Seminar Title
Drug Investigation: What Every Officer, New Investigator and New Detective Should Know
Dates of Events
05/10/2023 through 05/11/2023
Last Updated: 03/28/2023
Instructor(s): Greg Goltz
Location: Public Safety Training and Operations Center - 3500 DB Wood Road, Georgetown, TX 78628
Hotel: Hampton Inn - 160 River Oaks Cove, I-35, Exit #261, Georgetown, TX 78626
Course Registration Fee: $295
Instructor Bio
Greg Goltz
Greg Goltz is a 32-year veteran trooper with a large Midwest state police agency. He is the instructor for his agency in Criminal Interdiction/Patrolling and has instructed Criminal Interdiction/Patrolling to thousands of law enforcement officers and their agencies from all over the United States. Greg is a veteran Police Service Dog handler, Firearms Instructor and Troop C Team Leader for SWAT. He also worked very successfully in undercover operations purchasing illegal drugs of all kinds while assigned to the Investigative Services Division.
While working in the Uniform Patrol Division he has seized millions of dollars in United States currency and literally thousands of pounds of contraband all while making normal traffic stops that he turned into Criminal Interdiction arrests.
He created the business known as CRIMINALaddiction Inc. and now travels all over the United States putting on seminars about these topics. He is a declared Expert witness in both the State and Federal court systems and actively testifies about this subject matter. He has received numerous awards for his Interdiction efforts and the training he provides, and currently has several “record size” seizures.
He also has made presentations about this subject matter to several Governors. Greg is also responsible for very important case law that better enables officers to do this work including the now important United States v. Morgan, Walker, Jones and State v. Barbeau. He still works the road in the Uniform Division and still actively pursues these criminals during his everyday encounters. He also still works with other officers who have had tremendous success using these techniques. Join him, as he wants to spread his knowledge of catching “bad guys” and learn firsthand from individuals who are out there every day working the “ins and outs” of criminal interdiction.
Greg Goltz is a 32-year veteran trooper with a large Midwest state police agency. He is the instructor for his agency in Criminal Interdiction/Patrolling and has instructed Criminal Interdiction/Patrolling to thousands of law enforcement officers and their agencies from all over the United States. Greg is a veteran Police Service Dog handler, Firearms Instructor and Troop C Team Leader for SWAT. He also worked very successfully in undercover operations purchasing illegal drugs of all kinds while assigned to the Investigative Services Division.
While working in the Uniform Patrol Division he has seized millions of dollars in United States currency and literally thousands of pounds of contraband all while making normal traffic stops that he turned into Criminal Interdiction arrests.
He created the business known as CRIMINALaddiction Inc. and now travels all over the United States putting on seminars about these topics. He is a declared Expert witness in both the State and Federal court systems and actively testifies about this subject matter. He has received numerous awards for his Interdiction efforts and the training he provides, and currently has several “record size” seizures.
He also has made presentations about this subject matter to several Governors. Greg is also responsible for very important case law that better enables officers to do this work including the now important United States v. Morgan, Walker, Jones and State v. Barbeau. He still works the road in the Uniform Division and still actively pursues these criminals during his everyday encounters. He also still works with other officers who have had tremendous success using these techniques. Join him, as he wants to spread his knowledge of catching “bad guys” and learn firsthand from individuals who are out there every day working the “ins and outs” of criminal interdiction.
Course Objectives
Course Overview:
This 2 day (16 hr.)course was developed to assist and train officers in the legal concepts to do traffic stops, and contacts of people on the street in possession of illegal drugs. The course goes into detail of the great number of illegal drugs found and seized throughout the Unites states. From small user-amounts to the smuggling of large amounts of these
After attending:
Each student attending will have been provided the instruction to:
· Learn and UNDERSTAND the History of contraband saturation into the U.S. and how over time the trends and patterns have shifted.
· Identify legal traffic stops
· Do Consensual Encounters on the street
· Identifying indicators during traffic stops
· Understanding the Initial Encounter with a Suspect
· Conquering Consent issues
· The Legal concepts of Search and Seizure to locate the drugs
· Understand the pertinent case law
· Understand Very Detailed Drug identification in small user- amounts to large trafficking packages
· Identify search and seizure laws especially search incident to arrest, probable cause, and other legal techniques
· How actual search techniques should escalate
· Procedures of what to do after criminal activity or contraband is located
· Understand more than the basic Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine drugs.
Learn and understand about: Fentanyl, 2CI, 2CE, GHB, Khat, PCP, Flakka, Molly, Liquid meth and much more
identification
· How to safely handle and test these drugs.
· What to do after locating them
· ….AND MORE
Who Should Attend: Any and all officers from rookies to veteran officers who want to learn an incredible amount of information on one of the main reasons we in Law Enforcement are called to work: DRUGS