PRI Training Solutions
PLEASE NOTE PRI TRAINING IS AVAILABLE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SUPPORT PERSONNEL ONLY AND IS CLOSED TO ALL PERSONS IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY.
We are law enforcement certified instructors specializing in records management and technology best practices for public safety, UCR/NIBRS, and public records law. Since 2008, PRI has provided the most sought after training available in this field. Our courses consistently receive excellent reviews and are designed by experts who have actually worked on the job.
Training Seminars
Since 2008 we have trained agencies around the country and have helped bring consistency and professionalism to this area of law enforcement. All attendees receive downloadable course material once registered. Be sure to register for future training announcements here. We believe in engaging our audience and provide a 100% learning environment.
Upcoming Seminars
Live Webinars
Bring as many personnel as you like. Interactive, downloadable, live training offered online in a brief time period. From your desk attend these 1-3 hour training sessions where you can interact with the instructor and other attendees, receive links to legal resources, download course material and your certificate.
Upcoming Webinars
Training Announcements
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On Site Training
All of our training as well as customized courses can be provided on-site for just your personnel ensuring a group rate without the cost of travel and time away from work. This tailored solution ensures training in alignment with your organization’s specific policy and protocol. We are law enforcement certified instructors specializing in records management best practices for public safety, crime reporting , UCR/NIBRS and public records law.
How much does it cost?
Training fees include all course materials, certificates and presentation slides and are based on a per project basis depending on the number of days needed and the course that is requested (plus travel and lodging if necessary). This is an end-to-end fixed fee cost effective solution that allows you to send as many personnel as desired. Inquire here.
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Budgeting?
Remember to budget for our training courses.
Body-worn Camera Records: Law, Policy and Practice $385
Provides current state specific legal requirements for these digital records.
Seminar Overview
Who should attend: Anyone who manages, publishes or receives requests for video records.
The management and dissemination of BWC recordings is a rather, albeit unnecessarily, contentious issue in public safety. Whether or not the video shall be released according to the law is one matter while the decision to voluntarily release it is another. These issues are often conflated with the preservation of videos as “evidence”- a separate matter altogether from public records law.
In this 2 day course, in-depth practical information including legal requirements and best practices combined with a hands-on policy development exercise will be provided by subject matter experts from law enforcement. Topics include:
- BWC agency Philosophy, Policy, Privacy and Procedure
- The 3 consumers of video: the agency, the courts, and the public
- Transparency: why have body-worn cameras?
- Developing policy: activation/de-activation, categorization, retention, notifications, release
- Public records/FOIA laws
Host agencies needed. Host this class and get 2 free seats.
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Seminar Registration
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Managing Police Records $195
The latest in public records law & procedure.
Seminar Overview
Who should attend: anyone who manages criminal and administrative records.
In this class you will learn how to determine how long records must be kept, in what format, when they can be destroyed and what the legal requirements are for releasing information to the public:
- The latest public records law for police, traffic & admin records
- What can/cannot be released to the public
- Dealing with media requests
- Developing records retention schedules and procedures
- Keeping track of what was destroyed and when
- Procedures for ensuring retention schedule compliance
- What records are permanent?
- Police reports, email, financial records, supporting documentation, and more.
Host agencies needed. Host a class and get 2 free seats. Get details here.
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Seminar Registration
North Miami, FL - 12/18/18
700 NE 124 Street, North Miami
December 18, 2018 8am-3pm View Flyer Register Online
Pasadena, TX - 01/03/19
7902 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena
January 3, 2019 8am-3pm View Flyer Register Online
Kansas City, KS - 01/11/19
6565 State Avenue, Kansas City
January 11, 2019 8am-3pm View Flyer Register Online
Public Records Act: California $195
The latest in public records law & subpoenas
Seminar Overview
Who should attend: anyone who manages government records and subpoenas for records
A one day in-depth course covering the California Public Records Act and how to respond to subpoenas. Taught by California’s resident expert, Joseph Surges, learn the ins and outs of public records requests from a practitioner’s perspective.
- What can/cannot be released
- Process for managing public records requests
- Fees for records
- Handling subpoenas for records
- Recent legislative changes
Host agencies needed. Host a class and get 2 free seats. Get details here.
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Seminar Registration
Cathedral City, CA Dec. 14, 2018
Building a Model Police Records Unit $385 (2 day class)
For records specialists, supervisors and administrators.
Seminar Overview
Who should attend: All records personnel.
The only one of its kind, this two day course was developed by current law enforcement personnel and has received excellent reviews. Learn how to minimize liability, improve performance, empower the records function, build professionalism, and increase customer service. Designed for records managers, clerks and supervisors, this course teaches you how to run the records unit as if it were a business: efficiently, legally and customer focused. Learn practical techniques that will improve the operations of this critical support component.
- Develop a records management plan
- Gain compliance with UCR/NIBRS standards
- Developing efficient report correction workflows
- How to legally correct reports after the fact
- Disposing of records legally and efficiently
- Reviewing and approving reports
- Developing a report writing manual
- Developing a records unit manual
- Developing performance and accountability standards
- Understanding public records law
Host agencies needed. Host a class and get 2 free seats. Details here.
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Seminar Registration
Please pick a location below and register online. Classes fill quickly and space is limited.
Blacksburg, VA October 22-23, 2018
330 Sterrett Drive, Blacksburg
October 22-23, 2018 8am-4pm View Flyer Register Online
Dalton, GA January 23-24, 2019
296 Old Praters Mill Road, Dalton
January 23-24, 2019 8am-4pm View Flyer Register Online
Tucson, AZ January 29-30, 2019
7600 N. Shannon Road, Tucson
January 29-30, 2019 8am-4pm View Flyer Register Online
Crime Stats & UCR/NIBRS for the Police Executive $159
Everything you need to know about your agency’s numbers.
Seminar Overview
Who should attend: Anyone interested in UCR/NIBRS crime reporting, accuracy and compliance.
NOTE: If the course location you attend is in a state that is currently still reporting via the Summary Reporting System, the course will cover both SRS and NIBRS in order to prepare you for the transition to NIBRS. If the location is in a NIBRS reporting state, the course will focus only on NIBRS.
Reading a UCR report is one thing; articulating the numbers to those who ask about them is something entirely different. We teach you what you need to know to understand, explain, review, and report your crime statistics correctly. Learn why your crime analyst’s numbers are always different than Records. Ensure that your agency stays out of the headlines and free of questionable crime reporting. Topics include:
- Is your agency recording and reporting crime correctly?
- Dealing with the media.
- The difference between UCR stats and statute based stats.
- Are your officers reporting multiple incident cases correctly?
- Validating and presenting UCR stats.
- How are crimes counted?
- How are cases cleared?
- Arrests vs. clearances.
- When can you really exceptionally clear a case?
- Learn the most common causes of erroneous stats
- Get extensive e-course material with comprehensive research papers, articles and legal resources online
Host agencies needed. Host this class and get 2 free seats.
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Seminar Registration
Please pick a location below and register online. Classes fill quickly and space is limited.
Fayetteville, AR - 11/29/18
100 W. Rock Street, Fayetteville
November 29, 2018 8am-3pm View Flyer Register Online
Lake Zurich, IL - Course Full
200 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich
December 6, 2018 8am-3pm View Flyer Course Full
Evidence Records: retention and destruction $195
Understanding retention and destruction requirements.
Seminar Overview
Who should attend: personnel who manage and oversee the proper management of evidence related records. Learn what the law requires. How long should evidence be kept? What about the records associated with the case? When the court sends a letter saying the evidence can be destroyed, should it be? This course focuses on the proper management of the records related to evidence and property.
- When does evidence become a public record?
- Is there a difference between the two?
- When the court authorizes evidence to be disposed, is it okay to destroy it?
- Are there additional retention requirements beyond the closure of a case?
- What about evidence that has met the statute of limitation?
Host agencies needed. Host this class and get 2 free seats.
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Seminar Registration
Please pick a location below and register online. Classes fill quickly and space is limited.
Crystal Lake, IL - 11/9/18
100 W Woodstock Street, Crystal Lake
November 9, 2018 8am-3pm View Flyer Register Online
Palm Beach Gardens, FL - 12/07/18
10500 N Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens
December 7, 2018 8am-3pm View Flyer Register Online
Abilene, TX - 01/25/19
4557 East Lake Road, Abilene
January 25, 2019 8am-3pm View Flyer Register Online
Law Enforcement Records Management Cohort Program $395
Implement what you learned in the Building a Model Police Records Unit seminar.
Overview
Learn to lead, plan, collaborate, obtain buy-in, execute and transform. This course provides you the tools and skills to build and implement a forward-thinking, modernized and efficient agency-wide information management program.
Who should attend: records personnel, administrative staff
While at its core is a two-day workshop, this is an ongoing program where attending scholars will become part of a peer group who will serve to support, mentor and advise each other on an ongoing basis in the development and implementation of a customized model police records management plan for your agency.
During the workshop, moderated by PRI, your group will develop an actionable plan to bring back to your agency and the skills needed to get it approved and implemented, guided by the 4 pillars of a model police records operation: 1) sound business process 2) people’s performance 3) legal compliance and 4) modern technology.
Utilizing an online system, your groups will maintain contact, share ideas, provide feedback, network and develop career-long relationships. In addition to the practical education this program provides, the connections you make will be even more valuable.
The plan you will develop will include the strategies, risks, timelines, policy and training requirements for:
- Developing and tracking real-time key performance indicators
- Annual compliance with retention schedules across the agency
- Effective policy governing report writing, public records, report corrections, management process
- Selecting the right systems for managing records and data
- Standardizing and maximizing the use of CAD/RMS
- Developing performance expectations and standards
You will learn the skills needed to:
- Effectively communicate your vision clearly and concisely to obtain buy-in
- Deal effectively with difficult employees and supervisors
- Demonstrate leadership skills for cross-generational staff
- Draft professional, management-level plans and staff reports
This is a hands-on course and participants will need to bring a laptop with wireless capability.
New Class! Host Agencies Needed
This is a brand new course and it needs a home! Host agencies get 2 free seats.
Seminar Registration
Grayslake, IL - Jan 8-9, 2019
College of Lake County
19351 W Washington St, Grayslake, IL 60030
Jan 8-9, 2019 8am-4pm
Public Records for Law Enforcement $79/person
Everything to know about what can/cannot be released.
Live Webinar Overview
Who should attend: Records, PIO, Command personnel
Instructor: Ed Claughton
Cost: $79/person (each registered person receives a personalized certificate)
Date: See to the right
Duration: 2.0 hrs.
Overview
Learn about the latest public records law including the release and redaction of police reports and video records, fees, time requirements and procedures for processing records requests. Get the information you need to keep your agency in compliance. After this training, you’ll be able to navigate the nuances of records exemptions, confidential records and more.
- Body-worn camera video
- Incident reports
- Arrest reports
- Personnel records
- Admin records
- Confidential information
No ordinary training
From the comfort of your desk get the training you need via our live, interactive online training sessions with downloadable content, certificates and active discussion.
Webinar Instructions
- Once you register, you’ll receive an email prior to the class with a link to the online training.
- Be sure to utilize a computer configured with speakers and if possible, a microphone & webcam. If a mic is not available, you can still communicate with the instructor by typing your questions.
- These are live events with downloadable course materials, certificates, and links to various resources.
Webinar Registration
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MORE STATES BEING ADDED SOON!
Converting to NIBRS $79/person
What you need to know.
Live Webinar Overview
Who should attend: UCR managers, IT staff, Command Staff
Instructor: Ed Claughton
Cost: $79/person (each attendee receives personalized certificate of completion)
Date: See to the right
Duration: 2.0 hrs.
Course Description
The FBI has announced that all agencies will be reporting crime data via the NIBRS program by 2021. What is required to make a successful transition requires much more than just making some changes to RMS. We have a 6 step model to ensure success from start to finish- planning all the way through to certification.
Topics
- Learn how NIBRS counts crime, what crimes are counted and how to achieve compliance
- Report writing changes
- Converting data
- Testing accuracy
- Training requirements
- Certification procedure
- Marketing and education for your constituencies
Interested in Hosting Your Own Seminar?
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
No ordinary training
From the comfort of your desk get the training you need via our live, interactive online training sessions with downloadable content, certificates and active discussion.
Webinar Instructions
Each attendee should be registered. Attendees will receive a personalized certificate.
- Once you register, you’ll receive an email prior to the class with a link to the online training.
- Be sure to utilize a computer configured with speakers and if possible, a microphone & webcam. If a mic is not available, you can still communicate with the instructor by typing your questions.
- These are live events with downloadable course materials, certificates, and links to all NIBRS program guides.
Webinar Registration
More Webinars Coming!
Be sure to sign up for our training announcements to be notified of future events here.
NIBRS, public records and more!
Pleasant Hill PD
"I have attended many seminars and training classes over the last 20 years in law enforcement; I have to say with certainty, yours was simply amazing. You are very informed about the topic you teach. VERY informed."
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"Compared to other records seminars, this blows them out of the water!! Not the same dry instruction, but actual real world conditions. The ideas for improving 'systems' and 'people' were sound and logical. Fantastic!"
Sunrise Police Dept.
"Records management seminar is a must for anyone who deals with records--very informative class, extremely knowledgeable instructor. Send your employees--it's worth every penny."
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"This class exceeded my expectations! We have already scheduled future training with PRI Management Group. We are looking forward to the next class."
Ft. Lauderdale Police Dept.
"I attended the Crime Stats and UCR for the Police Executive seminar. As with the others, the class was very informative. Thanks for another great class!"
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"The seminar was outstanding, I hope to make some changes here in my department with some of what I have taken away from this class."
Avon Park Police Dept.
"I have attended other records management seminars in the past and this one was far above any of the others. Thanks for a great class."
ACTUAL COURSE COMMENTS
"I really enjoyed the way every portion was explained. It wasn't overwhelming, but it put into perspective the importance of running a good police records unit."
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"Ed is very personable and extremely knowledgeable about the police business. The stories are entertaining and have meaning to the topic at hand. Great incorporation of videos and images to liven up the lecture."
ACTUAL COURSE COMMENTS
"We thoroughly enjoyed the style and presentation of this class. It was easy to understand and the instructor made the class entertaining. Never a dull moment."
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"No suggestions. really enjoyed the class. We will be taking the UCR class in March and are very excited to get everything started for our own records unit."