Seminar Title:
Spanish Level I Officer Survival and Communication
DATES: 5/17/2021 through 5/19/2021
INSTRUCTOR(S): Kevan Dugan
LOCATION: Wiregrass Public Safety Center - 100 Public Safety Way, Dothan , AL 36303
HOTEL: Holiday Inn Express - Dothan , AL
Contact Hotel for State Govt. Rate
COURSE REGISTRATION FEE: $350.00 Includes all training materials, and a Certificate of Completion.
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Instructor Bio
Kevan Dugan retired in 2011 after more than 28 years with the Pennsylvania State Police, retiring as Division Director of the Bureau of Emergency and Special Operations. His varied assignments included patrol, criminal investigations, undercover narcotics and SWAT. He served six years as a board member for the National Tactical Officers Association and is a graduate of the FBINAA, Session 213. After retirement he worked as the Director of Sales in Mexico for Point Blank Body Armor. He was a Spanish instructor for his department and acted as interpreter on homicide, aggravated assault, theft, drug and internal investigations, as well as translating department documents into Spanish. For the NTOA, he taught SWAT Command Courses in Spanish in South America.
Certified with PITC as a Spanish Instructor in 2001, he has taught in Pennsylvania, New York, North Dakota, South Carolina, Missouri, Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho, Indiana and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Pre-Payment is not required to register or attend IN-PERSON seminars. Pre-payment is required for WEBINARS and ONLINE COURSES.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS SEMINAR
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Course
Objectives
This course is designed to take officers with little or no knowledge of the Spanish language and have them complete a preliminary report, citation, or booking report using a method developed and validated! Your personnel will be able to affect an arrest, traffic stop and high risk traffic stop in a practical exercise. Also, this program will familiarize your personnel with “Street Spanish” in an effort to reduce danger and better prepare your officers for criminal investigations. Latino culture and customs will be discussed.
At the conclusion of this course, the participant should be able to do the following:
- Alphabet, numbers 0-9 & rules of Spanish pronunciation
Obtaining accurate biographical information, identifiers and physical descriptors in Spanish
Pivotal phrases and interview control techniques to quickly obtain information and avoid being
overwhelmed with conversational Spanish
Arrest commands to prepare suspects for handcuffing and phrases to assert scene-control while gaging compliance and maintaining officer safety
Handle general/unknown-risk and known-risk/high-risk traffic stops with Spanish-speakers
Recognize street slang, gang slang, drug terms weapons terms and precautionary and imminent danger expressions, enhancing situational awareness and officer safety
Gage the interviewee’s knowledge of English
Understand cultural and behavioral cues to better navigate interactions with Spanish-speakers
Case law on Limited English Proficiency & best practices to avoid specific legal pitfalls
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