CJ 260 Law Enforcement Operational Skills: Explore/Cadet (5 credits)
Prerequisite Must be sponsored by an accredited Law Enforcement Agency and approved by the Criminal Justice Program Coordinator. NCIC/WASIC checks required.
Course Description
A course designed to familiarize students with operational procedures, expectations and competencies of local law enforcement agencies through participation in an approved Law Enforcement Explorer/Cadet program. *Law Enforcement Agency sponsorship and Criminal Justice Department approval required. Criminal history background checks are required.
Course Content
Course Content will include but is not limited to the following aspects of law enforcement:
A. Mission, vision, and professional expectations of law enforcement agencies
B. Patrol activities relevant to a variety of calls including: domestic violence, sexual assault, traffic stops, gang activity, field contacts, mentally ill individuals, public disturbance, and high priority calls
C. Law enforcement technology and its impact on policing
D. Crime scene preservation
E. Officer safety
F. Criminal law procedures
G. Use of force continuum from presence to deadly force
H. Report writing
I. Ethics and diversity
Student Outcomes
1.Examine cultural issues that impact law enforcement and how an agency’s mission, vision and professionalism policy address these issues.
2.Demonstrate appropriate responses to a variety of patrol simulations.
3.Review law enforcement technology available to officers.
4.Secure a crime scene, collect, preserve, mark and transport evidence while maintaining the “chain of evidence”.
5.Demonstrate a variety of levels of officer safety.
6.Understand the history and application of criminal law as it pertains to current law enforcement.
7.Access current laws and procedures that impact a law enforcement officer and his or her agency.
8.Use appropriate level of force, given a law enforcement scenario.
9.Construct legally defensible, behaviorally specific, non-judgmental, grammatically correct documents and reports.
10.Examine personal past and current behaviors and beliefs related to law enforcement ethical standards.
Degree Outcomes
Programs Outcome: Graduates will critically evaluate past, present and future discrimination and privilege of individuals, societies, groups and institutions.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 150
Total Contact Hours 150
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