TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
This section provides links to Web sites that offer intelligence-related training and technical assistance for intelligence officers and analysts, as well as organizations which offer certification in the area of intelligence.
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) provides antifraud training and education. ACFE has over 33,000 members, sponsors more than 100 chapters worldwide, and provides antifraud educational materials to over 100 universities. ACFE provides training courses covering, but not limited to, the following: auditing for internal fraud, casino fraud, computer-aided fraud prevention and detection, computer fraud, contract and procurement fraud, financial statement fraud, and tracing illicit funds.
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.
Counterterrorismtraining.gov gives access to training and technical assistance opportunities and providers dedicated to protecting the nation's technological infrastructure. Topics include cyber security, incident response, and infrastructure protection.
Criminal Intelligence Training Master Calendar
This calendar is designed to provide state, local, tribal, and federal law enforcement with a single point of access to federally sponsored intelligence training programs that meet the Minimum Criminal Intelligence Training Standards. The calendar was developed with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Cyber Law Enforcement Organization (CLEO)
The Cyber Law Enforcement Organization (CLEO) is a network of law enforcement officers who specialize in cybercrime investigation, training other law enforcement officers, and assisting cybercrime victims online. CLEO’s tip line handles child pornography, cyberstalking, and missing children tips, as well as tips for cyberscams and fraud online. CLEO also includes prosecutors, defense counsel, and legal experts in the field of cybercrime to help educate and guide the Internet community on crime prevention and cybercrime reporting.
El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC)
The El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) concentrates primarily on drug movement and immigration violations. EPIC's focus includes the United States and the Western Hemisphere where drug and alien movements are directed toward the United States. A number of EPIC programs focus on postseizure analysis and the establishment of links between recent enforcement actions and ongoing investigations.
Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.)
The G.R.E.A.T. Program is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. The program's objective is prevention and is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership. G.R.E.A.T. lessons focus on providing life skills to students to help them avoid delinquent behavior and violence to solve problems.
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
The goals of the IACP are to advance the science and art of services; to develop, disseminate, and promote improved practices; to foster cooperation, exchange of information, and experience among police administrators; to provide recruitment and training; and to encourage adherence by police officers to high professional standards of performance and conduct. IACP has over 19,000 members in over 89 different countries. IACP’s leadership consists of the operating chief executives of local, state, federal, and international agencies of all sizes.
International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP)
The International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program’s (ICITAP) mission is to support the United States criminal justice and foreign policy goals by assisting foreign government in developing the capacity to provide professional law enforcement services based on democratic principles and respect for human rights. ICITAP's training and assistance programs are intended to develop professional civilian-based law enforcement institutions. This assistance to law enforcement personnel is designed to enhance professional capabilities to carry out investigative and forensic functions, assist in the development of academic instruction and curricula, improve the administrative and management capabilities, improve the relationship between the police and the community it serves, and create or strengthen the capability to respond to new crime and criminal justice issues.
Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA)
The Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) comprises the organization of state Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) directors, researchers, and practitioners throughout government, academia, and criminal justice organizations. JRSA provides access to current information on state criminal justice research, programs, publications, and training in the latest computer technologies for records management, data analysis, the Internet, and forecasting, as well as reports on the latest research being conducted by state and federal agencies.
National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC)
The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) conducts counterdrug analysis training courses for local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel. The training courses are conducted in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the National Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). NDIC provides live training sessions through video teleconferencing to law enforcement analysts at networked distance learning sites throughout the country. The multiagency course provides an overview of counterdrug intelligence analysis, introduces students to basic analytical tools and techniques, and allows students to apply newly acquired skills to a comprehensive final practical exercise involving charting, analysis, and presentation.
National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)
Through a combination of training and critical support services, the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) provides a nationwide support system for agencies involved in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and high-tech crimes and supports and partners with other appropriate entities in addressing homeland security initiatives as they relate to economic and high-tech crimes. NW3C provides assistance to law enforcement agencies to better understand and utilize tools to combat economic and high-tech crime.
National Youth Gang Center™ (NYGC)
The National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) assists policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in their efforts to reduce youth gang involvement and crime by contributing information, resources, practical tools, and expertise towards the development and implementation of effective gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies. NYGC also conducts assessments of the scope and characteristics of youth gang activity, develops resources, and provides training and technical assistance in support of community-based prevention, intervention, and suppression efforts.
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
As a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, the mission of COPS is to advance community policing in jurisdictions of all sizes across the country. COPS provides grants to local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies to hire and train community policing professionals, acquire and deploy crime-fighting technologies, and develop and test policing strategies. COPS-funded training helps advance community policing at all levels of law enforcement. Because community policing is by definition inclusive, COPS training also reaches local and state government leaders and the citizens they serve.
Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Training and Technical Assistance Division
Police Executive Research Forum’s (PERF) Training and Technical Assistance Division assists law enforcement organizations and communities across the country with organizational problem solving, community policing, collaborative problem solving, supervising problem solving, community engagements, and curriculum development. PERF conducts organizational problem-solving assessments and intervention services for police agencies facing serious internal problems. PERF also facilitates community engagements that are designed to provide a framework for collaborative problem solving with police agencies, other local service providers, and communities. PERF has worked on a comprehensive recruit training curriculum and national assessment for the Police Corps, the development of a self-assessment tool for law enforcement agencies, and a peaceable communities initiative.
Policetraining.net provides calendar listings of law enforcement classes and seminars, as well as information about police seminars, conferences, and continuing education and training events offered to law enforcement personnel across the nation.
Project Development and Implementation Training (PDIT)
The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), has established a two-day Project Development and Implementation Training (PDIT) workshop for criminal justice practitioners and local, state, and tribal jurisdictions (including any community- and/or faith-based partners) that receive federal grants. This workshop provides an overview of project planning, management, administration, and assessment of federally funded programs. The training encourages participants to think strategically about how they develop and fund projects. Participants are introduced to a variety of methods and tools used to identify community problems, administer and manage projects, and assess performance.
Regional Counterdrug Training Academy
The Regional Counterdrug Training Academy (RCTA) was established in 1992 at the Naval Air Station in Meridian, Mississippi. RCTA aims to provide no-cost, street-level, case-making, counterdrug skills to law enforcement officers. The RCTA is congressionally funded through the U.S. Department of Defense and is managed by the Mississippi National Guard. Subject-matter experts teach the courses using a cops-training-cops mentality. The original charter was limited to the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, but Georgia and Tennessee have since been added. The RCTA is also authorized to train officers outside the five-state region, as well as National Guard personnel involved in counterdrug efforts.
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics offers on-site and in-house technical assistance to local and state justice, public safety, and first responder agencies in the development, management, improvement, acquisition, and integration of their automated information and intelligence sharing systems. In addition, SEARCH offers training courses designed to teach high-tech investigators the skills they need to stay ahead of criminals in the fight against crime. Officers new to Internet and computer forensic investigations, as well as advanced digital media investigators, will benefit from our leading-edge curriculum, which includes the popular Core Skills for the Investigation of Cellular Telephones, Core Skills for the Investigation of Computer Crime, and Advanced Responders—Search and Seizure of Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) Networks.
