GPSTC Online Learning

The purpose of this course is to train public safety instructors in effective administrative oversight and training delivery at the agency level. Participants will focus on improving existing training programs through topics like strategic program enhancement, advanced needs assessments, project planning, and evaluating learning outcomes.

The purpose of this course is to train public safety instructors in effective administrative oversight and training delivery at the agency level. Participants will focus on improving existing training programs through topics like strategic program enhancement, advanced needs assessments, project planning, and evaluating learning outcomes.

This course is designed for the public safety instructor who provides administrative oversight and training delivery at the academy level. Course topics include curriculum development and revision, identification of key curriculum elements, and compilation of a comprehensive curriculum that meets POST requirements.

This course is designed for the public safety instructor who provides administrative oversight and training delivery at the academy level. Course topics include curriculum development and revision, identification of key curriculum elements, and compilation of a comprehensive curriculum that meets POST requirements.

This course is designed to provide public safety personnel the information they need to recognize when a person has an intellectual or neurodevelopmental disability and how to best respond to the unique needs of these individuals. Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities will provide techniques to identify individuals, describe common law enforcement encounters, explain the rate of victimization, and review general rules for de-escalation.

The purpose of this course is to introduce those Public Safety personnel who are interested in joining a Color/Honor Guard, or who are new members of a Color/Honor Guard, to the basic protocols of Color/Honor Guard activities.

This course provides an introduction to the community-based Sexual Assault Response Team (SART).

The course provides officers with information regarding gangs, the Georgia Street Gang Prevention and Terrorism Act, and how to better interact with gangs in the State of Georgia. Topics will include barriers faced by uniform patrol officers with gang investigations, different types of gangs and the importance of their identification, gang indicators and their meanings, and reasons for joining gangs.

The purpose of this course is to introduce telecommunicators and other emergency responders to Next Generation 911, in order to help them understand the operational impact of the emerging technologies related to this shift from legacy 911.

This course will focus on introducing officers to protocols on how to properly respond to cases involving sexual assault. Topics will include: key principles to interacting with and interviewing victims, understanding the suspect interview from the SART perspective, identifying the four typologies of adult sexual assault offenders, discussing the current state of DNA collection in Georgia, and expanded DNA testing, providing additional resources available through the Task Force in order to seek justice for families of victims in cold case homicides with a sexual assault component, identifying screening questions for obtaining a strangulation history, and determining signs and symptoms of strangulation, and evidence collection.

This course will identify terrorist objectives and motivations, differentiate the categories of international and domestic terrorism, and review historical and potential tactics of terrorists.

This course is designed to provide the law enforcement community the tools they need to better serve sexual assault survivors through the use of the CJCC Sexual Assault Kit Tracking System (SAKTS), mandated by House Bill 255, "The Sexual Assault Reform Act of 2021." CJCC has created a system to track sexual assault kits from initial collection through receipt, analysis, and storage. In addition to law enforcement, the reform act requires all forensic medical providers and the state crime lab to participate in the system and to provide updated information on any sexual assault kits in their possession. This course is video-based and will provide students with information on those entities required to participate in the SAKTS program, guidelines for accessing and navigating the SAKTS, and how to access reports in the system.

This video podcast episode features an interview with Matt Griffin as they highlight Matt's journey through some of the hardest times in his life. Matt shares his emotional story about his law enforcement career, personal life, and more and what led him to believe that suicide was the answer to everything. Matt discusses some of the worst moments in his career and life and how they affected him mentally. Matt and Kevin talk about the book, Journey to Midnight, which is the memoir about his traumatic journey as US Navy Search and Rescue swimmer to a career as a police officer and undercover cop. Matt shares the heartbreak of divorce, the joy of single fatherhood, the dark streets of the drug underworld, and the thing that almost killed him, which claimed the lives of 228 police officers in 2019, and 22 military veterans per day - SUICIDE.

This course completes the Latent Print Examiner Certification series. The course provide a portal for students to upload their third-party competency test results. These test results will be reviewed by the coordinator and assigned either a pass or fail grade.