Hosting Agency:                     Myrtle Beach Police Department

Location of Training:             Myrtle Beach Police Department

                                         1101 Oak Street

                                       Myrtle Beach, SC 26577

Dates:                                       February 18-19, 2008

Registration/Check-in:         Monday, February 18, 2008

                                                   7:30AM-8:00AM:                                                       

Class Hours :                          8:00AM - 4:00PM

Recommended Hotel:           TBA

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Hosting Agency:                     Kissimmee Police Department

Location of Training:             Kissimmee Civic Center

                                       201 East Dakin Avenue

                                       Kissimmee, FL  34741

Dates:                                       March 3-4, 2008

Registration/Check-in:         Monday, March 3, 2008

                                                   7:30AM-8:00AM                                                

Class Hours :                          8:00AM - 4:00PM

Recommended Hotel:           TBA

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Hosting Agency:                     Sturgis Police Department

Location of Training:             Sturges-Young Auditorium

                                       201 North Nottawa Street

                                       Sturgism MI 49091

Dates:                                       March 31-April 1, 2008

Registration/Check-in:         Monday, March 31, 2008

                                                   7:30AM-8:00AM                                                

Class Hours :                          8:00AM - 4:00PM

Recommended Hotel:           TBA

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Hosting Agency:                     NESPIN

Location of Training:             124 Grove Street, Suite 305  

                                       Franklin, MA

Dates:                                       April 7-8, 2008

Registration/Check-in:         Monday, April 7, 2008

                                                   7:30AM-8:00AM                                                

Class Hours :                          8:00AM - 4:00PM

Recommended Hotel:           TBA

Directions:                              www.mapquest.com

This 2-day course will teach a proactive approach to locating graffiti, identifying it’s origins and author, deciphering, and documenting graffiti of all types plus proven techniques for enforcing local laws, conducting graffiti interdiction initiatives, graffiti investigations,  and using graffiti as an investigative tool.  The instructors will expose the connection between graffiti, gangs, crime, and violence and how to identify the difference between gang graffiti, tagger graffiti, and graffiti artists. Graffiti history, trends, techniques, related criminal activity, and international perspectives will be discussed.  This class will include trips into the community to locate and decipher graffiti and to show officers how to develop a graffiti database in which evidence can be obtained and filed for future investigations and sharing with other law enforcement agencies based upon the model currently being used by the NYPD.

 Who should attend:   This course is designed for Police Officers, Probation Officers, Corrections Officers, Federal Agents, Parole Officers, and other Law Enforcement Officers.  

Instructor:.  Sgt Anthony Mottola, NYPD Gang Intelligence Unit is the NYPD’s expert on Graffiti.  He is currently engaged in proactive gang investigations on violent street gangs in NYC.  Sgt Mottola has trained countless street officers, detectives, other law enforcement officers and civilians on gang identification and deciphering. He has trained gang investigators and street enforcement officers on graffiti enforcement and interdiction. He trains law enforcement officers on the techniques of using graffiti to solve crimes.   

Tuition $ 269 US

If you wish to pay for this course by means of a credit or debit card, please register for the course first, then return to this page and click on the PayPal icon below and fill in the required information. Thank you

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