REGIONAL COUNTERDRUG TRAINING ACADEMY

Drug Unit Supervisors Course

Length: 5 days

Designed For: All active Sworn and Certified State or Local Law Enforcement Officers.

Prerequisites: None.

Certification: This course is POST certified in the states of Mississippi and Georgia and accepted for certification in other states.

Description: This course is intended for the Drug Unit Supervisor who has been promoted into or transferred into a Supervisory Position in a Drug Unit or to a Drug Task Force. It will prepare the new supervisor to organize and manage investigations involving agents as to accountability, control, stress, informant issues, and multi-agency issues. Students will address organization, financial, personnel, political issues and problems during the course.

Objectives Covered:

This course will prepare new supervisors to properly accomplish the successful day-to-day operations, which include evidence accountability, informant documentation and management, undercover planning and operations, surveillance operations, raid execution, asset forfeiture, task force management and legal and liability issues.

Instructional Topics:

• Training Issues

  • What kind, where, when, required
  • How will we pay for it?
  • In house vs. outside
  • Team Train as One - Advanced

• Interactive Forum – What Was I Thinking When I Took This Job?
  • Name, rank, agency, department size, unit size
  • Primary responsibilities
  • Day-to-day issues - task
  • Drug enforcement experience
  • Drug threat to community
  • The Transition into Drug Enforcement – “learning curve”
  • Common misgivings, mistakes and/or assumptions
  • Survival issues
  • Initiatives - What works, what don't
  • Major problems or issues
  • What can I do?