2020
TRACKING COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
TRAVERSE
CITY, MICHIGAN
TRAINING OFFERED BY 3-FIRES TRACKERS – JHPTS –VISUAL
TRACKING
LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPHASIS
5-DAY TRACKING TRAINING COURSE
Date: April 20 - 24, 2020
Time: 08:00 a.m., Monday, April 20, 2020
through 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 24, 2020
Location: YMCA Hayo-Went-Ha Camps, 1380 East Arbutus Lake Rd., Traverse City, MI 49686. This is a first class camp which houses up to 200 young people and counselors during the season from May to October.
Course Costs: made payable to JHPTS or PayPal account Joel@jhardin-inc.com
$250
for “sworn” Law Enforcement Officers
$450
for all other interested persons.
Tuition includes classroom materials and use of facilities all meals and dormitory bunk space. Students will arrive on Sunday, April 19th. Meals begin with breakfast Monday morning and end with lunch on Friday, April 24th before your departure.
A $100 deposit is required to reserve
space in this professional tracking class and must be received prior to April 10th,
2020. Balance must be paid at registration. Bring your own
sleeping bag or similar and toiletries including a towel.
Meals & Accommodations: Dormitory style accommodations are
provided Sunday through Thursday nights. Meals and snacks are provided from Monday
breakfast through Friday Lunch.
This will be a dual level training
course inviting JHPTS-Visual Tracking certified trackers and all other interested
persons with no previous law enforcement or search and rescue experience. Training will focus on law enforcement
officer initial response and investigation of possible criminal misconduct
incidents and or verifying reports of missing persons and initial search
operation.
There
are NO prerequisites for this training presentation. This tracking course is
open to all persons with tracking interests regardless of previous experience
or training. All tracking students will be provided training at an appropriate
level for their development and upward progress.
Course Content: Novice and Basic
Tracker Training Levels. This
will be a 46 hour course beginning at 8:00 am Monday April 20th, 2020 with
registration and lecture including power point presentation to provide Novice
and Basic tracker understanding of training methodology, techniques and
procedures. The presentation supports
field training by providing student understanding of training methods, manner
and objectives. “Tracking” is a first
response primary search resource used to verify witness statements, establish
the “PLS”, direction of subject travel and following the physical evidence to
the missing person.
Field
training will allow “student tracking team” experimentation and “hands-on” practice of fundamental tracking techniques. Novice students will progress from initial JHPTS-Visual
Tracking program introduction, learning to see sign, identifying a print, learning
the “step-by-step” every track concept of following an identified sign line and
practical tracking team response.
Advanced Tracker Training Levels: This
is a “skill development” training program for Basic Trackers, Apprentice and
Journeyman level tracking students.
Students at these levels have acquired Basic Tracking understanding and
will be introduced to practical tracking techniques and applications necessary
to become a viable resource for SAR and law enforcement initial response and
investigations. Advanced Trackers
will locate and examine scenes, preserving, documenting and presenting tracking
evidence, while working simulated crime scenes. Additionally, students at this level will be learning
training and advanced tracking techniques and methodologies. They will learn
how to locate, document and secure tracking evidence as well as presenting
their knowledge and skill.
Student Needs: Students should be physically fit and
equipped for SAR & law enforcement field response. Field practice will
continue during any inclement weather, students should be properly prepared
with wet/dry, cold/hot weather gear. Knee pads may be helpful. Students need to bring a pen/pencil, note
pad, small measuring tape, 5/8 inch doweling or similar, 36 to 40 inches long,
with three rubber bands to use as a tracking stick and a two or three cell incandescent
flashlight.
Registration: Students should pre-register to secure
class placement by April 10th, 2020 with a $100 deposit made payable to JHPTS-Visual
Tracking or payment to PayPal account,
Joel@jhardin-inc.com. Mail registration
form and $100 deposit made payable to JHPTS-Visual Tracking to: Kevin Willis at
7500 Odawa Circle, Harbor Springs, MI 49740.
If you have
any questions regarding the class or class location or facility, please contact:
Roger Willis, 231-242-1670, Email- rwillis@ltbbodawa-nsn.gov.
Pre-registered
students failing to attend this course without a reasonable excuse will be
assessed the $100.00 service fee.
Sponsor Information: This course is sponsored by 3-Fires
Trackers in Affiliation with JHPTS-Visual Tracking. All law enforcement
personnel, SAR volunteer mission responders and operational coordinator personnel
or Homeland security personnel and others with sincere interest in learning
“professional” tracking are invited to attend.