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<strong>PUBLIC</strong> <strong>SAFETY</strong><br />
& <strong>SECURITY</strong><br />
Course Catalog<br />
TEXAS ENGINEERING<br />
EXTENSION SERVICE
Public Safety & Security<br />
Law Enforcement. 4<br />
Advanced Collision Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
Basic Instructor Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
Basic Peace Officer Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
Basic Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
Collision Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
Emergency Vehicle Operations Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
Field Training Officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
Firearms Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
First Line Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
Intermediate Collision Investigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
Patrol Rifle Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
Pedestrian/Auto Reconstruction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
Personal Defense Spray Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
PPCT Defensive Tactics Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
PPCT Ground Avoidance Ground Escape (GAGE) Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
PPCT Sexual Harassment and Rape (SHARP) Prevention Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
PPCT Spontaneous Knife Defense Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
PPCT Tactical Response Team Close-Quarter Countermeasures Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
PPCT Violent Patient Management Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
Radar Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
Reality-Based Training Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
Spanish for Emergency Responders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) Instructor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) Instructor Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
Traffic Accident Avoidance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
Traffic Accident Avoidance - Trailer Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
Traffic Occupant Protection Strategies (Online). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
Law Enforcement Certificate Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
Advanced Collision Reconstructionist Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
Forensic Science Academy . 9<br />
Basic Criminal Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
Courtroom Testimony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
Crime Scene Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
Death Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
Forensic Entomology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
Forensic Photography I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Forensic Photography II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Forensic Technician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Latent Print Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Processing Evidence of Violent Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Skeletal Death Investigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Forensic Science Academy Certificate Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Forensic Investigator I Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Forensic Investigator II Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Property and Evidence Management Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Forensic Technician Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Major Crimes Investigator Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
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Corrections Academy 12<br />
Basic County Corrections (Online) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
Inmate Rights and Privileges (Online) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
Interpersonal Communications in the Correctional Setting (Online). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
Suicide Detection and Prevention in Jails (Online). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
Use of Force in a Jail Setting (Online). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
Municipal Jailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
Basic County Corrections Physical Skills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
Basic Jail Certification for <strong>Texas</strong> Peace Officers (Online) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
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Explosives and UXO Training. 14<br />
Advanced Ordnance Recognition for Law Enforcement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Demining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Explosive Breacher Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Hazwoper for Clean-Up Operations Training (Online). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Heavy Equipment Operator for Ordnance Workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Awareness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Intermediate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Ordnance Recognition and Improvised Explosive Device Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Unexploded Ordnance Technician Level I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Explosives and UXO Training Certificate Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Ordnance Removal and Remediation Technician Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Critical Infrastructure. 16<br />
Business Continuity Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
Continuity of Operations/Continuity of Government Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Awareness (CIKR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
Cyber Security Awareness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
Enhanced Threat and Risk Assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
Managing Security Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
Security Vulnerability Assessment Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
Security Vulnerability Assessment Training Train-the-Trainer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
Threat and Risk Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
Public Safety & Security<br />
Center for School Safety & Security. 18<br />
PPCT Disruptive Student Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
PPCT Disruptive Student Management Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Drug Impairment and Behavior Recognition for Education Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Preventing Violence in Education: A Guide for Students (Online) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Preventing Violence in Education: A Guide for Faculty, Staff, and Administrators (Online). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Preventing Violence in Higher Education (Online) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Business Continuity Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />
Continuity of Operations/Continuity of Government Planning (COOP/COG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />
Emergency Response Operation Plan Technical Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />
Enhanced Threat and Risk Assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />
Incident Command System (ICS) Course and WMD Tabletop Exercise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
Threat and Risk Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
Drug Impairment Recognition and Workplace Violence Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
Security Vulnerability Assessment Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
Training Facilities . 22<br />
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Law Enforcement<br />
Advanced Collision Investigation<br />
— AIR545*<br />
80 Hours<br />
This course is designed to provide officers with advanced-level collision<br />
investigation skills much greater than those originally received<br />
during the basic police academy. Although it is ideal for officers who<br />
routinely conduct collision investigations resulting in major injuries<br />
and fatalities, it is also appropriate for officers assigned to normal<br />
patrol functions with an added responsibility to investigate such<br />
collisions.<br />
Topics<br />
• Refresher mathematics<br />
• On-scene drawing techniques<br />
• Introduction to airborne formulas<br />
• Trigonometry and the collision investigator<br />
• Introduction to in-line and oblique momentum analysis<br />
• Energy based equations<br />
• Kinetic energy and work<br />
Basic Instructor Development —<br />
LET565*<br />
40 Hours<br />
This course is a hands-on, professional development experience for<br />
the new trainer/instructor. Participants will learn modern methods<br />
for effectively training adults and techniques for creating an<br />
effective learning environment.<br />
Topics<br />
• Teaching adults<br />
• Understanding factors that affect learning<br />
• Improving methods for effective instruction<br />
• Understanding processes of teaching/learning<br />
• Writing learning objectives<br />
• Using instructional aids/media<br />
• Designing lesson plans and course documentation<br />
• Enhancing presentation skills and public speaking<br />
Audience<br />
Public safety personnel responsible for providing training or the coordination of<br />
training deliveries within their organizations.<br />
Basic Peace Officer Academy — TPA100<br />
728 Hours<br />
The Central <strong>Texas</strong> Police Academy (CTPA) delivers the Basic Peace<br />
Officer course. Participants receive classroom training designed to<br />
ready participants for the state licensing examination and engage<br />
them in hands-on, practical training to better prepare them for the<br />
rigors of police work. The Basic Peace Officer Course is also available<br />
as an evening option.<br />
Topics<br />
• <strong>Texas</strong> Penal Code<br />
• Report writing<br />
• Arrest procedures<br />
• Criminal investigations<br />
• Self-defense techniques<br />
• Firearms training<br />
• Crime scene investigation<br />
• Traffic enforcement and investigations<br />
• Patrol tactics<br />
• Emergency vehicle operation<br />
• Physical fitness training<br />
• Standardized Field Sobriety Testing<br />
Basic Special Weapons and Tactics<br />
(SWAT) — LET555*<br />
60 Hours<br />
Basic Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) is a course designed<br />
to provide participants with a solid understanding of basic SWAT<br />
concepts and operations. Basic SWAT gives the new SWAT officer an<br />
opportunity to learn basic tactical operations theory and develop a<br />
level of proficiency in common SWAT operations.<br />
Topics<br />
• History of SWAT<br />
• Building entry and searches<br />
• Selection and physical evaluation of team members<br />
• Tactical deployment and field skills<br />
• Dynamic entry techniques<br />
• Use of distraction devices and chemical agents<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement, security or military personnel assigned to a tactical team or special<br />
response unit.<br />
Collision Reconstruction — AIR550*<br />
80 Hours<br />
Collision Reconstruction is designed for experienced collision<br />
investigators seeking new approaches to the complexities of<br />
analyzing traffic collisions. The course topics expand on the<br />
fundamentals of crash investigation with special emphasis on crash<br />
reconstruction. Critical thinking skills are sharpened to enable the<br />
trained crash investigator to analyze and understand evidence<br />
found at the crash scene. Momentum, principle direction of force,<br />
Delta-V, vector analysis, and time/distance are highlighted. Case<br />
studies, many based on crash tests with known quantities as a<br />
guide, are used to illustrate major learning points.<br />
Topics<br />
• Principle direction of force<br />
• Applying critical thinking to traffic collisions using a “what-if” approach<br />
• Recognizing, analyzing, and solving complex linear momentum problems<br />
• Applying vector analysis and Delta V<br />
• Applying time and distance equations<br />
Audience<br />
Experienced collision investigators.<br />
Emergency Vehicle Operations<br />
Instructor — LET515*<br />
50 Hours<br />
This five-day instructor course is designed to train experienced<br />
instructors to deliver the Emergency Vehicle Operations Course<br />
(EVOC). This class is a realistic, high-stress, driving program that<br />
offers participants 40 hours of actual driving time.<br />
Topics<br />
• Civil and criminal liabilities<br />
• Highway response driving<br />
• Mechanics of driver control<br />
• Night driving<br />
• Off-road recovery<br />
• Driving exercises<br />
• Vehicle dynamics<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers who possess a TCLEOSE instructor certificate or<br />
equivalent.<br />
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For complete course information, go to www.TEEX.org/PublicSafety
Field Training Officer — LET580*<br />
24 Hours<br />
This course provides participants with the tools necessary to<br />
become an effective Field Training Officer (FTO). This tried and true<br />
program, as well as other FTO models, will be used to convey the<br />
qualities needed to become a successful FTO. Any agency desiring<br />
to restructure a field training program or build a new program will<br />
find this course immensely beneficial.<br />
Topics<br />
• FTO responsibilities and duties<br />
• Program construction<br />
• FTO program liabilities<br />
• Forms and documentation<br />
• Evaluation of trainees and termination procedures<br />
• Remedial training and teaching techniques<br />
Audience<br />
Public safety personnel who use any form of field training to evaluate the progress of<br />
newly hired employees.<br />
Firearms Instructor — LET575*<br />
40 Hours<br />
Participants will identify and correct participant weaknesses, analyze<br />
and score targets, design and run courses of fire, and properly<br />
document police firearms training. Upon completion of this course,<br />
participants will be able to develop and implement comprehensive<br />
firearms training programs.<br />
Topics<br />
• Identifying and correcting shooter problems<br />
• Applying firearms safety and liability issues<br />
• Teaching the fundamentals of shooting<br />
• Designing courses of fire<br />
• Understanding firing range operations and firearms instructor duties<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers or licensed security professionals.<br />
First Line Supervisor — LET585*<br />
24 Hours<br />
This course is mandatory for newly promoted supervisors and must<br />
be completed within the first 24 months of promotion. Participants<br />
will receive training vital to effective leadership, including ethics,<br />
effective communication, leadership styles, counseling, planning<br />
and organizing, and cultural diversity.<br />
Topics<br />
• Making the transition from line officer to supervisor<br />
• Identifying common threads in leadership, management, and<br />
supervision<br />
• Using leadership, counseling, motivation, and communication<br />
skills effectively<br />
• Understanding values, ethics, and fundamental principles of leadership and supervision<br />
• Understanding the supervisor’s role as it relates to the overall goals of the agency<br />
• Using a systematic approach to identify and solve problems<br />
• Understanding administrative tasks such as budgeting, scheduling, planning, and staffing<br />
• Applying work performance measures and employee evaluations<br />
• Applying liability and civil rights issues for supervisors<br />
• Understanding the benefits of working with citizens and addressing citizens’ complaints<br />
Audience<br />
New law enforcement supervisors.<br />
Intermediate Collision Investigation<br />
— AIR540*<br />
40 Hours<br />
This course introduces the officer to basic drawing skills needed for<br />
preparing scale diagrams of the scene of a vehicle crash. It presents<br />
five formulas that can be used to determine the minimum speed<br />
of the vehicle, based on skid and/or yaw marks, and to calculate<br />
combined speeds.<br />
Topics<br />
• Peace officers investigate collisions<br />
• Evidence identification and collection<br />
• Scale drawing techniques<br />
• Basic minimum speed calculations<br />
• Conducting skid tests<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement officers assigned to collision investigation.<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Extension</strong> <strong>Service</strong><br />
Patrol Rifle Instructor — LET576 *<br />
40 Hours<br />
This Patrol Rifle Instructor course is designed for firearms instructors<br />
who have the responsibility of instructing patrol officers in the safe<br />
and proper procedures for deploying patrol rifles. Course design<br />
and safety issues are taught as well as principles of marksmanship,<br />
rifle nomenclature, and operation. The course emphasizes teaching<br />
weapons manipulation and training personnel to fight with a rifle<br />
at what are traditionally considered handgun ranges. The course is<br />
based on the AR-15/M-4/M-16 weapons platform; however, other<br />
systems will be discussed.<br />
Topics<br />
• Firearms safety<br />
• Principles of marksmanship<br />
• Rifle nomenclature, care and maintenance<br />
• Rifle manipulation<br />
• Sight adjustment, zeroing procedures, course design and implementation<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers or licensed security professionals.<br />
Pedestrian/Auto Reconstruction<br />
— AIR555*<br />
40 Hours<br />
This course is designed for the experienced law enforcement officer,<br />
supervisor, or traffic homicide investigator who wishes to increase<br />
individual knowledge, skills, and application techniques of pedestrian-vehicular<br />
collision investigation.<br />
Topics<br />
• Studying the human body<br />
• Pedestrian, driver and environmental relationship<br />
• Scene evidence<br />
• Pedestrian/vehicle orientations<br />
• Application of pedestrian equations<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement, including traffic supervisors, investigators, collision reconstruction<br />
professionals and proivate sector collision invetigators.<br />
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Law Enforcement<br />
Personal Defense Spray Instructor<br />
— LET700*<br />
24 Hours<br />
The Personal Defense Spray Instructor course is designed to<br />
promote safe and effective use of law enforcement chemical<br />
defense sprays. The participant will learn when defense sprays<br />
are appropriate, tactics and techniques of application, and<br />
proper means of handling and decontaminating those exposed.<br />
Additionally, the participant will be aware of the probable medical<br />
implications associated with the use of defense sprays.<br />
Topics<br />
• History of law enforcement chemical weapons<br />
• Composition of modern defense sprays<br />
• Physiological effects of defense sprays<br />
• Delivery systems<br />
• Use of force issues<br />
• Tactics of application<br />
• Control tactics follow-up procedures<br />
• Decontamination procedures<br />
• Defense spray selection<br />
• Practical exercises<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement officers, detention officers, and security personnel authorized to<br />
carry defense sprays.<br />
Other Information<br />
Exposure to chemical defense spray during class is mandatory.<br />
PPCT Defensive Tactics Instructor<br />
— LET650*<br />
40 Hours<br />
In this course, participants will learn the first subject control system<br />
developed through tactical, legal, and medical research. Tactically,<br />
the system addresses the most common types of resistance that<br />
law enforcement personnel encounter, ensuring that participants<br />
learn job-related techniques pertaining to self-defense. Legally, the<br />
Pressure Point Control Tactics (PPCT) System teaches a simple use of<br />
force continuum that clarifies the appropriate force level for every<br />
level of resistance. Medical research has been conducted on every<br />
PPCT technique to refine technique efficiency and to ensure that<br />
medical implications are proportional to the level of resistance.<br />
Topics<br />
• Survival learning research<br />
• PPCT control principles<br />
• Tactical handcuffing<br />
• Pressure point control tactics<br />
• Joint locks<br />
• Defensive counterstrikes<br />
• PPCT impact weapon system<br />
• Instructor development and training protocols<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers, licensed security professionals and public safety<br />
trainers in good physical condition with the ability to physically participate.<br />
PPCT Ground Avoidance Ground<br />
Escape (GAGE) Instructor — LET635*<br />
24 Hours<br />
The PPCT Ground Avoidance Ground Escape Instructor course is<br />
designed to teach students how to avoid being taken to the<br />
ground and how to effectively escape if they do find themselves<br />
there. It reviews tactics for both open and narrow environments,<br />
reviews the four most common ground positions, refines the<br />
student’s physical technique; and presents instructional methods<br />
for teaching survival skills.<br />
Topics<br />
• Use-of-force human factors<br />
• Instructor development and training protocols<br />
• Control principles<br />
• Shoulder-pin restraint<br />
• Ground avoidance and ground escape<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers, licensed security professionals and public safety<br />
trainers in good physical condition with the ability to physically participate.<br />
PPCT Sexual Harassment and Rape<br />
Prevention (SHARP) Instructor<br />
— LET700*<br />
24 Hours<br />
The PPCT SHARP Instructor certification course is designed to<br />
develop the participant’s ability to effectively teach the SHARP<br />
program. Principles and strategies for effectively reducing the<br />
likelihood of assault through both confrontation avoidance and<br />
actual techniques of countering an attack are stressed in this<br />
program. Because the techniques taught utilize efficient and<br />
effective methods of subject control that do not rely on size and<br />
strength, SHARP is a training system that can be used by anyone<br />
who is interested in personal safety.<br />
Topics<br />
• Survival learning research<br />
• Prevention psychology<br />
• Managing social or professional physical harassment<br />
• Sexual assault countermeasures<br />
• Instructor development and training protocols<br />
Audience<br />
Individuals in good physical condition with the ability to participate and desire to<br />
provide SHARP instruction to others.<br />
PPCT Spontaneous Knife Defense<br />
Instructor — LET645*<br />
24 Hours<br />
The PPCT Spontaneous Knife Defense Instructor course focuses on<br />
the principles, methods and strategies needed to teach a person of<br />
any size or strength how to effectively defend against a spontaneous<br />
edged-weapon attack. Participants refine their physical technique<br />
and learn instructional methods for teaching survival skills.<br />
Topics<br />
• Survival learning research<br />
• Control principles<br />
• Psychology of combat knife systems<br />
• Common knife attack strategies<br />
• Target lethality<br />
• Spontaneous knife defense system<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers, licensed security professionals and public safety<br />
trainers in good physical condition with the ability to physically participate.<br />
PPCT Tactical Response Team Close-<br />
Quarter Countermeasures (CQC)<br />
Instructor — LET635*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The PPCT Tactical Response Team Close-Quarter Countermeasures<br />
(CQC) course is designed to provide tactical team operators with<br />
non-lethal force options. The course prepares operators to use a<br />
simple and systematic CQC system designed for apprehending<br />
subjects during dynamic entries, and hostage rescue or to control<br />
a surrendering subject. Participants refine their physical technique<br />
and learn instructional methods for teaching survival skills.<br />
Topics<br />
• Use-of-force human factors<br />
• Instructor development and training protocols<br />
• Control principles<br />
• Tactical handcuffing system<br />
• Tactical entries<br />
• Shoulder-pin restraint system<br />
• Collapsible baton system<br />
• Weapon retention and disarming system<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers, licensed security professionals and public safety<br />
trainers in good physical condition with the ability to physically participate.<br />
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PPCT Violent Patient Management<br />
Instructor — LET611<br />
24 Hours<br />
The Violent Patient Management Instructor course is specifically<br />
designed to teach medically approved techniques for controlling<br />
patient violence. The techniques are designed to assist health care<br />
personnel and first responders in controlling patients for medical<br />
treatment or to defend themselves in the case of an unexpected<br />
assault. These techniques meet the control needs of staff, while<br />
meeting the liability concerns of administrators.<br />
Topics<br />
• Survival learning research<br />
• Control principles<br />
• Balance point and joint lock control<br />
• Pressure point control<br />
• High-level control techniques<br />
• Instructor development and training protocols<br />
Audience<br />
Health care professionals, EMS/fire personnel, security personnel and health care<br />
support staff.<br />
Radar Instructor — LET570*<br />
40 Hours<br />
Participants will receive instructor-level training for the proper<br />
facilitation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<br />
(NHTSA) Doppler RADAR course. A lesson plan, electronic slide<br />
presentation, and student manual are provided to each participant<br />
for use during and after this course.<br />
Topics<br />
• Basic adult learning and teaching principles<br />
• A review of the NHTSA RADAR curriculum<br />
• Effective preparation and presentation skills<br />
• How to conduct a basic Doppler RADAR course<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers.<br />
Reality-Based Training Instructor<br />
— LET810*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Reality-Based Training Instructor course is designed to teach<br />
participants how to safely design and implement scenario-based<br />
training in their agency. Participants are led through the<br />
development process and the building of a scenario training plan.<br />
Participants will leave this course with several training scenarios that<br />
they will be able to take back to their agencies to utilize immediately.<br />
Topics<br />
• Introduction to reality-based training<br />
• Safety issues for reality-based training<br />
• Scenario development process<br />
• Choosing and preparing the training site<br />
• Safely executing the scenario<br />
• Evaluating the training<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned peace officers, licensed security officers or public safety trainers.<br />
Spanish for Emergency Responders<br />
— SER430<br />
24 Hours<br />
Spanish for Emergency Responders is designed to develop<br />
fundamental Spanish speaking and listening skills pertaining to<br />
emergency situations. Proficiency is gained through the positive<br />
effects of repetition and review. Throughout the course, participants<br />
gain a deeper understanding of the Hispanic culture. Participants<br />
receive functional materials designed to assist, reinforce, and<br />
facilitate continued study of the Spanish language. Through<br />
increased language capabilities and communications techniques,<br />
injuries may be prevented and lives can be saved.<br />
Topics<br />
• Arrest commands<br />
• Emergencies<br />
• Traffic incidents<br />
• Basic questions<br />
• The Hispanic culture<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement, fire or emergency medical services personnel.<br />
Standardized Field Sobriety Testing<br />
(SFST) Instructor — ADI210*<br />
50 Hours<br />
This course prepares the Standard Field Sobriety Testing (SFST)<br />
practitioner to instruct the SFST practitioner certification course.<br />
Training consists of hands-on training exercises and simulated<br />
alcohol workshops.<br />
Topics<br />
• How to conduct a SFST Practitioner’s Certification course<br />
• How to conduct an alcohol workshop<br />
• Teaching and learning theory<br />
• Effective presentation skills<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned <strong>Texas</strong> peace officers who hold a current TCLEOSE SFST Practitioner<br />
Certificate.<br />
Standardized Field Sobriety Testing<br />
(SFST) Instructor Update — ADI220*<br />
8 Hours<br />
The update course is designed for Standard Field Sobriety Testing<br />
(SFST) Practitioners who wish to review the latest updates in the<br />
SFST program. A combination of lecture, discussion, videos, and<br />
hands-on practice increases both the SFST instructor’s and the<br />
practitioner’s confidence level in teaching and performing SFST.<br />
This course meets the requirements of TCLEOSE course #2177.<br />
Topics<br />
• Review of the SFST test battery<br />
• Most recent SFST validation/application studies<br />
• SFST proficiency testing<br />
• Major categories of drugs that impair driving<br />
• Observable signs of impairment from drug categories<br />
• Role of eye examinations in disclosing the possibility of drug impairment<br />
• Effects likely to result from various combinations of drugs<br />
Audience<br />
Commissioned <strong>Texas</strong> peace officers.<br />
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Law Enforcement<br />
Traffic Accident Avoidance — TAA510*<br />
8 Hours<br />
This course is designed to demonstrate proper driving techniques<br />
required to avoid most collisions. Participants are introduced to<br />
common driving hazards faced during day-to-day operation of a<br />
vehicle. All participants will experience up to six hours of actual<br />
hands-on training in this medium-stress driving school.<br />
Topics<br />
• Risk management concerns<br />
• Proper driving attitude<br />
• Vehicle dynamics<br />
• Vehicle control<br />
• Proficiency exercises<br />
• Vehicle inspection<br />
• Kinetic energy/inertia<br />
• Proper steering<br />
• Methods of braking<br />
Audience<br />
Any licensed driver.<br />
Traffic Accident Avoidance - Trailer Use<br />
— TAA511<br />
8 Hours<br />
Traffic Accident Avoidance -Trailer Use is designed to demonstrate<br />
proper driving techniques required to avoid most potential<br />
collisions. Participants are introduced to common driving hazards<br />
faced during day-to-day operation of a vehicle while towing a trailer.<br />
All participants will experience up to six hours of actual hands-on<br />
training in this medium-stress driving school.<br />
Topics<br />
• Risk management concerns<br />
• Proper driving attitude<br />
• Vehicle and trailer dynamics<br />
• Vehicle and trailer control<br />
• Proficiency exercises<br />
• Vehicle and trailer inspection<br />
• Kinetic energy/inertia<br />
• Proper steering<br />
• Methods of braking<br />
• Methods of trailer backing<br />
Audience<br />
Public works employees or employees who drive a company vehicle and tow a trailer.<br />
Traffic Occupant Protection Strategies<br />
— LET210<br />
8 Hours<br />
This new self-paced online course is designed for law enforcement<br />
officers across the United States in support of Selective Traffic<br />
Enforcement Programs nationwide. This course adheres to the<br />
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) eight hour<br />
Traffic Occupant Protection Strategies (TOPS) program updated in<br />
2008. The course prepares participants to promote proper safety<br />
restraint usage, as well as enforcement. TOPS training provides<br />
law enforcement professionals with information about their state<br />
statutes, and proper adult restraint usage practices, as well as child<br />
safety restraint systems and proper usage.<br />
Topics<br />
• Occupant protection risk and survival<br />
• Types of crashes and crash dynamics<br />
• Public education<br />
• Public information and outreach<br />
• Current usage of safety belts and child safety seats<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement officers responsible for traffic enforcement, public safety education,<br />
and those actively involved with Selective Traffic Enforcement Programs (STEP).<br />
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LAW ENFORCEMENT<br />
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM<br />
Advanced Collision Reconstructionist<br />
— Certificate<br />
The <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Extension</strong> <strong>Service</strong> (TEEX) offers the<br />
Advanced Collision Reconstructionist (ACR) Program to law<br />
enforcement and private collision investigation professionals.<br />
Participantswho complete the 4 course program are eligible<br />
to receive an Advanced Collision Reconstructionist Certificate.<br />
Completion of the four courses also adequately prepares the<br />
certificate recipient for the Accreditation Commission for Traffic<br />
Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR) exam.<br />
Required core courses<br />
• Intermediate Collision Investigation<br />
• Advanced Collision Investigation<br />
• Collision Reconstruction<br />
Elective courses - Choose one (1) of the following:<br />
• Pedestrian/Auto Reconstruction<br />
• Forensic Photography I<br />
• Courtroom Testimony<br />
• Vehicle Damage & Energy Relationship<br />
<br />
Designates eLearning online class or that a portion of<br />
the class is online.<br />
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FORENSIC<br />
SCIENCE<br />
ACADEMY<br />
TM<br />
Courtroom Testimony — FSA111*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The 40-hour Courtroom Testimony course provides participants<br />
with an understanding of the basic factors that create effective<br />
courtroom testimony. Course instruction is through lecture and<br />
practical application.<br />
Forensic science academy<br />
Basic Criminal Investigation<br />
— FSA105*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Basic Criminal Investigator (BCI) course prepares participants<br />
for their transition from a traditional patrol/traffic function to an<br />
investigative position such as detective. The BCI course is also<br />
appropriate for agencies that require officers to perform both<br />
patrol and investigative functions. The course prepares officers to<br />
manage a wide variety of common criminal investigations, from a<br />
response to the initial scene to case preparation and presentation<br />
for prosecution. Emphasis is placed on managing the legal processes<br />
involved in investigations, including preparation of affidavits,<br />
procurement and execution of search and arrest warrants, interview<br />
and interrogation procedures, and rules governing the collection<br />
and preservation of evidence. Additionally, participants will learn<br />
case preparation techniques and unique aspects of special topic<br />
investigations such as narcotics, property crimes, and crimes against<br />
persons.<br />
Topics<br />
• Basic principles of criminal investigation<br />
• Interview and interrogation techniques<br />
• Utilizing informants<br />
• Crime scene investigation<br />
• Subpoenas, warrants and search warrants<br />
• Case preparation<br />
• Narcotics investigations<br />
• Property crime investigations<br />
• Crimes against persons investigations<br />
• Other types of investigation<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement, security, private investigators.<br />
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis I<br />
— FSA103*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Bloodstain Pattern Analysis I course is designed for those who<br />
investigate crime scenes containing blood evidence, such as assaults<br />
and death investigations, as well as those who process bloodstained<br />
evidentiary items. The course provides participants with basic<br />
knowledge of bloodstain pattern analysis, including methods and<br />
skills for the interpretation of bloodstain evidence at crime scenes<br />
and on evidentiary items. Participants will learn to make determinations<br />
such as the relative positions of the victim or suspect, the<br />
nature of the force and object used, and the approximate number of<br />
blows struck. Course instruction is through lecture and case review<br />
with emphasis on experiments and practical application.<br />
Topics<br />
• History of bloodstain pattern analysis<br />
• Utilizing bloodstain pattern analysis at crime scenes<br />
• Measuring bloodstains<br />
• Determining the angle of impact of bloodstains<br />
• Determining point of convergence of bloodstains<br />
• Determining point of origin of bloodstains<br />
• Identification and analysis of bloodstain patterns<br />
• Documenting crime scenes<br />
• Biological hazards in crime scenes<br />
• Chemical processing of crime scenes<br />
• Bloodstain pattern analysis and courtroom testimony<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement investigators and noncommissioned personnel assigned to crime<br />
scene investigation and reconstruction.<br />
Topics<br />
• Curriculum vitae/resume writing<br />
• Universal communication skills<br />
• Report preparation<br />
• Testifying in court<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement investigators and noncommissioned personnel assigned to crime<br />
scene investigation and reconstruction.<br />
Crime Scene Investigation — FSA106*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Crime Scene Investigation course provides participants with<br />
information, techniques, and methodologies for conducting<br />
investigations ranging from general crime scene investigations to<br />
death investigations. Course instruction is through lecture and case<br />
review with emphasis on practical application.<br />
Topics<br />
• Crime scene searches and legality<br />
• Preparation for crime scene investigations<br />
• Crime scene documentation<br />
• Collection, packaging, and preservation of evidence<br />
• Fingerprints and fingerprint processing<br />
• DNA evidence<br />
• Electronic evidence<br />
Audience<br />
Newly assigned and current evidence collection personnel responsible for crime<br />
scene investigations.<br />
Death Investigation — FSA110*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Death Investigation course addresses the procedures for<br />
conducting investigations of various types of death and includes<br />
the investigator’s role throughout the investigative process.<br />
Topics<br />
• Medical examiner and coroner systems<br />
• Types of trauma<br />
• Time of death estimation and post-mortem processes<br />
• Body of evidence<br />
• Investigating specific types of death<br />
• Death investigation procedures<br />
• Child death<br />
• Decedents in a hospital setting<br />
• Autopsy, laboratory, and specialist capabilities<br />
• Stress<br />
Audience<br />
Newly assigned and current evidence collection personnel responsible for crime<br />
scene investigations.<br />
Forensic Entomology — FSA102<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Forensic Entomology course addresses the collection,<br />
preservation, and understanding of entomological evidence<br />
resulting from the insect colonization of victims. Participants will<br />
learn to apply principles of forensic entomology to questions<br />
concerning victim transport, toxicology, and approximate time of<br />
death. Course instruction is through lecture, laboratory exercises,<br />
and field application.<br />
Topics<br />
• Law enforcement application of forensic entomology<br />
• Collecting and preserving entomological evidence<br />
• Insects of forensic importance<br />
• Environments in which bodies decompose<br />
• Environmental factors affecting decomposition by insects<br />
• Collecting specimens from human remains<br />
• Preserving collected specimens<br />
• Rearing specimens collected from human remains<br />
• Chain of custody and shipping issues<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement and noncommissioned personnel assigned to crime<br />
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Forensic science academy<br />
Forensic Photography I — FSA101*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Forensic Photography I course addresses the basic concepts of<br />
photography and their application to thorough, professional crime<br />
scene documentation. Course instruction is through lecture, case<br />
review, and application exercises. Forensic Photography I or a course<br />
equivalent is required to attend Forensic Photography II.<br />
Topics<br />
• Photography in law enforcement<br />
• Camera and film selection<br />
• Camera operation<br />
• Evaluating light<br />
• Utilizing depth of field<br />
• Common photographic errors<br />
• Crime scene photography<br />
• Photographic equipment<br />
• Digital photographic processes<br />
• Standards for digital evidence<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement and noncommissioned personnel assigned to crime scene<br />
investigation.<br />
Forensic Photography II — FSA112*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Forensic Photography II course addresses advanced aspects of<br />
forensic photography, including macro, nighttime, and alternatelight<br />
photography. Course instruction is through lecture, case<br />
review, and application exercises. Forensic Photography I, or a course<br />
equivalent, is required to attend Forensic Photography II.<br />
Topics<br />
• Equipment and basic exposure review<br />
• Macro photography<br />
• Nighttime photography<br />
• Reciprocity failure<br />
• Flash photography<br />
• Painting with light<br />
• Shooting reconstructions<br />
• Bloodstain photography<br />
• Ultraviolet and infrared photography<br />
• Photographic perspective<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement and noncommissioned personnel assigned to crime scene<br />
investigation.<br />
Forensic Technician — FSA100<br />
80 Hours<br />
The Forensic Technician course provides participants with<br />
information, techniques, and methodologies for conducting crime<br />
scene investigations and processing crime scene evidence. Course<br />
instruction is through lecture and case review with emphasis<br />
on practical laboratory application and scenario-based practical<br />
application. Photography is an integral part of this course.<br />
Topics<br />
• Crime scene searches and legality<br />
• Crime scene documentation<br />
• Evidence collection, packaging, and preservation<br />
• DNA evidence<br />
• Electronic evidence<br />
• Powder processing of fingerprints<br />
• Fingerprint processing with chemicals and dyes<br />
• Processing blood prints<br />
• Processing fingerprints on difficult surfaces<br />
Audience<br />
Newly assigned and current evidence collection personnel responsible for crime<br />
scene investigations.<br />
Latent Print Processing — FSA104*<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Latent Print Processing course provides participants with<br />
information, techniques, and methodologies for processing latent<br />
fingerprints and enhancing visible fingerprints at and from crime<br />
scenes, as well as from physical evidence. Course instruction is<br />
through lecture and practical laboratory application. Photography is<br />
an integral part of this course.<br />
Topics<br />
• Physiology of latent prints<br />
• Powder processing<br />
• Latent print processing with chemicals, dyes, and non-powder<br />
processes<br />
• Processing blood prints<br />
• Processing fingerprints on difficult surfaces<br />
• Documentation of latent prints<br />
• DNA and latent prints<br />
Audience<br />
Law enforcement and noncommissioned personnel assigned to crime scene<br />
investigation.<br />
Processing Evidence of Violent Crimes<br />
— FSA108<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Processing Evidence of Violent Crimes course provides<br />
participants with information, techniques, and methodologies for<br />
processing and documenting violent crime scenes such as assaults,<br />
sexual crimes, and homicides, as well as the physical evidence from<br />
such scenes. Course instruction is through lecture and case review<br />
with emphasis on practical application. Photography is an integral<br />
part of this course.<br />
Topics<br />
• Crime scenes and biological evidence<br />
• Processing items for biological evidence<br />
• Collection and packaging of biological evidence<br />
• Collection of trace evidence<br />
• Collection of impression evidence<br />
• Processing firearms and ammunition for physical evidence<br />
• Crime scene documentation<br />
Audience<br />
Licensed or certified peace officers with a current commission or noncommissioned<br />
personnel assigned to investigate/process crime scenes.<br />
Skeletal Death Investigation — FSA109<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Skeletal Death Investigation course is designed for those<br />
responsible for death investigations, including cold case death<br />
investigations dealing with skeletal remains. In this course, which<br />
introduces the field of forensic anthropology, participants will<br />
receive instruction in the recovery and analysis of human remains in<br />
forensic contexts. Course instruction is through lecture, case review,<br />
and field application.<br />
Topics<br />
• Human osteology<br />
• Distinguishing human vs. non-human remains<br />
• Developing the biological profile<br />
• Assessment of trauma<br />
• Decomposition and taphonomy<br />
• Field recovery techniques for buried and scattered skeletal remains<br />
Audience<br />
Licensed or certified peace officers with a current commission or noncommissioned<br />
personnel assigned to investigate/process crime scenes.<br />
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FORENSIC SCIENCE ACADEMY<br />
CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS<br />
Forensic Investigator I — Certificate<br />
200 Hours<br />
This certificate is awarded to participants who complete 200<br />
hours of course instruction by successfully completing five<br />
40-hour courses. Forensic Investigator certificates are awarded<br />
sequentially; Forensic Investigator I is awarded prior to Forensic<br />
Investigator II.<br />
Required courses<br />
• Basic Criminal Investigation<br />
• Courtroom Testimony<br />
• Crime Scene Investigation<br />
• Forensic Photography I<br />
• Latent Print Processing<br />
Forensic Investigator II — Certificate<br />
200 Hours<br />
This certificate is awarded to participants who complete 200<br />
hours of course instruction by successfully completing five<br />
40-hour courses. Forensic Investigator certificates are awarded<br />
sequentially; Forensic Investigator I is awarded prior to Forensic<br />
Investigator II.<br />
Required courses<br />
• Bloodstain Pattern Analysis<br />
• Death Investigation<br />
• Forensic Photography II<br />
• Processing Evidence of Violent Crimes<br />
Elective Courses - Choose one (1) of the following:<br />
• Forensic Entomology<br />
• Skeletal Death Investigation<br />
Property and Evidence Management<br />
— Certificate<br />
Required courses<br />
• Basic Property Technician<br />
• Courtroom Testimony<br />
• Forensic Photography I<br />
Forensic Technician — Certificate<br />
80 Hours<br />
This certificate is comprised of 80 hours of instruction that<br />
presents information, techniques, and methodologies for<br />
conducting crime scene investigations and processing crime<br />
scene evidence. Course instruction is through lecture and case<br />
review with emphasis on practical laboratory application and<br />
scenario-based practical application. Those who successfully<br />
complete the course will be awarded the Forensic Technician<br />
Certificate. Completion of Forensic Technician Certificate is<br />
equivalent to Crime Scene Investigation and<br />
Latent Print Processing.<br />
Required courses<br />
• Crime Scene Investigation<br />
• Latent Print Processing<br />
Topics<br />
• Crime scene searches and legality<br />
• Crime scene documentation<br />
• Evidence collection, packaging, and preservation<br />
• DNA evidence<br />
• Electronic evidence<br />
• Powder processing with chemicals and dyes<br />
• Processing blood prints<br />
• Processing blood prints<br />
• Processing fingerprints on difficult surfaces<br />
Major Crimes Investigator — Certificate<br />
Required courses<br />
• Basic Criminal Investigation<br />
• Courtroom Testimony<br />
• Death Investigation<br />
• Forensic Photography<br />
Elective Courses - Choose one (1) of the following:<br />
• Bloodstain Pattern Analysis I<br />
• Collision Reconstruction<br />
• Fire Investigator<br />
• Forensic Entomology<br />
• Forensic Photography II<br />
• Skeletal Death Investigation<br />
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corrections academy<br />
Required Materials<br />
Participants must have a 56K modem internet connection (broadband<br />
connection recommended), a current browser (i.e., Internet Explorer 6 or<br />
higher, Firefox 2.0 or higher, or Safari 2 or higher), Adobe Acrobat Reader 7<br />
or higher, and Adobe Flash 9.0.45.0 or higher.<br />
Basic County Corrections<br />
— LET305<br />
72 Hours<br />
This blended-learning course is designed to meet the training<br />
requirements of the <strong>Texas</strong> Commission on Law Enforcement<br />
Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) and prepare participants for<br />
the state licensing exam. It will provide the participant with an<br />
understanding of correctional officer duties and requirements and<br />
the ability to use those skills effectively, allowing the employee<br />
better control within the jail environment.<br />
Upon successful completion of LET305 participants will complete<br />
the 24-hour Basic County Corrections Physical Skills course (LET 306),<br />
which provides the physical skills training required by TCLEOSE.<br />
Participants must meet TCLEOSE minimum standards for licensing<br />
and must submit a Letter of Admission from their agency.<br />
Audience<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> county and municipal jail staff responsible for inmate oversight and control<br />
within a jail facility.<br />
Basic Jail Certification for <strong>Texas</strong> Peace<br />
Officers — LET309<br />
<br />
40 Hours<br />
The Basic Jail Certification for <strong>Texas</strong> Peace Officers (BJPO) on-line<br />
course is designed to meet all training requirements set by the<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Education<br />
(TCLEOSE) to prepare current <strong>Texas</strong> Peace Officers to successfully<br />
acquire certification as a county jailer. The BJPO course also prepares<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> Peace Officers to take the TCLEOSE licensing examination.<br />
Once the participant has successfully completed each module, a<br />
comprehensive final exam is administered. All examinations must<br />
be passed with a minimum score of 80%. Participants have three<br />
attempts to pass each module exam and one attempt to pass the<br />
final examination.<br />
Upon successful completion of the course students will receive<br />
endorsement information to sit for the TCLEOSE Peace Officer Jailer<br />
Licensing Examination at a TCLEOSE approved testing site.<br />
Topics<br />
• Booking Procedures<br />
• Searches<br />
• Classification of Inmates<br />
• Suicide Screening and Prevention<br />
• Legal Aspects of Use of Force<br />
• Inmate Rights<br />
• Facility Security<br />
• Grievances<br />
• Food <strong>Service</strong>s<br />
• Emergency Procedures<br />
• Inmate Transportation<br />
• Investigations<br />
• Report Writing<br />
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Inmate Rights and Privileges<br />
— LET300<br />
16 Hours<br />
This course provides the county corrections officer with an<br />
understanding of inmate rights and responsibilities from a case<br />
law perspective. This course is one of the intermediate core courses<br />
required by TCLEOSE rules to receive intermediate certification as a<br />
county corrections officer. Participants successfully completing the<br />
course receive 16 hours of TCLEOSE credit.<br />
Topics<br />
• Correctional law<br />
• First Amendment guarantees for inmates<br />
• The Fourth Amendment<br />
• The Fifth Amendment<br />
• The Eighth Amendment<br />
• The Fourteenth Amendment<br />
• Summary of constitutional rights<br />
Interpersonal Communications in the<br />
Correctional Setting — LET303<br />
16 Hours<br />
This blended-learning course is designed to educate jail, correction,<br />
and detention personnel about human relations skills that will<br />
enhance a positive relationship between staff and inmates<br />
and between correctional workers and their peers. Corrections<br />
officers will learn basic communications skills and how to use<br />
them effectively, allowing better control of inmate interactions.<br />
Participants successfully completing the course receive 16 hours of<br />
TCLEOSE credit.<br />
Blended-learning<br />
This course consists of two components: online course work and classroom exercises<br />
centered on role-playing scenarios facilitated by qualified instructors. This course<br />
is one of the intermediate core courses required by TCLEOSE rules to receive<br />
intermediate certification as a county corrections officer.<br />
Topics<br />
• Basics of communication<br />
• Evaluating a situation<br />
• Communicating with an inmate<br />
• Application and management<br />
Suicide Detection and Prevention in<br />
Jails — LET301<br />
16 Hours<br />
This course is designed to provide county corrections officers<br />
with an understanding of offenders with mental impairments and<br />
suicidal behavior and methods for detection and prevention of<br />
suicide. Suicide prevention should begin at arrest and continue<br />
throughout the individual’s stay in a correctional facility. Experience<br />
has shown that almost all jail suicides can be averted with<br />
implementation of a comprehensive prevention program that<br />
includes staff training, intake screening, communication between<br />
staff, appropriate and safe housing, frequent observation, prompt<br />
intervention, and human interaction between staff and inmates. This<br />
course is one of the intermediate core courses required by TCLEOSE<br />
rules to receive intermediate certification as a county corrections<br />
officer. Participants successfully completing the course receive 16<br />
hours of TCLEOSE credit.<br />
Topics<br />
• Overview of jail suicide<br />
• Factors influencing suicidal behavior<br />
• Admission of inmates<br />
• Mental retardation or mental illness<br />
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Use of Force in a Jail Setting<br />
— LET302<br />
16 Hours<br />
This course provides the county corrections officer with a basic<br />
understanding of the statutory authority for use of force, use<br />
of force models and options, and causes of disruptive behavior<br />
and disturbances. Jail administrators and officers will learn the<br />
appropriate preventive and remedial actions to protect against<br />
potential civil liability. This course is one of the intermediate<br />
core courses required by TCLEOSE rules to receive intermediate<br />
certification as a county corrections officer. Participants successfully<br />
completing the course receive 16 hours of TCLEOSE credit.<br />
Topics<br />
• Use of force introduction<br />
• Potential for use of force<br />
• Defensive tactics<br />
• Weapon techniques<br />
• Deadly force<br />
• Legal consequences of excessive force<br />
Municipal Jailer — LET310<br />
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Basic County Corrections Physical Skills<br />
— LET306<br />
24 Hours<br />
This course will provide the student with the physical skills training<br />
requirements of the <strong>Texas</strong> Commission on Law Enforcement<br />
Standards and Education number 1071. This course will provide the<br />
training needed to understand and apply basic self defense techniques<br />
and inmate handling techniques required in the correctional<br />
setting.<br />
Topics<br />
•Physiological response to stress<br />
•Pressure points<br />
•Stances and blocks<br />
•Strikes<br />
•Handcuffing<br />
•Joint locks and ground techniques<br />
•Vascular restraint<br />
•Searches<br />
Audience<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> county and municipal jail staff responsible for inmate oversight and control<br />
within a jail facility.<br />
40 Hours<br />
This on-line course was developed in conjunction with the Municipal<br />
Jail Association of <strong>Texas</strong> (MJAT) and provides participants with<br />
the knowledge and skills necessary to operate effectively within a<br />
municipal jail or detention facility environment. The online course<br />
consists of nine (9) learning modules. Prior to accessing the course,<br />
the participant is provided with an opportunity to download a study<br />
guide. The guide is provided to participants in an effort to enhance<br />
the retention of important course information. Once the participant<br />
has successfully completed each module, an exam is administered.<br />
After all modules have been completed, the participant will receive<br />
a comprehensive final exam. All examinations must be passed with<br />
a minimum score of 80%. Participants have three attempts to pass<br />
each module exam and one attempt to pass the final examination.<br />
Topics<br />
•Introduction to Detention Facilities<br />
•Human Aspects<br />
•Addressing Injurious Behavior<br />
•Intake Procedures<br />
•Inmate Health Care<br />
•Prisoner <strong>Service</strong>s<br />
•Security Protocols<br />
•Emergency Situations<br />
•Report Writing<br />
•Courtroom Testimony<br />
Audience<br />
Candidates for <strong>Texas</strong> municipal jail staffing responsible for oversight and control of<br />
inmates in a detention facility.<br />
Designates eLearning online class or that a portion of<br />
the class is online.<br />
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EXPLOSIVES AND UXO TRAINING<br />
Advanced Ordnance Recognition for<br />
Law Enforcement — UXO203*<br />
80 hours<br />
This course offers UXO Tech certification, usually completed through<br />
the attendance of a four-week class, to Hazardous Device School<br />
certified Bomb Technicians desiring specialized training. The course<br />
offers comprehensive, hands-on training in the safe detection,<br />
location, identification, and disposal of unexploded ordnance using<br />
the techniques, tools, and emerging technologies of today’s UXO<br />
environmental remediation industry. State and local emergency<br />
responders who complete the course will enhance their capabilities<br />
and meet all requirements of the United States Army Corps of<br />
Engineers (USACE) to work on USACE UXO remediation job sites.<br />
Topics<br />
•Basic Explosives safety<br />
•Ground, air, chemical and underwater ordnance identification<br />
•Fuze functioning and identification<br />
•Use of UXO detection equipment and ordnance location techniques<br />
•UXO disposal techniques<br />
Audience<br />
Participants must be in good physical condition and capable of working under<br />
stressful conditions and /or hazardous environments.<br />
Demining — EOT228*<br />
50 hours<br />
TEEX offers this course as a follow-on for graduates of the UXO<br />
Tech 1 course to provide the knowledge required to carry out<br />
demining procedures and clearance operations, under supervision,<br />
in accordance with International Mine Action Standards (IMAS).<br />
Participants will be introduced to dangerous-area marking,<br />
detectors, and locator equipment. Mine action search tools,<br />
procedures, and clearance techniques will be discussed. Graduates<br />
will receive a City & Guilds certification to allow them to work<br />
internationally.<br />
Topics<br />
• Basic demining procedures<br />
• Clearance operations<br />
• Dangerous-area markings<br />
• Use of UXO and mine detection equipment<br />
• Use of mine action search tools<br />
• Proper mine action procedures<br />
• Clearance techniques<br />
Audience<br />
Potential students for the Demining course must be in good physical condition.<br />
They must be capable of safely operating under stressful conditions and hazardous<br />
environments.<br />
Explosive Breacher Entry — EOT220<br />
40 hours<br />
Explosive entry continues to grow in U.S. law enforcement as a<br />
viable tactical option for serving high-risk warrants and conducting<br />
hostage rescues. In this five-day course, explosive entries will be<br />
made through class 1 steel doors as well as solid wood and hollow<br />
core doors. The course will cover construction of distraction devices<br />
and use of other explosives. The TEEX Explosive Breaching course is<br />
geared toward increasing the knowledge and skills of SWAT, tactical,<br />
and explosive ordnance disposal teams.<br />
Topics<br />
• Types of explosives<br />
• Explosives charges<br />
• Operational planning<br />
• Breaching methods<br />
• Approach and placement<br />
Audience<br />
Law Enforcement and Military<br />
Hazwoper for Clean-Up Operations<br />
Training — EOT225<br />
40 hours<br />
This blended-learning course is designed to educate UXO<br />
Technicians and provides awareness of potential hazards<br />
encountered at hazardous waste cleanup operation sites and<br />
provide the knowledge and skills necessary to perform work with<br />
minimal risk to workers’ health and safety. Provides awareness of<br />
the purpose and limitations of safety equipment and ensures<br />
workers safely avoid or escape from emergencies.<br />
Topics<br />
• Personal Protective Clothing (PPE)<br />
• Information resources<br />
• Decontamination<br />
• Regulatory overview<br />
•Hazardous substances<br />
Audience<br />
Students scheduled to attend the UXO Technician Level I course.<br />
Heavy Equipment Operator for<br />
Ordnance Workers — EOT239*<br />
40 hours<br />
This course covers the safe operation of a backhoe and forklift in a<br />
UXO field environment. Geared toward UXO technicians who may be<br />
tasked to stack or excavate buried ordnance items, participants will<br />
learn safety, operation, and maneuverability of two common pieces<br />
of equipment used in the UXO field of work. Graduates will receive<br />
TEEX certificates that allow them to operate backhoes and forklifts<br />
on hazardous waste sites. Placing a heavy emphasis on safety,<br />
this course meets Occupational Safety and Health Administration<br />
(OSHA), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and American<br />
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) requirements and provides<br />
instruction in industry standard consensus practice.<br />
Topics<br />
• Overview of the backhoe-loader<br />
• Safety procedures<br />
• Startup and shut-down procedures<br />
• Preventive maintenance<br />
• Backhoe-loader operations<br />
• Transporting a backhoe-loader<br />
• Field applications<br />
Audience<br />
Students scheduled to attend the UXO Technician Level I course.<br />
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)<br />
Awareness — EOT233<br />
8 hours<br />
TEEX offers this one-day course designed to raise participants’<br />
awareness of IEDs and their components, effects, and associated<br />
hazards. Graduates will be able to demonstrate an understanding<br />
of different sources and types of explosives, types of IEDs, IED<br />
component explosive effects, and the hazards associated with IEDs.<br />
The course is presented through facilitated delivery and a liveexplosives<br />
demonstration. Some handling of live explosives will be<br />
involved.<br />
Topics<br />
• Overview of improvised explosive devices (IEDs)<br />
• IED resources and methodologies<br />
• IED search, disruption, and response procedures<br />
Audience<br />
First responders, such as firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency<br />
medical specialists.<br />
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Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)<br />
Intermediate — EOT217*<br />
16 hours<br />
TEEX offers this two-day course designed to help participants<br />
identify Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), their explosive effects,<br />
and take appropriate actions to mitigate associated risks as a first<br />
responder. Participants learn to apply methods to assess effective<br />
cordon distances and evacuation routes necessary to ensure<br />
the safety of others. The course is presented through facilitated<br />
delivery and a live-explosives demonstration. Some handling of live<br />
explosives will be involved.<br />
Topics<br />
• Use of Improvised Explosive Devices<br />
• IED construction<br />
• IED search techniques<br />
• IED practicum<br />
Audience<br />
First responders, such as firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency<br />
medical specialists.<br />
Ordnance Recognition and Improvised<br />
Explosive Device Awareness<br />
— EOT215*<br />
8 hours<br />
The Ordnance Recognition and Improvised Explosive Device<br />
Awareness course trains participants to identify potential explosive<br />
hazards and make reasonable decisions to prevent injury, death, or<br />
damage. This course is delivered through instructor-led facilitation,<br />
multi-media presentations and participant activities.<br />
Unexploded Ordnance Technician<br />
Level I — UXO200*<br />
200 hours<br />
This four-week course offers comprehensive, hands-on training in<br />
the safe detection, location, identification, and disposal of unexploded<br />
ordnance using the techniques, tools, and emerging technologies<br />
of today’s UXO environmental remediation industry. UXO Tech<br />
I meets requirements of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)<br />
to certify the graduates’ ability to work on USACE UXO remediation<br />
job sites.<br />
Topics<br />
• Basic explosives safety<br />
• Ground, air, chemical and underwater ordnance identification<br />
• Fuze functioning and identification<br />
• Use of UXO detection equipment and location techniques<br />
• Electric, non-electric and shock-tube demolition procedures<br />
• UXO disposal techniques<br />
• Resume-building and employment processes<br />
• Current terrorist methods<br />
• Forensic recovery equipment and its use<br />
• Forensic recovery recording and documentation<br />
• Multi-agency approach to forensic scene recovery<br />
• Crime scene investigation<br />
• Use of appropriate database<br />
• Collection of evidence<br />
EXPLOSIVES AND UXO TRAINING<br />
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM<br />
Ordnance Removal and Remediation<br />
Technician — Certificate<br />
Required courses<br />
• Hazwoper for Clean-up Operations Trianing<br />
• Heavy Equipment Operator for Ordnance Workers<br />
• Demining<br />
• UXO Technician Level I (UXO Tech)<br />
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Designates eLearning online class or that a portion of<br />
the class is online.<br />
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Business Continuity Planning — PST603<br />
16 Hours<br />
The Business Continuity Planning course provides organization<br />
managers the information necessary to plan for, respond to, and<br />
recover from catastrophic events. Built upon the concepts of risk<br />
analysis and business impact planning, this course is designed to<br />
provide the road map to coordinated organizational emergency<br />
response during and after a catastrophic event in which company<br />
facilities and processes are interrupted. Participants will learn<br />
the critical decision-making process and some key factors to be<br />
considered in the trans- and post-event periods.<br />
Topics<br />
• Assessing the need for business continuity planning<br />
• Making critical decisions in the midst of potentially catastrophic circumstances<br />
• Evaluating threats and vulnerabilities<br />
• Creating business impact analysis, including hazard analysis and business unit<br />
analysis<br />
• Conducting management critical incident scenarios and activities<br />
• Developing comprehensive business continuity plans<br />
Audience<br />
General management, information technology management, operations management,<br />
business continuity planning managers, logistics/materials management, human<br />
resources, legal/compliance, security management, safety management, environmental<br />
compliance, and facilities managers.<br />
· Managing roles, authority & relationships to achieve national CIKR protection<br />
efforts<br />
· Managing risk utilizing the critical infrastructure protection process<br />
· Coordinating the national approach to CIKR protection<br />
· Safe, effective information sharing for CIKR partners<br />
· Establishing long term CIKR protection effort effectiveness<br />
· Identifying resources for CIKR protection<br />
Audience<br />
State, local, tribal, and territorial government officials, DHS Infrastructure Protection<br />
personnel, Sector-Specific Agency and other Federal agency personnel, and owners.<br />
Cyber Security Awareness — OGT300<br />
16 Hours<br />
This course is designed to help businesses, organizations and<br />
individuals nationwide identify vulnerabilities in their network<br />
architecture and plan for, respond to, and recover from an undesired<br />
intrusion into the organizational network. Building upon the<br />
concepts of risk management and using the latest in computer<br />
security technology, the course explores the major components of<br />
network and computer security. Through discussion and handson<br />
exercises, participants will learn how to identify threats to their<br />
networks and develop coordinated response to denial of service and<br />
other cyber attack modes.<br />
Critical infrastructure<br />
Continuity of Operations/Continuity of<br />
Government Planning — PFP100<br />
16 Hours<br />
The Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) course establishes a basic<br />
awareness of the COOP, which addresses post disaster requirements<br />
to ensure organizational continuity and survivability. Participants<br />
will learn how to develop a plan to continue providing essential<br />
services in a degraded environment.<br />
Topics<br />
• Assessing the need for business continuity planning<br />
• Making critical decisions in the midst of potentially catastrophic circumstances<br />
• Evaluating threats and vulnerabilities<br />
• Creating business impact analysis to include hazard analysis and business unit<br />
analysis<br />
• Conducting management critical incident scenarios and activities<br />
• Developing comprehensive business continuity plans<br />
Audience<br />
General management, information technology management, operations management,<br />
business continuity planning managers, logistics/materials management, human<br />
resources, legal/compliance, security management, safety management, environmental<br />
compliance, and facilities managers.<br />
Critical Infrastructure and Key<br />
Resources Awareness (CIKR) — AWR213<br />
16 Hours<br />
This course addresses the national strategy and priority for<br />
implementing the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP).<br />
In doing so, the course defines the National partnering approach<br />
to CIKR protection and discusses the process for identifying and<br />
assessing CIKR common vulnerabilities. Participants will enhance<br />
competencies in identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities within<br />
and across sectors, which drives the unique feature of the NIPP<br />
public-private partnership - the value proposition. States, regions,<br />
local, tribal, and territorial governments and their communities<br />
have unique concerns arising from the functional and geographical<br />
interdependencies and unique mix of critical infrastructure and key<br />
resources in their areas. Therefore, it is important for these actors to<br />
implement critical infrastructure and key resource protection efforts<br />
leveraging the NIPP, associated sector-specific plans, and more<br />
specific, local concerns. The private sector – through enhanced<br />
core competencies – will improve the nation’s capabilities to<br />
prepare for, respond to, and recover from attacks, natural disasters,<br />
or other emergencies.<br />
Topics· Value proposition in CIKR partnerships<br />
· Linking CIKR owner/operators and state, local, tribal & territorial governments<br />
for CIKR protection strategies<br />
Topics<br />
• Cyber risk management<br />
• Basic types of cyber attacks and crimes<br />
• Firewall and network configuration to enhance cyber security<br />
• Network and user policies<br />
• Post-intrusion response tasks for individuals, organizations and law<br />
enforcement<br />
Audience<br />
Managers, supervisors, computer users.<br />
Enhanced Threat and Risk Assessment<br />
— MGT315<br />
16 Hours<br />
The Enhanced Threat and Risk Assessment course will augment the<br />
process taught in the current Department of Homeland Security/<br />
FEMA Office of Grants and Training Threat and Risk Assessment<br />
course. It provides managers of emergency responders with<br />
enhanced skills to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the<br />
critical vulnerabilities in the jurisdiction and develop an action<br />
plan to prevent, reduce and/or mitigate the potential damage<br />
from a Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear, and Explosive<br />
(CBRNE)/terrorism incident. The participants will conduct a detailed<br />
assessment of potential methods of CBRNE delivery against<br />
the jurisdiction’s potential targets. Participants will then apply<br />
a systematic process to assess selected infrastructure, facilities,<br />
systems, and special events for methods and measures to prevent,<br />
reduce and/or mitigate vulnerabilities.<br />
Topics<br />
•Risk management process overview<br />
•Asset value assessment<br />
•Threat identification and rating<br />
•Vulnerabilities<br />
•Risk assessment<br />
•Mitigation options<br />
•Conducting vulnerability assessments<br />
•Vulnerability assessment field activity<br />
Audience<br />
Participants should work in one of the following disciplines/services: public safety<br />
communication, governmental administrative, public works, non-government<br />
organization, health care, fire services, law enforcement, public health, private sector,<br />
emergency medical service, hazardous material, emergency management,<br />
emergency response supervisors, managers, staff and community leaders from the<br />
following disciplines/functional areas are encouraged to attend this course.<br />
Jurisdictions are encouraged to invite private/public industry and volunteer<br />
organizations to participate in the training; these groups add an important<br />
dimension to the team.<br />
Other Information<br />
Participants should have a working knowledge of the jurisdiction’s Emergency<br />
Operations Plan (EOP) Terrorism Incident Annex (TIA). It is recommended that<br />
participants complete the TEEX Threat & Risk Assessment course, a chemical, biological,<br />
radiological, nuclear, explosives/terrorism incident awareness course, or be approved<br />
by the local jurisdiction host. The National Emergency Response and Rescue Training<br />
Center, in cooperation with Homeland Security <strong>Service</strong>s, distributes a WMD/Terrorism<br />
Awareness for Emergency Responders course via the internet at:<br />
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Managing Security Operations<br />
— PST605<br />
16 Hours<br />
This course focuses on the application of security management<br />
concepts in the development and implementation of the security<br />
systems and guard forces for organizations. The training supports<br />
the specialized knowledge required of security management<br />
personnel in effective planning, deploying, monitoring, supervising,<br />
and improving security systems.<br />
Topics<br />
• Security organization and functions<br />
• Planning and management of security systems<br />
• Security force staffing challenges<br />
• Enhancing security system controls<br />
• Avoiding security-related liability<br />
• Conducting investigations<br />
• Vulnerability assessments<br />
Audience<br />
Public safety communication, law enforcement, fire services, emergency medical<br />
service, hazardous material, health care, governmental administrative, public health,<br />
public works and emergency management. Jurisdictions are encouraged to invite<br />
private/public industry and volunteer organizations to participate in the training;<br />
these groups add an important dimension to the team.<br />
Security Vulnerability Assessment<br />
Training — PST601<br />
24 Hours<br />
Understanding the principles of security and incorporating them<br />
to support operations of a facility is an integral component<br />
of today’s “Risk Management Process”. This on-site planning/<br />
management level course is designed to provide selected key<br />
members of a facility’s management team the hands-on process<br />
within risk management that addresses threat based vulnerability<br />
assessments. The course delivery methodology consists of lectures,<br />
small group discussion, multimedia scenarios, and a field activity<br />
where participants conduct an on-site assessment of the host<br />
company’s facility.<br />
Topics<br />
• Determine assets<br />
• Determine criticality of assets to be protected<br />
• Assess threat sources<br />
• Assess current security procedures<br />
• Identify vulnerabilities<br />
• Assess probability of occurrence<br />
• Develop mitigation strategies to reduce vulnerabilities<br />
• Design security to “tailor fit” the needs of the company’s operations<br />
Audience<br />
Public safety communication, law enforcement, fire services, emergency medical<br />
service, hazardous material, health care, governmental administrative, public health,<br />
public works and emergency management. Jurisdictions are encouraged to invite<br />
private/public industry and volunteer organizations to participate in the training;<br />
these groups add an important dimension to the team.<br />
Security Vulnerability Assessment<br />
Training Train-the-Trainer — PST602<br />
24 Hours<br />
The Security Vulnerability Assessment Train the Trainer (SVAT TtT)<br />
course is designed to provide certification to experienced trainers<br />
for the delivery of the SVAT direct delivery course. This course<br />
includes a review of adult teaching techniques, team teaching<br />
techniques, and facilitation skills in addition to the delivery of the<br />
technical aspects of threat-based vulnerability assessments. The<br />
certification of the instructors is accomplished through written<br />
examination and monitored teach-backs. The SVAT TtT course<br />
provides a method for organizations to train their employees at<br />
reduced long-term training costs.<br />
Topics<br />
• Evaluating assets<br />
• Evaluating threats<br />
• Assessing current security procedures<br />
• Reducing organizational liability<br />
• Identifying physical security system vulnerabilities<br />
• Developing mitigation strategies to reduce vulnerabilities<br />
• Use of the Vulnerability Assessment Tool for conducting vulnerability<br />
assessments<br />
Audience<br />
Public safety communication, law enforcement, fire services, emergency<br />
medical service, hazardous material, health care, governmental administrative, public<br />
health, public works and emergency management. Jurisdictions are encouraged to<br />
invite private/public industry and volunteer organizations to participate in the training;<br />
these groups add an important dimension to the team.<br />
Threat and Risk Assessment — MGT310<br />
24 Hours<br />
This course trains key personnel within a local jurisdiction who are<br />
required to prevent, mitigate, manage, and/or respond to all hazards<br />
and/or mass casualty events, with special attention to terrorists<br />
incidents. Participant learning occurs in multi-disciplinary teams.<br />
Upon completion, these teams will be better able to conduct a<br />
capabilities-based comprehensive chemical, biological, radiological,<br />
nuclear, explosives/terrorism risk (threat and vulnerability),<br />
capabilities, and needs (planning, organization, equipment, training,<br />
and exercises) assessments. The course consists of lectures, small<br />
group discussions, participant activities, multimedia scenarios, and<br />
vulnerability assessments of critical infrastructure and key resources<br />
selected by the host jurisdiction. Participant activities focus on the<br />
DHS/FEMA Office of Grants and Training State Homeland Security<br />
Assessment and Strategy Program’s jurisdictional assessments (i.e.,<br />
risk, capabilities, and needs).<br />
Topics<br />
• Threat assessment<br />
• Vulnerability assessments<br />
• Capability assessments<br />
• Needs assessments<br />
• National preparedness goal<br />
• Target capabilities list<br />
• Universal task list<br />
• HSPD 5 and 8<br />
Audience<br />
Public safety communication, law enforcement, fire services, emergency medical<br />
service, hazardous material, health care, governmental administrative, public health,<br />
public works and emergency management. Jurisdictions are encouraged to invite<br />
private/public industry and volunteer organizations to participate in the training;<br />
these groups add an important dimension to the team.<br />
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PPCT Disruptive Student Management<br />
— SSS100<br />
8 Hours<br />
This course is designed to control the “physical actions” of student<br />
violence. This course does not explore the psychology of violence or<br />
the socioeconomic or family issues that lead to violence. Instead, the<br />
course focuses on controlling actions of physical violence directed<br />
at another student, a teacher, or another staff member. The course<br />
is segmented into skills that are designed to control small children<br />
who are acting out all the way through techniques designed to<br />
control teenagers who are fighting or have assaulted a teacher.<br />
Topics<br />
•Aggression and the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)<br />
•Disarming<br />
•Adolescent escort controls<br />
•Separating techniques<br />
•Physical aggression management<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for teachers, school administrators, school-based police<br />
officers, and security personnel. Physical participation is required. Participants should<br />
wear comfortable clothing for physical activity.<br />
PPCT Disruptive Student Management<br />
Instructor — SSS101<br />
24 Hours<br />
This instructor course focuses on controlling actions of physical<br />
violence directed at another student, teacher, or staff member. The<br />
course is segmented into skills that are designed to control small<br />
children who are acting out as well as techniques designed to<br />
control teenagers who are fighting or have assaulted a teacher. Participants<br />
will learn instructional methods for teaching survival skills.<br />
Topics<br />
•Aggression and the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)<br />
•Disarming<br />
•Adolescent escort controls<br />
•Separating techniques<br />
•Physical aggression management<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for teachers, school administrators, school-based police<br />
officers, and security personnel.<br />
Drug Impairment and Behavior<br />
Recognition for Education Professionals<br />
— LET455<br />
16 Hours<br />
This one or two-day course is designed to provide administrators,<br />
counselors, teachers, and school nurses with tools and training<br />
necessary to recognize and document drug/alcohol impairment<br />
in students.<br />
Topics<br />
•Role of drugs in society<br />
•How drugs work in the body<br />
•Signs and assessment of Impairment<br />
•How state laws and school policies affect educator contact with<br />
impaired students<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for education professionals including: teachers, aides,<br />
administrators, nurses, counselors, and school-based law enforcement officers.<br />
Preventing Violence in Education: A<br />
Guide for Students — SSS140<br />
1 Hour<br />
This online course will acquaint students with the basic causes for<br />
violent behavior and indicators that signal the potential for violent<br />
actions. Students will learn how to elicit and report concerns and<br />
observations in a sensitive yet effective manner. Additionally, the<br />
course addresses common barriers to reporting, and provides<br />
strategies for overcoming them.<br />
Topics<br />
•Basic causes for violent behavior<br />
•Signal indicators<br />
•Elicit and report of concerns and observations<br />
•Common barriers for reporting<br />
•Strategies for overcoming barriers<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for all students, educators, administrators, and school staff.<br />
Preventing Violence in Education:<br />
A Guide for Faculty, Staff, and<br />
Administrators — SSS141<br />
1 Hour<br />
This online course is designed for school administrators, faculty, and<br />
staff. It includes information from the Violence Prevention Course<br />
for Students and goes on to provide additional insight into the<br />
behavior patterns of potentially violent individuals, as well as the<br />
best courses of action for defusing the threat they present to other<br />
students, participants will learn the costs associated with school<br />
violence, review their legal responsibility to provide a safe teaching<br />
environment, and learn the purpose and process of using a Threat<br />
Management Team to address potential and actual incidents.<br />
Topics<br />
•Behavioral patterns of potentially violent individuals<br />
•Diffusing the threat<br />
•Costs associated with school violence<br />
•Legal responsibilities to provide a safe environment<br />
•Utilization of a Threat Management Team<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for educators, administrators and school staff.<br />
Preventing Violence in Higher Education<br />
— SSS142<br />
<br />
.50 Hours<br />
This online course will acquaint students with the basic causes for<br />
violent behavior and indicators that signal the potential for violent<br />
actions. Students will learn how to elicit and report concerns and<br />
observations in a sensitive yet effective manner. Additionally, the<br />
course addresses common barriers to reporting, and provides<br />
strategies for overcoming them.<br />
Topics<br />
•Basic causes for violent behavior<br />
•Signal Indicators<br />
•Elicit and report of concerns and observations<br />
•Common barriers for reporting<br />
•Strategies for overcoming barriers<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for college students, educators, administrators and<br />
school staff.<br />
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Designates eLearning online class or that a portion of<br />
the class is online.<br />
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Business Continuity Planning — PST603<br />
16 Hours<br />
The Business Continuity Planning course provides organization<br />
managers the information necessary to plan for, respond to, and<br />
recover from catastrophic events. Built upon the concepts of risk<br />
analysis and business impact planning, this course is designed to<br />
provide the road map to organizational emergency response for<br />
the coordinated response during and after a catastrophic event in<br />
which company facilities and processes are interrupted. The course<br />
provides the organization managers with the critical decision making<br />
process and some key factors to be considered in the trans-, and<br />
post-event periods.<br />
Topics<br />
•Assessing the need for business continuity planning<br />
•Making critical decisions in the midst of potentially catastrophic circumstances<br />
•Evaluating threats and vulnerabilities<br />
•Creating Business Impact Analysis to include Hazard Analysis and Business Unit<br />
Analysis<br />
•Conducting management critical incident scenarios and activities<br />
•Developing comprehensive Business Continuity Plans<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for general management, information technology<br />
management, operations management, business continuity planning managers,<br />
logistics/materials management, human resources, legal/compliance, security<br />
management, safety management, environmental compliance, and facilities<br />
managers.<br />
Continuity of Operations/Continuity of<br />
Government Planning — PFP100<br />
16 Hours<br />
The Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) course establishes the<br />
basic awareness of the COOP, post disaster continuity requirements<br />
to ensure organizational survivability. The course identifies the<br />
process by which the COOP is developed. The COOP course provides<br />
the organizational managers an understanding of the operational<br />
requirements necessary to continue to provide essential services in a<br />
degraded environment.<br />
Enhanced Threat and Risk Assessment<br />
— MGT315<br />
16 Hours<br />
The Enhanced Threat and Risk Assessment Course will augment<br />
the process taught in the current Department of Homeland<br />
Security/Office of Grants and Training Threat and Risk Assessment<br />
course. It provides managers of emergency responders with<br />
enhanced skills to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the<br />
critical vulnerabilities in the jurisdiction and develop an action<br />
plan to prevent, reduce and/or mitigate the potential damage<br />
from a Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear, and Explosive<br />
(CBRNE)/terrorism incident. The participants will conduct a detailed<br />
assessment of potential methods of CBRNE delivery against<br />
the jurisdiction’s potential targets. Participants will then apply<br />
a systematic process to assess selected infrastructure, facilities,<br />
systems, and special events for methods and measures to prevent,<br />
reduce and/or mitigate vulnerabilities.<br />
Topics<br />
•Risk management process overview<br />
•Asset value assessment<br />
•Threat identification and rating<br />
•Vulnerabilities<br />
•Risk assessment<br />
•Mitigation options<br />
•Conducting vulnerability assessments<br />
•Vulnerability assessment field activity<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for public safety communication, governmental<br />
administrative, public works, non-government organization, health care, fire services,<br />
law enforcement, public health, private sector, emergency medical service, hazardous<br />
material, emergency management, emergency response supervisors, managers,<br />
staff and community leaders from the following disciplines/functional areas are<br />
encouraged to attend this course. Jurisdictions are encouraged to invite private/<br />
public industry and volunteer organizations to participate in the training.<br />
Other Information<br />
Participants should possess a working knowledge of the jurisdiction’s Emergency<br />
Operations Plan (EOP) Terrorism Incident Annex (TIA). It is recommended that<br />
participants complete the TEEX Threat & Risk Assessment course (T&RA), a CBRNE/<br />
terrorism incident awareness course, or be approved by the local jurisdiction host.<br />
NERRTC, in cooperation with the Office of Grants and Training (G&T), distributes a<br />
WMD/Terrorism Awareness for Emergency Responders course via the Internet at<br />
http://www.teexwmdcampus.com.<br />
Topics<br />
•Assessing the need for business continuity planning<br />
•Making critical decisions in the midst of potentially catastrophic circumstances<br />
•Evaluating threats and vulnerabilities<br />
•Creating Business Impact Analysis to include Hazard Analysis and Business<br />
Unit Analysis<br />
•Conducting management critical incident scenarios and activities<br />
•Developing comprehensive Business Continuity Plans<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for general management, information technology<br />
management, operations management, business continuity planning managers,<br />
logistics/materials management, human resources, legal/compliance, security<br />
management, safety management, environmental compliance, and facilities<br />
managers.<br />
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Incident Command System (ICS) Course<br />
and WMD Tabletop Exercise — ICS100<br />
20 Hours<br />
The National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center<br />
(NERRTC) of the <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Extension</strong> <strong>Service</strong> (TEEX)<br />
provides Incident Command System (ICS) training. It does so in<br />
conjunction with an integrated tabletop exercise (TTX) as part of<br />
the <strong>Texas</strong> Governor’s Division of Emergency Management (GDEM)<br />
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)/Terrorism Exercise Program.<br />
This National Incident Management System (NIMS)-compliant<br />
course is delivered using a team-teaching approach in which<br />
two emergency management professionals provide instruction<br />
throughout the modules. The instructional methodology combines<br />
brief lectures, small group activities, and a tabletop exercise. The ICS/<br />
TTX Course is delivered at a time mutually agreed upon by NERRTC<br />
and the jurisdiction at a location of the jurisdiction’s choosing.<br />
NERRTC provides instructors and training materials, and the<br />
hosting jurisdiction provides the course participants and adequate<br />
classroom facilities. Additionally, participants in this course are<br />
prepared to take the FEMA ICS 200 certification test.<br />
Topics<br />
•Primary ICS functions<br />
•Management by Objective<br />
•Chain of Command<br />
•Organizational flexibility<br />
•Span of control<br />
•Common terminology<br />
•Personnel accountability<br />
•Integrated communications<br />
•Steps in transferring and assuming command<br />
•Their organization’s role in the ICS<br />
•Unified Command (UC) operation structure during emergency response<br />
•Potential terrorist threats or incidents<br />
•Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) agents most<br />
likely encountered<br />
•Major steps in the planning process.<br />
Audience<br />
This course brings together personnel from within a jurisdiction who would<br />
participate in prevention, management or response to a chemical, biological,<br />
radiological, nuclear, explosion (CBRNE)/Terrorism incident in their community. It<br />
specifically targets individuals assigned to positions within the jurisdiction’s ICS nodes<br />
during GDEM-sponsored Functional and Full Scale Exercises. Course participants<br />
represent public health, health care services, fire services, law enforcement,<br />
emergency medical services, hazardous materials response, emergency planning,<br />
emergency communications, public works, industry and private organizations.<br />
Threat & Risk Assessment — MGT310<br />
16 Hours<br />
This course prepares emergency response managers, community<br />
leaders, private sector, nongovernment organizations, and tribal<br />
leaders to conduct a comprehensive, capabilities-based threat<br />
and risk assessment for terrorism/all-hazards incidents under<br />
the National Response Framework (NRF), National Preparedness<br />
Guidelines, and Homeland Security Presidential Directives.<br />
Participant activities focus on the jurisdictional process for<br />
determining ability to respond to chemical, biological, radiological,<br />
nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE), and natural disaster events.<br />
Participants will identify shortfalls, perform gap analysis, and<br />
develop a needs assessment to fill shortfalls/gaps identified within<br />
the preparedness cycle. The course delivery combines lecture, small<br />
group discussions, participant activities, and multimedia scenarios<br />
to improve the multi- disciplinary emergency teams’ capability<br />
to prevent, protect, respond to, or recover from all- hazards mass<br />
casualty events.<br />
Topics<br />
•Threat assessment<br />
•Vulnerability assessments<br />
•Capability assessments<br />
•Needs assessments<br />
•National preparedness guidelines<br />
•Target capabilities list<br />
•Universal task list<br />
•Homeland Security Presidential Directives<br />
Audience<br />
Emergency response supervisors, managers, staff and community leaders from the<br />
following disciplines/functional areas are encouraged to attend this course: public<br />
safety communication, law enforcement, fire services, emergency medical service,<br />
hazardous material, health care, governmental administrative, public health, public<br />
works, emergency management. Jurisdictions are encouraged to invite private/public<br />
industry and volunteer organizations to participate in the training; these groups add<br />
an important dimension to the team.<br />
Other Information<br />
Participants should work in one of the listed disciplines/services, possess a working<br />
knowledge of the jurisdiction’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), and have<br />
completed a WMD/terrorism incident awareness course. National Emergency<br />
Response & Rescue Training Center (NERRTC), in cooperation with the OG&T,<br />
distributes a WMD/Terrorism Awareness for Emergency Responders Course via the<br />
Internet at http://www.teexwmdcampus.com.<br />
Drug Impairment Recognition and<br />
Workplace Violence Prevention<br />
— PST860<br />
8 Hours<br />
This one day course is designed to provide company management<br />
the tools and training necessary to recognize and address the<br />
workplace challenges of drugs/alcohol and violence.<br />
Topics<br />
•Drug-free workplace program<br />
•Common drug types<br />
•Methods of drug use<br />
•General signs and symptoms of impairment<br />
•Psychomotor impairment associated with drug types<br />
•Best practice strategies for dealing with drugs and violence in the workplace as<br />
employers and employees<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for company management, security professionals, safety<br />
management, human resource management, facilities management, front-line and<br />
middle management of any sector, and security management.<br />
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Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid<br />
Response Training — LET230<br />
16 Hours<br />
Conducted by <strong>Texas</strong> State University’s ALERRT Center. This two-day,<br />
16-hour Rapid Response Training course is a dynamic, hands-on,<br />
patrol-oriented course designed for those emergency responders<br />
who arrive first during an active shooter incident. This course<br />
involves direct delivery training that occurs in the classroom and<br />
practical exercises that take place during scripted force-on-force<br />
scenarios. Participants receive training in both settings using the<br />
latest technology available.<br />
Topics<br />
•Role of terrorism in active-shooter training<br />
•Sequence of events at an active-shooter scene<br />
•Law enforcement responses to active shooters and hostage/barricade<br />
situations<br />
•Dangers facing first responders to active-shooter situations<br />
•First-responder actions to active-shooter situations<br />
•Proactive measures for addressing an active shooter<br />
•Low-light searching/force techniques<br />
Audience<br />
This training is appropriate for currently commissioned peace officers.<br />
Security Vulnerability Assessment<br />
Training — PST601<br />
24 Hours<br />
Understanding the principles of security and incorporating them<br />
to support operations of a facility is an integral component of<br />
today’s “Risk Management Process”. This “On-Site” planning/<br />
management level course is designed to provide selected key<br />
members of a facility’s management team the “Hands-On” process<br />
within risk management that addresses threat based vulnerability<br />
assessments. The course delivery methodology consists of lectures,<br />
small group discussion, multimedia scenarios, and a field activity<br />
where participants conduct an “On-Site” assessment of the host<br />
company’s facility.<br />
Topics<br />
•Determine assets<br />
•Determine criticality of assets to be protected<br />
•Assess threat sources<br />
•Assess current security procedures<br />
•Identify vulnerabilities<br />
•Assess probability of occurrence<br />
•Develop mitigation strategies to reduce vulnerabilities<br />
•Design security to “Tailor Fit” the needs of the company’s operations<br />
Audience<br />
The basic objectives of a security system are to deter, detect, delay, assess, and<br />
respond. Security administrations and company managers must be sensitive to the<br />
facility’s security vulnerabilities while insuring the operations of the company are not<br />
impeded. Audience should include: general management, security administration,<br />
operations management, logistics, human resources, facility engineer, safety,<br />
environmental, and legal.<br />
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Training Facilities<br />
Riverside Campus<br />
Three TEEX training divisions are located at the <strong>Texas</strong> A&M Riverside Campus, a<br />
1,900-acre campus adjacent to State Highway 47 and Highway 21 west of Bryan.<br />
TEEX occupies about 100,000 square feet of offices, classrooms, and laboratories. The<br />
agency also maintains outdoor training facilities at Riverside, including overhead and<br />
underground electric-power training fields, a firing range for law enforcement officers,<br />
a heavy-equipment training field, an emergency-vehicle driving track, unexploded<br />
ordnance ranges and search grids, and simulation prop houses for tactical training.<br />
Circuit Training Exercise Track<br />
The circuit training exercise track, located at the <strong>Texas</strong> A&M Riverside Campus, is a 400-meter state-of-the-art outdoor track facility for training Central <strong>Texas</strong> Police<br />
Academy cadets. The L-shaped track includes a 10 circuit training station, an all-weather, rubberized surface, and park-style lighting. The new track is the first phase<br />
of a complete physical skills training center, part of a proposed capital improvement program for TEEX’s Public Safety and Security Division.<br />
Firearms Range<br />
The TEEX Firearms Range is a 20-station range equipped with computer-controlled turning targets. It includes dual horizontal moving targets with shooting<br />
positions out to 75 yards. The range includes an environmentally friendly bullet trap that captures all fired rounds. The bullet trap is rated to handle all common<br />
police firearms up to and including 50 BMG rifles.<br />
Simulation Prop Houses<br />
The TEEX Simulation Prop Houses include four duplex homes, each representing a small two-bedroom home adapted for tactical training and simulations. Each<br />
house has one or more tactical breach doors that allow students to train for all types of forced-entry situations using a multi-purpose steel frame and door system<br />
that is easily adjustable and infinitely reusable. The interiors are hardened to allow for practical simulations, including high-risk entries, distraction devices, and<br />
defensive tactics simulations.<br />
Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Ranges and Search Grids<br />
TEEX offers one of the only commercially available Unexploded Ordnance Technician (UXO) I courses recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense. Students train<br />
on TEEX’s UXO ranges and search grids to identify and locate subsurface and surface UXO using military and civilian magnetometers, perform UXO excavation<br />
procedures, transport UXO and demolition materials, prepare firing systems for destruction operations, and more.<br />
Emergency Vehicle Driving Track<br />
TEEX has a long history of delivering training in emergency-vehicle driving and provides one of the most dynamic and fluid courses available. The TEEX<br />
emergency-vehicle driving track helps students safely respond to incidents by giving them hands-on practice that builds confidence in their equipment and<br />
individual performance in emergency driving.<br />
Live-fire Shoot House<br />
The TEEX live-fire shoot house is an all-weather indoor training facility. The rifle-rated shoot house provides a 360-degree ballistically safe environment<br />
designed for learning, teaching, and evaluating close-quarter skills like room clearing and team tactics. The facility is equipped with cameras and recording<br />
equipment for after-action critiquing and video documentation of training.<br />
Disaster City®<br />
The mock community features full-scale, collapsible structures designed to<br />
simulate various levels of disaster and wreckage which can be customized<br />
for the specific training needs of any group. Emergency responders<br />
from across the globe venture to Disaster City® for unparalleled search<br />
and rescue training and exercises. Simply put, Disaster City® is the most<br />
comprehensive emergency response training facility available today.<br />
Brayton Fire Training Field<br />
Located adjacent to the <strong>Texas</strong> A&M University campus, the 120-acre facility<br />
attracts more than 45,000 emergency responders from all 50 states and more<br />
than 45 countries each year. Brayton’s 132 specific training stations offer<br />
emergency responders unsurpassed instruction not only in firefighting, but also<br />
rescue, emergency medical services, hazardous materials, marine, aircraft, and<br />
emergency management.<br />
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<strong>PUBLIC</strong> <strong>SAFETY</strong> & <strong>SECURITY</strong><br />
200 Technology Way<br />
College Station, <strong>Texas</strong> 77845-3424<br />
Toll-free 800.423.8433<br />
publicsafety@teex.tamu.edu<br />
www.teex.org/publicsafety<br />
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