Airport, Bus, Train, Freight, Package & Canine

Private & Commercial Vehicles

Course Description

This course is designed for those working Drug Interdiction in Airports, Bus Stations, Amtrak Stations, Package and Freight squads and for K-9 Handlers. After attending this seminar, an individual Agent/Detective will be totally prepared to begin work at any interdiction assignment. Covered in this course are the basics of setting up an office, selecting personnel and organizing a task force. Heavy emphasis is placed on Case Law and the legalities of both Consensual Searches and Detentions. Search Warrants, Courier Characteristics, Civil Liability and Interviewing are all topics discussed in depth. Computer analysis will be explained, along with the newest techniques.

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.

Sample Agenda

Drug Interdiction Seminar Day One

1000-1100 Introduction , Scope Of Problem
1100-1300 Setting Up An Office/Task Force
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1500 Prioritizing Flights/Buses/Trains
1500-1600 Networking
1600-1700 Utilizing Informants
1700-1800 Consensual Searches

Drug Interdiction Seminar Day Two

1000-1300 Courier Characteristics
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1500 Case Law
1500-1600 Detentions (Terry Stops)
1600-1800 Computer Analysis & Pnr 'S

Drug Interdiction Seminar Day Three

1000-1200 Freight Interdiction
1200-1300 Small Packages
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1700 Bus & Train
1700-1800 Special Problems