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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(56 Contact Hours) This course provides instruction in the appropriate response to a crime against persons or property. Further, emphasis is placed on how to conduct both the preliminary and follow-up investigations, especially with the goal of establishing the suspect's identity by pursuing leads and gathering intelligence. Moreover, students will be made aware of their responsibilities in preparing for, and testifying in court. Still further, there will be a role-play practicum that is a required part of the course.
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3.00 Credits
(44 Contact Hours) Course includes the causes and effects of domestic violence, procedures for referral, why it is important for law enforcement to intervene, responsibilities of an officer with regard to providing information and assistance to victims and witnesses, reasons for and theories behind spouse abuse, intervention/calming techniques, common facts and misconceptions about suicide and support resources available, factors and symptoms that signal suicide risk and procedures for prevention/intervention and an officer's responsibilities, identifying signs of adult, elder and child abuse and the proper procedure for reporting each, and interviewing techniques for interviewing children. Also includes methods and skills for conducting an initial investigation into a death with an unknown cause, determining if a crime exists, conditions that determine death, the definitions of rigor mortis, lividity, and decomposition; the role of a medical examiner, the definition, characteristics, and situations in which an officer may encounter Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), procedures for crime scene management, evidence collection and handling, developing information, and preparing an investigation report.
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3.00 Credits
(24 Contact Hours) This course describes the procedures for how an officer responds, processes, and documents a crime scene. Included with the response portion, students will learn how to manage victims, witnesses, and suspects. Subsequently, in processing the scene, students will be given instruction on how to protect the scene and how to recognize, collect, preserve, and submit different types of evidence. Further, because documentation is so critical, emphasis will also be focused on how to document the various activities at a crime scene. Finally, there will be role-play practicums that are required as a part of this course.
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3.00 Credits
(62 Contact Hours) Course includes methods and skills for stopping a vehicle for a violation or other lawful reason, infractions, types of criminal violations and their elements, abandoned vehicle handling, procedures for making a felony stop and legal issues regarding traffic stops.
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3.00 Credits
(48 Contact Hours) This course includes methods and skills for safely stopping a vehicle and taking appropriate law enforcement action in the following types of traffic stops: unknown risk, high risk, and Driving Under the Influence (DUI). Emphasis is placed on the characteristics of a safe, professional traffic stop free of discriminatory profiling. The officer's primary responsibility in making traffic stops especially with common traffic violations is to help increase voluntary compliance with traffic laws and improve driver judgment. Further, there are role-play practicums that are a required portion of this course.
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3.00 Credits
(32 Contact Hours) Course includes instruction on traffic crash investigation, knowledge of common violations resulting in crashes, information-gathering skills, DUI enforcement techniques, identification and handling of evidence, photographing evidence, crash scene management, determining cause of accident, and completion of crash reports and driver exchange forms.
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3.00 Credits
(32 Contact Hours) This course provides students with a step-by-step approach in conducting traffic crash investigations. The training will encompass the initial response to the scene, scene assessment and protection, identifying and analyzing information gathered from witnesses, evaluating physical evidence, thoroughly investigating and documenting the crash, and concluding wit he appropriate enforcement action. Further there will be role-play practicums that are a required part of this course.
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3.00 Credits
(60 Contact Hours) This course introduces the concept that certain areas and levels of physical fitness are necessary for performing the essential functions of a law enforcement officer. Besides training in certain types of exercises, instruction will include elements of nutrition, weight control, and stress management. In order to assist the College and the student with the improving of overall physical fitness, there will be two required assessments, one at the beginning of the course, and one at the end. The following physical components will be assessed both times: Vertical Jump, One Minute Sit Ups, 300 Meter Run, Maximum push-ups, and the 1.5 Mile Run.
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3.00 Credits
(29 Contact Hours) Course serves as an introduction to corrections for law enforcement officers that were trained in the CMS application-based curriculum who want to cross-over to corrections. Emphasis is placed on the correctional setting and its history and philosophies. Instruction also covers the rights and responsibilities of the correctional officer and of the prisoner. Additionally covered is the application of the law in a corrections institution. Further, this course will assist the student in laying the foundation for the balance of the program's very specific correctional operational courses.
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3.00 Credits
(30 Contact Hours) Course is designed for the certified law enforcement officer who has taken the CMS application-based curriculum and wants to cross over to corrections. This course focuses on Criminal Justice Communications and Interpersonal Skills as they relate to a correctional setting. Emphasis is place don communication and interaction with inmates based on the inmates' needs and behavior. Also stressed is the importance of the correctional officer's role, the qualities an officer must possess, and his/her responsibilities in ensuring the proper care, custody, and control of incarcerated individuals.
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