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2012 Winter Conference Best Western Kelly Inn 100 4th Avenue South St. Cloud, MN 56301 (320)
253-0606 The Minnesota State Association of Narcotics Investigators will be hosting its annual winter conference January 12-13, 2012. The conference will be held at the Best Western Kelly Inn, St. Cloud, Minnesota. The room rates, including tax, are $86.53 for a single, and $97.77 for a double. Please call to make your own hotel reservations, and advise them that you are attending the MSANI Conference. The winter conference will feature the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program. The State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program, a joint effort with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is funded by the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, through a grant to the Institute for Intergovernmental Research. The Program provides specialized training for law enforcement personnel in combating terrorism and extremist criminal activity. In order to ensure that SLATT training always delivers the most up-to-date information, terrorism-related topics are constantly researched and reviewed, and timely information is offered regarding pre-incident preparation, investigation, prevention, and interdiction training. The SLATT Program has been proactively involved in anti-terrorism research and training since 1996. It is entirely separate and fulfills a different need from First Responder and other related Weapons of Mass Destruction/Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical response training provided to emergency service personnel. SLATT focuses on the prevention of terrorism in the United States by providing the tools necessary for state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers to understand, detect, and investigate acts of terrorism in the United States by both international and domestic, or homegrown, terrorists. While the SLATT program has always placed due emphasis on the threat of foreign-inspired terrorism on American soil, the attacks of September 11, 2001 brought a new intensity to the program's research and training activities. SLATT increased training offerings in foreign-inspired terrorism, addressing specific groups and organizations that may pose a danger to America's going forward. SLATT also identified an increase in violent acts linked to various special-interest groups and incorporated this aspect into the training curricula and research activities. SLATT is committed to state, local, and tribal law enforcement with the training necessary to interdict and prevent future acts of terrorism in America. For more information on the SLATT program, please visit www.slatt.org. Training topics will include: Terrorism Overview - This course briefly introduces and defines the subject of terrorism. It explores the current terrorist threat in the United States and highlights unique aspects of "terrorist" criminals as opposed to the offenders that law enforcement normally encounters. Preventing Terrorism through Impostor Detection and Fraudulent ID Training - This course provides a familiarization with identity theft as it relates to criminal and terrorist acts, with an understanding of how criminals and terrorists use fraudulent identification. It resents a description and demonstration of security features used on driver's licenses, U.S. passports and Permanent Resident Cards, and other federal documents. It provides information regarding the detection of impostors by utilizing facial recognition techniques. Terrorism Indicators - This overview provides a comprehensive look at warnings and indicators, with an emphasis on integrating terrorism intelligence into traditional criminal investigations. It explores how to identify early waring signs often exhibited by criminal extremeist groups and individuals. Information sharing is a key component of the presentation. Sovereign Citizens: Understanding the Threat - This presentation deals with the officer safety and awareness issues during encounters that my manifest with those who express a sovereign citizen/anti-government ideology. Behavioral and visual indicators of potential extremist ideology will be discussed to provide the officer with the ability to identify potential confrontation and initiate preventive actions to de-escalate verbal confrontations and reduce the potential for violence. Registration Procedures: The fee for the conference is $70.00. You must register for the conference on the BCA Training website by selecting MSANI Winter Conference. After you have submitted the registration and received your confirmation e-mail, print the e-mail and send your e-mail along with your registration fee to: MSANI, P.O. Box 223, Lowry, MN 56349. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Parshall at 320-763-4137. |
