Lyon County Sheriff's Spring Training

2025 Lyon County Sheriff's Spring Training 

April 8-10, 2025
Anderson Building - Lyon County Fairgrounds
2650 West Highway 50, Emporia, Kansas

Since 2006, Lyon County Sheriff's Office has held a 3-day training covering a variety of law enforcement topics. This training provides an opportunity for law enforcement to get up to 25 hours of high-quality training. This training brings in up to 200 of Kansas' finest law enforcement officers to stay trained in all aspects of law enforcement.

Attendee Information

• Up to 25 hours of continuing education.
• You are responsible for reporting the hours you attend to CPOST.
• Cost: $75 a person.
• Doors open 30 - 45 minutes prior to class beginning.
• Lots of door prizes including a gun and some T.V.s

• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday lunch
• Tuesday evening Steak Fry (Grill your own steak with all the fixings, beer provided)
• Thursday Morning biscuits and gravy

• Bring a challenge coin
• Receive an exchange ticket
• At the end of the training, we will draw at random.
• Everyone who brought a coin goes home with a different one.

Agenda

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 0800 – 1700 
Registration Starts 0700 

• 0800 - 0830 Honor Guard and Announcements- Emporia Police Department Honor Guard  
• 0830 - 1000 Interacting with Mental Health Patients-Sgt. Jason Hinkle, Lenexa PD
• 1000-1200  Understanding Kansas Wildlife and Parks Department -Game Warden Aaron Scheve
• 1200 - 1300 Lunch- Catered on site 
• 1300 - 1700 Child Abuse Investigations- Detective Jonathan Gould, Exploited and Missing Child Unit, Wichita PD  
• 1730 - 2100 Sheriff’s Steak Fry following training – Grill’s hot from 1730-2000 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 0800-1700 
Registration Starts 0700 

• 0800 - 1000 Interacting with 1st Amendment Auditors- Captain Jeremy Campbell- Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Lt. Adam Khan- Spring Hill Police Department
• 1000 - 1200 Case Law Updates - Colin Wood – KBI- Retired 
• 1200 - 1300 Lunch- catered on site 
• 1300 - 1700 Interview/Interrogation- KBI Special Agent Crystal Hornseth  

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 0800 – 1700 
Registration Starts 0700 

• 0700 - 0800 Biscuits & Gravy Breakfast 
• 0800 - 1200 Routine vs. Novel, Error Reduction-Executive Director, David Young- Kansas Intelligence Fusion Center
• 1200 - 1300 Lunch- Catered on site 
• 1300 - 1700 Understanding and Planning for School Bombing Incidents- New Mexico Tech

Registration

For more information and to register, visit Spring Training Conference - Lyon County Sheriff's Office (lyoncountyso.com)

Questions may be directed to Detective Eric Williams at ewilliams@lyoncounty.org