Training and Technical Assistance

Online Training

Executive Leadership

This training provides an overview of the role and responsibilities of the task force leadership in setting the standard and implementing activities that effectively promote accountability and ethics in the task force.

Duration: approximately 10 minutes

Task Force Commander Leadership and Management

The success of a task force greatly depends on the ability and leadership of the task force commander. This training provides insight into the day-to-day administrative and operational responsibilities of a task force commander.

Duration: approximately 90 minutes

Safeguarding Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties in Task Force Operations

Law enforcement has the task of fighting crime and improving public safety. This training addresses the need and responsibility of law enforcement to respect and protect the privacy and constitutional rights of the very individuals whom law enforcement is sworn to serve and protect.

Duration: approximately 30 minutes

Methamphetamine Investigative Management

Officer safety when encountering methamphetamine users and the hazards associated with the production of the drug is paramount, and knowing what to expect and look for can be the difference between life and death. This training provides some basic information on methamphetamine: the chemical elements, the user, and officer safety.

Duration: approximately 45 minutes

On-Site Training

The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) CenTF Program offers the classroom-based Multijurisdictional Task Force Commanders Training through a two-day on-site training. This training covers a variety of topics designed to assist task force commanders and other law enforcement leaders in making appropriate decisions regarding task force administration and operations planning and management. The goal of the training is to empower task force decision makers with knowledge and tools for proactive planning strategies to effectively and ethically make cases, while increasing safety to the agents and the community.

Topics covered in this training include the following:

Leadership
Policies and Procedures
Personnel and Training

Confidential Informants Management
Operations Planning and Risk Management
Managing Critical Incidents

Webinar Opportunities

The CenTF Program is proud to present a new webinar series, “Critical Components of Task Force Success,” which presents an overview of key strategies that are critical to task force operations in today’s law enforcement environment. Designed to highlight these key strategies, the webinars will discuss topics that are covered in detail throughout the CenTF training program.

Watch a previously recorded webinar. Topics covered in these webinars include:

Fundamentals of Effective Task Force Operations—View a recording of this webinar.
How to Build Extremely Valuable Relationships with Prosecutors to Achieve Your Goals—View a recording of this webinar.
Policies and Procedures Critical to Task Force Operations—View a recording of this webinar.
Administration of a Task Force—View a recording of this webinar.
Operations Planning and Confidential Source Management—View a recording of this webinar.
Effective Mechanisms for Violent Gang Task Force Management—View a recording of this webinar.
Challenges in Combating the Opioid Epidemic—View a recording of this webinar.
Warrant Service: Officer Safety Strategies—View a recording of this webinar.
Narcotics Task Force Team 10: A Collaborative Approach to Overdose Deaths in San Diego County—View a recording of this webinar.
San Diego Elder Justice Task Force: Combating Elder Scams With Local and Federal Collaboration—View a recording of this webinar.

Center for Task Force Training (CenTF) Fundamentals of Task Force Operations Online Training

The BJA CenTF Program supports the CenTF Fundamentals of Task Force Operations, a 7-hour, self-paced online training program for law enforcement professionals working in multijurisdictional task forces that offers no-cost, specialized training and resources that address modern task force challenges to help reduce liability and enhance safety, and develop skills for effective collaboration while maintaining professionalism and accountability. This self-paced training focuses on practical applications and real-world scenarios to enhance operational success, officer safety, public safety, and community relations. The online training, previously housed on this website, has been refreshed and can now be accessed via the Online Training Portal. Some of the online training on this portion of the website is required training for law enforcement task forces under special conditions of a BJA Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Byrne grant.

28 CFR Part 23 Training

Criminal Intelligence Systems Operating Policies (28 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Part 23)

The 28 CFR Part 23 online training is an introductory-level training on the regulation's core principles, which provide an understanding of privacy and civil liberties concerns related to criminal intelligence information sharing.

Duration: approximately 1 hour

Technical Assistance (TA)

The CenTF Program also offers customized, no-cost TA to agencies. CenTF subject experts meet the needs of the requesting agency by identifying objectives and developing a tailored approach.

Available CenTF TA services include the following:

Consultation with subject experts
Review of performance measures
Assistance with development of specialized resource materials
Review of agency training implementation capabilities
Assistance with developing policies and procedures for command-level, task force-related enforcement activities

If your agency would like to request training or TA, please use the Contact Us form.