Conducting an Effective, Legal and Safe Search, Part 1

Presenter: Community Corrections Institute
Broadcast Date: 02/14/2006

A primary element of PSN training is to teach or enhance firearm interdiction strategies while maintaining officer safety. This audio teleconference/webcast, the first of two, will look at the special issues of probation, parole, and community supervision officers conducting effective, legal and safe searches
Specific areas to be discussed include:

• The legal basis for conducting a search
• The “Plain View Doctrine”
• Composition of a search condition
• Reasonable suspicion standard
• Reports and documentation
• Scope of the search
• Pre-search planning
• Search Equipment
• Legal issue in conduction the search
• Avoiding becoming a “Stalking Horse”
• Third party issues
• Presenter

•  View Presentation (broadband recommended)

•  About the Faculty
•  Handout of PowerPoint Slides