CJ 261 Law Enforcement Operational Skills: Reserve (10 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 needed to obtain “Reserve” status through participation and successful completion of an approved Law Enforcement Reserve academy/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. Criminal Procedure: Sources of police authority, evidence, court systems, field contacts, searches, arrest and custodial interrogation
B. Criminal Law issues: legal rules, substantive criminal law, procedural criminal law, jurisdiction, preliminary and complicity articles, defense and defense-type mechanisms, anticipatory offenses, firearms, classes of crimes, homicide, assault, custodial interference, sexual offenses, harassment, arson and malicious mischief, burglary, theft, robbery, bribery and official proceedings, obstruction, public disturbance, indecent exposure and prostitution, juvenile law, domestic violence, Landlord-Tenant Act, fraud, liquor laws, drug laws, etc.
C. Cross-cultural communications (oral and written) to reduce conflict and engender choice while working with multicultural populations in crisis situations
D. Patrol procedures: function, preparation, proactive patrol response, interviews, arrest, search, seizures, high risk incidents, gang awareness, K-9, community oriented policing
E. Overview of traffic enforcement: codes, violator contact, and citations
F. Law enforcement responsibility in “Criminal Investigations”: Basic crime scene investigation, photography, sketching, latent fingerprinting, impressions, investigation of specific crimes such as: burglary, homicide, sex crimes, domestic violence, and child abuse
G. Use of force and fitness: defensive tactics, firearms, deadly force and liability
H. Emergency vehicle operations to include but not limited to: attitude, factors, and procedures
I. Professionalism, ethics and diversity
Student Outcomes
1. Identify factors and sources of “Criminal Procedures” in a variety of scenarios.
2. Understand the premise, role and sources of substantive criminal law as it pertains to a law enforcement officer’s duties.
3. Delineate the elements of a variety of crimes and degree of same.
4. Apply the intent of legislation, statutory definitions and duties of law enforcement in regard to the complexities of Domestic Violence.
5. Reflect upon one’s own personal bias and beliefs and the impact of such while communicating with and serving diverse populations.
6. Construct legally defensible, non-judgmental, behaviorally specific, and grammatically correct documents and reports.
7. Minimize conflict/crisis through cross-cultural communication and negotiations.
8. Respond appropriately to a variety of patrol situations to include procedures, arrests, search, seizure and documentation.
9. Appraise philosophical nuances of community policing and identify working/non-working models.
10. Successfully demonstrate appropriate traffic enforcement in a variety of traffic scenarios.
11. Explain and demonstrate the correct method of collecting, preserving, marking and transporting common types of evidence in various scenarios.
12. Administer a number of defensive tactics techniques in simulated situations.
13. Execute firearm safety and proficiency in simulated situations.
14. Articulate various liability issues involved in Use of Force situations.
15. Demonstrate the ability to drive a police vehicle competently under simulated emergency conditions.
16. Perform in an ethical manner aligned with the stated mission and goals of that agency.
17. Implement strategies as a member of a diverse team or group in a manner that is inclusive, and culturally sensitive that supports stated mission and goals.
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 300
Total Contact Hours 300
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