Training Keys
Concise, authoritative sources of law enforcement information, these six-page, loose-leaf monographs allow law enforcement officers to expand or sharpen their knowledge, skills and abilities on a broad variety of law enforcement practices and procedures. Each Training Key is prepared by a leading expert and addresses an issue of particular interest to line officers and their supervisors.
Training Keys
#679 - Autism: Interview and Interrogation
This is the second of a two-part Training Key® on law enforcement encounters with autistic individuals. Part One discussed how to enhance officer safety, avoid...
#678 - Autism: Managing Police Contacts
This is the first of a two-part Training Key® on law enforcement encounters with autistic individuals. Part Two will address victim, witness, and offender trends...
#677 - Sovereign Citizens
The sovereign citizens movement is comprised of a group of individuals who hold strong antigovernment feelings. Law enforcement officers should be able to identify such...
#676 - Agroterrorism
While not commonly recognized, agroterrorism poses a significant threat to domestic food sources and the economy as a whole. This Training Key® discusses this subset...
#675 - Supreme Court Update: 2012
The following U.S. Supreme Court rulings have a bearing on how law enforcement officers conduct enforcement operations. Their implications for individual police agency and police...
#674 - Supreme Court Update: 2011
The following U.S. Supreme Court rulings have a bearing on how law enforcement officers conduct enforcement operations. Their implications for individual police agency and police...
#673 - Supreme Court Update: 2009 and 2010
The following U.S. Supreme Court rulings have a bearing on how law enforcement officers conduct enforcement operations. Their implications for individual police agency and police...
#672 - Surviving an Officer-Involved Shooting: A Personal Account
Each day, law enforcement officials place themselves in harms way to protect the citizens they serve. This is the personal story of one such official...
#669 - Emergency Trauma Care: Part III
Law enforcement officers are frequently the first responders to incidents that involve serious personal injury. With a minimum of knowledge and training, officers can take...
#668 - Emergency Trauma Care: Part II
Law enforcement officers are frequently the first responders to incidents that involve serious personal injury. With a minimum of knowledge and training, officers can take...
#667 - Emergency Trauma Care: Part I
Law enforcement officers are frequently the first responders to incidents that involve serious personal injury. With a minimum of knowledge and training, officers can take...
#666 - Officer Safety and Risk Management
This Training Key® highlights some of the actions and activities in which officers are most often feloniously killed, assaulted, accidentally killed or injured and provides...
#665 - Wrongful Convictions
This Training Key® discusses the most commonly identified causes for wrongful convictions, including eyewitness misidentification, unvalidated or improper forensic science, false confessions, and government misconduct.
#662 - Drugs of Abuse: Part II
This is Part II of a two-part Training Key® that discusses the current state of the drug trade and provides detailed information regarding the most...
#661 - Drugs of Abuse: Part I
This is Part I of a two-part Training Key® that discusses the current state of the drug trade and provides detailed information regarding the most...
#659 - Cellular Telephones: Intelligence and Evidence – Part II
Cellular telephones are encountered by law enforcement officials on a daily basis. It is imperative that officials be aware of the valuable data that are...
#658 - Cellular Telephones: Intelligence and Evidence – Part I
Cellular telephones are encountered by law enforcement officials on a daily basis. It is imperative that officials be aware of the valuable data that are...
#657 - Organized Retail Crime
Though long recognized as a problem by the retail industry, organized retail crime (ORC) is a relatively new crime phenomenon in law enforcement. Few law...
#656 - Police Trespassing
Law enforcement officers routinely walk or drive onto private property in the course of their duties.This Training Key® discusses the legality of this practice and...
#654 - Special Needs Detentions
Special needs detentions are defined as temporary seizures of a person that serve a public interest other than the need to determine if the detainee...