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K.N.O.A.
P.O. Box 2566
Topeka, KS 66601-2566
USA Toll Free Telephone: 877-590-1060
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Training and Conferences
Top Gun VI training is
scheduled for the week of October
19-25, 2008, at the KNG Training Center in Salina, Kansas. The curriculum is
almost completed and a slate of excellent trainers and
experienced narcotics investigators will provide
instruction. MCTC has committed to training approximately 80
Kansas law enforcement officers and prosecutors at Top Gun
VI.There is no cost to attend
Top Gun. The Midwest Counter Drug Training Center (MCTC)
pays all expenses incurred by the trainees, including room
and board and instructors’ fees. Participating agencies are
responsible for salaries and transportation to the training
site. Kansas has already held five Top Gun schools and
trained over 480 students, in addition to investigators and
prosecutors from five different states.
Training Curriculum
Top Gun is designed for narcotics
investigators and prosecutors with 0-5 years of experience.
It is also aimed at patrol officers who aspire to becoming
future narcotics investigators.
Officers can expect to learn: specific
techniques and ethical handling of criminal informants, how
decisions made during an investigation can "make or break" a
case; hands-on experience in executing search warrants;
strategies for charging defendants; vehicle and foot
surveillance of suspects; enhanced interview and
interrogation skills; dynamic entry and raid planning;
updated information on search and seizure law; prosecutors’
concerns; and increased knowledge of asset forfeiture and
money laundering.
Prosecutors can expect to learn: specific
techniques and ethical handling of criminal informants; why
police use various investigative techniques; effective
strategies for charging defendants; updated search and
seizure information; how to examine search warrants; how to
plan and execute a search warrant; vehicle and foot
surveillance of suspects, tactical firearms training with
officers as partners in order to learn stresses attached to
tactical use of firearms; and investigators’ concerns.
Registration
A
registration application is located on the KBI’s
Drug Enforcement website.
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