Online Training Overview
Our online training is available to you virtually anywhere, anytime. Work at your own pace completing one or all of the courses. Our courses are interactive, independent study (no instructor), while our distance learning courses are live online training events. Upon verification of your military, law enforcement or criminal justice employment status, you will receive an email providing information on accessing restricted courses.
We now offer courses in Spanish. Please review the courses and look for titles marked with an asterisk (*).
Note: MCTFT Blackboard operates on a different system than St. Petersburg College D2L E-Drug online training. Each system requires its own login and password.
MCTFT Blackboard Overview
Our MCTFT Blackboard courses are interactive, independent study (no instructor), and upon successful completion of each course, we offer a certificate of completion.
All materials and learning quizzes are online, as is the final exam in each course. Follow this link provided to the portal to register, take classes or download your certificates.
Once you have successfully completed a course, final exam and course survey, navigate to your certificates link on your MCTFT Blackboard dashboard to view and download them.
Note: MCTFT Blackboard operates on a different system than E-Drug training. Each system requires its own login and password.
For IT issues, registration concerns or general course issues, please contact:
MCTFT IT Support
Camp Blanding, FL
Office: 904-682-3912 | Email: support@mctft.ngdesk.com
Distance Learning Overview
Courses are generally 1 to 1.5 hours in duration and feature a live instructor that can answer your questions in real-time. To view courses, create a login and register click here.
In order to receive a distance learning training certificate, students must pass the final exam with a 70% or higher and complete the survey. This test is administered online at the end of the training session.
Click the accordion button for each class to learn more about them and see when they are available.
SPC Online learning D2L E-drug MCTFT Courses for Criminal Justice employees’, Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement.
To apply for access to St. Petersburg College D2L E-Drug online training, follow the instructions on the information about applying page. Upon verification of your military, law enforcement or criminal justice employment status, you will receive an email providing information on accessing restricted classes.
All materials and learning quizzes are online, as is the final exam. Please check your system (browser and necessary plug-ins) in order to participate in our course exercises, and to view your certificate once you have successfully completed a course with a 70% or better on the final exam. At that time, your certificate of completion will appear on the screen for you to print or save.
Contact us with questions about program issues and questions regarding E-Drug training:
Helpdesk: MCTFT_Helpdesk@spcollege.edu or 727-341-4357
Kadell Ford, Registrar: Ford.Kadell@spcollege.edu
Enjoy our E-Drug courses? You might also enjoy courses offered through the Florida Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI). and the National Terrorism Preparedness Institute (NTPI).
For a list of frequently asked questions, click here.
Note: Your E-Drug login will not work with the Flex Training System.
Blackboard (where our online courses can be found)
Blackboard is a learning management system that contains online, distance learning and in-person courses as well as a way to register for them. Click here to view our courses, create a login and register for courses.
Clandestine Laboratory Recertification (online)
Description: This course is designed to meet the recommended guidelines set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for annual refresher training for those personnel who have completed the certification requirements set by OSHA as outlined in OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) and EPA 40 CFR 311.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Command and Control Overview (online)
Description: This course is designed for law enforcement officers who are drug unit commanders or supervisors of drug investigation initiatives. The primary focus of the course is to provide basic skills necessary to effectively manage task force organizations, which includes the restrictions upon task force operations, selection and retention of personnel, corruption, the usage of military support, and related risk elements.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Criminal Street Gangs Overview (online)
Description: This course is designed for the uniformed patrol officer or investigator who has had LIMITED experience with street gangs. The course will acquaint the officer with the history and organization of gangs, legal definitions, gang identifiers (including colors, symbols, hand signs, graffiti, etc.), criminal activities, documentation, and officer safety.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Drug Identification (online)
Description: This course presents an overview of the identification of current substances of abuse and the associated paraphernalia law enforcement officers will likely encounter in their duties. Drug Scheduling, appearance, observable effects on the human body, method of ingestion, possible medicinal and/or cultural uses, slang terminology, cultivation, production, manufacture and distribution of the prevalent substances within the seven categories of drugs will be described. Officer safety issues for encountering users of these drugs is emphasized.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Ground Reconnaissance Phase I (online)
Description: This is the entry level certification course for personnel conducting mission 5a domestic operations in support of federal, state, and local Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA). It establishes the baseline training requirement for planning, regulation and policy, legal application and status, risk management, serious incident reporting, public affairs, hide site selection and legality, medical planning, sensory enhancement devices, rules for use of force, briefings, and handling of non-Department of Defense U.S. Persons information. State 5a programs are required to amplify situations unique to that State’s laws, legal precedents, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and task organization. Upon course completion, students will be able to safely and effectively provide mission 5a support to LEAs as directed by that State’s Counterdrug Coordinator (CDC) appointed and certified Ground Reconnaissance Specialist (GRS) Phase II graduate(s). Individuals must pass the end of course examination, once, with an 80% or better (2 attempts) before they are eligible to attend GRS Phase II. Students who fail the GRS Phase I end of course examination twice, are required to obtain their State CDC’s written consent (Memorandum for Record) in order to attempt a third retest; no additional waivers will be granted. Students will be required to apply and demonstrate all GRS Phase I TLOs during the GRS Phase II certification course.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 30 hours
Introduction to Clandestine Laboratory Investigations (online)
Description: This course is designed to address clandestine laboratory awareness, safety issues, and basic case development.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Introduction to Conspiracy Investigations (online)
Description: Conspiracies involving the activities of complex drug organizations with numerous individuals and a variety of crimes are inherently difficult to investigate and successfully prosecute. The goal of this course is to familiarize the investigator with the basics of what it takes to conduct conspiracy investigations from start to finish and to ensure prosecution and conviction of conspirators.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Introduction to Highway and Rural Drug Investigations (online)
Description: The focus of this course is the legal aspects concerning traffic stops, as well as training law enforcement officers in the techniques of roadside interviews to be used in traffic stops of suspected drug couriers.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Introduction to Interview and Interrogation (online)
Description: This course is designed to provide insight to investigators to obtain greater amounts of actionable intelligence, through human interactions, as well as validate its accuracy. Successful investigations into transnational crime (narcotics, human trafficking, money laundering) are highly dependent on Human Intelligence (HUMINT). This course provides the tools and knowledge necessary to attack networks, dismantle illicit enterprises, and obtain successful prosecutions.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Introduction to Money Laundering (online)
Description: This course is designed to provide the law enforcement officer/investigator with the abilities to recognize potential money laundering violations, both international and domestic, while investigating narcotics-related violations.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Introduction to Patrol Drug Investigations (online)
Description: This course is designed to provide an overview of patrol investigative techniques.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Police Intelligence (online)
Description: This course will provide law enforcement, intelligence personnel, and analysts with information necessary to understand the intelligence cycle – Direction, Collection, Processing, and Dissemination – and the techniques used to organize and analyze data. In addition to this, training will also include Federal laws applicable to the gathering of intelligence and its use.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Surveillance Operations Overview (online)
Description: Provide students with an understanding of the principles of basic surveillance techniques as they apply to the different types of surveillance performed by narcotic officers.
Length (if no breaks are taken): 8 hours
Trafficking Overview -- Illicit Trade (online)
This self-paced online course will serve as an overview of the criminal phenomenon of trafficking. It will define trafficking and identify illicit markets and trade practices, as well as identifying the drivers behind illicit trafficking. Finally, this module will identify illicit hubs based on source, transit and destinations for illicit goods.
For full details and to register click here.
U.S. CTOC Strategies (online)
This course is designed to introduce the viewer to the United States’ strategy for combating Transnational Organized Crime (TOC). There is a brief overview of the history of TOC and how modern international criminal organizations threaten all aspects of modern life. There is an introduction to Executive Order 13581 and an explanation of how it helps law enforcement agencies battle transnational criminal organizations. Finally, the course will provide the viewer with the objectives and priority actions of the U.S. strategy for combating TOC.
Click here to access our learning management system, Blackboard.
Distance Learning Training
Tactical Medical
As a law enforcement officer there is a chance you will find yourself on a scene where someone is severely wounded. If your life is still in danger from an active shooter or some other threat and medics are unavailable it is up to you to react, this course can assist you in gaining the skills and confidence to provide immediate lifesaving measures. Tactical Combat Casualty Care or TCCC assists military personnel in dealing with this type of situation, and this course is designed to help law enforcement officers benefit from the medical knowledge gained from over 10 years of combat. This course demonstrates how you can incorporate it into your own tactics, techniques, and procedures in responding to drug search warrants, felony arrests and high liability duties.
Mission Planning
This course is designed to provide an overview of Troop Leading Procedures and the Army Operations Order to officers of a Law Enforcement Agency (LEA). This course covers the benefits of keeping a mission folder and all the supporting documents required by an LEA for Drug Search Warrant Operations; the benefits of a standardized mission brief and describes the difference between a report writing style and the directive style for writing orders; introduces the LEA to the Army Operations Order format redesigned for the civil nature of police operations; introduces the LEA to Troop Leading Procedures and how they apply to the deliberate (search warrant) and hasty (call out) planning cycles; covers planning considerations in order to identify all aspects of the given scenario in the civil environment. Upon completion of this course students will be able to better task organize for mission planning, organize information for future reference and briefing purposes, and integrate attached agencies into counterdrug operations.
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HAZMAT
Methamphetamine synthesis utilizes hazardous chemicals including irritants and neurotoxins. Aerosolized methamphetamine and associated toxic substances permeates surfaces,
E-Drug Training
To register for these classes, click here. If you are already registered for the E-Drug online training, and have your username and password, you can access the courses here.
We now offer courses in Spanish. Please review the courses and look for titles marked with an asterisk (*).
Introduction to Clandestine Laboratory Investigations
This course is designed to address clandestine laboratory awareness, safety issues and basic case development.
Clandestine Laboratory Recertification
This class is intended as an annual refresher for law enforcement personnel who have already been certified through a class that meets the requirements of OSHA 1910.120 (Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response). Just as it is important to stay proficient in police tactics and firearms, clandestine lab investigators must stay proficient in chemical safety. In this class we review the relevant topics covered in a traditional 40-hour program, emphasizing current trends and safety topics critical to successfully processing methamphetamine labs.
Command and Control Overview
This course is designed for law enforcement officers who are drug unit commanders or supervisors of drug investigation initiatives. The primary focus of the course is to provide the basic skills necessary to effectively manage drug investigations, develop policy and procedures, select and train drug investigators, and assess and manage risks associated with drug operations. In addition to this course you may also find our Mission Planning Course highly valuable. It’s offered online in both a self-paced and live format.
Click here for more information on the Command and Control Course
Introduction to Conspiracy Investigations
Conspiracies involving the activities of a complex criminal organization with numerous individuals and a variety of crimes are inherently difficult to investigate and successfully prosecute. This course is designed to provide an overview of the basic information needed to ensure prosecution. This course utilizes a practical “user” approach to deliver the subject matter. The course content includes an overview of conspiracy, legal aspects, and practical investigator insight and administrative/command issues. The course builds the student’s legal and investigative knowledge and introduces an approach to preparing a prosecutable conspiracy case.
Criminal Street Gangs Overview
This course is designed for the uniformed patrol officer or investigator who has had limited experience with street gangs. The course will acquaint the officer with the history and organization of gangs, legal definitions, gang identifiers (including colors, symbols, hand signs, graffiti, etc.), criminal activities, documentation, and officer safety.
Drug Identification
This course presents an overview of the identification of current substances of abuse and the associated paraphernalia law enforcement officers will likely encounter in their duties. Drug scheduling, appearance, observable effects on the human body, methods of ingestion, possible medicinal and or cultural uses, slang terminology, cultivation, production, manufacture and distribution of the prevalent substances within the seven categories of drugs will be described. Officer safety issues for encountering users of these drugs is emphasized too.
Introduction to Highway and Rural Drug Investigations
The focus of this course is on legal aspects concerning traffic stops, as well as training law enforcement officers in the techniques of roadside interviews to be used in traffic stops of suspected drug couriers. This course is also designed to train small-town law enforcement agencies in the newest trends of narcotics investigations and officer safety, the proper identification of rolling clandestine labs that may be present in rural areas, and assessment of potential suspects through knowledge of body language, eye patterns, and drug-induced characteristics and behaviors. Drug dealers are moving into smaller towns around the country for the purpose of conducting illegal drug activity, including trafficking, manufacturing, and distribution. There is also a growing incidence of long-time rural residents embarking on illegal drug activities. Small-town agencies will be introduced to new drug investigation trends and techniques. This course will train rural officers to identify signs of narcotic trafficking during vehicle stops, identify signs and methods of transporting narcotics, including chemical precursors, and the interpretation of a subject’s body language.
Introduction to Interview and Interrogation
This unique course offers investigators insight into what a person is actually saying and, most importantly, what they are not saying. Studies show that while the majority of people do not lie, they instead choose to omit information. This is more commonly referred to as, “Lie by Omission and not by Commission.” In doing so, people display involuntary signs of nonverbal body language; they offer “evasive verbal responses” to direct bipolar questioning, and their written statements often identify areas that are sensitive to them. While the type of crime is inconsequential, what is important is that the person giving the information is affected by the same passions of guilt, stress, and psychological reasoning relating to their particular crime.
Introduction to Money Laundering
This course is designed to provide the law enforcement officer/deputy/investigator with the ability to recognize potential money laundering violations, both international and domestic, while investigating narcotics-related violations. The course will allow the student to apply techniques for financial interviewing, identifying sources of financial information, utilizing indirect methods of proving profitability in illegal enterprises, utilizing financial undercover operations, financial search warrants, and conducting money laundering investigations.
Introduction to Patrol Drug Investigations
The Patrol Investigation Course is designed to teach law enforcement about working drug cases. This is not limited to just investigative techniques, but an overall aspect of the drug trade. There is more to being a well-rounded law enforcement officer/deputy/agent than just knowing the law. Law enforcement needs to know about drug trends and the reasons people use drugs.
We will also examine the citizen’s viewpoint versus the viewpoint of law enforcement. This will let us know what we need to do in order to work better together. Police officers need to know more about drugs to help with their investigations, so we will look into several different drugs.
Police Intelligence
This course will provide law enforcement, intelligence personnel, and analysts with information necessary to understand the intelligence cycle: direction, collection, processing, and dissemination; and the techniques used to organize and analyze data. In addition, training will also include federal laws applicable to the gathering of intelligence and its use.
Surveillance Operations Overview
This course will provide students with an understanding of the principles of basic surveillance techniques as they apply to the different types of surveillance performed by narcotics officers. During this presentation, the student will become acquainted with the various types and methods of surveillance, the purposes for conducting surveillance, the preparation of surveillance equipment, and the proper execution and documentation of surveillance operations. In the demonstration of basic surveillance techniques, the students will be shown how to apply the various principles discussed in class to actual surveillance situations, including a night time surveillance, via practical exercises and scenarios.
Identificación de Drogas*
Este curso presenta una visión general de la identificación de las sustancias actuales de abuso y la parafernalia. La Clasificación de Drogas, apariencia, efectos observables sobre el cuerpo humano, métodos de ingestión, posibles usos medicinales y/o culturales, terminología callejera, cultivo, producción, fabricación y distribución de las sustancias prevalentes dentro de las siete categorías de las drogas serán descritas. Se enfatizan los problemas de seguridad enfrentan cuando encuentran usuarios de estas drogas.
Visión General de las Pandillas Callejeras Criminales*
Este curso está diseñado para el oficial de patrulla uniformado o el investigador que ha tenido experiencia LIMITADA con pandillas callejeras. El curso familiarizará al oficial con la historia y organización de las pandillas, definiciones legales, identificadores de pandillas (incluidos colores, símbolos, señales de mano, graffiti, etc.), actividades delictivas, documentación y seguridad de los oficiales.
Introducción a las investigaciones de Conspiración*
Las conspiraciones que involucran las actividades de una organización criminal compleja con numerosas personas y una variedad de delitos son intrínsecamente difíciles de investigar y enjuiciar con éxito. Este curso está diseñado para proporcionar una descripción general de la información básica necesaria para garantizar el enjuiciamiento. Este curso de conspiración utiliza un enfoque práctico de “usuario” para impartir el tema. El contenido del curso incluye una descripción general de la conspiración, aspectos legales y conocimientos prácticos del investigador y cuestiones administrativas / de mando. El curso desarrolla el conocimiento legal e investigativo del estudiante e introduce un enfoque para preparar un caso de conspiración procesable.
