Knees and Elbows
This program deals with practical knees and elbows applications. Knees and elbows provide an outstanding addition to the officer’s tools when a subject is in close proximity to the officer. Both knees and elbows are simple to use and are excellent tools to prevent injury to the officer’s hands.
Topics Addressed: The elbows use in a front and back weapon retention versions
The knees use when the subject has control of officer’s hands.
The double handed stun used with elbows depending on the distance to the subject.
Elbows used to stop the subject’s advance on the officer.
Last, but extremely important, the concept of effective communication will be discussed.
Instructor/Course Developer: Lee Shaykhet (www.shaykhettraining.com).
Date/Times: Thursday, October 2, 2025 (two sessions available).
8 am – 12 pm (or) 1 pm – 5 pm, please indicate which session when registering.
CRITICAL INCIDENTS AND THE MEDIA
This unique training opportunity is applicable for law enforcement Public Information Officers, Supervisors, Administrators, Chiefs, Sheriffs, or anyone assigned to work with the media. Topics include:
- What the media expects from a good PIO
- What the media expects from leadership
- How to be a more effective communicator for internal and external audiences
- How the media works
- Effective and ineffective ways to handle message/response
- What makes a story “Newsworthy”?
- Why reporters ask the questions they do
- Why is it important to provide certain documents before being asked
- The timing of the news cycle and the lifespan of a story
- How a one-day story can become a week-long negative publicity escapade
- How to avoid long-lasting negative coverage
- How to talk to reporters, on the phone, live, on camera, or in a recorded interview
- Effective public speaking
- Dissection of a real-life scenario, what went wrong and right, lessons learned
Instructors:
Anastasiya Bolton is an award-winning broadcast journalist, media expert and crisis communications professional. During her 22 years in TV, including 12 years in Denver, she specialized in reporting on high-profile, difficult, emotional events, including the Aurora, CO Theater shooting, the shooting at a Church in Sutherland Springs, TX and Santa Fe, TX High School shooting. She’s covered the disappearances of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway in CO and 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Anastasiya’s helped law enforcement, non-profits, gov. agencies & others plan for crisis, develop comms plans, tell their stories, prepare for media interviews, and respond to negative publicity.
Cassidee Carlson, Aurora PD Division Chief (Ret.), spent 20 years as a police officer in Aurora Colorado. She recently retired as a Division Chief. During her career, she was a Field Training officer, served on the SWAT team, worked in major crimes, the PIO unit, and Internal Affairs. In 2022, as the Operations Division Chief, she oversaw patrol, community policing and the School Resource Unit. Cassidee’s innovative PIO response to the Aurora Theater shooting has become a national model on how to handle mass casualty incidents and help victims of crime navigate media inquiries. Cassidee and her federal partners have worked tirelessly to share her knowledge and expertise across the country.
Sovereign Citizens & First Amendment Auditors
This dynamic and immersive training will focus on sovereign citizens and their rapidly increasing problematic contact with all forms of government, with a specific focus on interactions with law enforcement and criminal justice personnel. Basic awareness of this growing threat and how it will directly impact the daily duties and responsibilities of law enforcement and other government entities will be discussed at length. Attendees should expect a general “indoctrination” into the sovereign citizen movement to help further awareness, recognition and mitigation of this unconventional and bothersome problem.
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Additionally, a significant portion of training will cover First Amendment Auditors, their goals and tactics, and best practices when encountered by law enforcement and other government officials.
Topics covered and course focus:
- Learn the fundamental principles of the sovereign citizen movement, including ideological beliefs, pillars, doctrines, tactics, and goals
- Identify sovereign indicators through language identification and document recognition
- Paper Terrorism through false liens and lawsuits
- Courtroom behavior/tactics
- Recognize common militia ideology, activity, tactics and symbology
- Boogaloo, III% and Posse Comitatus ideologies
- Anti-government views pertaining to gun rights, land rights, and government mandates
- What are First Amendment Auditors and what do they want?
- Tactics commonly used by Auditors to engage with law enforcement
- Best practices for professional and safe encounters when engaging with Auditors
- Hybrid threat actors with anti-law enforcement beliefs
Instructor: Rob Finch, Proactive Consulting, Inc.
Rob Finch is an active North Carolina Detective and decorated investigator with over 20 years’ experience working in a large criminal intelligence unit. Since 2010, Rob has used his dynamic and engaging teaching style to train thousands of law enforcements professionals throughout the United States.