IN-PERSON TRAINING

The COPS Office awards funding to organizations for the development and delivery of a variety of in-person and classroom-based training programs. Each organization provides information regarding registration and scheduling on its individual website.

Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT)

The ALERRT Center at Texas State University delivers training across the nation on operations and tactics to respond to active attack situations. ALERRT provides catalogs of both in-person classes and eLearning courses centered on active attack and active shooter response training.

Hate Crimes: Investigations

Hate Crimes Investigations, an in-person training, provides step-by-step methods for conducting a thorough hate crime investigation to ensure accurate reporting and successful prosecution.

Protecting Heritage and Culture Through Peacemaking: Training for Law Enforcement and Public Safety Responders

Protecting Heritage and Culture Through Peacekeeping, an in-person training, is a customizable training curriculum package that provides a template and supplemental resources for tribal communities to leverage to assist in providing an overview and insight on different cultural and historical tribal aspects at the national level as well as within their regional and local level.

Take Action: Make the R.I.G.H.T. Choice and Intervene

Take Action: Make the R.I.G.H.T Choice and Intervene, an in-person training, encourages, empowers, and trains law enforcement personnel to actively intervene when needed to prevent colleagues from committing policy or procedure mistakes or unprofessional, unethical, or criminal conduct.

Volunteer Engagement for American Indian and Alaska Native Missing Person Cases

The Volunteer Engagement for American Indian and Alaska Native Missing Person Cases training program prepares and introduces the basic elements and practices for creating a volunteer engagement program to support law enforcement and communities in responding to emergent missing person cases.

COPS National De-Escalation Training Network

As there is no “one program fits all” solution to de-escalation, the Community Oriented Policing Services Office (COPS Office) National De-Escalation Training Network offers a vast array of training and resources to assist departments in meeting its de-escalation training needs—at no cost to agencies.

Hate Crimes: Recognition and Reporting

Hate Crimes: Recognition and Reporting, an in-person training, enhances law enforcement’s response and the uniform patrol officer’s ability to recognize and report a hate crime.

Power In Peers

Power In Peers, an in-person training, is a standardized curriculum in peer support designed by law enforcement for law enforcement. The course provides a national certification and is considered to be a comprehensive course for both beginners and those with previous peer support experience.

Small and Rural Technical Assistance Initiative

The COPS Office Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center (CRI-TAC) is launching a renewed focus on assisting smaller and rural law enforcement agencies. Now, CRI-TAC will provide training and technical assistance opportunities geared for the unique challenges confronting smaller and rural policing agencies.

The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) Basic School Resource Officer (SRO) Course

The NASRO Basic School Resource Officer Course, a forty-hour (40) in-person training, prepares school resource officers, other law enforcement officers, and school safety professionals to fulfill their roles in the school setting effectively.