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Continuing Education Listing as of October 6, 2021
October – December 2021 Courses
To request enrollment in any of the below courses please email Becky Murphy
directly at:
CMPA_Registration@stlouiscountymo.gov
Please format your request as follows:
Name / POST ID # (if commissioned in MO) /Agency/Course Requested and DateOCTOBER
Instructor Development
Instructor Development is a 40-hour, Missouri POST certified course, designed to prepare you for
instructor duties. This course focuses on the best practices in adult learning and instructors’ duties and
responsibilities. Attendees will be required to prepare and deliver presentations.
Topics for the course include Principles of Learning; Role of the Instructor; Lesson Plan Construction;
Methods of Instruction; Training Aids; Operational Risk Management; Testing; and Legal Aspects.
Instructor Mr. Patrick Horine.
October 18 - 22, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$500 per seat for Non-tuition Paying Department
40 Hour Initial Telecommunicator Training
This program will meet the requirements mandated by the State of Missouri to meet the requirements
to the agencies that provide dispatching for more than one emergency service. The instructors for this
course will be experienced dispatchers from the St. Louis County Police Department and Municipal
Departments, Fire Department dispatchers and other guest instructors.
October 4 – 8, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$300 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
Sunshine Law Review
Mr. Ted Bruce, Missouri Attorney General’s Office, will be covering the following topics
regarding the Sunshine Law.
October 8, 2021
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
O’Fallon Police Department
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
No CostReport Writing for Proactive Policing
This is a one-day patrol-based proactive report writing course focused on providing students with a
strategic look at how to document and successfully prosecute their proactive encounters. It includes
documenting the roadside interview, reasonable suspicion, probable cause, case law surrounding
proactive policing, and building a successful case for prosecution. This class will provide numerous
templates to the student and use real case studies, video, and documentation to thoroughly explain
each topic of discussion. Instructor Charles Ward, Advanced Police Concepts, LLC.
October 11, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
$100 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
Advanced Homicide Investigations
Topics:
• Responsibilities and duties of the lead homicide investigator and homicide supervisor
• Utilization of assisting officers and investigators in the area canvass, crowd control, and witness
interviews)
• Detailed analysis of the crime scene and victim’s body
• Processing the crime scene, including the locating and seizing of physical evidence
• Attending the autopsy, and determining “Cause and Manner” of death
• Review and interpretation of autopsy, toxicology, and entomology reports
• Firearms and projectile analysis, including bullet wound and trauma interpretation
• Utilizing the Forensic Anthropologist in the recovery of human remains
• Locating the suspect, and legal aspects in interview and interrogation procedures
• Conducting multi-jurisdictional task force investigations
• Review and analysis of mass shooting investigations
• Review and analysis of officer involved shooting investigations
• Report preparation, grand jury testimony, depositions, and criminal trial testimony
Instructor Gary Fourtney, Vista Law Enforcement Training and Consulting.
October 11 – 14, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
$400 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentDiscipline and Termination: Rules, Policies and Procedures
The traditional punitive approach to progressive discipline and termination has become
increasing burdensome and complex. Civil Rights laws, unions and civil service board provide
too many opportunities for problem employees to file frivolous grievances and law suits.
Management needs to include non-punitive approaches, last chance agreements and no-fault
terminations to deal with employees who will not or can’t comply with the rules of the
organization and be productive.
Attendees are taught:
• How court and arbiters’ support for management’s right to enforce its rules, policies,
procedures and practices with discipline and termination.
• The principles of Just Cause and Due Process as they apply to progressive discipline and
terminations.
• How to use traditional v. non-traditional approaches to progressive discipline and
termination.
Instructor Dr. D.J. Van Meter, Van Meter and Associates.
October 14, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel - Supervisory Personnel
$100 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
Courtroom Testimony for the Forensic Science Professional
This Courtroom Testimony for the Forensic Science Professional's course is designed to instruct proper
testimony techniques to forensic science professionals, such as those employed in the fields of crime
scene investigations, fingerprint analysis, and laboratory analysis.
Students will learn how to prepare themselves and the concerned attorney(s) for this important initial
step. The course will continue by covering techniques the witness can employ to more effectively
explain scientific evidence to the judge and jury.
Concepts covered in the course will be reinforced by practical exercises in which the students will
participate. Instructor Shelly Haight, TRITECH Forensics Training.
October 13 - 15, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$400 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentApplied Leadership
Ethics, motivation, leadership, problem-solving and decision-making skills are requisites to becoming a
successful supervisor. This course has two major objectives. The first objective is to present results from
each of these fields that have been proven to work. The second objective is to enable students’ abilities
to apply principles learned from their day-to-day interactions with employees.
Instructor Dr. D.J. Van Meter, Van Meter and Associates.
October 13, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel - Supervisory Personnel
$100 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
Practical Kinesic Interview & Interrogation – Level 1 & 2
The 5 day Practical Kinesic Interview and Interrogation®: Science of Interview and Interrogation course
content contains the most up-to-date empirical research on interview and interrogation tactics and the
detection of deception. After successful completion of the course, investigators will have learned a
narrative style interview and interrogation skill set that focuses on information recovery. Participants
will learn how to:
A. Reduce the persistent problem of victim, witness and subject statements being contaminated by the
interviewer.
B. Avoid and overcome the emotional and cognitive behaviors by both the interviewer and the subject
that complicate the interviewer’s ability gather information.
C. Facilitate the interviewers’ ability to gain compliance and cooperation not only from suspects but also
from victims and witnesses. These facilitation skills have been proven to recover a minimum of 60%
more information than currently taught accusatory or guilt assumptive techniques.
Instructor Stan Walters, Legal and Liability Risk Management Institute.
October 18 - 22, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
$500 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentNew Detective Investigative Workshop
While this training program will not focus on one specific area of investigations, it will train new
investigators in a variety of topics and categories, including: • The role of the investigator • U.S.
Constitutional and Missouri Statutory Law, including criminal liability (Voluntary Act and Culpable
Mental State), and the elements of various crimes and criminal activity per Missouri Statutes •
Reasonable Suspicion vs. Probable Cause, Detainment vs. Custody, and Pat-Down vs. Full-Custody
Search • Interview and Interrogation • Investigative strategies in:
Stealing Offenses
Burglary Investigations
Drug Identification
Assaults and Related Crimes
Sexual Assault Investigations
Robbery Investigation
Fire, Arson, and Other Related Crimes
Basic Death Investigations
Homicide Investigations
The Processing of the Crime Scene, including documenting, photographing, and the seizing of
physical evidence
Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations
Instructor Gary Fourtney, Vista Law Enforcement Training and Consulting, LLC.
October 25 - 27, 2021 and December 6 – 8, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
$300 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentNOVEMBER
Combatant Tactics & Self-Defense for Law Enforcement
The techniques from the Combatant Tactics Self Defense Course are tried and proven martial
arts that cover both standing and ground resistance attacks on officers with weapons
awareness. All of the techniques are easy to learn for all skill levels making the techniques
more reliable and the officer more confident under pressure. At the end of this course, officers
will be able to apply the following techniques in stressful and dangerous situations. The
repeatability of the techniques in our curriculum will leave the officers with the ability to apply
these techniques regardless of size, age, or threat. Officers will be able to define the
techniques by name, identify the level of threat, and demonstrate each of the techniques and
be tested throughout the course. Instructor is Steve Moellering.
Participants are required to wear sweat pants, sweatshirts and tennis shoes.
Please bring DUTY BELT, a notebook and pen.
November 8 - 9, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
$300 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
Impact Leadership
This program is about creating public trust through contact professionalism and procedural
justice. Policing is under tremendous pressure to improve officer-citizen contact outcomes.
This program will focus on what we should require of ourselves and our professional to
promote interpersonal communication proficiencies, emotion management techniques,
effective compliance measures and officer accountability. Instructor Randy Means.
November 1 – 2, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel – This program is oriented to senior
leadership, those who sit at the policy-making table who also participate in shaping systems. HR
leadership, government risk managers and agency legal counsel would also benefit from
attending.
$200 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentLiability Prevention and Risk Management
Training topics include:
• Recruiting and hiring the right people to be law enforcement officers
• Better us of policy and associated written directives systems
• Enhanced but lower cost training and testing systems
• Closer and more effective first and second-line supervision
• Better data analysis and oversight
• More appropriate systems of discipline and accountability
• Human and community relations initiatives toward heightened public contact professionalism
• Managing bias and perceptions of bias
• Better critical incident reporting and documentation.
A variety of high-risk issues will be identified and explored. Many specific recommendations will be
made. Instructor Randy Means.
November 3 - 4, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel – All law enforcement leaders at all levels.
Internal Affairs Investigators and Supervisors, Government Risk Managers, Legal Advisors and
Personnel Administrators. All Persons Responsible for Hiring, Training and Standards.
$200 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
FIT-TO-ENFORCE Fitness Instructor Certification
CURRICULUM: This course is designed to provide information on all basic aspects of fitness training and
instruction including: learning the components of fitness, how to lead exercise in a group setting, proper
execution of exercises and administration of fitness tests to produce accurate training and testing
results. The course curriculum includes daily physical training, lectures on: physical fitness, basic and
sports nutrition, injury prevention and fitness testing.
ATTIRE: Conservative fitness attire is required.
REQUIREMENT: Conservative exercise attire is required every day with a towel and change of clothes for
classroom instruction. A water bottle, pen and paper are also required. A final exam will be
administered at the end of class and an 80% passing grade is required for certification. Liability waivers
must be signed prior to any participation in the course.
INSTRUCTOR(S): Kelly Kennedy, PhD one of the nation’s leading experts in fitness training for police. In
the last 19 years, she has worked with over 4,500 police recruits and officers, is certified HF/I, CSCS,
CISSN, Defensive Tactics Instructor, and earned a PhD in Educational Leadership from Lynn University.
Contact Kelly Kennedy PhD at (305) 389-5399 or e-mail at kelly@Fit-to-Enforce.com for further
information.
November 15 – 19, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
THIS REGISTRATION IS FOR ST. LOUIS COUNTY & MUNICIPAL POLICE ACADEMY TUITION
PAYING DEPARTMENTS ONLY
For Non-Tuition Paying Departments register www.Fit-to-Enforce.comPreparation for Retirement
This program will address issues associated with retirement planning for the rest of YOUR life.
Instructor Gary Fourtney, VISTA Law Enforcement Training and Consulting, LLC.
November 12, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$100 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
SABRE Instructor Certification
This 1-day (10-hour) Instructor Certification program was designed for agencies to update, train and
certify departmental Instructors in Aerosol Irritant Projectors for SABRE Aerosols. This course was
designed to enhance instructor’s development in formulations, spray patterns, physical and mental
effects of chemical agents, legal and medical issues, training and liability, deployment methods, and the
proper use of SABRE Aerosols. We will concentrate on the technical and tactical applications of this
information and instructor developmental skills. This training will assist instructors with enhancing their
own systems which will improve the officer’s skills and enhance their proficiency. The student cost for
this SABRE Instructor Certification is $150.00.
November 5, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
To register www.SabreRed.com
Any questions, contact Vicki Moore vmoore@sabrered.onmicrosoft.com 636-735-3907
Quota-Free Police Productivity System
It is a fundamental principle of American labor relations that employees owe their employers a
full day’s measuring and evaluating whether employees are living up to their responsibilities –
without resorting to quotas. This course provides the necessary information and system
required for employer and employees to fulfill their obligations to one another and the citizens
they serve. Instructor Dr. D.J. Van Meter, Van Meter and Associates.
November 8, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$100 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentAbsenteeism Control and Tracking System (ACTS)
This course will teach attendees how to:
Objectively measure, document, and evaluate non-scheduled absenteeism.
Establish an effective absenteeism control system within their agencies.
Target specific employees for improvement and place them on notice without illegal
discrimination, and without creating a threat to non-problem employees.
Instructor Dr. D.J. Van Meter, Van Meter and Associates.
November 9, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$100 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
SIG SAUER PISTOLS Armorer School
November 29 – 30, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
To Register www.sigsaueracademy.com or e-mail sigsaueracademy@sigsauer.com
CEW Instructor Course (TASER)
November 29, 2021 and December 10, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
To Register Axon Academy – academy.axon.com Questions contact jryan@axon.com
First Line Supervision
First Line Supervision is a 40-hour course designed to prepare newly assigned or promoted first line
supervisors for the challenges of leading law enforcement professionals. The curriculum is based on the
International Association of Chiefs of Police Supervision manual. Instructor Pat Horine.
November 29 – December 3, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$500 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentDECEMBER
Communications Training Officer (CTO) Program
This 24 hour course is designed to prepared Law Enforcement and Fire Service dispatchers for
assignment as a training officer. Instructor Jamie Hudson, IXII Training.
December 1 - 3, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
$300 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying Department
New Detective Investigative Workshop
While this training program will not focus on one specific area of investigations, it will train new
investigators in a variety of topics and categories, including: • The role of the investigator • U.S.
Constitutional and Missouri Statutory Law, including criminal liability (Voluntary Act and Culpable
Mental State), and the elements of various crimes and criminal activity per Missouri Statutes •
Reasonable Suspicion vs. Probable Cause, Detainment vs. Custody, and Pat-Down vs. Full-Custody
Search • Interview and Interrogation • Investigative strategies in:
Stealing Offenses
Burglary Investigations
Drug Identification
Assaults and Related Crimes
Sexual Assault Investigations
Robbery Investigation
Fire, Arson, and Other Related Crimes
Basic Death Investigations
Homicide Investigations
The Processing of the Crime Scene, including documenting, photographing, and the seizing of
physical evidence
Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations
Instructor Gary Fourtney, Vista Law Enforcement Training and Consulting, LLC.
December 6 – 8, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
$300 per seat for Non-Tuition Paying DepartmentCEW Instructor Course (TASER)
December 10, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned Personnel
To Register Axon Academy – academy.axon.com Questions contact jryan@axon.com
Working with Deaf Victims
This class will explain deaf culture and why it is different from hearing culture. We will touch on historic
background, language and communication, and how to improve interactions with the Deaf population
that we serve. You will leave the class with a better understanding of how Deaf individuals think, and be
better able to facilitate their needs. Instructor Cory Rickabaugh, ASL Interpreter/Crisis Interventionist,
DeafLEAD.
December 7, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Personnel
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