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• Strategic Interviewing in Criminal Investigations

  • When
    10/30/2026
  •  
    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, 1360 Walnut St. Oskaloosa, KS

  Homefront Protective Group LE Training
  

  Strategic Interviewing in Criminal Investigations

  1 -DAY TRAINING

  October 30, 2026
  8 AM - 5 PM

  Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
  1360 Walnut St
  Oskaloosa, KS

  TUITION:  $150

  Successful criminal investigations often hinge on the quality of the interview. This course equips law enforcement professionals with practical, evidence-based interviewing strategies to obtain accurate, reliable, and legally admissible information from victims, witnesses, and suspects. Participants will learn how to build rapport, assess offender motivations, identify behavioral themes, develop effective questioning techniques, and strategically present evidence while avoiding common interviewing pitfalls. Real World Examples include sex crimes, drug crimes and violent crimes to include Homicides. Through these real-world examples and investigative scenarios, attendees will strengthen their ability to conduct interviews that advance investigations and withstand courtroom scrutiny

  Course Topics Include:

  • Establishing rapport with individuals
  • Empathy-based interviewing techniques
  • Officer control and security
  • Strategic questioning techniques
  • Distinguishing fact from exaggeration or manipulation
  • Developing strategies for interviewing drug traffickers and suppliers
  • Use of Communication skills
  • Recognizing Body Language and Deceptive Behavior
  • Interview Structure
  • Interviewing Different Criminal Profiles
  • Recognizing how your own Body Language gets read by subjects your interview
    

  ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

  Detective Victor Riggin is a 27-year veteran of the Topeka (KS) Police Department. He has worked in patrol, Narcotics, and the Homicide/Robbery Unit. He has worked on numerous homicide investigations and as the lead investigator in Officer-Involved Shooting cases. Det Riggin has trained hundreds of investigators in several states. His investigative techniques are utilized by death investigators and homicide investigators in the US and abroad. His methodology is built on his success in conducting homicide investigations, meticulous attention to detail, common sense, tenacity in conducting thorough investigations, and commitment to victims and their families.

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• Stalker Radar / LIDAR Training

  • When
    11/24/2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    J.O. Sundstrom Conference Center, 102 N Main St, Lindsborg, KS

  FREE
  STALKER RADAR / LIDAR TRAINING

  November 24, 2026
  9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

  J.O. Sundstrom Conference Center
  102 N Main Street
  Lindsborg, KS

  Join us for Radar / Lidar Training presented by Bill Johnson with Stalker Radar.  The training will provide officers with instruction related to the operation and use of radar and lidar equipment for traffic enforcement.

  Lunch will be provided by Stalker Radar.

  To register, call the Lindsborg Police Department at 785-227-2988.

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• Undercover Social Media Investigations

  • Start
    01/28/2027
  •  
    8:00 AM
  • End
    01/29/2027
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Training Center, 18505 W 119th Street, Olathe, KS

  
  

  Undercover Social Media Investigations
  

  January 28-29, 2027
  

  Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Training Center
  18505 W 119th Street
  Olathe, KS 66061

  Course Length: 15 hours

  COST TO ATTEND:  $349

  Description:
  This 2-day course teaches law enforcement professionals how to actively engage and investigate individuals utilizing social media as a means to commit criminal activity. Yellowstone Narcotics instructors were the very first individuals in Montana to utilize this technique for drug investigations at the state level. Our instructors have developed these techniques over the past ten years and now instruct this course in multiple states. Our investigative methods are proven to be legal, effective, and simple to understand.

  Students can expect to leave this course and be fully capable of employing these techniques immediately upon graduation. In this course, you will learn how to set up undercover accounts online, best practices when communicating with suspects, legal issues, and be provided multiple real life case examples of previous investigations. Students will also learn the various techniques on how to continue their criminal investigations once a suspect is identified online and presented with various options of different ways to conclude their investigation. This course will cover everything from initial contact through prosecution. If you are not currently operating online, our course will show why you should be.

  Yellowstone Narcotics takes pride in our student’s investigations long after our course is complete and make ourselves available to assist you with any future cases developed from the techniques presented in this course. Any courses we instruct, County Attorney’s attend for free and are encouraged to attend in person alongside law enforcement.

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• MCTC Rural Patrol Drug Intervention

  • Start
    03/09/2027
  •  
    8:00 AM
  • End
    03/11/2027
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Pratt Police Department 619 N Main St, Pratt, KS

  
  

  RURAL PATROL DRUG INTERDICTION

  March 9-11, 2027

  Pratt Police Department

  619 N Main St
  Pratt, KS

  This course equips rural law enforcement officers with the legal knowledge and practical skills needed for narcotics-related arrests, searches, and seizures. It addresses the unique challenges of conducting drug interdiction in rural areas, such as recognizing signs of narcotics activity during traffic stops and applying effective vehicle search techniques to detect drug traffickers.

  Officers will learn to disrupt drug trafficking operations, identify precursor chemicals, and understand common trafficking methods. The course emphasizes the importance of interagency cooperation and information sharing to combat narcotics threats, money laundering, and potential terrorism links. The course also introduces low-cost equipment and strategies for handling situations when backup is unavailable to address the limited resources available to many rural agencies.

  Topics Include

  • Common law enforcement officer mindset errors and amendments
  • Traffic stop and observational techniques for identification of possible criminal narcotics activity
  • Roadside interviewing techniques including listening skill techniques and answer analysis
  • Clandestine and rolling laboratory identification
  • Identification of the signs of drug impairment in the human body
  • Drug and paraphernalia identification
  • Vehicle search techniques

  Registration is restricted to local, tribal, state, federal, and military law enforcement officers.

  REGISTER HERE

  THERE IS NO COST TO ATTEND THIS COURSE.

  
  

  POCs:
  Garret McLemore, EMAIL: gmclemore@pd.medicinelodge.ks.gov
  Chief Ken Wright, EMAIL: kwright@prattlec.org

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