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Show Notes Sunday, September 24, 2006

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Cop News of the Week

Training Opportunities

Tech Issues

Cop News of the Week

Four Fallen Heros - Rich
Great Training - Mack
Drunk Kills Ohio Woman - Rich
Four Killed in Missouri Police Chase - Mack
NY Shooting Suit Dismissed - Rich

Training Opportunities

Each week we try to include training announcements from academies or training organizations. This week we want to announce Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, located in Lynchburg, VA has two training announcements for us this week. First they will be conducting a course entitled Communication Excellence & Law Enforcement on November 13, 2006. There is a $75.00 charge for this eight hour course.

Next, they will be conducting a two-day seminar entitled Recruitment: Perspectives on the Process on November 16-17, 2006. The course is recommended for persons who are new or with little experience in overseeing their agency’s recruitment process. This is an "everything that you ever needed to know about recruiting" course.

Topics include: (1) the changing workforce in the United States, (2) federal hiring laws and EEC guidelines; (3) management strategies for staffing and supervising a recruitment unit; (4) sample advertisements and scripts; (5) minority hiring and affirmative action programs; and (6) experiences of successful and unsuccessful recruitment campaigns. There is a $150 fee for this course.

For more information contact Ron Staton at (434) 455-6188

Crater Criminal Justice Academy will be conducting two courses. The first is Patrol Response To The Active Shooter. This class, which will be conducted October 2, 2006 – October 6, 2006, will cover the fundamentals of a Patrol Officers response to a “Active Shooter Event”.

Through lecture, class discussion, combined with written materials and power point, practical exercises and scenarios, the student will be to identify and utilize techniques and tactics to respond effectively to an Active Shooter incident to locate, isolate, contain or eliminate the threat and conduct evacuation of innocent bystanders, students and personnel.

Registration is free but seats are limited.

The second course is Fundamentals of Crash Investigation and it will be conducted October 30, 2006 – November 10, 2006. This class will cover the fundamentals of crash investigation and crash scene reconstruction. This class is being taught by the Transportation Safety Training Center of Virginia Commonwealth University.

This two week long course imparts the knowledge, skills and abilities for detailed crash investigation and combines classroom lectures with practical field exercise. This class is a pre-requisite for; and prepares the individual for the advanced class.

Registration is $85 per participant which includes text book, and class materials.

For addtional information for to register for these courses contact Jon Cliborne. Contact him by e-mail at jcliborne@ccja.org or 804.722.9742 x-137

The Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office is hosting a course entitled Dan Severn: Ground Defense and Escapes/Dangerzone Defensive Tactics on December 11-12. For more information visit Dan Severn's website.
We welcome training announcements from any criminal justice training academy or training organization. Just send the information to talkback@copcast.net and we will do our best to announce your training course.

Tech Issues

How Many TV's Do You Have? - Mack
Put Mail on Hold - Rich
Flash Drive Failures - Mack
Go-live Gets the Boot - Rich
Silencing Cell Phones On Campus - Mack

PC User's Tip

This week for our PC users I want to talk about setting up the Quick Launch bar, which makes it easy to access frequently used programs like your e-mail or browser. Windows XP loads several programs in the Quick Launch, including Show Desktop. One click on Show Desktop minimizes all the programs on your desktop. Another click restores them just as you'd left them.

To display Quick Launch on the taskbar

1. If the Quick Launch bar is not displayed, right-click an empty area on the taskbar and click Properties.

2. On the Taskbar tab, under Taskbar appearance, select the Show Quick Launch check box and click OK.

After Quick Launch is displayed, click Show Desktop to minimize all open programs.

Mac User's Tip

As good as OSX is, sometimes a program may stop responding and you have to try to force it to quit. Well here are a couple of options for shutting down a frozen program.

Force quit it by choosing '''Apple Menu > Force Quit''' or '''(Command-Option-Escape)''', selecting the frozen app and clicking Force Quit. Or, click and hold on the app's Dock icon and choose Force Quit from the menu that appears.

Closing

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