$199
This workshop is designed specifically for law enforcement professionals and focuses on enhancing officers’ ability to read environments, detect threats early, and make rapid, informed decisions under pressure. Participants will gain practical tools and techniques used in intelligence operations—adapted for the realities of policing.
Experience on the street has already taught you much of what you need to observe. Still, you can improve your powers of observation by simply being more aware of the types of things you need to observe. Circumstances may interfere with notetaking or recordings, thus requiring you to memorize facts for some period and then commit them to notes and report. In this workshop, you will also learn techniques to improve retention and recall.
Upon successful completion, you should be able to:
1. Read the environment, detect threats early on, and make rapid, informed decisions under pressure.
2. Use comparisons to determine height, weight, distance, dimensions, and brands.
3. Identify locations without addresses.
4. Describe people, vehicles, structures, and items that make them unique.
5. Read body language using baseline and universal traits for fear, deception, and the like.
6. Make your observations actionable
7. Employ common retention methods (writing, reading, listening, demonstration, doing).
8. Use all your senses when describing.
9. Use storytelling, repetition, association, charts, maps, drawings, and more.