This 2-day course provides officers with their  State of Minnesota yearly mandated trainings. Officers will examine Crisis Response, Conflict Management, Autism, and Cultural Diversity.

Law Enforcement is constantly learning new skills to keep up with the demands of the ever-increasing social issues, which are matched only by the level of complexity in every situation. This seminar goes beyond the physical tactics required by law enforcement and equips officers with training to promote the safety of all involved for positive crisis response.

POST Approved

• Law Enforcement Guide to Understanding Autism: 4 hours
• Crisis intervention Mental Illness Crisis: 6 hours
• Implicit Bias: Lessons from the Holocaust: 4 hours
• De-Escalation and Conflict Management: 2 hour

TOTAL: 16 hours

Course Descriptions:

Law Enforcement Guide to Understanding Autism

Develop a deeper understanding into autism spectrum disorder (ASD), gain recognition in identifying behaviors associated with ASD, how disparities can be barriers inform law enforcement response, and gain strategies and practices to promote safe, effective, and positive outcomes when in situations involving ASD.

Crisis intervention Mental Illness Crisis

In this 6-hour course, learn field-level triage for primary mental health disorders, symptom cluster, potential complications within the law enforcement intersections, and methods for engaging individuals struggling with their crisis.

De-Escalation and Conflict Management Strategies

This course is designed to give officer a baseline understanding of how to engage in dialogue with different cultural groups. This course also includes De-escalation Techniques based upon different cultural group. This includes cultural triggers, De-escalation techniques. This is a hands-on/lecture style course includes, videos, lecture, and Role playing.

Within the DMC model are the 4 C’s: Contact, Context, Content, and Contrast. Officers will be introduced to basics of equitable communication through learning about how to make contact, the internal factors, the issues taking place currently, and difference in cultural norms.

What You Do Matters: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust

The Holocaust was an unspeakable horror from WWII. After a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2006, Todd Larson and Jason Kalish recognized that the Holocaust is much more than a chapter from a history book. The Holocaust provides important insight into the consequences when a government shifts the mission of police from protecting individuals to supporting the abuse of basic human rights.

How Germany changed in less than a decade from a free, democratic, and scientifically advanced society to a totalitarian regime that systematically targeted and murdered millions of its own citizens is a lesson a free society must learn. In the words of Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in 1945, “Civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

This seminar, “What You Do Matters”, examines policing within the legal and political framework of Nazi Germany – a journey that eventually turned those who should protect life and liberty into those who intimidated, humiliated, deported, and eventually murdered millions of innocent people. Using historical images and stories from the Holocaust, facilitators engage students in a dialogue about the role of law enforcement in today’s communities and the importance of core values in ensuring the integrity and vibrancy of democracy.