12:00 AM - 12:00 AM Eastern
About the Program
In these turbulent times of increasing demands on resources, the heightened sophistication of criminals, the rise of predatory gang activity and the multitude of illicit activities that threaten our communities each day, the need for a responsible, proactive approach for determining and gauging the risks posed by crime and criminals is of critical importance. This one-week (36-hours) “hands-on” course shows you how to use the “intelligence cycle” to easily guide the transformation of your raw collected data into actionable intelligence. Once trained, you will be able to recognize the hidden characteristics, protocols, and behaviors associated with complex criminal events; identify and link conspiratorial relationships and networks; discover the connections between criminality and finances; and effectively monitor, collect (covertly, overtly, and electronically), organize, and analyze data relating to a wide range of criminal endeavors. You will also learn how to develop, manage, support, and successfully conduct analyses using a variety of collation and graphic management techniques. This knowledge can then be applied to the more complex investigations of crimes committed by predatory criminals, criminal enterprises, gangs, and the criminal conspirators who engage in economic/white collar crimes, drug/narcotic and sex offenses, human and weapons trafficking, identity theft and fraud, counterfeiting, corruption, and serial crimes. Skill-building exercises enhance the “learn-by-doing” nature of the program. Actual investigations and criminal intelligence missions are also examined to further an understanding of the methods and techniques taught in the class and to demonstrate their practical application in today’s criminal environment. The course curriculum is based on training recommendations contained in the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP). The NCISP is the most widely accepted source of guidance currently available for intelligence operations and training programs that support law enforcement efforts to establish a capacity for Intelligence-led policing. It is also POST certified in many states.
You Should Attend IF:
• You are a newly-assigned law enforcement or corporate intelligence analyst, or a narcotics, gang or vice investigator, intelligence officer or analyst assigned to a fusion center, Homeland Security detail, terrorism or other specialized task force either within or external to your agency
• You are an experienced analyst, officer or investigator who has received little formal training related to the criminal intelligence process and function
• You now—or may later—supervise analysts, officers, investigators, a task force, first responders or other personnel who would benefit from a coordinated approach to developing and supporting criminal investigations
• You are employed by a prosecution unit that prepares the types of cases produced by the personnel described above
What You Will Learn
This course will provide you with an arsenal of techniques you can use to uncover hidden criminal activity; develop, organize and link disparate data; support emerging and ongoing criminal investigations; and identify the relationships between people, organizations and criminal events as well as between finances, proceeds and assets. You will learn what criminal intelligence is—and what it is not—and how its real-world application can benefit 21st century policing. You will also learn how to produce actionable intelligence, how to apply it to criminal investigations, how to deliver dynamic intelligence briefings and how to present your material in court proceedings. Designed for all federal, state, municipal, and military intelligence officers and analysts, this course will demystify essential professional skills involving:
Operational Issues
• Identifying and Defining What Intelligence is and What it is not
• The Mission, Objectives and Products of Criminal Intelligence and How it Benefits Today’s Policing Efforts
• The Differences Between Information, Investigation and Intelligence
• The 5-Step Process of the Intelligence Cycle
• Use of the Intelligence Cycle to Transform Information into Intelligence
• The Differences Between and the Products of Tactical, Strategic, Operational, and Statistical Intelligence
• The Language and Terminology of Criminal Intelligence
• Best Practices for Conducting Criminal Intelligence Collection Operations (28 CFR, Part 2)
• How to Recognize Latent or Cloaked Crime Characteristics
• The Nature of Repetitious Criminal Activity, Modus Operandi, Patterns and Trends
• How to Work Smarter, Not Harder! Methods for Enhancing Efficiency and Effectiveness
• How to Identify Criminal Conspiracies, Organizations, Partnerships, Networks, Structures and “Jobs”
• Guidelines and Protocols for Targeting and Monitoring Criminal Conspiracies and Threats
• Hypothesis Development and the Development of a Collection “Plan”
• Covert Collection Techniques
• Sources and Resources of information, Data and Criminal Intelligence
• The Creation and Use of Time Lines, Flow Charts, Link (Association) Charts and Matrices
• Communications Analysis: Analyzing Telephone, Text and Email Messages
• How to Prepare and Present Intelligence Briefings
• Using Word, PowerPoint and Excel in Graphic Analysis
• Hands-On, Skill-Building Exercises and Real-World Applications of Criminal Intelligence Analysis
• And much, much more
Regardless of your previous experience with analytical methods, this course is for you. You can always do your job better when you apply fresh ideas and techniques. We’ve made sure our seminars give you exactly what you need to put you at your peak!
About Our Criminal Intelligence and Analysis Program
Law enforcement officials send their sworn officers and civilian personnel to our Criminal Intelligence and Analysis courses because of our proven ability to provide them with high-quality, performance-oriented training. Class exercises are based on real-world crime problems officers, investigators and analysts are expected to solve each day. As such, students return to their agencies with not only the knowledge of what they should do, but, more importantly, how they should do it. Skills are developed by instructors who are intimately familiar with criminal intelligence analysis techniques, and by the students’ use of our comprehensive, easy-to-understand course materials. These elements contribute to the continued popularity of our Criminal Intelligence and Analysis training programs. Our success, however, comes from our achievement of one important goal: We turn Theory Into Practice.™
What Others Say About Our Training
“I have attended 4 of Ken’s courses in investigation and criminal intelligence and I have never had a better informed and enthusiastic instructor than Ken in 45 years in local, state and federal law enforcement experience.”
Robert S. Gaiser, Lieutenant
Buckner Police Department
“Having attended (and hosted) a number of Ken’s classes, he is consistently on top of the intelligence game, and often ahead of the curve. He exudes professionalism.”
Detective Robert Holland
Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office
“I have had the pleasure of attending two of the courses presented by Ken Sanz. Ken teaches secrets of not only conducting a professional intelligence mission, but how to keep it organized when it gets too big. Most of these tricks were skills that had taken years to develop through trial and error. If I had had Ken’s courses early on in my career I would have had the shortcuts to have been successful early on.”
Detective Sergeant Sean Barnwell
Branson Police Department
About the Crime and Intelligence
Certification Program
All participants in the Criminal Intelligence and Analysis training course are eligible to have their coursework credited toward the attainment of a Certificate Award in Crime and Intelligence Analysis (CCIA) and their CCIA Credential. This program is sponsored by the California Department of Justice and the California State Universities. Students who complete all credential requirements will receive a certificate from California State University, Sacramento to verify their academic achievement. The California Department of Justice, in recognition of the University Award, will subsequently bestow the title of Certified Crime Analyst upon, and
grant the credential to, all students who successfully complete the credential program. Please see the section in this brochure entitled “Continuing Education Units.”
About The Alpha Group
The Alpha Group is comprised of professional speakers, trainers, and researchers who provide their expertise and practical experience to criminal justice, public safety and victim service organizations. The organization is widely recognized for its ability to provide training in crime and intelligence analysis, criminal investigative analysis, statement analysis, homeland security and terrorism analysis, threat assessment, criminal justice research methods and other such unique areas of law enforcement.
About Your Trainer
Ken Sanz began his law enforcement career in 1973 as an officer with the Tampa, Florida, Police Department and later became a detective assigned to the Vice Control Bureau and the Organized Crime Unit. It was then that Ken began to focus on criminal intelligence in furtherance of an effort to thwart the aggressive emergence of organized crime cartels, gangs and various other criminal networks in the state. It was during this latter assignment that Ken was appointed as a consultant to a State of Florida Subcommittee tasked with drafting the State’s “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt organization (RICO) Statute.” In 1982, Ken began his service as a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Until his retirement in 2007, Ken was actively engaged in the investigation of transnational crime syndicates operating in North and South America, the Caribbean nations, Asia, and Western Europe. As a result of his experience, Ken is an internationally recognized expert in the analysis and investigation of domestic and international criminal enterprises, gangs and extremist organizations. Ken has served as a consultant on criminal intelligence matters for many law enforcement agencies and has held the position of Chairman of the Central Florida Organized Crime Intelligence Group and President of the International Association of Asian Crime Investigations. He is also a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts and the Organized Crime Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Having pursued a dual major in Political Science and Criminal Justice at the University of South Florida and now as a Certified Instructor by the Florida Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, Ken has instructed for many city, state and federal law enforcement agencies, academies, colleges and universities throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He has also coordinated intelligence seminars for INTERPOL in Lyon, France, and for the joint US/People’s Republic of China Organized Crime Conferences on Asian Organized Crime held in Beijing. Ken has also worked with the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) to develop Criminal Intelligence Training Standards for the municipal and national police services in Columbia, South America.
(phone: (541)774-2249)
Course Times
The course begins at 0800 on Monday, August 6, 2018 and
concludes at 1200 on Friday, August 10, 2018. Course times
are from 0800-1700 Monday through Thursday and from 0800-
1200 on Friday.
Tuition and Course Inclusion Information
Course tuition prices, without exception, are based on the
date we receive full payment for the course as shown below:
Early Registration: 10/4/17 to 11/4/17: Course fee is $575.00.
Standard Registration: 11/5/17 to 7/15/18: Course Fee is
$595.00.
Late Registration: 7/16/18 to 8/6/18: Course Fee is $625.00.
Tuition includes the 36-hour program of instruction and:
• All in-class course materials
• A copy of Criminal Intelligence and Analysis: Processes,
Protocols and Applications by Ken Sanz. Used extensively
throughout the class, this comprehensive manual provides
a reproduction of Ken’s PowerPoint slides as well as copies
of templates, graphics, charts, practical exercises, sources
of information and supplementary reading materials authored
by a number of leading authorities on criminal intelligence.
• A Bonus CD with textbooks on criminal intelligence and analysis;
criminal intelligence guidelines, standards, protocols,
policies and procedures; assessments of future forecasts
and trends; studies and briefing papers on crime, terrorism
and threats, investigative aids and resources; charting software;
and links to open source research sites.
These are more than reference materials…they’re the “silent
partners” you’ll take back to your job to help you increase
your knowledge and strengthen your skills.
• An impressive certificate of graduation that will be presented
to you upon completion of the course.
PLEASE NOTE: Tuition does not include lodging,
meals, transportation to and from the meeting place,
parking, items of a purely personal nature (pens,
pencils, paper, etc.)
Registration Information
To register for the course, please contact The Alpha Group at
(949) 600-5196 and request the registration form. Payment
must be received at time of registration to receive the
registration prices shown above. Please email the registration
form to crimecrush@alphagroupcenter.com.
P.O. Box 8 • Montclair, California 91763 • Telephone: (909) 989-4366
Email: crimecrush@alphagroupcenter.com
Website: www.alphagroupcenter.com
Payments, Substitutions and Cancellations
Payments can be made by credit card, or agency check. To
make a credit card payment, please call The Alpha Group at
(949) 600-5196. Please mail checks to: The Alpha Group, PO
Box 8, Montclair, CA 91763. Anyone can substitute for you by
notifying The Alpha Group. Any cancellations must be made by
7/15/18 to receive any refund due, if applicable. Early registration
fees are nonrefundable. For other fees paid, any refund
issued will be subject to a $50.00 processing fee. No refunds
will be given for any cancellations after 7/16/18, without exception.
The Alpha Group reserves the right to substitute speakers
should the featured presenter become incapacitated. In
the unlikely event that the course is cancelled, the Alpha Group’s
liability shall be limited solely to refunding of tuition payments.
Course Location and Hotel
Accommodation Information
Please contact the course host for course location and
hotel accommodation information. The host is Jackson
County Sheriff’s Office, Sarah Jagger, 5179 Crater Lake
Highway, Central Point, OR 97502. You may contact Sarah
Jagger by phone at (541) 774 - 6440 by email at
jaggersm@jacksoncounty.org.
Earn Continuing Education Units (Optional)
You can receive 3.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from
California State University, Sacramento, upon successful
completion of this course and the submission of a directed
learning project. These units may be applied to your Certificate
Award in Crime and Intelligence Analysis (your CCIA credential).
A modest registration fee made payable to the University is
charged for this option. For additional details or to apply for
these units, please contact The Alpha Group at (909) 989-4366.
Is this Course Tax Deductible?
Skill-building and professional development programs such
as the Criminal Intelligence and Analysis course are usually
tax deductible. Check with your financial advisor to verify applicability
of the tax law to your particular situation.
For Additional Information
If you have any questions or need additional information about
the Criminal Intelligence and Analysis course, please contact
Steve Gottlieb, Executive Director, by telephone at (909) 989-
4366, or by email at crimecrush@alphagroupcenter.com. You
may also write to us at The Alpha Group, P.O. Box 8, Montclair,
CA 91763.
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