Comprehensive Listing of Trainings Available

• Law Enforcement Trainings
  • Understanding Autism*
  • Crimes Motivated by Bias*
  • Crisis Intervention Strategies & mental Health Awareness for Law Enforcement*
  • Communicating Through Conflict*
  • Communicating Through Culture, Crisis, Conflict*
  • Constitutional Policing
  • First Amendment Rights for Public Sector Employees
  • Foundation, Wellness and Resilience Becoming the Best You
  • Foundational Policing – Report Writing and Courtroom Skills
  • M2M American Stories of Cultural Change*
  • Navigating Cultural Differences in a Globalized Society*
  • Police and Community*
  • What You Do Matters*
  • Policing in a Diverse Society
  • Risks of Social Media in the Workplace*
  • Patrol Response to Domestic Violence
  • Officer Wellness*
  • Professional Presence and Workplace Behavior

  *POST Approved for Minnesota Mandated Learning Objective

• 2 Day Minnesota Mandated Training

  Minnesota Yearly State Mandated Training Course: 2- Day provides officers with their State of Minnesota mandated trainings. This includes:

  • Law Enforcement Guide to Understanding Autism: 4 hours
  • Crisis intervention Mental Illness Crisis: 6 hours
  • Cultural Diversity – M2M A Cultural Journey; Implicit Bias / Community engagement: 3 hours
  • De-Escalation and Conflict Management: 2 hour
  • Hate Crimes – Crimes Motivated by Bias: 1 hour

  TOTAL: 16 hours

• Field Teaching Officers (FTO) Certification

  This 32-hour FTO course is built for experienced officers selected to train probationary personnel, preparing them to be effective mentors using the L.E.T.A.C. Field Teaching Model. Through expert instruction, practical exercises, role playing, and real-world scenarios, participants learn how to develop capable, compassionate, and courageous officers while mastering evaluation, documentation, and performance assessment. The research-driven curriculum delivers an engaging, full-spectrum FTO experience focused on adult learning, organizational culture, and advanced strategies for guiding both successful and struggling probationary officers.

• Sergeants Academy

  This course equips new law enforcement supervisors with the essential skills to lead effectively by building trust, making sound decisions, and managing responsibilities efficiently. It emphasizes clear communication, active listening, and conflict resolution to strengthen team cohesion and professionalism. Supervisors will also learn to evaluate performance, uphold ethical standards, ensure legal and policy compliance, and understand their role in administrative investigations. The course concludes with a focus on officer wellness and professional development to support team resilience and growth.

• Use of Force

  Use of Force I: The Evolution of the Legal Standard

  This four-part course examines the use of force in Minnesota from a multi-faceted lens, including the historical vantage point, recent case-law and a statutory examination of the recent amendment.

  Use of Force II: Rules of Engagement

  Rules of engagement refers to the orders issued by a competent authority that delineate when, where, how, and against whom opposing force may be used, and the implications for what actions officers may take their own authority and what directives may be issued by State-Federal Statutes, Policy-Procedure and Command staff directives. This course focuses on an officers’ personal and professional worldview by identifying how to control, de-escalate and manage themselves and others. They will examine use of force as it relates to the policies and procedures regarding Duty to Intercede, Duty to Render Aid, and De-escalation.

  Use of Force III: The Art of Communication

  One of the most critical skills a law enforcement officer must develop is effective verbal and non-verbal communication. In this course, officers will learn practical communication strategies to manage conflict, encourage compliance, and reduce the need for force. This training focuses on techniques to triage and address pre-escalation scenarios while equipping officers with tools to de-escalate challenging situations in the field.

  Use of Force in Practice: Tabletop Scenarios Based on Recent 8th Circuit Case Law: This four-hour interactive training provides law enforcement professionals with a practical, scenario-driven understanding of modern use-of-force law through analysis of recent United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decisions. Moving beyond lecture-style legal updates, this course uses structured tabletops and decision-making scenarios to place officers in real-world situations derived from actual appellate cases. Participants will examine how courts evaluate officer conduct under the Fourth Amendment’s objective reasonableness standard and evolving qualified immunity analysis, emphasizing totality-of-circumstances review and pre-seizure decision-making. Each scenario is grounded in actual appellate rulings, allowing officers to understand how courts interpret officer actions after the fact — and how policy, training, and articulation can shape legal outcomes.

  Use of Force in America: 

  This presentation will offer an unfiltered and unique perspective regarding the events that led to the death of George Floyd and the subsequent aftermath.  Participants will learn how many officer involved shooting events since 2014 altered the rules of engagement both in and outside from the courtroom.  Through use of BWC’s participants will examine policies and how they relate to Pennsylvania Law.  The topics include high-liability topics like de-escalation, duty to intercede and duty to render medical aid.

• M2M American Stories of Cultural Change

  This course examines the history of race relations and policing in the United States through historical stories of resiliency against oppression that reveal the roots of persistent inequalities and foster a deeper understanding of the issues facing our communities today. Participants will journey from America’s birth to the present day, while discovering how institutional racism and the laws, policies and practices in our country have historically disadvantaged people of color creating fear and mistrust. M2M explores individual behaviors, defines explicit and implicit bias, and provides practical strategies for how to identify and interrupt implicit bias in their lives and in their daily work. Through this historical and exploration, participants in M2M are challenged to make a commitment to create positive change through engagement and impartial police practices that collectively will help create safer communities for all people.

  M2M fulfills POST Learning Objectives for Recognizing and Valuing Community Diversity and Cultural Differences to Include Implicit Bias Training. Attendees will immerse themselves in American history from 1619 to present day. Focus is on race relations, policing, and past injustice while exploring the concept of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By bringing history to life and connecting those lessons to today, M2M provides a deeper understanding on the importance of fair and impartial policing and the practices and events that have led to distrust and disadvantaged communities of color. M2M participants receive practical strategies for building trust through equitable police practices and community engagement.

• What You Do Matters

  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.