Training for international law enforcement agencies
The International Training Team provides a range of training programs to Australia's offshore, regional law enforcement agency partners. The majority of these programs are sponsored by functional areas of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Our international training teams generally include an experienced trainer with subject matter expertise plus a current workplace practitioner. This combination of training experience and workplace recency provides the course participants with opportunities to gain from first hand experiences of an operational member, and helps them to apply the concepts they have learned into their workplace.
Programs are customised to address the challenges and issues faced by each country or region, including the environment in which a program is conducted. A train the trainer component can also be incorporated into the program to assist participants in transferring their skills and knowledge to others.
To ensure that all aspects of the programs run smoothly close liaison is undertaken with our AFP International Liaison Officer network.
All requests for training from international law enforcement agencies should be made (in writing) through the AFP International Liaison Officer at the Australian Embassy or High Commission in the relevant country.
Training programs include:
- Management of Serious Crime (MOSC)
- Investigations Management
- Investigations
- People Smuggling/Human Trafficking
- Financial Investigation
- Sexual Offences Investigation
- Law Enforcement Intelligence
- Law Enforcement Computer Software Systems
- Surveillance
- Forensics
Investigations Management
Investigations Management workshops enhance the skills and knowledge of senior law enforcement officers to plan and manage major investigations.
The program assists investigation managers develop a greater understanding of the leadership and management role within complex, protracted, or multi-jurisdictional investigations and familiarise them with the best practice tools for the planning, coordination and management of such investigations.
Investigations
Investigations programs relating to basic criminal and drug investigations have been designed to develop the skills and knowledge of investigators to enable the successful investigation of criminal offences. The programs focus on the primary elements required of any investigation including evidence gathering and recording, interview techniques, continuity of evidence and investigations and crime scene management.
The Drug Investigations programs also address those issues particular to a drug investigation including matters of mutual assistance, controlled deliveries, policies and legislation and forensic methodologies.
People Smuggling/Human Trafficking
The People Smuggling/Human Trafficking Program offers a regional perspective of people smuggling, current trends and methodologies. International travel documentation may be required to facilitate the movement of human traffic across international borders and therefore the program also contains components of identity fraud techniques. Incorporated throughout the program are investigation techniques specific to people smuggling and mutual assistance in criminal matters.
Financial Investigation
The Financial Investigations Program develops the skills of investigators in generating and collating financial data concerning the assets, liabilities, income, expenditure and suspicious financial transactions for a person, entity or group of interest, and the tracing and seizing of criminal assets. The program looks further to identify criminal activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, underground banking systems and credit card crimes. This program enables investigators to develop investigative management skills specific to the accounting environment and its application to identification and seizure of proceeds of crime.
Sexual Offences Investigation
The Sexual Offences Investigation Program is designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of investigators conducting investigations into specific types of sexual related offences. Issues discussed during the program including interviewing victims/witnesses and support mechanisms, management of investigations and the functions of law enforcement, legal and local welfare services. Key features of this program include themes such as child sex tourism, sexual servitude and paedophilia.
Law Enforcement Intelligence
International Law Enforcement Intelligence Training provides specialised intelligence programs designed to meet the needs of the AFP's international law enforcement partners, especially in the Asia-Pacific Region. Trans-national crime issues affecting the region means that the development, evaluation and exchange of timely and accurate intelligence is essential to the role of law enforcement in detecting, disrupting and dismantling criminal syndicates.
Intelligence training programs are structured to provide practical understanding and application in a range of law enforcement intelligence methodologies, primarily focusing on the practical application of operational and tactical intelligence to support decision making.
AFP Law Enforcement Intelligence programs include:
- Introduction to Law Enforcement Intelligence Program (Basic Intelligence Program) delivered in country.
- Intelligence Officers Program (Intermediate Intelligence Program) delivered in country. A more advanced course targeting current, practising intelligence officers.
- International Strategic Intelligence Course. A regional training course delivered in the Asia and Pacific Region.
- National Strategic Intelligence Course. This program is delivered at the AFP College, Canberra and is open for intelligence practitioners who meet specific selection criteria. This program is a partnership between Charles Sturt University, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission. There are positions allocated for up to four international participants on each course.
Law Enforcement Computer Software Systems
Case Management Intelligence System (CMIS) is a computer software program which has been developed by the AFP to assist our law enforcement partners in recording intelligence data on a common database. The International Training Team is responsible for the in country training of respective law enforcement partners using this software.
The AFP has also partnered with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the development and dissemination of generic law enforcement computer based training (CBT). The International Training Team is responsible for the establishment of CBT laboratories throughout the Pacific and the mentoring of the CBT hub managers.
Surveillance
International Surveillance Programs are customised to suit the environment in which the program is being conducted. They aim to provide participants with applicable surveillance skills in order to support intelligence gathering and investigations.
All facets of surveillance including planning, communications, photography, video and digital imaging, static, foot and vehicle surveillance and report writing are undertaken in training programs. Participants are provided with theory sessions in relation to all aspects of surveillance and are then required to demonstrate the practical application of the theory concepts in workplace realistic scenarios.
Forensics
International training programs include:
- Crime Scene Investigation
- Forensic Investigations Management
- Fingerprint Enhancement - including physical, chemical and illumination techniques
- Fingerprint Identification - the use of automated fingerprint identification systems