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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
2 Credits Offered Fall Semester This course teaches fundamental patrol skills such as searching buildings, operating emergency vehicles, and writing reports. It also includes jail procedures, communication methods, officer survival, and courtroom demeanor and testifying. This is a required course in the Law Enforcement program.
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1.00 Credits
1 Credit Offered Fall Semester This course teaches patrol procedures and techniques for crimes in progress, including responding to armed robberies; low-risk, high-risk, and felony traffic stops; prowler calls, hostage situations; and domestic disputes. This is a required course in the Law Enforcement program.
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1.00 Credits
1 Credit Offered Fall Semester This course provides an opportunity for the student to demonstrate and utilize classroom skills in simulations and exercises in crime scene investigation, search warrant application, traffic stops, arrest situations, and domestic disputes. This is a required course in the Law Enforcement program.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Offered Fall Semester This course provides theory, techniques, and procedures for the investigation of traffic accidents, auto theft, juvenile crimes, allegations of child abuse, DUI situations, and suspicious deaths. It includes techniques and procedures for drug identification, protection of crime scenes, collecting evidence, fingerprinting, interviewing, notification, and interrogation. This is a required course in the Law Enforcement program.
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1.00 Credits
1 Credit Offered Fall Semester This course provides hands-on training in handgun retention, arrest and control techniques, and handling hazardous materials. This is a required course in the Law Enforcement program.
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1.00 Credits
1 Credit Offered Fall Semester This course provides physical health and conditioning methods and includes work on agility, flexibility, and conditioning. Students must pass the Idaho POST Physical Fitness Test. This is a required course in the Law Enforcement program.
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2.00 Credits
2 Credits Offered on Demand This course introduces principles and concepts of law enforcement professionalism. Emphasis is placed on preparing for courtroom testimony, cultural diversity, community policing, and preventing misconduct. Topics include understanding the role in the courtroom, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, cultural conflicts, the problem-solving process, ethical dilemmas, and developing integrity as a leader. Entry-Level Skills: Minimum competency levels in reading, writing, and mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Offered on Demand This course is designed to increase officer safety, enhance professionalism, decrease citizen complaints, decrease vicarious liability, and lessen personal stress on the job and at home. The course covers laws regarding the use of force, civil and criminal liability, mental conditioning, post-shooting trauma, and the dynamics of lethal force. Also included are dealing with gangs, suicide, crisis negotiating, and off-duty officer survival. The principles discussed in this course have applications for a variety of law enforcement operations. Entry-Level Skills: Minimum competency levels in reading, writing, and mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Offered on Demand This course provides analyses of cutting-edge contemporary criminal justice issues. Topics may include terrorism, public perceptions of crime, legal issues, and school violence. Focus will be on high-impact police leadership and the fundamentals of interpersonal relations, supervising techniques, and professional ethics. Report-writing skills to prepare a legally sound report will also be covered. This course is designed to enhance skills of the already practicing police officer. Entry-Level Skills: Minimum competency levels in reading, writing, and mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Offered on Demand This course provides an examination of the fundamentals of criminal investigation from the crime site to the courtroom preparation experience. Topics include an analysis of techniques for crime scene procedures, interviews, field notes and reporting, follow-up investigation, developing rapport, lie detection, and rules of evidence. Specific detail is given to investigations involving DUIs, elderly abuse and mentally disturbed persons, computer crime, crash investigations and advanced interviewing techniques. Entry-Level Skills: Minimum competency levels in reading, writing, and mathematics.
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