National Criminal Intelligence Resource Center (NCIRC)

INTELLIGENCE TRAINING

This segment includes a listing of intelligence-related training courses and providers for law enforcement personnel.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC): The primary mission of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) is to provide law enforcement training to meet the needs of its partner organizations. FLETC also provides advanced and specialized training to campus, local, state, tribal, and international law enforcement agencies, on a space-available basis. The Catalog of Training Programs, available on FLETC’s Web site, provides specific information concerning the many basic and advanced training programs available at the center. A separate Schedule of Training Programs, which contains cost information, is published quarterly as a supplement.
Michigan State University, School of Criminal Justice's Intelligence Program: Michigan State University, School of Criminal Justice's Intelligence Program, offers Intelligence Toolbox training and Law Enforcement Intelligence certification. The Intelligence Toolbox training addresses the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan, the intelligence process, intelligence-led policing, gaining access to federal intelligence products, information sharing issues and processes (including fusion centers), obtaining a security clearance, intelligence records (including 28 CFR Part 23), and obtaining no-cost, secure e-mail for all agency personnel. It also addresses civil rights and liability related to the intelligence function; developing an intelligence mission, goals, and objectives; external funding for the intelligence function; community partnerships for information collection; and emerging issues and trends in law enforcement intelligence. The Law Enforcement Intelligence Certification Program includes courses such as Law Enforcement Intelligence Operations, Issues in Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, and Public/Private Partnerships for Emergency Preparedness in Homeland Security.
Criminal Intelligence for the Chief Executive: The course Criminal Intelligence for the Chief Executive provides an overview on understanding the importance of and need to develop an intelligence capability in a law enforcement agency. The session attendees are provided classroom instruction and resource materials regarding the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP); intelligence-led policing; policy issues, laws, statutes, and rules impacting the intelligence function; resources and tools to assist in preventing and/or responding to legal, privacy, and ethical issues; and intelligence systems and resources available. A resource CD and multiple publications and informational literature are also distributed to the session participants for later use within their agency. In order to provide timely, accurate information to the attendees of the class, the course material is updated, as needed, to reflect current and emerging information (e.g., the Fusion Center Guidelines and the National Criminal Intelligence Resource Center Web site).
Criminal Intelligence Systems Operating Policies, 28 CFR Part 23: The 28 CFR Part 23 course trains law enforcement agencies to operate a law enforcement criminal intelligence system designed to protect the privacy rights of individuals. The training includes an overview of the regulation, storage of information in a database, security issues, and the review-and-purge process, as well as compliance, inquiry, and dissemination issues.
State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT®) Program: SLATT is a joint effort with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, through a grant to the Institute for Intergovernmental Research^®. SLATT provides specialized training for law enforcement personnel in combating terrorism and extremist criminal activity. Topics for SLATT training are researched and reviewed, the information is up to date, and topics covered include preincident preparation, investigation, prevention, and interdiction training.
RISS Training: Each Regional Information Sharing Systems^® (RISS) center sponsors or cosponsors meetings and conferences that build member agency expertise. Participants learn methods to combat terrorism activity, violent crime initiatives, computer crime, economic crime, and emerging crime problems. Meeting and conference formats provide a mixture of training and information sharing activities and often facilitate information sharing among participants. In addition to crime topics and anti-terrorism training, subject areas include use of specialized equipment, investigative techniques, analytical techniques, surveillance techniques, and officer safety. The RISS training Web site (RISSTraining) is available over RISSNET™ and is designed to deliver law enforcement-related training information and materials, including anti-terrorism topics, to the RISS members.
Center for Task Force Training™ (CenTF) Program: The CenTF Program offers training in narcotics task forces and methamphetamine investigation management. The Narcotics Commanders Workshop provides multijurisdictional narcotics task force commanders and supervisory personnel information on multiagency narcotics enforcement operations. The course focuses on multiagency-response training needs in the investigation and prosecution of narcotics trafficking conspiracies. Instruction includes practical exercises covering both administrative and operational aspects of narcotics task force enforcement efforts. The Methamphetamine Investigation Management Workshop addresses the operational aspects of managing methamphetamine investigations, including the methamphetamine problem, clandestine laboratories, manufacturing methamphetamine, first response procedures, investigation techniques, and raid issues, as well as other manufactured drugs of abuse.
International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA): The International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) aims to enhance the general understanding of the role of intelligence analysis, encourage the recognition of intelligence analysis as a professional endeavor, develop international qualification and competence standards, reinforce professional concepts, devise training standards and curricula, furnish advisory and related services on intelligence analysis matters, conduct analytic-related research studies, and provide the ability to disseminate information regarding analytical techniques and methods. Members include, but are not limited to, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Haiti, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, the United States, and Wales.
Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU): Established in 1956 and serving local, state, and regional agencies and organizations, the role of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU) is to gather, record, and exchange confidential information concerning organized crime and terrorism not available through regular police channels. LEIU members are law enforcement agencies of general jurisdiction having a criminal intelligence function.