Three Day Seminar

Course Description

Criminal profiling at major transportation centers (airports, train stations, bus stations and ports of entry) has been developing since the nineteen seventies. Profiling was initiated as a response to drug organizations utilizing transportation centers to facilitate their crimes. Techniques were developed and continuously refined to identify passengers who were at risk of being involved in criminal activity. These techniques apply to potential terrorists as well. The recent arrest and conviction of an Al Queda cell leader by interdiction unit officers on a Greyhound bus in Greensboro, NC, attests to this applicability.

Terrorist organizations are forced, by the nature of their organizational goals, to utilize transportation centers to move people, money and material. While traveling through these centers, the terrorists are at their most vulnerable to detection and arrest.

Criminal profiling at transportation centers rests upon this premise: criminals (which include terrorists) utilizing public transportation systems are forced, by virtue of the clandestine nature of their pursuits, to act and travel in ways that can be distinguished from that of legitimate travelers. This class focuses on utilizing the tools available at transportation centers, coupled with known criminal characteristics, to interdict terrorists and their criminal brethren.

This course is designed for those working in airports, bus stations, train stations, package, freight squads and border facilities. After attending this seminar, an individual Agent/Detective will be totally prepared to begin work at any interdiction assignment profiling terrorists, drug couriers and criminals. Covered in this course are the basics of setting up an office, selecting personnel and organizing a task force. Emphasis will be on the prevention of criminal organizations and terrorists from utilizing transportation centers to facilitate their crimes. Terrorism, Courier Characteristics, Civil Liability and Interviewing are all topics discussed in depth. Computer analysis will be explained, along with the newest investigation techniques. An analysis of the World Trade Center disaster and the resulting arrests by interdiction units will be analyzed.

Sample Agenda

Terrorism Interdiction Seminar Day One

1000-1100 Introduction, Scope of Problem
1100-1300 Setting Up an Office/Task Force
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1800 Criminal Characteristics

Terrorism Interdiction Seminar Day Two

1000-1300 Interviewing techniques in transportation centers
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1500 Computer Analysis & PNRs
1500-1600 Buses, Trains & Parcels
1600-1800 Case Studies

Terrorism Interdiction Seminar Day Three & Four

Practical Exercises at an airport or transportation center are available if desired. 

 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

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.

Adrian Owens 
Adrian Owen is a retired Senior Investigation Officer with Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise in London, England. He served as a Customs Officer for 36 years during which time he investigated all types of smuggling by land, sea & air. He has over 25 years of narcotics investigation experience & for 13 years he was a Senior Officer managing smuggling operations involving large quantities of heroin, cocaine & amphetamines. Adrian spent the last 7 years of his career at London Heathrow, the busiest international airport in the world, where he managed major narcotics investigations & in particular those involving organized crime syndicates utilizing airport & airline employees to facilitate the smuggling. He worked with the airport authorities, police & other agencies to devise methods of countering this type of narcotics smuggling. Adrian has an extensive experience of training & teaching both in the United Kingdom & abroad. These include classes with H.M. Customs Training Centre, U.K., Bramshill Police Staff College, U.K., The UK Security Services, Scandinavian Law Enforcement, (Norway), The U.S. Air Smuggling Investigators Association (ASIA) & Skynarc, U.S.