Search & Seizure

Certification

This course is certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.

Description

This training has been approved for 8 hours credit toward the 32-hr. recertification requirement for Lead Homicide Investigators.

In light of recent cases, departments have been forced to re-examine their practices in order to stay proactive — particularly during vehicle stops. This course will focus on problematic areas of search and seizure law and will address how police may adapt their practices to meet new requirements and limitations.

The program is designed to ensure that encounters which give rise to search and seizure issues may not only provide the potential for yielding information of intelligence value, but will also be constitutionally compliant, so that evidence discovered will be admissible should criminal proceedings follow. Course material is constantly updated to reflect recent case decisions and statutory enactments.

Topics

• Constitutionally approved pretextual stops and arrests
• Conducting consensual encounters
• Search incident to arrest
• Inventory searches
• Consent searches
• Terry stops and Terry frisks
• Emergency aid exception
• Converting stops to consensual encounters
• Use of eavesdrop devices during vehicle encounters
• Checkpoints
• Plain-view searches
• Trash searches

Instructor

Deadline

Please register for this course by December 2.