MCTC: Patrol Officer Response to Street Drugs

Flyer Link:  Patrol Officer Response to Street Drugs

Registration Link:  P.O.R.S.D.

Registration

This course is restricted to US military law enforcement personnel along with other local, state, and federal civilian law enforcement employees to include criminal analysts, and corrections officers.  **This course is not designed for Drug Recognition Evaluators/Experts

Tuition/Fees

There is no cost to attend this course.

Course Description

This course is designed to enhance the ability and skills of all attendees to identify, detect, apprehend and successfully articulate the drug trafficker, distributor and the drug impaired person. This includes the DWI or the drugged driver; the calls for service where persons are involved in disturbances; juveniles using drugs on school grounds or domestic violence; it should be used on the confidential informant being utilized in a narcotic investigation and all other enforcement needs where the person or persons are under the influence of a drug.

The concept and strategy in this program of instruction uses the structured, in depth coverage of the 8 drug categories, to include the Drug Abuse Recognition (DAR) system and other advanced techniques as a means of legally apprehending the drug manufacturer, distributor and specifically the user. All students must academically pass a written test with a 70% or 81 points out of 115 possible points to successfully complete the course.

Topics Included

• Drug Abuse Recognition system using pupilometer cards and pupil lights
• Drug physiology and pharmacology
• Drug Identification and methods of use
• Recognition of drug signs and symptoms
• Drug trends
• Drug smuggling
• Drug paraphernalia
• Dangers of confronting subjects under the influence
• Clandestine lab recognition
• Drug distribution techniques

Course Length

Patrol Officers Response to Street Drugs is a 4-Day (40 hour) course.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to attend this course.