FBI Trains Law Enforcement Officers as Part of Tradewinds 2011

Courtesy Photo | FBI Supervisory Special Agent Allen Little instructs partner nation law enforcement officer during training conducted as part of Exercise Tradewinds 2011. (FBI photo by Kurt Crawford)  

ST. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

03.11.2011

Courtesy Story

U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South

On March 10, 2011, approximately 40 partner nation law enforcement officers received training from FBI Special Agents at the Camp Crabbs Training facility, Antigua Barbuda Defense Force.
The FBI training supports Exercise Tradewinds 2011. The FBI is offering classes in Major Case Management, Investigating and Combating Gangs and Gang Violence, and Law Enforcement Training for Safety and Survival.

The Major Case Management course is designed for law enforcement investigators who are responsible for directing large investigations. The course covers communication and decision making, information support systems, crisis management, investigative plans, organizing the investigative process, role of the case agent, components in the chain of command, leadership and change management and forecasting future trends. Other topics include how to deal with the media, presentation of major case studies, and ethics.

The Gangs and Gang Violence seminar discusses how gang violence plagues many locales throughout the United States and around the world. The training focuses on the fundamental activities of street gangs and the methods involved investigating and prosecuting these groups. It also examines some of the tendencies and general criminal activities American street gangs participate in and the violence associated with these activities.

The Law Enforcement Training for Safety and Survival course demonstrates that the key to surviving critical situations rests on the proper training. The FBI instructors created this course to help law enforcement officers effectively plan and prepare for critical situations and to formulate arrest/tactical plans. Subject matter includes intelligence gathering, mission statements, debriefings, and creating a team approach to basic tactical procedures. Practical exercises help augment the course, and include tactical entry scenarios, vehicle stops, and simulated weapons fire.

“Training is going great, they’re learning a lot and their hungry for more,” said Michael Parmigiani, FBI Supervisory Special Agent.

The courses provided by the FBI give participants information that they can use when they return to their country. In some ways, Tradewinds 2011 provides train-the-trainer instruction so that the students can bring the information back to their home units.

“This training will be very helpful to my career, especially the tactical part of it,” said Sgt. Jacob Jon Baptist with the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force. “ A lot of the knowledge I think, when I go back, I can take back and pass on to my fellow officers and give them an insight to how the training went and review some of the aspects of the training”

Aspects of the training have different application in the partner nations as regionally they face different challenges.

While talking about the training, Capt. Clifton Williams of the Belize Defense Force said, “I find it extremely, extremely useful to my country ... we don’t have a lot of gangs, but it is likely to happen and of course it is a problem. I liked the drug investigation because that is directly helpful to my work. The entry into a building this is a new one that is critical and very, very useful. I can’t wait to take this new technique and pass it on to my subordinates.”

The Practical Applications Unit located at the FBI Academy on US Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va. provides tactical training for state, local and international law enforcement.

The training was part of exercise Tradewinds 2011. Tradewinds is a joint-combined, interagency exercise involving U.S. personnel from the Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, Joint-interagency Task Force-South, Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation along with forces from: Antigua and Barbuda (host nation), Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago.

• Date Taken: 03.11.2011
• Date Posted: 03.11.2011 19:45
• Story ID: 66897
• Location: ST. JOHN'S, AG