NEW Crucial Online Classes from Calibre Press
***Read about our agency rental program below!***
STREET SURVIVAL SEMINAR 2021
Based on the iconic course that revolutionized law enforcement training, this updated and expanded program blends foundational officer safety principles with the unique challenges the profession faces today. Rather than limiting focus strictly to surviving deadly threats, we will also discuss the need to prepare officers for making sound, legal and reasonable decisions under stress in order to preserve the lives of citizens as well as their own. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Wednesday, Jan 13 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuesday, Feb 9 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuition: $199 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
CONSTITUTIONAL USE OF FORCE
Students will develop working knowledge of the constitutional parameters for using force, from practical application on the street for line officers through force investigations. In addition, scientific factors affecting human performance during dynamic and evolving force events will be examined as well as the impact of video on investigations and public perception. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Wednesday, Jan 27 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuesday, Feb 23 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuition: $199 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
HIGH CALIBRE SCENARIOS FOR PATROL TACTICS TRAINERS
Attendees receive actual training scenarios with step-by-step instructions! These comprehensive and impactful scenarios are designed to evaluate an officer’s ability to make complex force decisions – ranging from no use of force to delivering deadly force – in a realistic setting under stress. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Friday, Jan 22 10am - 1pm CST
Tuition: $129 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Compounding the stress you face on duty is the off-duty responsibility of ensuring financial stability for yourself and your family. This financial overview program, designed with the unique nuances of the law enforcement profession in mind, is here to help. Led by experienced financial planner and investment advisor representative Tim Glennon, who in addition to his fiscal experience holds a degree in Criminal Justice, this course promises to be understandable and realistic. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Tuesday, Jan 19 1pm - 4pm CST
Thursday, Feb 25 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $99 per officer
INTERVIEW & INTERROGATION SERIES
Eliciting the Truth and Determining Deceit
NOTE: This is a four-module program. Although it's recommended that students participate in all four modules, it is NOT required. Each module is crafted to stand alone as an individual course.
Covering an impressive span of basic to more specialized skills and strategies, this series will develop and strengthen your ability to effectively conduct thorough interviews and interrogations. This series consists of:
Module 1: Interview & Interrogation in Action: Real World Case Study
Module 2: Detecting Deception
Module 3: Understanding Human Behavior & Body Language
Module 4: Building Rapport
Dates: [Click here for dates and a full description of each module]
Tuition: $119 per officer/per module Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
ENCOUNTERING PEOPLE WITH PTSD
Calls involving people coping with PTSD can be particularly challenging and dangerous for responding officers. They’re commonly characterized by hard-to-predict, rapidly changing and sometimes extremely intense behavior. Without appropriate training, officers may face increased risk by not being prepared to navigate the tactical and psychological nuances of these calls. This course will help. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Thursday, Jan 14 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $119 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
OFF DUTY SURVIVAL
As an officer, you train for the kinds of force encounters that inherently come with being an on-duty cop, but do you put the same thought into preparing for potential encounters that may occur off-duty? The safety of your family depends on it. The mission of this course is two-fold; 1. To identify the safety factors you must consider when you’re off duty, in civilian clothes and with your family. 2. To teach you (and your family) safety strategies and tactics that will keep you alert and ready to act appropriately – as a prepared team – should you be forced into an off-duty force encounter. Topics include: [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Tuesday, Feb 16 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $119 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
READ - RECOGNIZE - RESPOND
One of the greatest tools a law enforcement professional possesses is the ability to influence the overall outcome of interactions. Read, Recognize, Respond focuses on today’s peacekeeper and their ability to effectively evaluate others and utilize communication skills to make sound decisions that result in safe and successful resolutions. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Thursday, Jan 14 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Wednesday, Feb 10 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuition: $199 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
SUCCESSFULLY INTERACTING WITH PEOPLE WITH AUTISM
Taught in tandem with the Pamela S. Buchanan, University of Texas – one of the nation’s top experts on autism!
The alarming stats on the proliferation of autism make it extremely clear that every officer in the country must be trained on its characteristics and the strategies that help successfully navigate contacts involving people with autism. Your ability to immediately recognize that you’re working with someone with autism can mean the difference between a peaceful, well-controlled encounter and a tragic disaster with immeasurably destructive results. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Tuesday, Jan 26 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $119 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
FINDING THE LEADER IN YOU
Nearly
every aspect of your leadership style affects the overall culture of
your organization. Now more than ever our officers need leaders that are
focused on creating, cultivating and maintaining a positive and
motivating environment. Using current events and recent incidents, this
course will offer tools to embrace values that include trust,
empowerment and recognition of the individual as the most valuable
resource they have. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Wednesday, Feb 17 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuition: $199 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
WOMEN IN COMMAND
Women
in Command 2021 will focus on assisting women in becoming more effective leaders in a male dominated industry. Female leaders have unique ideas, insight and solutions.
We will discuss the need for more gender diversity in order to solve the problems in their community at large.
Designed to help leaders maintain a professional, positive and inspiring climate, this program will offer examples of the traits and skill sets of proven, successful leaders and accomplished agencies. [Click for full course details or to register]Dates: Wednesday, Feb 17 9am - 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuition: $199 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days of the class
Implicit Bias:
Understanding the Impact on Actions & Decisions
Scientifically-based & statistically supported, this course candidly explains the realities of implicit, explicit & illicit bias—what they mean, how they affect decision-making and behavior, both consciously and sub-consciously, and how that impacts officers, agencies and communities. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Wednesday, Feb 3 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $119 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days after the class
EMOTIONAL SURVIVAL FOR THE FEMALE OFFICER
Designed to offer skills that can be immediately and easily put into practice, we begin this course by identifying the reality of stress and its effect on our physical and emotional well-being both on and off duty. Once identified, we educate students on the importance of managing those key stressors that can lead to anxiety and burnout. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Wednesday, Jan 20 1pm – 4pm CST
Tuition: $129 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days after the class
SPOTTING PRE-ASSAULT INDICATORS
Avoiding Assault, Preventing Injury & Preempting the Need for Force
This is not your average “body language” course. This extremely popular program is packed with recent video footage capturing actual assaults on officers for the purpose of demonstrating the critical importance of identifying those subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) behaviors, statements and positions that can flag an impending assault. Each incident presented is methodically analyzed in a step-by-step fashion to point out how and when indicators of all kinds can surface. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Tuesday, Feb 2 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $119 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days after the class
THE COMPETITIVE EDGE FOR PROBATION AND PAROLE
Situational Awareness in the Field
This 3-hour course promotes the belief that both career success and officer safety begins with - and is ultimately dependent on - the ability for officers to read others quickly and accurately. Training to look at communication from a completely new perspective, not only will students learn to predict when a subject is about to initiate a violent confrontation, but how to respond to the burgeoning threat using both proven verbal strategies and other communication skills. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Tuesday, Jan 26 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $119 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days after the class
LEGALLY JUSTIFIED; BUT WAS IT AVOIDABLE?
Through real-time analysis of body cam and in-car video of numerous force encounters, this extremely popular course non-judgmentally but candidly evaluates officers’ tactical options, decisions and behavior in situations where force may—or may not—have been avoidable. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Thursday, Feb 18 9am – 4pm CST w/one-hour lunch break
Tuition: $199 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days after the class
PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR FEMALE OFFICERS
Expert Guidance on Becoming a Police Leader
Promotional Strategies will focus on preparing your resume and obtaining effective study material, to in-depth insight into the interview process and improving your overall presence during face-to-face interactions.
In dynamic fashion and with an eye on the goal, Deputy Chief Cyndy Velazquez (Ret) shares powerful tips, gained from first-hand experience, to give aspiring police leaders the edge they need to effectively prepare for peak performance during every stage of the promotional process. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Thursday, Jan 28 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $129 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days after the class
DEESCALATION, INTERVENTION & FORCE MITIGATION
Based on scientifically-rooted, research-supported knowledge of psychology and human behavior, the core goal of this course is simple yet profound: To develop and strengthen officers’ abilities to mitigate the need for force by employing skilled communication strategies in combination with an acutely interpretative approach to effectively “reading” people and revealing their needs, sensitivities and motives. This course will help officers effectively “lower the temperature” of potentially incendiary encounters and better assist in avoiding legitimately avoidable uses of force. [Click for full course details or to register]
Dates: Monday, Jan 25 1pm - 4pm CST
Wednesday, Feb 24 1pm - 4pm CST
Tuition: $119 per officer Certificates will be provided within 7 days after the class
Limited-Time Rentals
Most Calibre Press Online Courses are now available for department-wide training through a 30-day rental program (extended rental periods may be discussed). Pricing is established on a per-officer basis depending on agency size.
This option allows all officers in a particular agency to receive this training, day or night, regardless of shift or location, throughout the rental period. Agencies are issued a unique, password-protected Web address that can be shared with their personnel.
FOR FULL DETAILS & PRICING OPTIONS, please contact
linda@calibrepress.com or 630.460.3247