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The Kentucky Narcotic Officers’ Association Training Conference will be held September 6,7, and 8, 2023 at the Downtown Hilton Hotel in Lexington again. An 8 hour block of training is in the process of KLEC Certification and we should follow the usual schedule. We will have much more detail available by July. You will find a new KNOA membership form for 2023 on the website as all we ask is that you become or maintain your membership.
KNOA Membership Application
About 80 Free Rooms will be available for attendees who’s agency cannot provide lodging.
Two different classes for your choosing on Thursday that are in the process of KLEC/DOCJT Certification
Registration should open in late July.
- Wednesday, September 6th
- 1 PM Opening Ceremony, guest speakers, intel sharing and more…..
- Thursday, September 7th
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- Criminal M.A.P.P. Training – 8 hours
- Conducted by Pennsylvania State Police Specialized Interdiction Unit Corporal Michael Vaccaro with Street Cop Training.
- This course is designed to give students insight into how to take criminal interdiction a step further, and open student’s eyes to things they have never seen before through looking at M.A.P.P (Motel, Airport, Parking Lot, Parcel) locations. This course will discuss and provide in-depth details on the common criminal trends and smuggling tactics used at these facilities and locations. The student will be educated on why and how drug trafficking organizations are exploiting major courier services to engage upon and operate their illegal businesses. Students will focus on how to initiate a thorough investigation at a hotel/motel, from establishing sources of information, common tactics to effecting an arrest, and further court proceedings. The airport interdiction section will demonstrate the level of interceptions at major airports through commercial air travel. The parking lot interdiction section will give students a perspective on how and what crimes are being conducted in public parking lots designed to blend in with normal everyday society. This course will also provide students with the tools and resources to establish their own parcel interdiction program. This training course will provide detailed training using many visual resources to ensure that the student has a practical skillset to implement immediately. These methods will provide legal direction to ensure that all students have a thorough understanding of law and case law compliance to aid in all types of narcotic-opioid, wanted persons, and terrorism investigations.
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- Informant Management and Control – 8 hours
- Conducted by Retired Detective/Reserve Dallas PD Officer Byron Boston with Professional Law Enforcement Training.
- This course is designed to give students proven techniques and strategies to cultivate, maintain, and control informants. Confidential informants are critical tools for all levels of law enforcement investigations and officers must learn to properly cultivate and develop informants to be successful in their investigations. Historically, police agencies provide very little training to officers that manage informants. This practice often leads to highly publicized scandals, which could include officers being disciplined, fired, or sent to prison for the way they handled their informant. One of the primary causes of informant scandals is the lack of written policies and procedures. Students will be provided with sample policies, procedures, and informant agreements developed by Professional Law Enforcement Training to better prepare and prevent informant scandals. This course will also utilize informant case studies to learn techniques to better assist students in minimizing risks associated with informant operations. These concepts will aid the students throughout all forms of narcotic-opioid, wanted persons, and terrorism investigations.
- Friday, September 8th
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- Under Fire – 4 hours
- Conducted by Retired Weber County Sheriff’s Office, Utah Lieutenant Nate Hutchinson.
- On January 4th, 2012, Lieutenant Hutchinson was involved in a thirteen-minute gun battle after his narcotics team was ambushed while serving a knock and announce search warrant on a small marijuana grow house. During the gunfight, Lt. Hutchinson was shot five times while rescuing injured officers from the home. Lt. Hutchinson will provide a debrief of the search warrant, a detailed account of the gunfight, lessons learned in the aftermath, as well as the mindset that helped him survive the near fatal gunshot wounds and continue to fight until all his team had been pulled from the home.