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3.00 Credits
(76 Contact Hours) This course emphasizes the importance of developing effective communication skills to lessen miscommunication that can happen due to unclear expression, communication barriers, or dissimilar backgrounds. The following topics will be covered in this course: telecommunications, communications and interpersonal skills, human interaction issues, interviewing ideology, and report writing principles and mechanics. Further, there will be role-play practicums required with this course
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3.00 Credits
(48 Contact Hours) This course is intended to develop the proactive skills and principles of driving needed to operate a law enforcement vehicle safely during the day or at night. Further, student learning will focus on the ability to drive in an emergency mode, communicate with dispatch, and remain aware of the actions of other drivers, all of which present complexities not experienced in normal driving. Instruction will also center on the officer's awareness of the effects of physiological and psychological stressors on his or her driving, how the public views law enforcement drivers, and how to recognize and understand both the vehicle's and officer's limits. Moreover, students will be provided instruction on the basics of interior and exterior law enforcement vehicle inspection on the officer's assigned vehicle. Students will be required to pass a vehicle operations proficiency practicum.
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3.00 Credits
(48 Contact Hours) Course includes the physiological and psychological factors which impact vehicle operations and control, the basic components of defensive driving and emergency vehicle operations, the basic legal considerations involved in the operation of authorized emergency vehicles and in vehicle pursuits, civil and criminal liability which are applicable to law enforcement driving, what to look for during routine maintenance and inspection of a police vehicle, the basic elements of vehicle dynamics, the types of skids and their causes, how to recover from several types of skids, and basic driving skills and techniques. Students will be required to pass a vehicle operations practicum.
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3.00 Credits
(40 Contact Hours) This course emphasizes the responsibilities of a criminal justice officer in providing basic first aid at the scene of a medical emergency until EMS can arrive. Further, specific training will include preparing for and responding to emergencies at which basic first aid training may be needed. Moreover, students will be made aware of trauma-related and medical- related issues, scene stabilization and safety, and legal guidelines. Students will be required to pass a first aid proficiency practicum.
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3.00 Credits
(80 Contact Hours) This course includes firearms safety procedures and basic handling procedures for the handgun (revolver and semiautomatic pistol), shotgun, and semiautomatic rifle/carbine, to include component parts and function. Also included are fundamentals of marksmanship, identification and maintenance of ammunition, loading and unloading of firearms, malfunctioning weapons, and the cleaning of weapons. Further, instruction will be given on the use of cover and survival shooting. Because students are to attain proficiency in marksmanship and in safely using, handling, and maintaining weapons, a proficiency practicum will be required for both the pistol and shotgun.
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3.00 Credits
(80 Contact Hours) This course offers students effective, tactically sound, and medically and legally defensible training in defensive tactics and control techniques. Further, it teaches students to select and properly execute techniques that are reasonable and necessary given the circumstances and factors of a situation. As a required portion of the course, training will include exposure to a chemical agent. Also, because students are expected to attain proficiency in the techniques and in the use of force guidelines, a comprehensive practicum will be administered.
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3.00 Credits
(57 Contact Hours) Course includes the purposes, types, and methods of patrol; the characteristics and uses of different methods of patrol and the factors to consider when patrolling at night, the responsibilities of an officer when preparing for patrol duty, the kinds of hazards that exist as related to patrol duty, techniques for developing/improving perception and observation, techniques for patrol area familiarization, crime-in-progress response techniques and what to look for at the crime scene, pursuit and the term fresh pursuit. Also included are the laws of arrest and how these laws impact law enforcement, the conditions, requirements, and restrictions placed on a legal line-up/show-up by the Supreme Court, when an officer can conduct a stop and frisk and comprehend what actions he/she can legally take to perform the task, legal aspects of search and seizure, the scope and purpose of search and seizure authority and items that can legally be seized relative to the various types of searches, explanation of the term "privileged communication" and to whom thisterm relates in criminal justice, actions that may be considered obstruction of justice as provided, procedures for involuntary admissions of persons under the Baker Act, Chapter 397, F.S., juvenile laws and the arrest process.
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1.00 Credits
(58 Contact Hours) This course provides an overview of the law enforcement techniques and tactics officers use while on patrol. Emphasis is placed on Community Oriented Policing, officer safety and survival skills, and basic instruction on receiving a call for police service. Further, there is discussion on the approaching and contacting of victims, witnesses, and suspects. Moreover, the course covers the arresting, transporting, and processing of a prisoner. Still further, information is provided on responding to alarm calls to include building searches. Likewise, interaction with vehicles is covered such as directing traffic and dealing with abandoned or unattended vehicles. Finally, there are role-play practicums that are a required portion of this course.
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2.00 Credits
(40 Contact Hours) This course provides a more expanded overview from CJK 0061 of the law enforcement techniques and tactics needed to prepare students for eventualities when they become law enforcement officers and are patrolling their assigned areas. Focus will be placed on bombs and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Further, students will be made aware of Hazardous Materials incidents to include Methamphetamine Laboratories and what actions should be taken in accordance with the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG). Moreover, students will study criminal street gangs and extremist groups in terms of the officer's ability to protect citizens and enforce the law. Likewise, students will have training on crowd control procedures and how to safely and effectively disperse or control a large group of people. Finally, and as a part of this course, students will be expected to complete and pass the following two incident command units: ICS-100, Introduction to the Incident Management System and IS-700, National Incident Management System (NIMS).
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3.00 Credits
(53 Contact Hours) Course includes methods and skills for conducting an initial investigation, procedures for crime scene management, identifying elements of a crime, evidence collection and handling, diagramming and photographing a crime scene, collecting latent fingerprints, interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects, using informants, obtaining search and arrest warrants, and preparing investigation reports.
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