Drug Unit Supervisor: Strategies for Managing Narcotics Units, Personnel, and Operations

Drug Unit Supervisor: 
Strategies for Managing Narcotics Units, Personnel, and Operations

It is critical to equip any drug unit supervisor, team leader, and commander with a strong foundation of strategies and knowledge to minimize liability, protect officers, protect command staff, ensure the efficiency and integrity of operations, and protect the community. This course will instruct the methodology for choosing the best personnel, developing sound policies, creating effective procedures, and using successful leadership tactics when managing a drug unit. Drug unit supervision is the overall focus of the lessons provided in this training course.

This training program will cover the following topics:

• The Drug Unit and the Drug Unit Supervisor
• Identifying and Choosing the right personnel
• What a Drug Unit supervisor needs to know
• Supervising detectives and their use of informants
• The importance of the Officer/Unit Partnerships with Prosecutors
• Managing the unit’s funding, finances, and payments
• Methods of Corrective Management and Discipline
• Supervisory Strategies for Safe and Effective Undercover Operations
• Planning Tactical Operations
• Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Mistakes
• Officer Safety and the Drug Unit Supervisor

11 AM to 1 PM Central Time, ZOOM

INSTRUCTOR: Sgt. Randy Osburn (retired) spent over 28 years with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office in Wichita, Kansas. Most of his career was spent working in narcotics investigations, including assignments as an undercover detective, drug investigator, DEA Task Force Officer, and nine years as the narcotics unit supervisor. Sgt. Osburn has extensive experience conducting complex narcotics investigations, conspiracy investigations, informant cultivation and management, undercover drug buys, and planning tactical operations. He is a primary instructor for narcotics-related training courses for the Kansas Narcotics Officers Association (KNOA), Homefront Protective Group Law Enforcement Training, and the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center.

NOTE: This course is available to be viewed as a video on demand for those unable to attend on the day of the course.

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