LAW ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION

ASSESSMENT/ORIENTATION

Individual and personal student evaluation designed to identify skills, traits, and attributes essential for determining which law enforcment agency best suits the student. Students will receive a detailed overview of law enforcment agencies, including sheriffs department, city police departments, corrections, probation, and parole.

PHYSICAL FITNESS AND AGILITY COURSE

Initial exercise and fitness regime designed to provide students with the physical tools and preparation required to succesfully pass the rigourous law enforcement physical agility test.  Strength, agility, and endurance will be measured.  Course identifies weaknesses and focuses on building and improving individual strength and aerobic capacity.

HIRING PROCESS

Assistance in the comprehensive compilation of personal history and biological information, including indentifying issues that need resolution. Students will learn how to address marginal and/or negative data. Students will receive a thorough analysis of employment, police, financial, military education, and family records.  Students will benefit from a step by step process on how to earn employment.  Valuable insider tips and advice will assist students in understanding what is necessary to impress the hiring officials.

INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The history, organization , and functions of various components of the criminal justice system, including the interrelationships among  law enforcment agencies,  prosecution, courts, correctional processes and instutions,probation, parole,juvenile justice,  and  other  officials  and their  agencies.  Critical thinking is applied to the system and its practices.

WRITING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Extensive step –by- step process designed to teach grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure crucial for both initial hiring process and promotional advancment. Course teaches procedure on how to prepare incident, operations, investigations, and supplmentary reports.  Course provides practice questions and problems to test knowledge and preparation for entry –level exams. Course provides essential referance guide that covers commonly misused and mispelled words, and grammar errors in law enforcement. This course is critical to develop effective report writing skills.