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Legal Tips for Police Officers-Sycamore

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Registrations are closed for this event
Date: Monday, February 15, 2021
Registration Deadline: Monday, January 11, 2021
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Instructor Location:
Sycamore Police Department
535 DeKalb Avenue
Sycamore, IL
Instructor: Judge Daniel Shanes, 19th Judicial Circuit- Lake County, Presiding Judge felony division

Members' Fee: $0
Sworn Non-Members' Fee: $85
Non-Members' Fee: $85
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COURSE CONTENT: This course will provide legal guidance on many topics, so that evidence police officers obtain will be admissible at trial and the officers will be able to avoid civil liability for themselves and their agencies.  This course will discuss, review and analyze recent criminal case law as it applies to police officers.  Judge Shanes will engage the officers in real-life scenarios, applying the legal principles with them in a manner that they should then take back and use during their law enforcement duties.

Topics will include:

Avoiding the need to give a suspect “Miranda” warning

Using the “knock and talk” doctrine to question people

The latest developments regarding vehicle searches

Benefits for officers and agencies from obtaining search warrants

How a consensual encounter differs from a person being stopped by police

Relying upon an anonymous 911 caller to conduct a vehicle stop

New developments in the law regarding consent searches

Searches incident to arrest and U.S. Supreme Court decision on cell phones

How to interview witnesses so their statements will be admissible at trial if they later change their story