Prerequisites: Police Officer with a valid MPTC Basic Course for Police Officers certificate of training.
Program Overview: Absent exigent circumstances, General Municipal Law § 209-q and the Municipal Police Training Council require newly appointed first-line police supervisors of any rank to complete this course within one year of their appointment, or forfeit their position. The curriculum provides a learning experience that assists the newly-appointed supervisor in making the transition from the rank-and-file to management. Through practical exercises, the trainees learn to successfully apply acquired skills to a wide range of realistic supervisory problems. The curriculum provides a wide range of general subjects such as communication skills, both written and oral, techniques of counseling and discipline, ethics, crime prevention, community policing, incident management, and police use of force incidents. The curriculum also provides for updating the trainees knowledge of criminal and procedure law and stresses the concept of vicarious liability. During the course, the trainee will be exposed to a wide variety of management styles, thereby allowing the individual to be flexible and utilize the one most appropriate to each situation. Finally, the curriculum prepares the trainee to successfully meet the present challenges of police supervision and to realistically anticipate and plan for any situation.
Note: All new first line supervisors of any rank must complete this course within one year of appointment!
Crisis Intervention Officer Course
Course Length: 5 days
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: Officers who attend will learn
specialized skills that will enable them to better interact with
individuals who are mentally ill or emotionally disturbed, often
in a manner that is more safe, appropriate, and effective. This
training program is based on a highly successful initiative that
was developed and implemented in western New York. The model has
since been adapted and introduced elsewhere with outstanding results.
Course topics include indicators of emotionally disturbed behavior,
mental health issues that have special significance for juveniles
and the elderly, key provisions of State Mental Hygiene Law, suicide,
Kendra's Law, actions that officers should take or avoid, selected
types of mental illness, and the impact that certain types of medication
can have on a person's behavior. There will be opportunities to
practice or critique carefully constructed role plays, and students
return with a toolbox of resources that can help agencies take
better advantage of community resources.
Current Trends in Gang Training 2007
Course Length: 1 Day
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: The first part of the training focuses
on gangs' secret codes, signs and symbols. Class participants view
different methods criminal gangs employ to communicate covertly
with other members.
The second part of the day details gangs and the popular media.
This shows the relationship between gangs and popular media, i.e.,
DVD's, internet, music and magazines.
The popular culture is related to identification of gangs, violence
and affiliation to major gang groups.
Ethical Awareness Moderator Workshop
Course Length: 4 Days
Prerequisites: MPTC Certified Instructor
Program Overview: This course is designed to certify current instructors to provide ethical awareness training to recruits in approved training, or for any in-service training. Course topics include; self awareness, ethnic understanding, values clarification, awareness of others, team building and role play/dilemma situations.
Extremist Hate Group Training
Course Length: 1 Days
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: The course presents an overview of hate crimes from a legal perspective. The presenters identify various active extremist groups active in New York State. The training defines a hate crime and describes the steps taken to successfully investigate the hate crime. The significant victim and community impact resulting from the crime are explored.
Field Training Officer Course
Course Length: 4 Days
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: This course teaches officers how
to provide supervised field training for recent Police Basic Course
graduates. The goal is to transition the recruit officer from the
academy setting to a patrol assignment. The course includes training
in instructional techniques, coaching and evaluation, remedial
training and record keeping.
Graffiti Crime Course
Course Length: 1 Day
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: Instructors will present information on "Tagger" and gang graffiti identification, evidence gathering, case preparation and prosecution strategies. A correlation is drawn between the cultures of gang graffiti and gang tattoos. The course identifies prevention and community partnership techniques that have resulted in reduction of property crimes in communities.
Human Trafficking Course
Course Length: 1 Day
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: The training will review the provisions of New York's human trafficking law and analyze the new crimes of sex trafficking and labor trafficking. Effective implementation of the law and the procedures for human trafficking victims to obtain rehabilitative services will be discussed. A segment on human trafficking victim identification will also be included. It is taught in partnership with the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, and non-governmental service providers.
Law Enforcement Bicycle Patrol Course
Course Length: 5 Days
Prerequisites: Medical clearance, properly fitted/equipped patrol bike, properly attired/equipped officer (including helmet, eye protection and gloves)
Program Overview: This 5-day course is for officers assigned to bike patrol. It is conducted by police cyclists, mechanics and certified firearms instructors. Classroom instruction and physically demanding hands on practical skills course are utilized each day of the training. Officers can expect to spend a good portion of the course on their bikes, sometimes riding up to 40 miles in a single day. A high level of fitness (bicycle specific) is strongly encouraged for attendance in this training.
Topics covered include: History of Bicycle Patrol, Bicycle Nomenclature, Basics of Cycling, Bicycle Fit, Gearing and Cadence, Maintenance, Hazard Recognition and Crash Analysis, Learning to Fall, Advanced Police Cycling Skills, Health and Fitness, Bicycle Injuries and First Aid, Legal Issues and Traffic Laws, Group Riding, Tactics - Suspect Contacts, Night Riding Techniques, Firearms (practical exercise), Mock Scenarios.
Legal Issues for New York Law Enforcement Course
Course Length: 2 days
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: This course is designed for all
police officers; whether they are patrol officers, plain clothes
investigators or supervisors of any assignment. The course consists
of an in depth analysis of the most recent court cases pertaining
to search and seizure and legal aspects of interrogations and confessions.
In addition to learning the applicable law, the focus is on how
these precedents directly impact officers in the performance of
their duties. Intermixed throughout the course are discussions
on officer safety, civil liability and a review of commonly misused
and misunderstood penal law sections. The most recent federal Supreme
Court and state Court of Appeals case law updates are applied throughout.
Police Field Training Officer Course
Course Length: 4 Days
Prerequisites: MPTC Basic Course for Police Officers
training certificate.
Program Overview: This course teaches officers how
to provide supervised field training to recruits during the Supervised
Field Training, Orientation and Review component of the Basic Course
for Police Officers. The goal is to transition the recruit officer
from the academy setting to a patrol assignment.
The course includes training in instructional techniques, coaching
and evaluation, remedial training and record keeping.
The course is the standard officers should posses for mentoring
new recruits during their field training component of the Basic
Course for Police Officers.
Police Mental Health Instructor
Course Length: 3 Days
Prerequisites: MPTC Certified Instructor
Program Overview: This course is the minimum standard of instructor training required by the Municipal Police Training Council to teach mental health response protocol in the Basic Course for Police Officers. The training program is designed to enable police officers to identify the indicators of emotional disturbance, to understand the causes of emotional disturbance, to appreciate the experience of mental illness, to utilize the NYS Mental Hygiene Law, to make effective assessments and interventions, and to appropriately document their actions. This course includes extensive role-playing of typical situations encountered by police involving persons experiencing an emotional disturbance. All registrants should be prepared to practice role-playing in this program and to conduct role-plays in local recruit training. This training was developed and is held in conjunction with the NYS Office of Mental Health, Forensics Services Bureau.
Public Information Officer Course
Course Length: 3 days
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: This course was designed by NHTSA
to provide officers with the ability to give accurate and timely
information during both routine and crisis situations. Students
will learn the duties and responsibilities of a PIO, legal communications,
components of news releases and interviews. It includes lectures
and simulated interviews.
Responding to Emotionally Disturbed Persons
In-Service Training
Course Length: 2 Days
Prerequisites: There is no requirement for special certification to present this curriculum. However, it is recommended that the in-service program be presented by instructors who have completed the Police Mental Health Recruit Instructor Development Course. No prerequisite to attend.
Program Overview: This in-service program is designed to supplement the mandated Police Mental Health Recruit Training curriculum. It provides experienced police officers with a more advanced content regarding mental illness, suicide assessment and intervention and response to people with acute symptoms of mental illness, a review of the NYS Mental Hygiene Law; and an opportunity for participants to hear from recipients of mental health services. This training was developed and is held in conjunction with the NYS Office of Mental Health, Forensics Services Bureau.
Search Warrants
Course Length: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Basic Course for Police Officers or
the appropriate Basic Course for Peace Officers course required
by an officer's classification. Attorneys in a prosecutor's office
may also attend.
Program Overview: This course is designed to develop
the student's abilities to better understand and create search
warrants. Students will learn how to develop probable cause and
to use that probable cause for the development of legally sufficient
search warrants. Instructional topics include: understanding search
warrant documents, development of probable cause, development of
personal background to support probable cause, writing the search
warrant, jurisdictional issues with regards to search warrants,
secondary elements of the search warrant, amending the search warrant,
process of getting the search warrant reviewed and signed, returning
the search warrant and sealing the affidavit in support of the
search warrant.
Sex Offender Legislative Updates
Course Length: 3 Hours
Prerequisites: none
Program Overview: The training will include information regarding the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), the various responsibilities of law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals under the Act, and a practical discussion of methods being used to perform community notification. This is a cooperative effort among the Division of Criminal Justice Services, the Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives, the Division of Parole and the Department of Correctional Services.
Training provided by DCJS and other agency legal staff.
Undercover Operations
Course Length: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Basic Course for Police Officers or
the appropriate Basic Course for Peace Officers course required
by an officer's classification. Attorneys in a prosecutor's office
may also attend.
Program Overview: This course focuses on examining
case study scenarios, videos and handout materials to closely dissect
the errors commonly made during real-life undercover operations
that in the past have resulted in loss of life, destroyed careers
and personal lives, and civil lawsuits. Officers learn to prepare
for the unusual aspects of undercover work, and to "prepare for
the unexpected." Supervisors learn to manage the subordinate's
need to produce, and to manage their own "need" to produce for
their superiors.