Law Enforcement (LAWE)
LAWE-161 Basic Police Law and Professional Orientation
7 Credits
Lecture: 6 hours per week, Lab: 3 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course exposes students to Idaho POST approved and required topics regarding the human dimensions of the police profession, including ethics, professionalism, effective communication, health and fitness, first-aid, and crime prevention. Students will gain a basic understanding of federal, state, and local laws and learn how to apply that knowledge as a police officer on patrol through more than 40 hours of basic police law related to the U.S. Constitution and Idaho Codes, rules of evidence, criminal law, arrest, and search and seizure. This knowledge will allow graduates of the program to determine traffic offenses, probable cause for arrest, and how to process criminal cases, while understanding the human element of public service and the importance of mental and physical well-being.
LAWE-162 Police Procedures and Investigations
8 Credits
Lecture: 7 hours per week, Lab: 3 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course covers basic, routine patrol procedures and techniques for responding to calls for service and crimes in progress. This includes response to routine calls for service, armed robberies, prowler calls, hostage situations, and domestic disputes as well as conducting unknown-risk, high-risk, and felony traffic stops. The investigative component of this course provides theory, techniques, and procedures for the investigation of traffic crashes, auto theft, burglary, sexual assault, financial crimes, juvenile crimes, allegations of child abuse, DUI situations, traffic situations and control, and suspicious deaths. It also includes techniques and procedures for drug identification and investigation, protection and processing of crime scenes, collecting evidence, fingerprinting, interview and interrogation, death notification, and emergency water safety.
LAWE-163 Enforcement and Field Skills for Patrol Officers
7 Credits
Lecture: 3 hours per week, Lab: 12 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course provides students the opportunity to practice and use skills learned throughout the academy lecture and practical exercises. Simulations and exercises include emergency driving, officer survival, crime scene investigation, search warrant application, traffic stops, arrest situations, building searches, and domestic disputes. Students will also receive hands-on training in handgun retention, defensive tactics/arrest and control techniques, handcuffing techniques, use of force, baton training, pepper spray training, Conducted Energy Device, people searches, firearms liability, safety, inspection and maintenance, basic marksmanship, day and night range practice, and handgun, rifle, and shotgun qualifications.
LAWE-164 Basic Detention Law and Professional Orientation
6 Credits
Lecture: 6 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course exposes students to Idaho POST approved and required topics regarding the human dimensions of the sworn deputy profession, which include ethics, patrol investigations, laws of arrest, and how to apply state and local laws in a detention setting. Students will gain knowledge of both patrol and jail procedures through more than 90 hours of basic law enforcement training related to Idaho jail standards, jail liability issues, criminal law, rules of arrests, and search and seizure. Students will learn how to determine criminal offenses, investigate criminal acts, and recognize prohibited contact in a detention facility, while also being able to recognize the human element of public service and the importance of mental and physical well-being.
Corequisites: LAWE-165
LAWE-165 Enforcement and Field Skills for Detention Deputies
8 Credits
Lecture: 5 hours per week, Lab: 9 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course provides students the opportunity to practice and utilize skills learned in both lecture and practical exercises. These skills include the appropriate process for escalation and de-escalation of force, basic tactical medical knowledge, and demonstrating law enforcement knowledge necessary to fulfill the role of a detention office through various training scenarios. Students receive hands-on training in proper techniques and practices of safe handgun retention, defensive tactics, arrest and control techniques, handcuffing of a suspect, and self-defense implements such as expandable batons, pepper spray, electroshock weapons, and firearms.
Corequisites: LAWE-164