Who Should Consider SLATT Training

SLATT specialized courses are designed for state and local law enforcement executives, command personnel, intelligence officers, investigators, training directors, and prosecutors. Courses cover the gamut from street-level officer safety to executive policymaking issues. SLATT’s service includes the coordination of training logistics, the selection and development of instructors, the preparation of training and resource materials, the selection of training sites, liaison with potential trainees and cosponsors, and close coordination with the FBI’s National Security Division Training Unit. Since its inception, SLATT has trained more than 15,600 law enforcement personnel.

SLATT Training Topics

Terrorism Overview and Identification of Terrorist and Extremist Crimes—Offers a global perspective of terrorism and criminal extremism by addressing international, domestic, and special-interest groups, organizations, and ideologies.

Law Enforcement and Its Role in National Defense—Identifies the roles and responsibilities of state and local law enforcement in the protection of American communities against attacks by foreign-inspired terrorist groups and organizations.

Antigovernment Extremism: Origins, Ideology, and Tactics—Contrasts the realities of the historical militia with the modern-day militia philosophy.

Political Violence— Provides a briefing on the ideologies, tactics, and goals of foreign-inspired terrorist and extremist groups and organizations. Explores the theological divisions of mainstream and fundamentalist Islam and how extremist groups misrepresent the teachings of Islam.

Legal Issues in Extremist Investigations—Explains the federal legal issues associated with the investigation of domestic terrorism.

Domestic Terrorism Investigations—Explores the process, complexity, and differences in conducting a domestic terrorism investigation versus a typical criminal investigation.

Who Are They, How Are They Different, and How To Assess Your Community—Delineates the characteristics of criminal extremists and how those characteristics differ from typical criminal behavior.

Behavioral Considerations and Threat Assessment for Group-Related Targeted Violence—Identifies the behavioral characteristics of domestic terrorist and criminal extremist personalities.

The Intelligence Process and Preparation of Threat Assessments—Demonstrates the need to effectively gather and analyze intelligence information to produce a specific threat assessment.

Investigative Techniques—Describes the surveillance process and provides recommendations for assessing when to conduct a surveillance operation, the benefits of employing surveillance, and the drawbacks of surveillance operations. Explains the use and management of informants.

Interview Techniques With Extremists—Introduces the unique challenges of conducting investigative interviews with criminal extremists.

Explosives and Explosive Devices—Explores the dangers of investigating individuals who use explosives as part of their crimes, and how to recognize explosive devices.

The Internet: An Investigative Tool—Provides insight into how terrorists and criminal extremists use the Internet for communication. Offers instruction on using the Internet to find information.

The Future: What To Expect—Addresses general ideas concerning the future of terrorist and criminal extremist activity, and summarizes a number of national assessments and possible future trends and scenarios.