| Title | Description | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field Training Officer Training (FTO) | This course is designed to prepare experienced officers for the task of training newly hired employees who have successfully completed BLET. Course content includes the role of the field training officer, the training function, interpersonal communication skills, ethics, civil liability, report writing and evaluations, leadership skills, performance evaluations, principles of counseling, and problem solving | 2025/03/31 | 2025/04/04 |
| Advanced Interview and Interrogation | This course is for officers who have previously attended the Basic Interview and Interrogation course and is designed to enhance the skills and techniques covered in the basic course. Students will work on developing their skills to obtain complete, accurate and truthful information from suspects, witnesses, and victims. | 2025/04/07 | 2025/04/11 |
| Officer Survival: Building search Tactics | This unit of officer survival establishes effective strategies and techniques for responding, approaching, entering, maneuvering, searching and surviving a high risk building searches. Students will need handcuffs, and duty belts, but no firearms. | 2025/04/08 | 2025/04/08 |
| Basic S.W.A.T. | This is the BasicS.W.A.T. course that will cover every area of tactics for a basic operator. This will be an intense course that will be physically and mentally demanding. Some of the taactical areas taat will be covered is an overview of S.W.A.T. physical fitness for the S.W.A.T. operator, CBQ Thresh hold evaluation, tactical dynamic and static room clearing, combative fighting for close quarters with and without weapons, tactical firearms (handguns, rifles, submachine gun), ballistic shields, down man rescue, entry drills, dry/live fire, vehicle takedowns, legal issues for S.W.A.T. operators, S.W.A.T. callouts during night operations dry/live fire evolutions, use of tactical Robot, SIMS evolutions and several more intense block of instructions. Equipment needed: 1. Duty handgun and holster; 2. If available duty rifle, submachine gun; 3. Gas mask mandatory with filter; 4. Tactical entry and protective kit including helmet (TACTICAL GEAR); 5. If available elbow and knee pads; 6. 1 of each - smoke, gas CN or CS and flash bang; 7. Ammo - handgun - 450 rounds; 8. Ammo - submachine gun - 350 rounds; 10. Flashlight/secondary light; 11. Ballistic shield; 12. Rap around eye protection, hearing protection is mandatory; 13. Ballistic vest or tactical ves is mandatory (helmet); 14. Recommend gloves, boots, baseball style hat, BDU style pants; 15. Plenty of water; 16. Outlines are mandatory - will be handed out in classroom or on college website; 17. SIMS handgun 9mm, 50 rounds or SIMS if available. | 2025/04/14 | 2025/04/17 |
| Officer Survival: Vehicle Stops | This unit of officer survival establishes sound strategies, principles, policies and procedures for conducting both known high risk vehicle stops and unknown risk stops. Students will need their handcuffs and duty belts but no weapons for training. The class schedule includes evening exercises . | 2025/04/17 | 2024/04/17 |
| Fugitive Apprehension | In areas and jurisdictions throughout the country, a constant in law enforcement and public threat is that we all have wanted persons that in many cases are violent criminals and repeat offenders. Many of those wanted persons remain at large and continue to do harm to others and our society. This course is designed to expand upon the knowledge and skills that officers will need to safely and effectively locate and apprehend those offenders. The course will place focus on all aspects of apprehension from the time the warrant is issued until post apprehension. This course will provide training regarding intelligence gathering, case assignments and work-ups, research, exploitation of historical and real-time electronic surveillance and social media, cellular analysis, apprehension techniques, tactical mindset and leadership regarding the apprehension of violent offenders, operational planning, equipment needs, task forces and allocation of personnel, consent searches, and knowledge of applicable laws. Students should bring with them: ● Laptops that contain Microsoft Excel Software ● Microsoft “Streets and Trips Software” and/or Google earth Pro Software ● All Tactical Equipment (Body Armor, Helmets, etc.) ● Electronic Media Storage (External Hard Drive, Thumb Drive. Etc.) ● Communications Equipment (if coming as a team | 2025/04/21 | 2025/04/25 |
| Ground Defense | This class is designed to expand on the concepts of basic ground defense to include the use of advanced level ground techniques as well as the S.P.E.A.R. system to avoid takedowns and quickly penetrate and move suspects in raid type situations. | 2025/04/28 | 2025/04/29 |
| LIDAR Operator Certification | Radar Operator Certification and LIDAR Operator certification are programs offered under the rules and regulations of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and requires 100% attendance; therefore officers must be in the classroom at 0800 hours for the start of class. Students must have a current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement at the start of class and a vehicle equipped with a radar unit. Officers field testing on units equipped with front and rear antenna must be prepared to test on full operation of the unit. Agencies can contact the Justice Academy Bookstore (910-926-6099) to obtain necessary copies of the current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement. | 2025/04/28 | 2025/05/02 |
| Narcotic Covert Surveillance (Date Change) | This is an advanced law enforcement course which serves as an introduction to concepts and techniques of covert surveillance and undercover operations. Students will participate in actual surveillance of role players during the training. | 2025/04/28 | 2025/05/02 |
| Basic Gang Investigation | This 3-day course provides basic, entry-level training for those who are assigned to work with street gangs. Instruction on how to recognize and identify gang members and gang insagnia, ways to develop sources of information about gang activities within the community, and multijurisdictional approaches to gang investigations. Who Should Attend: Training is offered to sworn officers afrom North Carolina. Officer/Investigators/Detectives or Agents that have limited experience, but little formal training in street gang investigations, to include Detention/Corrections. | 2025/04/28 | 2025/04/30 |
| School Rampage Shooter Training | What causes a “normal” teen to becoming a mass murderer? Can they be predicted and prevented? This course examines the various theories of the cause of school shooters, warning signs, assessment and interventions. This course can stand alone or be combined with the course on threat assessment. This course can also include case study presentations of two would be mass murderers. One who planned to use homemade destructive devices rather than firearms, another 14 years old and was subsequently tried as an adult. | 2025/04/30 | 2025/05/01 |
| Domestic Terrorism & Radicalization to Violent Extremism | This relevant and timely training will provide law enforcement officers with an introductory overview of numerous domestic terror indicators and criminally subversive subcultures encountered by law enforcement professionals on a daily basis. The course will provide a definition of violent extremism and focus on identifying individuals and groups who attempt to advance social or political beliefs through force or violence. LE professionals will be educated on the First Amendment and the Constitutional protections afforded to all groups discussed. At the conclusion of the course attendees will be trained to identify racially andideologically motivated behavior and discern between criminal activity and First Amendment protected speach and actions. | 2025/05/05 | 2025/05/06 |
| Effective Report Writing | Report writing is one of the most important functions of a law enforcement officer. Reports are reviewed by prosecutors, attorneys, judges, insurance companies and the public. It is important to be concise and clear when writing all reports. This course will teach the proper structure and organization of a report as well as how to avoid some of the most common errors when report writing. | 2025/05/06 | 2025/05/06 |
| Radar Operator Re-Certification | Radar Operator Certification is a program offered under the rules and regulations of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and requires 100% attendance; therefore officers must be in the classroom at 0800 hours for the start of class. Students must have a current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement at the start of class and a vehicle equipped with a radar unit. Officers field testing on units equipped with front and rear antenna must be prepared to test on full operation of the unit. Agencies can contact the Justice Academy Bookstore (910-525-4151) to obtain necessary copies of the current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement. | 2025/05/12 | 2025/05/13 |
| Patrol Carbine Rifle | 2025 Mandated In-Service | 2025/05/20 | 2025/05/22 |
| Advanced Ground Defense | This class is designed to expand on the concepts of basic ground defense to include the use of advanced level ground techniques as well as the S.P.E.A.R. system to avoid takedowns and quickly penetrate and move suspects in raid type situations. | 2025/05/27 | 2025/05/29 |
| Police Law Institute (PLI) | The goal of this course is to provide the skills necessary to conduct enforcement activities associated with search warrants, warrantless searches, interviews, eyewitness identifications and nontestimonial identification orders and to avoid liability while conducting such activities. Attendance is required at all class sessions. The student must participate in class and practical exercises, successfully prepare search warrants and nontestimonial orders and successfully attain a required score on a written examination administered by personnel rom the North Carolina Justice Academy. Students are required to have the most recent copy of the textbook "Arrest Search and Investigation in North Carolina " written by Robert Farb, and supplemental books, available from the NCJA Bookstore, Telephone 910-926-6099. Reading and other assignments will need to be completed in the student's evening hours. | 2025/06/02 | 2025/06/13 |
| Direct Threat Engagement | This course is designed to instruct law enforcement officers in direct threat engagement and shooting fundamentals as well as the basic medical care interventions that will help save an injured officer and emergency responder’s life until a higher level of care can be safely performed. The course combines the principles of PHTLS and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines. Course participants will learn life-saving medical actions that focus on saving “preventable deaths” while achieving three primary goals: stop the threat, treat the casualty, and continue the mission. Skills being taught will include, bleeding control with a tourniquet, use of hemostatic agents, basic wound management and basic casualty airway management. | 2025/06/04 | 2025/06/05 |
| Opioid Death/Homicide | This course will provide instruction on the methods, techniques and strategies utilized in investigating homicides Crime scene processing analysis and management will be featured topics. This course will be directed toward both investigators and patrol officers. The instruction method will include lectures, video programs and review of actual homicide cases. | 2025/06/13 | 2025/06/13 |
| Advanced S.W.A.T. | This is the Advanced S.W.A.T. course that will cover every area of tactics for a basic operator. This will be an intense course that will be physically and mentally demanding. Some of the tactical areas that will be covered is an overview of S.W.A.T. physical fitness for the S.W.A.T. operator, CBQ Thresh hold evaluation, tactical dynamic and static room clearing, combative fighting for close quarters with and without weapons, tactical firearms (handguns, rifles, submachine gun), ballistic shields, down man rescue, entry drills, dry/live fire, vehicle takedowns, legal issues for S.W.A.T. operators, S.W.A.T. callouts during night operations dry/live fire evolutions, use of tactical Robot, SIMS evolutions and several more intense block of instructions. Equipment needed: 1. Duty handgun and holster; 2. If available duty rifle, submachine gun; 3. Gas mask mandatory with filter; 4. Tactical entry and protective kit including helmet (TACTICAL GEAR); 5. If available elbow and knee pads; 6. 1 of each - smoke, gas CN or CS and flash bang; 7. Ammo - handgun - 450 rounds; 8. Ammo - submachine gun - 350 rounds; 10. Flashlight/secondary light; 11. Ballistic shield; 12. Rap around eye protection, hearing protection is mandatory; 13. Ballistic vest or tactical ves is mandatory (helmet); 14. Recommend gloves, boots, baseball style hat, BDU style pants; 15. Plenty of water; 16. Outlines are mandatory - will be handed out in classroom or on college website; 17. SIMS handgun 9mm, 50 rounds or SIMS if available. | 2025/06/16 | 2025/06/20 |
| Radar Operator Certification | Radar Operator certification is a program offered under the rules and regulations of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and requires 100% attendance; therefore officers must be in the classroom at 0800 hours for registration. Students must have a current Radar Operator Manual and Supplement at the start of class and a vehicle equipped with a radar unit (allow one vehicle for every three officers). Officers field testing on units equipped with front and rear antenna must be prepared to test on the full operation of the unit. Agencies should contact eh justice Academy Bookstore (910 525-4151) to obtain necessary copies of the Current Radar Manual and Supplement in time to have them for class. Manuals are not available in Wilson Tech's Bookstore. | 2025/06/16 | 2025/06/20 |
| DWI Detection & SFST | This course is designed to introduce the patrol officer to methods, techniques, and strategies utilized in detecting impaired drivers and establishing evidence necessary for successful prosecution. Standardized methods of field sobriety testing are introduced, and students are taught techniques of Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus in establishing evidence of impairment. Practical exercises and controlled drinking exercises take place during the afternoon and evening hours of the class. | 2025/06/17 | 2025/06/19 |
| CIT Crisis Intervention Team Training | CIT is a 40 hour training designed to assist our first responders who respond to incidents involving individuals with a mental health or substance use crisis, and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Officers will learn to identify and effectively interact with people who have mental illness, intellectual or developmental disabilities, and/or addictions, basic medication awareness, verbal de-escalation skills and awareness of community resources. | 2025/06/23 | 2025/06/27 |
| Basic Tactical Shield | This course highlights the use of police ballistic shields and the advantages shields offer to an agency and officer. Officers use shields in various situations that carry a high risk of injury or death from thrown or fired projectiles. The tactical users of shields will be discussed and demonstrated during the course and students will participate in a variety of practical exercises. For course participation students will need their handgun, 350 rounds of ammo, duty belt, eye and ear protection, helmet, ballistic vest and body armor, tactical gear is optional. | 2025/07/15 | 2025/07/16 |
| School Resource Officer Law | This course will present students with guidelines on operating as a school resource officer as it relates to the fourth amendment and other legal issues concernig juveniles and law enforcement. | 2025/07/24 | 2025/07/25 |
| School Resource Officer Training | NCJA Commission approved SRO certification. This course will present students with guidelines on operating as a school resource officer as it relates to the fourth amendment and other legal issues concerning juveniles and law enforcement. | 2025/08/04 | 2025/08/08 |
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