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     Law Enforcement Training Associates, Inc.                                  Presents

       The 2nd Annual Female Undercover Officers National                                 Conference and Training Seminar

    Advanced Vice, Narcotics & Gang Investigations for Female Officers

This is a specialized five day (40 hour) training program designed for Female Law Enforcement Officers, Vice Investigators, Narcotics Investigators and Patrol Officers who participate in street level enforcement and Undercover Vice/ Narcotics operations.  This conference will provide an atmosphere which will allow female officers to share experiences and learn techniques from other female law enforcement officers. 

The conference curriculum will incorporate undercover scenario training which will utilize role players and place officers in undercover roles replicating undercover escort investigations by using hotel rooms as well as scenario training for undercover street level prostitution stings. Traditionally law enforcement agencies will pull female officers from various units and place them in undercover operations with little or no training.  This training is a unique concept that will allow officers to hone and learn new skills, which will allow them to successfully work undercover details.

Prostitution and Narcotics activity are every day problems that affect   entire communities.  The curriculum will cover how to successfully conduct street level prostitution and narcotics stings.  Decoy officer safety techniques will be covered, which will show how to keep female officers safe during undercover investigations.  Officers will also learn terminolgy and investigative techniques to avoid entrapment issues as well as how to properly plan and safely conduct street level prostitution stings.

Human Trafficking for prostitution is a huge part of the seedy world of prostitution investigations.  Investigative techniques detailing how to work these organizations will be presented during the training. Investigators will learn how to target the organizations that are forcing immigrants from South America, Central America, Eastern Europe and our American juvenile's into the world of prostitution.  Case studies will be presented showing how to target and successfully prosecute individuals involved in Human Trafficking.

Instructors will present case studies on how to initiate and serve "Sneak and Peek" search warrants on illicit massage parlors.  The technical aspects of installing electronic surveillance equipment in these businesses will be detailed along with how to successfully prosecute subjects under RICO statutes.  Investigators will be shown how to properly write search warrants for the covert entry and installation of equipment, search of the business, bank accounts and warrants on the owners residence.  This is a must see block of instruction for all narcotics and vice investigators.

Investigators will be taught methods used to investigate and prosecute in call and out call Escorts, along with setting up reverse sting operations. Strip Clubs are notorious for prostitution and narcotics violations.  Investigators will be taught how to plan and conduct raids on strip clubs and how to utilize seldom used state statutes as well as city and county code violations to tackle the problems of these clubs.  The seedy world of illicit massage parlors will be discussed and investigators will learn the different methods used to infiltrate and prosecute prostitution subjects.

Undercover storefront operations will be covered during the training showing how to set up storefront operations which can be utilized for stolen property cases, money laundering investigations and narcotics reverses. Investigators will be shown how easy and cost effective it is to set up an undercover storefront location.  Conducting covert operations in these facilities increases officer safety and the safety of the general public.  The conference will also detail the anatomy of conducting successful reverse sting trafficking investigations, which target Drug Trafficking Organizations. The course will show how this method of narcotics enforcement disables both the financial side as well as the narcotics side of traffickers. 

The Tactical Narcotics Techniques theory will be covered, which will show how to conduct operations that target problem area's that are suffering from narcotics violators and prostitution.  Undercover street level narcotics reverses will be covered, showing how to investigate narcotics and gang related subjects.  Case studies on long term street level narcotics investigations will be presented during the training.   

The conference will additionally cover how to set up undercover Internet sting operations and how to properly conduct investigations targeting sexual predators.  Case studies will be presented on how to go after the on line predators that are currently targeting children via the Internet. Investigators will also learn how to target prostitution subjects and escorts by utilizing the Internet and undercover accounts for web sites traditionally used for soliciting prostitution. 

                                        The Conference Program

                                                       Undercover Decoy Roles

                                                      Officer Safety Techniques

  Street Level Prostitution Stings

  Narcotics Reverse Sting Operations

 Human Trafficking Investigations

                               Sneak and Peek Search Warrants for Massage Parlors

                                                 Setting up Undercover Internet Accounts

                                                      Escort Agency Investigations

                                   Undercover Escort Reverse Sting Operations

                                        Strip Club Investigations and Stings

                                           Tactical Narcotics Techniques 

                                           Massage Parlor Investigations

                                       Pimping and Pandering Reverse Stings

                      Undercover Training Scenarios for Escort & Street Level Reverses

Conference Instructors

Heather Weyker

Officer, St. Paul Police Department with over 15 years experience.  Heather is currently assigned to a Vice/Human Trafficking Unit.  She has an extensive background working in narcotics, vice, and undercover operations/investigations.  Heather has worked with the DEA Task Force, JTTF, and on various other task force's.  She has taught Use of Force and Firearms courses, as well as report writing, various Vice seminars, and many Human Trafficking conferences.  She recently assisted in writing a Minnesota State Bill to change and improve the prostitution, and sex and labor trafficking laws.  She serves on many committee's to assist in the education of human trafficking and its awareness.  Heather has an extensive background in writing search warrants, subpoena's, and various other forms of investigative techniques.  She has worked under cover operations most of her career in all forms: from surveillance, buying/selling narcotics, all types of prostitution details, to include hotels, street, parks, John/Jane Sweeps, reverse operations. 

Karen Hughes

Karen is a Lieutenant with the largest law enforcement agency in Nevada and has 25 years of law enforcement experience.  Karen has been in a supervisory position for over 17 years and is currently assigned to the Vice/Narcotics Bureau.  Karen currently oversees five Vice squads that are responsible for investigating all prostitution venues including the Innocence Lost Task Force.  The Vice squads additionally investigates human trafficking, internet investigations, escort agencies as well as john/pimp reversals.  Karen has developed a course which will additionally detail how to bring criminal cases against pimps and how to seize and forfeit their assets.

Mike DeMarcus

Mike is a Detective with the North Miami Beach Police Department and has 19 years of law enforcement experience.  Mike has worked in the Special Investigations Division for over 12 years and has completed assignments with a Drug Enforcement Administration narcotics task force and a State of Florida narcotics and money laundering task force. He worked as a Marine Enforcement Officer for three years and is still  cross designated as a U.S Customs Blue Lightening Officer.  Mike has extensive experience in cocaine trafficking cases, indoor marijuana grow house investigations, money laundering investigations, long-term gang related street level crack cocaine investigations and ecstasy/club drug investigations.  Mike participated in one of the largest ecstasy reverses in the history of Florida and has developed a comprehensive ecstasy and club drug-training program.  Mike has also developed long-term crack cocaine and indoor marijuana grow house courses, which are based on case studies that targeted organizations involved in the illicit narcotics trade. 

         2nd Annual Female Undercover Officers 
                       National Conference 

      Advanced Vice, Narcotics & Gang Investigations for Female Officers

                  Hosted by the Henderson Police Department                   North Community Station located at 225 E. Sunset Road                    February 21st-25th, 2011, Henderson, Nevada                             

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