March 15, 2012
One of the courses I teach is a drug investigation program called "Hyperdrive". The course is named for the speed at which narcotics investigation cases sometimes take place. A standard definition also includes" A state of constant action or ultimate speed".
Drug investigations are one of the hardest types of cases to work, there are lots of moving parts and the ever present danger of dealing with people involved in this lifestyle.
The class we ran this week at the Monmouth County Police Academy started on Monday and ended today. The course is built on teh premise of a real investigation. The morings are classroom session where we discuss the various aspects of a drug investigation. The second session of the day consists of the officer students using whhat they learned in the morning in practical exercises in the afternoon.
We learn about using informants, innterview techniques and types of investigations. The we bring in a role player to be interviewed and "vetted" by the class for credibility.
As the week progresses we cover all the parts of a case, buying drugs, conducting surveillance, writing search warrants and on the last day we conduct actual role player based raids on a location.
The course takes an officer from start to finish in a drug case and prepares them to run their own investigations. It is a fun class and from teh reviews it seems to be valuable to the officers too.
The group the we graduated today hailed from all over Monmouth, Middlesx and Union counties. I love teaching it and I really enjoyed meeting the cops who took the course.
These men and women are the future of police work. If I can do anything to prepare them and make them better cops then I am justified in my career.
If you want to see some video and photos from the course you can go to my business facebook page at Pangaro Training and Management or on You Tube looking for Pangaro Training.
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