Investigative Training
The Investigative Training Team offers courses in the following areas:
Organized Crime Investigations Training
The CPC is currently exploring training that deals specifically with organized crime group investigations. A needs assessment is currently being conducted to identify, design and develop a training solution in the area of organized crime investigations.
Major Case Management
Major Case Management Team Commander (MCM:TC)
The Major Case Management: Team Commander course will provide team commanders with the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) needed to manage a major case investigation. Participants who take this course will learn to:
- manage the human, financial and material resources in a major case investigation;
- manage the speed, flow and direction of a major case investigation; and
- apply a critical thinking methodology for decision-making.
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Investigative Techniques
Financial Investigation Course (FINANC)
The Financial Investigations course will provide participants with the knowledge, tools and resources to effectively investigate the financial component of a crime. During this course, participants will learn how to:
- identify the various typologies or methodologies and emerging trends of substantive offences and conduct a financial investigation of these crimes; and
- apply alternate investigative methods and techniques
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Major Crime Investigative Techniques (MCITC)
This ten-day course provides criminal investigators with the knowledge, skills and procedures to conduct thorough investigations of major crime scenes such as homicides and other serious crimes against persons. More information.
Advanced Vehicle Theft Investigative Techniques (AVTITC)
This ten-day course is designed to provide vehicle investigators with the skills, knowledge and procedures needed to assist in the investigation of vehicle theft offences and a professional approach to vehicle theft investigation. More information.
Drug Investigative Techniques (DITC)
This fifteen day course will provide the candidate with the knowledge, skills and investigative techniques essential to the successful investigation and prosecution of drug related offences and organizations/groups involved in the drug trade. Group brainstorming and scenario-based training are a vital component towards achieving the objectives of the course.
This course is for officers entering drug units with up to three years of full-time drug investigation experience. More information.
Clandestine Laboratories Investigations (CLIC)
This ten-day course provides drug enforcement investigators with the knowledge and skills needed to efficiently and effectively investigate clandestine hydroponic and chemical laboratories. More information.
Intelligence Analysis
Tactical Intelligence Analysis (IAC)
Tactical intelligence analysis is an investigative tool, produced by analysts, to support investigators in operational sections working on complex criminal cases.
During this course, participants will learn a set of analytical skills and techniques needed to conduct tactical intelligence analysis. They will explore the analytical thought process in conjunction with information management techniques, including the use of computer-assisted analysis. More information.
Criminal Intelligence Analysis - Distance Learning (DCIAC)
This course will provide students with the opportunity to acquire basic intelligence analysis skills. Students not selected for the Intelligence Analysis course may consider this course, which students complete from home with the help of a course manager. Completing the course takes about forty hours of study. Students should complete this course within three months of starting it. More information.
Strategic Intelligence Analysis (SIAC)
This ten-day course teaches the principles and skills of strategic intelligence analysis. It provides students with the skills, knowledge and procedures needed to collect and analyze data, to provide intelligence interpretations of current and future events, and to assist in determining strategic views, options, and courses of further action. To be selected, students must have considerable experience in intelligence analysis and have taken a basic intelligence course. More information.
Advanced Intelligence Analysis Workshop (AANALT)
During this four-day workshop, participants will enhance their critical thinking skills by exploring and evaluating different perspectives on analytical problems, often resulting in new avenues of data collection or revised analytical approaches. Participants will also discover new ways of adjusting their analytical interpretation of situations, as new data and new approaches are applied. This workshop also contains a session on new and topical analytical methods and explores the adaptation of these methods to criminal intelligence analysis. More information.
Crisis Situations
Incident Commanders - Hostage / Barricaded Persons
(COMNDR)
This five-day course offers students the knowledge, skills and procedures for planning and directing operations in hostage and/or barricaded person(s) situations.
This training is designed for senior police supervisors who are required to assume and retain command of police operations in hostage/barricaded person(s) situations. The methodology taught makes it suitable for police agencies which maintain a tactical unit or, at the very least, a fully trained containment unit. More information.
Crisis Negotiators (NEGOTR)
This eight-day course provides students with the skills and techniques found useful in negotiating the release of hostages and the surrender of hostage takers and/or barricaded persons. This course stresses the psychology of negotiation and gives students an understanding of how the negotiator's role fits into a crisis management program. More information.
Crisis Negotiators - Refresher (NEGREF)
This five-day course provides an update for police officers who negotiate situations with hostage takings or barricaded persons. The course provides the previously trained Crisis Negotiator with the latest philosophy and techniques in dealing with these situations. More information.
Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)
ViCLAS Specialist (VICLAS)
This fifteen-day course provides officers working in ViCLAS units with knowledge of the behaviours of serious, serial and deviant offenders and insight into the application of the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS). More information.
Polygraphy
Forensic Interviewing (FINTC)
This ten-day course provides the major crime investigator with the theory, knowledge, methodology, and practical application required for conducting a proper cognitive or memory enhancing interview. These skills will aid in the collection of witness information, enhance the investigators' abilities to detect deception and/or deliberate information editing, and provide the most organized and systematic approach to criminal interrogation. The course is restricted to officers employed as major crime investigators. More information.
Polygraph Examiners (PEC)
This eleven-week course will provide the student with the skills, knowledge and procedures needed to conduct successful polygraph examinations. More information.