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Investigating Officer Involved Shootings
September 6, 2017 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Instructor: Code 4 Consultants – Mark Dell’Ergo, CFCE
- Date: September 6-8, 2018
- Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Location: RCCC-North, Room 4133
- Total Hours: 24 hours
This course will focus on the benefits of using a “team” or “task force” approach to OIS investigations. There are several methods currently in use throughout the nation, such as the homicide model or the homicide and internal affairs model. Although these may be great investigative models, these “in-house” models have an inherent bias, even though a bias may not truly exist. These models are an invitation for the public and the media to create bias or a conspiracy theory for the department. An independent, outside body investigating and analyzing the OIS is the best way to overcome these perceptions. We will be reviewing real cases to illustrate how to investigate different types of officer-involved shootings. Please be aware this course has extremely graphic picture and video content. This course contains officer-involved shooting case studies with numerous death scene photographs and videos that are intense and highly graphic. We will discuss legal, civil, and criminal implications associated with an OIS. A prosecutor will present a recent OIS two-week jury trial wherein a deputy was killed, another deputy was shot, and one of the two suspects were killed.
Students may register for classes by emailing their request to ralph.adams@rccc.edu