Description: This intense two day course is designed for veterans and newcomers alike. It focuses on the relationship between traffic enforcement, DUI enforcement and criminal enforcement. Specific techniques are covered to assist officers in detecting criminal activity during DUI enforcement and other traffic-related activities. Students will receive extensive instruction in roadside interviews and hidden compartments to include those vehicles equipped with after-market installed false compartments.

Conducting Complete Traffic Stops class consists of five modules:

•Indicators and Detection Methods

•Legal Considerations

•Roadside Interview Techniques

•Passenger Vehicle Concealment Locations

Internationally known, Sheriff Mike Lewis, currently serving his fourth term as Wicomico County Sheriff, is a retired Sergeant and a twenty-two year veteran of the Maryland State police who pioneered the Drug Interdiction program along Maryland's notorious U.S. Route 13 corridor. Sheriff Lewis has been judicially recognized by the federal & state courts of this country as an EXPERT in the areas Traffic Stops, Highway Interdiction, Hidden Compartments & Drug Valuation Officer Safety

Course Length: 16 hr.

Equipment Needs: Pen / pencil, note-taking material.

Gerry Lindenlauf, Law Enforcement Training Coordinator, office: 610-344-4365 or via email at glindenlauf@chesco.org.