The Intended audience (Student Target Profile)

This course is intended for Law Enforcement Officers from Customs, Police, Border Guards or Coast Guards from countries that are members of Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), Black Sea Economic Organisation (BSEC) and Balkan Countries.

Qualifications:

•  All participants regardless of their roles or ranks should be involved in controlling anti-smuggling duties.

•  They must be fluent in both spoken and written forms of Turkish, English or Russian.

•  They must be a member of an accredited security department or agency, and authorized to attend by the Department or Agency.

•  A candidate must be, or about to become, a member of a specialized unit or squad whose full time duties or the majority of his/her time, is devoted to interdiction techniques on land, sea and airport controls.

•  A candidate should have basic law enforcement knowledge and understanding prior to attending this course and have displayed the aptitude, interest and desire to apply themselves to anti-smuggling duties.

Officers will be required to travel to and reside at the TRAINING FACILITY OF THEIR RELATED INSITUTION , for the duration of the course.

At the conclusion of the course students will be awarded a certificate of competency depending on their performance throughout the course which will be assessed by the Learning Management System of CBT automatically and observed by the Mobile Training Team or Course Coordinator and Trainers.

AIM

To prepare law enforcement officers of the Anti-Smuggling and Organised Crime Units for their role in performing their operational duties and tasks in the combat against drugs and organised crime, competently, ethically, confidently and with integrity in order to provide quality of service to the community through the continuing development of their skills, understanding, attitudes and behaviours.

At the completion of this course the participant will be able to:-

•  Identify all drugs including synthetic drugs and list the basic characteristics of these drugs

•  Assess behavioural indicators and what signs to look for in order to identify persons who are acting suspiciously and likely to be involved in drug smuggling.

•  List the basics of how to question a person, the types of questions to ask and how to listen effectively to a persons answers.

•  Consider how passports can be examined to reveal likely drug traffickers.

•  Do preliminary observation and inspection of passenger baggage.

•  Have a clear understanding of what body carry is and why it presents a problem to drug law enforcement and how to recognise body-carry drug smugglers.

•  Perform different interdiction techniques that can be used at land, airports and sea controls to identify and intercept drug smugglers.

•  Describe the process of performing a risk assessment at border crossings and inland checkpoints, to consider areas in the controls where there is a weakness or vulnerability to drug smuggling and consider solutions to minimize or solve the problems.

•  Create a risk profile for use at land, airport and sea controls and have an idea of what drug traffickers might look like or what methods they might use.

•  Select persons that are most likely to be involved in drug smuggling by using preliminary observation, questioning, behavioural indicators.

•  Review of documents that are used at typical land controls including identification cards, passports and vehicle identification.

•  Review cargo and its documentation in order to determine which shipments are most likely to be used in drug smuggling, to evaluate if a shipment makes economic sense and other information that will help officers select those shipments that are most likely to be used for drug trafficking.

•  Properly identify and assess the risks and prepare accurate profiles of persons, transport, goods and methods which are of high risk, to evaluate if a shipment makes economic sense and other information that will help officers select those shipments that are most likely to be used for drug trafficking.

•  Select persons or cargo that are most likely to be involved in drug smuggling by using preliminary assessment of cargo, cargo document review and other methods

•  Outline how to plan and execute a controlled delivery

•  Conduct appropriate searches of people, premises, cars, containers and aircrafts.