Training
This training will be POST certified for Minnesota, Missouri and North Dakota.
Four Search & Seizure Questions Every Cop Must Answer
This presentation will ask and answer four questions which will leave the attendee with a better understanding of when Fourth Amendment applies. Additionally, the attendee will learn what it means to be “reasonable” under the Fourth Amendment and therefore constitutional. Finally, attendees with learn some of the major exceptions that will save evidence despite a Fourth Amendment violation. The Fourth Amendment consists of just fifty-four words, yet how do we apply these few words in practice? This presentation will ask and answer four questions, which, if understood, will help the attendee fundamentally understand the Fourth Amendment and how search and seizure questions should be handled.
Leading Yourself Well - Taking A Tactical Approach to Personal Development & Team Building
Taking ownership of how we live our lives and the decisions we make, the individual is empowered to become the solution they need to overcome life challenges. By taking a holistic approach to wellness, our personal relationships, professional culture at work, financial, physical, and mental health are addressed. Traditionally uncomfortable topics of conversation are explored and normalized. We have real, raw, unfiltered, vulnerable interaction that is sure to leave a lasting impact. Suicide, PTS, infidelity, and the role you play in leading the life you want are explored. You will walk away with the skill sets and tools necessary to not only survive, but more importantly to thrive in all areas of your life.
Are You Ready for An Officer Involved Shooting?
This session will provide an overview of procedures, policies, and best practices when it comes to preparing for or responding to an officer involved critical incident, such as an on-duty shooting. Relevant use of force laws will be discussed as they pertain to officer involved critical incidents. Also, the course will examine the history of officer involved critical incidents and how recent events have shaped the law enforcement response to deadly force encounters. Furthermore, the course will talk about human performance factors and how they affect the officer, supervisor, and agency during a critical incident.
What The DNA Couldn't Say - Until It Did: Trueallele Lessons From The Brittany Zimmermann Homicide Investigation
On April 2nd, 2008, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Brittany Zimmermann, returned home after class just before noon. Brittany was at home alone, and according to her computer, she was online filling out paperwork for financial aid for the fall of 2008. When her fiancé returned home to their apartment just after 1:00 pm, he found Brittany deceased inside the apartment. It was clear that Brittany was the victim of homicidal violence.
For nine years, this investigation was conducted with many detectives. Hundreds of potential suspects were investigated. Very early on the investigative team was hampered by DNA limitations, everything from contamination to complicated mixtures of multiple subjects. In 2017, based on a recommendation from the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory, detectives from Madison Police Department contacted the Cybergenetics team. DNA mixtures from the victim’s shirt and jeans had defied traditional data interpretation.
Cybergenetics used their TrueAllele® computer to unmix these mixtures into five components. Comparing these unmixed components with suspect references revealed who was and wasn’t associated with the crime scene.
TrueAllele found strong statistical connections between one of the first suspects identified in this investigation – David Kahl – and many complex mixtures located on Brittany’s clothing. These new scientific results jump-started the investigation, resulting in Kahl’s conviction for first-degree homicide in 2022, fourteen years after Brittany’s death.
The Lewiston Mass Shooting: A First-Response Perspective
This presentation examines the Lewiston mass shooting, ranked as the tenth deadliest mass shooting in American history, through the perspective of first response operations, medical decision making, and real time command considerations during a rapidly evolving mass casualty event. Using dispatch information, police radio traffic/body camera footage, and a detailed operational timeline, the course walks attendees through the earliest moments of the response when information was limited, scenes were uncertain, and decisions carried immediate life safety consequences. A significant focus of the training is the integration of law enforcement and medical response during the initial phase of the incident. Attendees will examine casualty management challenges, scene security considerations, and the realities of providing care prior to traditional medical access. The presentation addresses the critical decision making that led to the transport of victims in police cruisers and the operational factors that influenced those choices, including time to definitive care, scene safety concerns, and available resources.
Rather than a retrospective critique, this session is presented as a practical case study in operational reality. The goal is to provide patrol officers, supervisors, and command staff with applicable lessons related to response coordination, medical considerations, and decision making under uncertainty that can inform training, supervision, and response planning for future mass shooting incidents.
From Zero Tolerance to Zero Blind Spots
Workplace impairment rarely begins with obvious signs. In many cases, the early warning indicators are subtle changes in behavior, performance, communication, or decision-making that supervisors and leaders may notice but struggle to interpret or address.
Learn to recognize behavioral indicators earlier and intervene before small issues escalate into serious workplace incidents. Impairment can manifest in unexpected ways, sometimes hidden behind high performance, burnout, personality shifts, or declining reliability and why many organizations unintentionally overlook these warning signs.
Through real-world examples and practical leadership strategies, attendees will gain tools to better recognize behavioral indicators, respond appropriately, and strengthen workplace safety and leadership effectiveness.
Pathway to Financial Wellness And Retirement Planning for Law Enforcement
Pathway to Financial Wellness is a research-based financial education course designed specifically for law enforcement, first responders and public safety professionals. The program addresses the unique career patterns, pension structures, and financial stressors that police officers, firefighters, and EMS personnel face throughout their working years and into retirement. Participants gain clarity on how to align their money with their goals while navigating the emotional and behavioral aspects of financial decision-making.
The course walks attendees through the core pillars of a comprehensive financial plan, including retirement readiness, pension integration, investment fundamentals, risk management, tax awareness, and estate planning. Special attention is given to understanding internal investment fees, fiduciary standards, and how small financial decisions made during a career can have a significant long-term impact. Complex topics are broken down into practical, real-world examples relevant to public safety careers.
By the end of the program, participants leave with a clearer sense of direction, greater confidence in their financial future, and actionable next steps they can take at once. The goal is not to sell products, but to equip first responders with the knowledge and framework needed to make informed, independent financial decisions throughout every stage of their lives and careers.
Understanding Modern Tracking Technologies & Covert Electronics
This session is a practical, hands-on session that gives law enforcement professionals the tools to recognize and find today’s most common covert threats. Attendees will learn how GPS trackers, Bluetooth beacons, hidden cameras, and other small electronic devices are used in stalking, surveillance, and criminal activity, and how these devices actually work in the field.
The Art of Resiliency
With any high performance and demanding career comes an inherent level of stress and weighted responsibility. Whether experiencing trauma as a police officer, firefighter, dispatcher, a soldier, emergency room practitioner or any first responder, the long-term impact on the body and brain can be overwhelming if not “unpacked” properly and regularly. Sadly, we often offload that stress abruptly and in an inappropriate and potentially harmful manner. No matter your profession, everyday life has a fair share of trauma with death, loss, and grief. As leaders we solve problems, resolve conflicts, and sometimes ask others to perform extreme tasks. Providing vital mental wellness training is an important part of taking care of your people, helping them be less burdened and live healthier lives.
Bridging Retail And Law Enforcement: A Frontline View of Organized Retail Crime
Organized Retail Crime (ORC) continues to escalate in scale, coordination, and impact regardless of the retailer or size of community. This session offers law enforcement attendees a behind-the-scenes look at ORC from the retail viewpoint. Participants will learn how ORC groups operate and how it fuels broader criminal activity.
It will highlight the critical role of strong collaboration between retail loss prevention teams and law enforcement. Retailers are often the first to see emerging trends, methods of operation, and cross-market patterns that can support criminal investigations. Attendees will learn what actionable intelligence loss prevention professionals can provide, including case development support, video and digital evidence, product-level data, organized theft pattern analysis, and subject identification resources.
By enhancing communication, using shared data, and building cross-functional partnerships, retail and law enforcement can more effectively disrupt ORC networks, reduce repeat victimization, and strengthen community safety. This session equips investigators with a deeper understanding of retailer’s capabilities, the full scope and impact of ORC, and the collaborative strategies needed to combat this growing threat.
Helping Others to Stop Hauling Transport Scammers
This training will be a brief overview of the whys and hows of Hotshot scammers. This session will offer things to examine such as registration, insurance, bill of ladings, logs, when encountering a suspected scammer. It will give officers the knowledge and confidence to look deeper, possibly identifying stolen cargo (cars or other cargo), determining if Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement should be contacted for further investigation.
Unmasking Foreign Influence: Challenges Facing The United States
This presentation shows how many “domestic” threats to United States law enforcement are increasingly driven or shaped by foreign governments, transnational ideologies, and international criminal networks. The presentation reveals how hostile state actors and radical Islamist groups exploit open American systems in media, advocacy organizations, academia, religious institutions, finance, and social platforms, to advance strategic goals without overt military action. What often appears as local activism, grassroots radicalization, or routine crime frequently masks coordinated foreign influence operations designed to erode public trust, polarize communities, obstruct law enforcement, and steer United States policy toward adversarial interests.
Attendees will gain a clearer view that many seemingly isolated local threats are components of a broader global influence architecture involving radical Islamist networks, hostile state actors, Mexico-linked transnational criminal organizations, and United States-based enablers, (knowing or unwitting).
Unlocking The Power of OSINT
Are you a law enforcement professional seeking to sharpen your investigative skills in the digital age? Look no further! This session will equip you with the tools and strategies needed to excel in online investigations using Google, Bing, and others. Learn how to master advanced queries to uncover specific online mentions and discover techniques to limit searches to specific parameters, such as keywords in titles, URLs, or results from specific domains. Utilizing these techniques, you can cut through the clutter and advertisements, identifying posts mentioning individuals, locations, companies, or specific events with pinpoint accuracy. Don’t miss this informative session.
Investigating Cryptocurrency Cases for Law Enforcement
This training will enhance participants’ fundamental understanding and awareness of cryptocurrency by empowering them with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate these complex and often misunderstood aspects of the digital world. Attendees will learn about the various types of cryptocurrencies and the history, evolution, and significance of cryptocurrencies in the global financial landscape. An exploration of cryptocurrency, focusing on its relevance to law enforcement to include actionable steps to investigate cryptocurrency-related crimes and the basics of blockchain technology and bitcoin.
Leveraging Location Based Data in Criminal Investigations
In the modern age, our location is being tracked by hundreds of different sources every single day. When it comes to criminal investigations, knowing what location data is available to you as an investigator is extremely important. Making sure that valuable data doesn’t disappear before you get a chance to request it is even more critical.
In this class you will learn detailed information about the types and sources of location data available, how to preserve it, how to request it, and how to analyze it, ensuring you give yourself the best chance for success in your investigations.
MOCIC Equipment Services
Learn how as an MOCIC member, you can borrow a variety of surveillance and communications equipment to use in your investigative and undercover operations. The inventory includes hundreds of pieces of equipment available for member agency use. These equipment loans allow your agency to obtain the specialized equipment you need when you need it, without the trouble or expense of purchasing or maintaining equipment your agency may only use a few times each year.
MOCIC Digital Forensics
Learn about MOCIC Digital Forensics services offered to members. MOCIC’s digital forensic services are designed to assist member agencies in the identification, preservation, extraction, analysis, and reporting of digital evidence from a wide array of electronic devices.
MOCIC Analytical Services
MOCIC’s Analytical Services Section has a wide variety of tools and expertise related to the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases. This training will provide an explanation of services provided by the MOCIC Analytical Section and how these services can be used effectively.
MOCIC Research Services
This session will cover how the MOCIC CIS Department can assist law enforcement officers with daily operations and investigations. Explanation on how MOCIC utilizes the resources available to further case research. Specific tools and resources will be discussed.
MOCIC Intel Resource Services
This session will cover the resources that MOCIC’s Intelligence Department oversees: RISSIntel, RISSGang, RISS MTI RISSProp, RISSafe, & RISSLeads. These resources will be discussed and how they can assist a criminal investigation.