Busses, Highway, Canine, Parcels, Train, Truck,
Airport, Hotel/Motel & Asset Forfeiture

Four Days

Course Description

This course is designed for those working Interdiction in Bus Stations, Highways, Amtrak Stations, Airports, Hotel/Motel, Package and Freight groups and for K-9 Handlers. After attending this seminar, an individual officer/agent will be totally prepared to begin work at any interdiction assignment. Heavy emphasis is placed on Case Law and the legalities of both Consensual Searches and Detentions. Search Warrants, Characteristics, Civil Liability and Interviewing are all topics discussed in depth.

Participants will be able to understand the fundamental and technical tactics, terminology, and problem areas of interdiction stops. Instruction will show the need to understand the relationship of interdiction stops to the fourth amendment. Students will obtain a working knowledge of the case law pertaining to vehicle stops and searches. The investigative procedures involved in suspect/defendant interviews will be emphasized. Vehicle content analysis, hidden compartments, document warrants, controlled deliveries of contraband, asset seizures, case debriefs, preparing reports and court testimony will be accentuated.

Instructors

Clay Searle  is President of the International Narcotics Interdiction Association (INIA/Skynarc). INIA is an international organization for law enforcement officers working drug interdiction. Clay is retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. Twenty of Clay's twenty five years on LAPD were spent working narcotics. Working as a Detective, he was assigned to the Los Angeles International Airport for over fifteen years. Clay formed the first LAPD Bus and Train Squad and formulated the first "package squad" in the country. He is the co-founder of INIA and the "Skynarc" annual conference. He implemented the certification process and the current course content for DEA's Drug Interdiction "Jetway" training program. Internationally, Clay has taught criminal interdiction in Athens Greece for the 2004 Olympics, Peru, Colombia, Thailand, Bolivia, Russia, China, Ecuador, Mexico, Turkey and many other countries. He has written numerous articles on interdiction including “Criminal Profiling in Transportation Centers as a Tool for Counter-Terrorism” and “Profiling in Law Enforcement”. Clay has a Bachelor of Science Degree (BS) in Criminology from California State University at Long Beach. Clay Searle is the Director of Training for the I.N.I.A.  E-mail clay@inia.org

Mark Parker is currently employed as a Special Agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. S/A Parker has been in law enforcement for 12 years, with 10 years being with the NC SBI. S/A Parker has been working drug investigations, primarily focusing on all phases of interdiction investigations for his NC SBI career. S/A Parker is also assigned as a Task Force Agent with the Raleigh, NC DEA Resident Office, concentrating on interdiction and asset forfeiture cases. S/A Parker is involved on a daily basis with the process of seizing assets and through trial and error has developed techniques to simplify and facilitate asset forfeiture seizures for street and interdiction officers. S/A Parker is a certified state instructor, who has taught for INIA at national and international conferences. 

Ed Schumacher is a retired Detective Sergeant with the Narcotics Bureau of the Miami-Dade Police Department and has thirty-one (32) years of law enforcement experience including twenty-four (24) years of narcotics investigation experience. Ed most recently served as the Sergeant supervisor of the Domestic Interdiction Unit at the Miami International Airport and also the supervisor of the Miami-Dade P.D. Kidnapping Squad. He has been a  State of Florida certified law enforcement instructor and  has taught at the Southeast Criminal Justice Institute, Miami-Dade Community College Criminal Justice Program, Miami-Dade P.D. Training Bureau and the Drug Enforcement Administrations Jetway and Basic Narcotic Investigators Programs. Ed was a pioneer in the interdiction field and is an expert in airport, bus and train interdiction. Ed is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Narcotics Interdiction Association.

Steve Sloan has been a member of the San Diego Police Department for over 26 years. He started working narcotic detection canines in 1985 as the first narcotic detection canine handler for the department. In 1988, Steve developed and taught the first narcotic detection canine class for the San Diego Police Department. Steve was the lead narcotic detection canine trainer for the San Diego Police Department from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 Detective Sloan was promoted to Detectives and transferred to the Narcotics Section. Steve was assigned to the San Diego International Airport Harbor Narcotic Task Force as a Detective/Canine handler from 1993 to 1996. Steve developed a narcotic detection canine program for the Investigation Bureau of the San Diego Police Department and currently has three additional narcotic detection canines assigned for training. Steve was assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration, San Diego Integrated Narcotic Task Force Parcel Interdiction team from 1996 to 2004. He was assigned parcel/freight investigations for eight years and is currently assigned again to the San Diego Airport interdiction team. Steve is the current president of the California Narcotic Canine Association, certifying official, executive board member and is one of its founding members. Steve is also a member of the board of directors of the International Narcotic Interdiction Association. Steve was the California Narcotic Officers Association Region IV Chairman from 1992 through 1996. Steve has instructed for the Drug Enforcement Administration, JETWAY, SKYNARC, INIA, California Narcotic Officers Association, Arizona Narcotic Officers Association, California Narcotic Canine Association, State of California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement and San Diego Police Department. Steve has acquired extensive knowledge and expertise in working narcotic detection canines, canine case law, canine court testimony, parcel interdiction and airport interdiction. . Sloan is an internationally recognized expert on narcotic detection dogs and their training. He has lectured throughout the United States, as well as in Brazil, Germany, Egypt, Mexico and Saipan Steve has testified as a State of California and Federal court recognized expert in the fields of narcotic canine detection and training and parcel interdiction.
E-mail - steve@inia.org.

David Rivers is a Detective Sergeant with the Oklahoma City Police Department and has seventeen years of law enforcement experience, including 11 years of narcotics investigative experience. He has a degree in Police Science from the Oklahoma State University. David is currently part of the Oklahoma City Drug Interdiction Unit. He is a State of Oklahoma and DEA certified law enforcement instructor and has instructed bus and parcel interdiction at Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs A-One Conference, California Narcotics Canine Association, Drug Enforcement Administrations Jetway Programs and SkyNarc conferences. David is a certified drug detector dog handler and is currently a drugdetector dog certifier for the State of Oklahoma.

Carl Wall is currently a Special Agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. SA Wall has been in law enforcement for 11 years, 5 years with the Wake County Sheriff’s Office and 6 years as a Special Agent. SA Wall has been assigned as a Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force Office for the last four years assigned to the Raleigh, North Carolina Resident Office. SA Wall has processed seizure cases for various local and state agencies, he has been involved in some of the largest currency seizures in North Carolina. SA Wall teaches asset forfeiture across North Carolina for local agencies and has taught at the INIA National Conference.

Jason Crocker is a Deputy Sheriff with the Johnston County Sheriff's Office in Smithfield, North Carolina. Deputy Crocker has over 10 years experience in law enforcement and has been assigned to the Criminal Interdiction Unit for the past 5 years. Deputy Crocker patrols Interstate 95 and Interstate 40, along with his partner Deputy Danny Johnson. Deputy Crocker has been involved in seizing over 6 million dollars in drugs and drug proceeds. Deputy Crocker is experienced in locating non-factory compartments inside automobiles. Deputy Crocker received the National Criminal Enforcement Association R.E.B. 314 Honorable Mention Interdiction Team Award and was awarded by the El Paso Intelligence Center and the Drug Enforcement Administration for Outstanding Highway Interdiction Seizures. Deputy Crocker is a certified state instructor and has instructed locally and internationally on recognizing criminal indicators and locating non-factory hidden compartments.

Danny Johnson is a Deputy Sheriff/K-9 Handler with the Johnston County Sheriff's Office in Smithfield, North Carolina. Deputy Danny Johnson has over 11 years experience in law enforcement and has been assigned to the Criminal Interdiction Unit for the past 5 years. Deputy Danny Johnson patrols Interstate 95 and Interstate 40 and
along with his partner Jason Crocker have been involved with seizing over 6 million dollars in drugs and drug proceeds. Deputy Danny Johnson is experienced in locating non-factory compartment inside automobiles. Deputy Danny Johnson received the National Criminal Enforcement Association R.E.B. 314 Honorable Mentioned Interdiction Team Award and the National Criminal Enforcement Association Largest Ecstacy Seizure Award. Deputy Johnson was awarded Largest Highway Interdiction Ecstacy Seizure and Outstanding Highway Interdiction Seizures given by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the El Paso Intelligence Center. Danny Johnson is a certified state instructor and has instructed locally and internationally on recognizing criminal indicators and locating non-factory hidden compartments.

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