Invest in your career Take Blue line training courses Drug Investigation Techniques april 27, Fee:$250 +gST This course is designed to assist young officers or veteran officers in transfers or promotion to a drug enforcement unit through the development of appropriate skill sets that relate to drug investigation. The course includes information on: • Interception of private communications and acquiring an intercept order • Undercover techniques • Managing and initiating undercover drug operations • Search warrant acquisition • Interception of private communications and acquiring an intercept order • Drug surveillance techniques • Close quarters combat for undercover officers instructor: Det. Steve Walton (retired). The Non-Accusatory Interview Technique april 27, Fee:$250 +gST This topic is designed for all police officers as well as private investigators and security people involved in interviewing suspects and/or victims. Learn the basics of: • Conducting an investigative interview in a conversational setting with the emphasis on obtaining important information. • How to establish a “free-flowing” interchange between the subject and the interviewer. • How to plan and enter into an interview and get the subject talking and keep them talking. • Current legal status of investigative interviews and how far you can pursue the truth in a legal manner. instructor: S/Sgt Gordon MacKinnon (retired). Detecting and Defusing Deception april 28, Fee:$250 +gST This topic is of interest to all police officers as well as private investigators and security people involved in interviewing suspects and/or victims. In this course you will learn: • How deceptive subjects act? • What they say and how they say it? • What they do when faced with certain probing or bait questions? • We will also cover some of the latest findings in this field and dispel some of the myths about lying. instructor: A/Sgt Wayne van der Laan (retired). AprilJanuary 201027 & 28, 9am - 4pm Pre-registration2 & Info atBlue BlueLine.ca line Magazine January 2010 Volume 22 number 1 This month’s cover presents a Charlottetown Police car as the recipient of Blue Line Magazine’s Best Dressed Police Car for 2010. Read more about this cruiser, the runners-up and winners from other categories on page 6. This month features a host of articles and comments about the changing face of police fleet vehicles. We also feature the car selected as the fastest police car on the planet, the Mecedes-Benz CLS V12 S Rocket sedan. With 730 twin-turbo charged horses stampeding under its hood, the Rocket lives up to its moniker with a 225.19 mph top speed. Second in this class was the BMW 123d. Heaven forbid you should ever see one of these things in your rearview with its gumballs flashing. Outrunning it is not on your list of options. Features 6 Canada’s Best Dressed Police Car 15 The perfect police cruiser 9 Michigan State Police vehicle trials 18 Budgets will not be saved by On the cusp of change legalizing marijuana 20 The stigma of mental health problems 12 A police fleet revolution Should police record checks include mental health And now for something completely different information? Departments Case Law 38 Advertisers Index 33 Search reasonable to ensure officer safety 38 Back of Book 34 Search on arrest does not require exigencies 32 Dispatches 37 Market Place 36 Product News 5 Publisher’s Commentary 16 Technology Blue Blue lliinene MagazineMagazine 33 JanuaryJanuary 20102010 Invest in your career Take Blue line training courses Mastering Media Opportunities, Trad’l & 2.0 Mastering Media Opportunities, Traditional and 2.0, is an introduction to the principles and practice of media relations in the world of ever expanding conventional and new media public affairs. It will help you understand how to fine tune your audiences and craft key messages for broadcast media, print and web 2.0 (blogs, new media and the Internet). You will get the opportunity to create messages for a topic of your choosing and practice using them in an interview that will be recorded and debriefed. i nstructor: Allan Joyner Cell Phone Forensics Mobile Forensics Inc, the leader in mobile phone training brings a one day course that will introduce you to legal is- sues, service providers and current methodologies utilized in cell phone forensics. This course will prepare you to realize the need for cellular evidence from the carrier and device and learn the steps necessary to secure this valuable evidence. The course will also cover tools that are currently used for both physical and logical examinations with actual live extractions during the presentation. Topics include: • Court Paperwork • Radio Isolation: First Responders and Examiners • Troubleshooting • Software Tools • Hardware Tools • Completed Reporting i nstructors: Bruce Downey, Lee Reiber FREE admission, with course registration, to the Blue Line Trade Show. Canada’s largest law enforcement exhibition of the latest products and in demand services. Course location offers FREE parking, easy access to several major highways, a wide range of hotels, restaurants and amenities. JanuaryApril 201027 & 28, 9am - 4pm Pre-registration4 & Info atBlue BlueLine.ca line Magazine Publisher’s Commentary by Morley Lymburner Overseas missions must consider a hierarchy of needs Sending Canadian police offic- enemy is sub-human; killing them target on command or kill when ordered with ers on “training missions” to teach is no more traumatizing than tak- minimal emotional impact. They are most people how to police in a war zone ing the life of a rabbit or vermin. certainly never taught how to cope with war is complete folly. The citizenry will This is not an easy task and, given zone situations and post traumatic stress is probably not understand the differ- the wide range of people being very low on the priority scale.. ence between police and soldiers trained, not always completely I was horrified to hear that police offic- and the Canadian police officer is successful. To compensate, sol- ers have been routinely trained on military confronted with a war zone they diers are taught such things as weapons because they may need to use them are not psychologically prepared comradeship and pride of unit (or in some of the locations they are sent. If this to cope with. family, if you will). is a requirement, then I would suggest the area How can a civilian police of- Another way the military is not quite ready to learn about community ficer teach people to keep the peace structure gets around the stresses problem solving techniques. It would be much when there is no peace to be kept? of the job is by ensuring large wiser to first let the military do its job. Send Given Maslove’s second hierarchy numbers are brought to bear in police in to show a better way when a region of needs, these war torn countries a battle. The more successful is stable – not just anticipated to be stable. must first have national security and adequate rotate soldiers out of frightening war zones In the mean time I would suggest a much shelter, safe water and food before they’re ready so they are not overly impacted by the sights better approach would be to sponsor a “train to learn such great western principles as com- and sounds of the battle. Core training includes the trainer” process. Send the brightest and munity policing and self actualization concepts. ingraining a sense of invincibility, along with best from afflicted countries to a Canadian Citizens of many countries see little dis- a belief in their superiority over the enemy, police college, where they will learn a better tinction between police and the military and so new arrivals are kept segregated from the way of dealing with the public and meet much this problem becomes more acute in countries wounded and dead as much as possible. better role models to emulate. They will learn like Afghanistan, where we place officers in In short the modern military has a studied from Canadian recruits and experienced staff war zones and treat them like soldiers. Not approach to war that is purposefully designed who share common beliefs. Once indoctri- only are police not soldiers but, unless they to ensure maximum health (physically as well nated with Canadian style policing concepts come to the job with previous military training, as mentally) so that the home-coming soldier and previously armed with their own cultural they are not physically or (especially) mentally is returned to as reasonable a proximity of understandings, they will be far better prepared ready to take on the challenges of a soldier. regular life as is possible. to incorporate what they have learned in their Everything a police officer does outside None of this occurs with police officers, homelands. of martial arts and firing a gun is foreign to who are hired for a long term engagement and A secondary benefit will be a reduction in soldiering. Soldiers are taught, for the most taught specific skills which enable them to psychological issues experienced by return- part, to take commands without question and work with people on a one to one basis. They ing police officers attempting to re-immerse work in groups against a clearly identifiable are taught to enter a strife-filled situation with themselves in peace-time Canada. Make sure enemy. The day to day soldiers life is gener- the intent of resolving conflicts and restoring, a country’s first four needs are met before ally uncomplicated. A large part of the training as much as possible, the peace which existed jumping into the fifth – policing. process ingrains a culture that not only stresses prior to the problem arising. the importance of teamwork but also how to Virtues valued in policing include the psychologically handle taking a human life.