for each block and score a minimum of 70% on the final Commission-administered written exam. All students confirmed for this course must provide a completed Medical History Statement (F-1) and Medical Examination Report (F-2).

Course Length:
25 Days

Required Text:
Current Detention Officer Certification Course Manual—Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:  
Current homicide, violent crime investigators, or those who seek this type of assignment.
Course Goals:
Narcotic investigations can be the most dangerous type of investigation that an investigator or uniform officer might encounter in the performance of their duties. Students attending this class will gain complete awareness of the drugs facing them today, but they will also acquire the
expertise needed to make effective observations and sound judgments to develop these cases. Several narcotic investigations originate from violators using hotel and motel locations to facilitate their drug operations. Officers will learn how to work with the hotel/motel personnel in their jurisdictions to produce a successful investigation proactively. Officer safety issues will also be emphasized.
Course Length:
2 Days

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:

Investigators, crime analysts, and patrol officers.

Course Goals:

The interviewer has several established goals at a communication event: Gather data or information from the interviewee within an interview. Determine if the interviewee is truthful and, if not, identify the form of the deception. Transition the interviewee from unwilling to willing. Toward this end, the interviewer must have the ability to QUESTION. The interviewer must change the interviewee's goal from deceptive to truthful, from unwilling to willing. In summary, the process is this: Can the interviewer cause the interviewee to respond? Once the interviewee begins to respond, can the interviewer determine if he is telling the truth? If the interviewee is deceptive or noncompliant, does the interviewer have the ability to gain compliance?

Course Length:

5 Days

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Radar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Radar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams.

Course Length:

3 Days

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Lidar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Lidar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. You MUST be Certified in Radar before taking this class and show proof of certification.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar/Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Investigations

Who Should Attend:

Street gang investigators, security threat group investigators, and intelligence analysts currently assigned to gang investigations and have two to four years of experience in this field.

Course Goals:

This course emphasizes INTELLIGENCE – the various types and uses of human and technological information and resources available to gang investigators. INVESTIGATIONS – traditional and nontraditional investigative methods and legal issues in gang investigations. SUPPRESSION STRATEGIES AND TACTICS – current trends and best practices in gang investigations.

Course Length:

3 Days

Training Category: Instructor

Who Should Attend:

Any criminal justice personnel planning to teach any course mandated by the Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission or the Sheriffs’ Education and Training Standards Commission must complete this course and apply for certification as a probationary general instructor. Applicants MUST have four years of practical criminal justice experience.

Course Goals:

To provide the information necessary to research, plan, prepare competently, and present a block of instruction by the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) Model.

Course Requirements:

Attendance is required for ALL class sessions. The student must develop a lesson plan for the 70-minute block of instruction with accompanying support materials, construct a test appropriate to the 70-minute block of instruction, and teach a 70-minute block of instruction.

Course Length:

13 Days

Required Text:

Instructor Training Student Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Radar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Radar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams.

Course Length:

3 Days

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers who wish to be certified in operating the Lidar instrument for traffic enforcement purposes.

Course Goals:

To orient the student with the use of the Lidar instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. You MUST be Certified in Radar before taking this class and show proof of certification.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Traffic

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers seeking certification to continue to operate Radar in North Carolina. Officers must have attended the complete certification course.

Course Goals:

Refamiliarize the student with the operation of the instrument.

Course Requirements:

100% attendance. Successful completion of practical exercises and state exams. Must provide copy of SMI certificate.

Course Length:

1 Day

Required Text:

Radar/Lidar Operator Manual — Contact CFCC North Campus Bookstore.

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Tactical/Officer Safety

Who Should Attend:

Criminal justice professionals looking to expand their tactical communication skills and de-escalation capabilities.

Course Goals:

To provide the student with the technical and practical skills needed to calm or de-escalate situations while maintaining a professional demeanor.

Course Length:

3 Days

Training Category: Supervision & Management

Who Should Attend:  
Individuals who are responsible for the administration and
management of the agency evidence room.
Course Goals:
This course will focus in detail on the checks and balances that bring significant liabilities hidden behind the doors of the evidence room. Attendees will learn best practices for supervising and maintaining a properly professional evidence room.
Course Length:
3 Days

Training Category: Investigations

Thistwo-day introductory course equips law enforcement officers with essentialskills to identify, collect, and preserve valuable yet volatile digitalevidence across diverse formats, including mobile devices, computers, cloudstorage, and network storage systems. Through hands-on exercises, officers willpractice proper seizure protocols and techniques to maintain evidentiaryintegrity.  By course completion,attendees will be proficient in minimizing data loss and maximizing forensicvalue in digital investigations.

Training Category: Supervision & Management

Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement, detention, and telecommunicators who will be assigned to provide field training to new officers.

Course Goals:

To provide technical and personal skills to individuals to function as evaluators and trainers of recruits assigned to their respective work areas.

Course Length:

5 Days Total

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.

Training Category: Testing

Test site for Criminal Justice Standards Commission Courses (BLET, Instructor Training, Radar, Radar Recert, Lidar, etc). Student MUST have an admissions ticket and be scheduled by school director.