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
An immersive law enforcement training course providing hands-on experience in patrol activities, criminal procedures, and officer safety through an approved Law Enforcement Explorer/Cadet program. Students develop practical skills in technology use, crime scene preservation, report writing, and use-of-force decision-making while exploring ethical policing and diverse community engagement. Course includes response training for various scenarios including domestic violence, mental health crises, and high-priority calls.
*Law Enforcement Agency sponsorship, Criminal Justice Department approval, and criminal history background checks 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. Analyze how personal biases influence law enforcement decision-making and professional conduct.
2. Execute appropriate patrol responses in simulated law enforcement scenarios
3. Demonstrate proper crime scene management protocols.
4. Apply criminal law procedures in field situations
5. Implement the use-of-force continuum in decision-making scenarios.
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
Potential Methods
A. Mock scenes
B. Objective exams
C. Oral exams
D. Portfolio
E. Reflective writing
F. Successful completion of Explorer/Cadet training units (may include academy)
(Proof of successful completion of coursework issued by training organization is required)
G. Essay
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