This class will provide new and tenured officers with up-to-date legal and tactical information so officers can perform effectively and efficiently during investigative detentions.  Chief Scott Hughes will review officer safety, investigative detention, traffic stops, reaching into vehicles, hidden weapons, unusual weapons and suspect control.  Bob Meader will review when a suspect can be legally detained, how to ‘legally’ pat down a suspect to include whether the right to frisk is virtually automatic, the ‘verbal’ pat down, patting down suspects with thick/heavy clothing and much more! If an officer is Legally Confident, he will be Tactically Confident.  This class is approved for eight hours of OPOTA Continuing Professional Training.

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