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Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Awareness Training Program

*Note: Please allow 48 hours (during work week) after you register to receive passowrd and login information on this course. Thank you!

This course was created in partnership with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Together, our goal was to offer FLETC's Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Awareness Trianing course in an online format, in effort to reach a broader audience that may not otherwise be able to attend this course in a traditional classroom format. Through federal funding from the Department of Justice, COPS Office, this course is offered at no charge to participants. This program was developed originally by the FLETC's Office of State and Local Training (www.fletc.gov/osl) with funding from the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Grants and Training. This program  is designed to give the line officer and first line supervisor an awareness of terrorism, intelligence,  current local trends of intelligence,  and pre-incident indicators.

This course is designed to provide training to state and local law enforcement officers in domestic and international terrorism. The goal is to provide officers with a working knowledge of past and present terrorist/criminal extremist groups and individuals, their activities and tactics, and how to recognize and report potential indicators of terrorism and criminal extremism. Click here to register.

Grading: This is a non-credit, open-entry/open-exit course. You may complete it at your convenience. Upon completing the course, a Certificate of Completion will be generated that you may print. To receive a Certificate of Completion, you must complete the quiz at the end of each unit with a minimum score of 80 percent. You may re-take the quizzes as many times as necessary to achieve a passing grade. Quizzes and activities presented within each module do not count as part of your overall grade, but are there as learning activities and to provide interaction with the content. Many of the final quiz questions are taken from the activities within the course.

Objectives:  Upon completion of this course, officers will be able to enhance their preventative capabilities by incorporating anti-terrorist techniques on the job; recognize potential terrorist indicators, common symbols, and behavioral characteristics of selected terrorist/criminal extremist groups; recognize common false documents used by terrorists and criminal extremists; recognize and collect relevant intelligence; and make informed judgments about when and to whom suspicious information should be reported.

This course contains the following modules:

• Module One - Terrorism Overview:  You will learn broad definitions of terrorism, specific international and domestic terrorist events that have occured in the U.S., and historical examples of how everyday officers have made a difference in combating terrorism.  You will learn to differentiate between the ordinary criminal and terrorist based motivating factors and goals. You will be able to describe the organization, composition, operations, goals and financial networks types and forms of regional, national and international terrorist groups.

• Module Two - Criminal Intelligence Process: You will learn to identify standardized terms and the applicable legal authority upon which the intelligence process is based. You will identify both the characteristics and the differences between criminal information and intelligence. You will be able to describe the components of criminal information / intelligence and how they are processed and evaluated via that Intelligence Cycle. Finally, you will be able to identify the law enforcement officer’s responsibilities in the collection and reporting of criminal information and intelligence and identify the federal agencies that are collecting the information.

• Module Three - Indicators of Terrorist Activity: You will learn to identify the tools terrorists use to perpetrate terrorist activities. You will be able to describe behavioral patterns exhibited by terrorists during the planning and implementation stages. Further, you will identify media that are used by terrorists to facilitate their activities and / or circumvent discovery. You will be able to articulate instances when an indicator should be reported.

• Module Four - Internet Assisted Terrorism: You will be able to identify the electronic tools and media which international and domestic terrorists use and the best practices identified for properly seizing computer hardware and peripherals.