The courses are listed below with a description of the subjects presented for each course. Before attending a course please read the classroom training rules.

Classroom Training Rules


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• Crime Prevention Part I
• Crime Prevention Part II & CPTED
• Basic School-Based Law Enforcement Certification Courses
• Other Courses
• Contract Training
• ICJS Courses Under Revision
• New: ICJS Courses

Crime Prevention Part I (Completely Revised Course)

This 40-hour course is recommended for patrol, investigative, and supervisory personnel interested primarily in physical security, security surveys, and home inspections conducted in compliance with Texas' homeowner's insurance premium reduction program.

Graduates meet the training requirement for crime prevention inspector certificate (peace officer) or homeowners insurance inspector certificate (civilian). Topics are history and principles; concepts of security; robbery, shoplifting and internal theft; locks, alarms, safes, lighting; checks and credit cards; neighborhood watch; security surveys, and homeowners insurance inspections.
Please refer to the Participant Course Materials for a list of
required items to bring with you to the training.

Crime Prevention Part II

Students who successfully complete CP-Part I, may now take this 40-hour course to enhance their crime prevention skills with topics that include CPTED, crime prevention technologies, gangs and drugs, youth and a myriad of other crime prevention community-based programs, auto theft prevention, public speaking, fraud and con games, CP for Kids, violence in the work place, and sexual assault/harrassment prevention.

In addition to CP-II, participants will also receive 8 hours certification training in CPTED.

Please refer to the Participant Course Materials for a list of required items to bring with you to the training.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED Revised Course)

This offering is designed for individuals who are not well-schooled in the concepts and techniques of crime prevention and physical security. In addition to the material covered in our CPTED course, instructors take the trainees through the information needed for a basic understanding of crime prevention and physical security.

40-hour SBLE Basic Certification

This course is designed to prepare law enforcement and security officers to effectively mitigate, prepare, respond and recover from a myriad of potential threats facing our schools today. Topics include history of SBLE, basic crime prevention for schools, CPTED, security assessments, safety audits, youth culture and violence, chemical response protocols, health and safety protocols, child abuse investigation and reporting requirements, juvenile laws, including penal code, alcohol code, family code, health and safety code and education code. Training is also provided on FERPA, practical education environmental tactics KRAV MAGA (unarmed self-defense), processing juvenile offenders including arrests, search, seizure, interviewing, fingerprinting, photographing and required notifications and reports, officer - school staff and student relations (officer ethics), confrontational management (dealing with violent students/adults and detecting improvised explosive devices (IED's).

This course was developed by law enforcement officers who have worked in a school-based environment using the input and feedback from school-based chiefs and officers throughout Texas. This is a basic course and ICJS is in the process of research and development to add intermediate, advanced and master-level SBLE certifications in the near future.

Please refer to the Participant Course Materials for a list of required items to bring with you to the training.

Basic Police Juvenile Officer (Under Research and Development)

The training is currently unavailable. Research and development to design new state-of-the-art curriculum are in progress.

Legislative Update

This seminar is designed to inform law enforcement, juvenile probation, school officials, and prosecutors of legislative changes. Learn about the changes to the Texas Family Code, Education Code, Penal Code, and Code of Criminal Procedure. Receive a notebook containing new and updated statutes. This course is offered every two years after the legislature convenes.

TCLEOSE 40 hour Certification Course

Improve Your Presentation Skills! Crime prevention practitioners, law enforcement and SBLE officers spend many hours presenting to groups. Improving presentation skills requires practice, practice, practice. The ICJS TCLEOSE 40 hour Instructor Course provides participants with fundamental communication skills to address diverse audiences in timed presentations ranging from 15 to 50 minutes. In addition, participants will gain knowledge of the three learning modalities and how to engage audiences with interactive learning and facilitation skills. Come join your peers to sharpen and improve your skills in a supportive, non-threatening environment, in a course for law enforcement officers taught by law enforcement officers. Upon successful completion participant will receive a TCLEOSE basic Instructor certification.

OTHER MANDATED TCLEOSE COURSES:

The Institute for Criminal Justice Studies is now offering to smaller departments and agencies Mobile Training Teams (MTT) that you can contract to come into your local area and provide your officers/deputies with any and all TCLEOSE annual mandated training courses. Let ICJS help you and your officers meet your training needs. ICJS offers special incentives to any agency will contract and host a local area training. ICJS will come to you saving you cost in sending your officers elsewhere. Your agency saves hotel, travel and per-diem cost for each officer. ICJS accepts contracts starting at a minimum of 20-guaranteed participants. ICJS can set-up, arrange and tailor a three to five day training designed specifically to meet your agencies and officers training needs.

TCLEOSE Courses currently offered:

The Institute for Criminal Justice Studies is developing Mobile Training Teams (MTT) consisting of veteran and experienced law enforcement officers to help meet the needs of our smaller law enforcement agencies throughout Texas. ICJS will be offering (through contract training) the following TCLEOSE certification training courses:

Bring any of our courses to your department at group rates.

Our mission in part is to provide quality, TCLEOSE certified training to our constituents. We are especially in tune with the needs of smaller agencies that must search for fair-priced training for their employees. Registration fees in addition to travel and per diem are often cost prohibitive. Please call us, because all our courses are available to your department at group rates. We negotiate reasonable fees for customized training for your specific training needs, conducted on-site at your location whether you live in Texas or any other great state.

The Institute for Criminal Justice Studies is revising (up-dated) and renovating the following courses:

Juvenile Laws
Internet and the Child

The Institute for Criminal Justice Studies is now offering (through contract training) the following courses:

“New” Counter-Terrorism for Schools
“New” CPTED for Schools
“New” Krav Maga (unarmed self-defense)
“New” Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detection and awareness
“New” Chemical and/or Biological Attack
“New” Concealed weapons identification
“New” Confrontational management