Classes are part of the Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) curriculum and this is a Foundation Specialty class.

February 4 - February 8, 2002

Next Class scheduled for January 27th - 31st, 2003

Classes will be held at the Los Gatos Lodge, Los Gatos

Cost: $300 (pending an increase)
POST Plan III, 40 hours
Course Control #5350-30190

Topics will include:     Vehicle ID methods and procedures
                                   Cloned vehicles
                                   Hi-tech auto theft investigation
                                   Everything you need to know about VINs
                                   Vehicle arson

For information about these classes, call 408 924-3330 or send email.

Tuesday, March 5th and Wednesday, March 6th, 2002             0800 - 1700 hrs
Tuesday, August 27th and Wednesday, August 28th, 2002        0800 - 1700 hrs

Next Class scheduled for March 17th and 18th, 2003

The class will be held at the Santa Ana PD Training Facility, Santa Ana
The class is sixteen hours (New for 2002) in length and is P.O.S.T. certified.
Course Control #2490-30191

The class is designed to give the in-field officer a better understanding of methods used by thieves and to be able to better recognize VIN switched vehicles.

For information about the class, send e-mail to Santa Ana Police Training Office Assistant Mervet Kamel, or call 714 245-8054.

March 11th - 15th, 2002                       September 23rd - 27th, 2002

The Los Angeles Police Department will be presenting the 5-day Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) Vehicle Theft Investigation Course on September 23 through 27, 2002.  The course will be presented at the Automobile Club of Southern California in Gardena, and the General Motors Training Center located in Burbank.  We currently have 20 openings for the course.  The course is certified under POST Plan III, tuition reimbursement.  The tuition is $208 per student.  Investigative personnel interested in attending the course should contact the Course Administrator, Detective Chris Figueroa, at telephone number (213) 485-2676, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

For additional information regarding the class and registration, contact Detective 
Roger Gripe or Christopher Figueroa at (213) 485-2676 or FAX 213 485-8894.

The course consists of 40 hours of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) as part of their Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI), and the $251 tuition is reimbursable under POST Plan III.

The training course will be presented at two locations throughout the state for the convenience of those individuals who have obtained approval from their agency.  Dates and locations of the courses are as follows:

POST Control # 1270-30190

May 6-10, 2002               Sacramento       August 19-23, 2002         La Mesa
May 20-24, 2002             La Mesa            November 4-8, 2002       Sacramento
July 29-August 2, 2002   La Mesa

For information regarding these courses, please contact Blake Schnabel at the CHP Investigative Services Section (916) 445-0752 or fax (916) 323-0079. 

Registration will be on Monday October 14, 2002  from 6- 9 P.M.  and will continue on Tuesday morning.    The  training sessions will start on Tuesday October 15, 2002 @0800hrs hrs and end @ 1200hrs on Friday October 18, 2002.

We will have a Hosted Bar & Food  get together on Tuesday night.  We will host one lunch and a conference dinner.   The association will have a hosted bar every night of the conference.

If you have any cases that you want to share with the group we will provide a session at the conference for that.  Please bring handouts on your cases and they will be distributed.

We are looking forward to a great conference and hope that you can come and join us.

Conference Registration is $150.00 to WSSBIA.  Tax ID # 94-3050707

Please send your registration prior to Oct 1, 2002.

For hotel reservation please call the El Dorado Hotel at 1-800 – 648-5966  and use Group Code  CWE 1014.  Luxury Room are $59.00 a night + tax.

Click here for your registration packet.

Send registration packet to:  WSSBIA  C/O Det. Rick House Modesto P.D.  P.O.Box 1814, Modesto, Ca 95353-1814  (209) 572-9537.  For info call Det. Brian Boyington (510) 667-3638 or Frank Daley (510) 610-7066. 

Search Warrants for Digital  Evidence                                 November 18-19,  2002
WestCoast Anaheim Hotel,  Anaheim,  CA.

This workshop is designed for beginning and  intermediate-level investigators and prosecutors who conduct investigations  where Internet-related communication or computers play an integral part.  The program goal is to provide the participant with working knowledge of how to obtain information with a search warrant from an Internet service provider and how to search for and seize related digital media. Attendees are encouraged  to bring a laptop computer and county search warrant templates. Review of essential contents and legal bases for search warrants. Focus will be on composing search warrants to obtain account records stored with an Internet service provider and drafting follow-up search warrants for the suspect's computer. Interactive exercise in writing warrants for the sample
scenario as well as the seizure and preservation of evidence  recovered.

Tuition for this seminar is $100.

The WestCoast Anaheim Hotel is located at 1855 South Harbor Boulevard in
Anaheim. To receive the special CDAA room rate of $84 single/double occupancy (plus hotel tax),  please call the hotel at (714) 750-1811 and ention CDAA. Although the  cut-off date for hotel reservations is October 17, 2002, make your reservation as soon as possible as rooms may sell out before the deadline. Please note: the hotel  has a strict 72-hour cancellation policy. Parking at the hotel is  complimentary for seminar attendees. 

This course is certified for 9 MCLE hours (subject  to final approval of
agenda).  This course is also pending POST approval.

There are a limited number of scholarships available for this program. For
consideration, please fax a Scholarship Request Form along with your
registration form to (916) 443-2886 by October 12,  2002. Kristen Gingg,
Training Consultant (email: kgingg@cdaa.org)

Robert M. Morgester
Deputy Attorney General, Special  Crimes Unit
(916) 445-9330
Robert.Morgester@doj.ca.gov