Sgt. Michael Oteri has over 18 years of experience in the criminal justice field and currently a full-time high liability trainer and use of force analyst for a Central Florida agency. Michael is anagency administrator for the longest running law enforcement body camera program on the east coast of the United States. He has been invited to speak at technology summits at Florida law enforcement agencies and provides consultation on body camera programs. Michael also delivers outside training and consultation for a number of law enforcement agencies.

Michael has been assigned to a variety of operational assignments and has over 18 years of
experience in Patrol, K-9, SWAT, Dignitary Protection, and Training. While assigned to the
Training Section, he has become a firearms instructor, defensive tactics instructor, and a
certified use of force analyst. He has attended over 3,000 hours of training during his tenure.
He currently reviews use of force reports, video evidence, and reviews policy and training
aspects.

Michael is a graduate of the Daytona State College where he earned a Bachelor of Applied
Science Degree in Supervision and Management. He is currently enrolled at Liberty University
pursuing a Master’s of Science in Criminal Justice.

Also Available to present the BWC Seminar is:

Sgt. James Chirco

COURSE OFFERED:

Implementing and Managing the Body Worn Camera System

Transparency has become a keyword in the public safety industry and landmark
cases are being born at an alarming rate. Body cameras are offering public safety agencies
the opportunity to be more transparent with their community as well as provide a view from
an officer’s perspective rather than just a bystander holding a cell phone. This seminar is not about how clip a body camera to a uniform and turn it on. The manufacturer’s of this technology have made that part simple. This seminar is geared for command staff who will face managing the entire program from data storage, CJIS security, accessibility, legal requirements, public records requests, camera selection, and much more.

By use of studies, videos, and accounts of events that have occurred, this course will provide
the attendee with the information necessary to make an informed decision on how to
conduct research and implement a body camera system.

Training will cover:
• Purpose of a body worn camera.
• Benefits and limitations of a body camera program.
• Camera selection
• Budgeting considerations
• Management of video evidence
• Directives and policies
• Public records requests

Attendees will be provided with specialized behavioral health based training regarding the types of mental health conditions public safety personnel may be faced with during a Crisis Negotiation involving a Mentally Ill Subject and/or a Barricaded Criminal in Crisis or a Hostage Taker holding a Hostage(s). Strategies for relating and working with those that suffer from mental health conditions can be quite challenging and have the potential to pose danger to the public and public safety personnel at times if not dealt with appropriately. Such challenges include individual(s) suffering from suicidality and attempts to manage individuals who suffer from a major focus of clinical and behavioral attention (e.g.’s include: Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Major Depressive Disorder, & Suicidality Awareness, Intervention, and Prevention).

An overview of Personality Disorders, traits, and characteristics that law enforcement personnel commonly encounter will also be covered inclusive of those that suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
An overview will be provided that includes the following: Reviewing the Types of Negotiating Incidents, Priorities within Negotiations, Methods of Communication Used, and Constructs of a Negotiating Incident.
The use of Active Listening Strategies & 14 Communication Techniques will be discussed along with the following specific techniques, applications, and phenomenon respectively: Rule of Reciprocity, Perceptual Contrast Principle, Foot in the Door Technique, Door in the Face Technique, Pluralistic Ignorance, Uncertainty Principle, Werther Effect, Scarcity Principle, Stockholm Syndrome and London Syndrome.
The proposed training tools are not to replace the specific department’s/agency safety techniques and tactical training but to be a supplemental aid in dealing with this specialized population. It is these instruments that can be used in managing and confronting this specialized population at the public safety personnel’s discretion.
Introduction to Major Psychiatric Disorders and Personality Conditions that Public Safety Personnel interact with on a regular basis (Axis I Conditions)

A. Introduction to Schizophrenia (Signs and Symptoms)
1. Incorporating Strategies and Managing Encounters w/ those that suffer from Schizophrenia
B. Introduction to Understanding Major Depressive Disorder and Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder) (Signs and Symptoms)
1. Incorporating Strategies and Managing Encounters w/ those that suffer from Major Depressive Disorder and Manic Depression
C. Conceptualizing Personality Disorders (Mosaic)
1. Incorporating Strategies and Managing Encounters w/ Individuals Who Suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder
2. Incorporating Strategies and Managing Encounters w/ Individuals Who
Suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder
3. Incorporating Strategies and Managing Encounters w/individuals Who Suffer
From Narcissistic Personality Disorder
4. Types of Negotiating Incidents
5. Priorities in a Negotiating Incident, Methods of Communications, Constructs of a Negotiating Team
6. Suicidality ( Thoughts, Gestures, Attempts, & completion) Suicide Prevention & Intervention
7. Active Listening Strategies & 14 Communication Techniques
8. Rule of Reciprocity, Perceptual Contrast Principle, Foot in the Door Technique, Door in the Face Technique, Pluralistic Ignorance, Uncertainty Principle, Werther Effect, Scarcity Principle, Stockholm Syndrome and London Syndrome
9. Back to Back Exercises and implementation of active listening strategies and communication techniques

Understanding and Managing Psychological and Behavioral Manifestations of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Military Veteran

Overview:   This segment of the seminar encompasses an in-depth discussion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Signs and Symptoms of the condition, how it manifests, how Stigma and Stress play a factor in triggering it, and how & what strategies appear to be successful in managing those who may suffer from it.  As a result, these innovative approaches and direction will assist public safety in cultivating a more insightful appreciation of how such individuals who suffer from a condition struggle with attempts to problem solve in everyday life.  More and more of our Military Veterans and families experience an array of changes and transition from Pre-Deployment to Post-Deployment. This seminar will discuss and evaluate the dynamics surrounding suicide, violence risk, and threat assessment involving military personnel in crisis.

This seminar will not only educate others, but provide the necessary insight into what some individuals and families experience, will penetrate the Stigma dynamic, and will assist others in “normalizing” such behavioral and psychological reactions that such individuals and families endure.

• History of Post-Traumatic Disorder (PTSD) (Movie)
• What is PTSD?
• Stigma, Stress, and PTSD
• Myths about PTSD
• Fight or Flight Response (What about Freezing?)
• Perception of Danger for Someone who displays PTSD Symptoms (Movie)
• Stressors for the Military Veteran & (Movie)
• Deployment Cycle for the Veteran and Family
• Responses to Traumatic Stress
• How PTSD is different than other Mental Health Conditions
• Suicide, Suicide Threat Assessment, & Suicide Intervention Steps
• Violence Risk & Threat Assessment
• Biopsychosocial Model for Violence Risk Assessment

Class Outline:  Law Enforcement Suicide Prevention, Stress Management, & Conflict Resolution in the New Millennium

This class is designed to heighten awareness and provide viable coping skills surrounding the psychological, physical, and behavioral effects from stress for law enforcement personnel.  Law enforcement suicide prevention and intervention will be covered in this class.  Without healthy resolution, the work environment can be affected, low morale and poor productivity can also occur.  Following the completion of this class, law enforcement personnel will potentially acquire: new insight into the origins of anxiety and stress, evaluate healthy versus unhealthy coping patterns to such a process, consider how “core beliefs” affect those whom may experience such negative effects from stress, acquire a comprehensive model for law enforcement suicide prevention and intervention, and leave with tools to potentially mitigate such effects.

Suicide Prevention/Intervention, Managing Stress, & Cultural Sensitivity for Law Enforcement Personnel in the 21st Century

• What is Anxiety
• Recovery from Anxiety Responses
• Post-Traumatic Stress – Signs and Symptoms

Signs from Stress

• Physiological Signs & Effects from Stress
• Fight or Flight Response
• Psychological Effects from Stress
• Behavioral Effects from Stress
• Benefits of Relaxation and Self Talk
• Mistaken Beliefs
• Stress Symptom Checklist

Law Enforcement Suicide

• Prevention/Intervention
• Suicidal Behavior Along a Continuum
• Suicide Threat Assessment

Law Enforcement Suicide

• Assessing Suicidal Level of Intent
• Assessing Suicide Potentiality
• Actions to Avoid In Suicide Intervention
• Suicide Intervention Steps

Conflict Resolution

• Operational Definitions of Conflict
• Skills to Reduce Conflict
• Enhancing Listening Skills
• Bad Listener/Good Listener

• Offers a comprehensive picture of the psychological and behavioral aspects of adult and
adolescent active shooters

• The program utilizes the behavioral sciences as a foundation for threat assessment needed to
potentially identify and mitigate such a threat.

• Providing an overall portrait of recent and well-known active and school shooter incidents,
prevention indicators, threat assessment, and what has been learned from such incidents to
potentially prevent such acts of violence.

Dr. Robert J. Cipriano Jr., has been working with the community professionally within the field of psychology for 22 years. His undergraduate training in psychology was completed at Florida State University and he successfully completed a doctoral program accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) in clinical psychology at Carlos Albizu University in Miami, Florida. He completed his doctoral internship at one of the largest state hospitals that housed the “criminally insane” within the Central United States.  He currently owns and has developed his training and consulting business, SIMCIP GROUP Forensic-Psychological Consultants, located in Pembroke Pines, Florida.

Dr. Cipriano is currently a Florida Licensed Psychologist for the past 12 years. He is board certified in Police and Public Safety Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and for the past decade had also worked as a Police Psychologist for Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD). In that role he served as a consultant for the Special Response Team (SRT -Also known as SWAT) and provided expert training and developed strategies for effectively working with and understanding the “criminal mind.”  He assisted the team in gaining insight and managing individuals who suffered from severe mental illness and who were in crisis. Additionally, he provided critical support to the crisis negotiation team when they were faced with crisis situations, hostages, career criminals, and barricaded subjects who posed a threat for police and the community at large.

His area of specialization includes utilizing his clinical skills operationally to target the spectrum of trauma and violence in the field. Such experience entails educating police, the military veteran, and the civilian population on the psychological effects from trauma as well as understanding and managing aspects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)-recognizing signs and symptoms of the disorder, how it manifests, and how to work and interact with those who may suffer from it.

Dr. Cipriano offers expert training in understanding the psychological dynamics and warning signs of active shooters, school shooters, school place violence, and bully behavior. Dr. Cipriano has a strong interest in this area and has developed a clinical curriculum to target, intervene, and potentially prevent such acts along this specific spectrum of aggression. His knowledge, experience, and expertise will be passed on to parents, educational institutions, administrators, law enforcement agencies, and youth programs on a national, state, and local level.

Courses:

Morale, Motivation, Suicide Prevention-Intervention, Stress Management, & Resiliency for LEO’s

Understanding the Psychological Dynamics of Active Shooters-Offering a Violence Risk and Threat Assessment Approach for Educational Professional & Public Safety Personnel

Constructs to Critical Incident Stress Debriefings

Wellness Program for 911 Dispatchers & Complaint Officers

Law Enforcement Suicide Prevention, Stress Management, & Conflict Resolution in the New Millennium

Understanding and Managing Psychological and Behavioral Manifestations of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Military Veteran

Crisis Negotiations Seminar

Correctional Professionals Managing those that Suffer from Mental Health Issues in Jail and/or Prisons

This two day course is designed for ALL law enforcement to attend, particularly sex crimes, homicide, probation, parole, first responders, coroners, school resource officers, victim advocates, special investigators, nurses, and patrol.

This course offers extensive examination into the mindset of sexually violent individuals from the mouths of those who preyed on unsuspecting citizens. Dr. Lawrence J Simon, who has worked in prisons and studied these individuals for years, will discuss the underlying motivations of some of the most bizarre, violent, non-violent and invasive paraphillic behaviors. This course examines the why behind the crime and its addictive progressions.  This course combines the innovative perspectives of psychology behind the crime and disturbing viewpoints from some of the most dangerous sex offenders and murderers behind bars. This innovative two day course probes the evolution and disturbing aspect of sexual deviant pathology including such topics as necrophilia, pedophilia, cannibalism, frotteurism, exhibitionism, criminal sexual sadism, war rape, voyeurism, bestiality, and serial lust murder.

Dr. Simon is one of the nation’s leading law enforcement trainers on the subject of aberrant sexual pathology. He has trained law enforcement all over the county. He is a doctor of psychology, certified sexologist and diplomat from the American Board of Sexology. He has worked in several maximum security prisons in the United States providing psychological services to violent sociopaths, murderers and rapists. He has conducted lengthy interviews and extensive research into the internal thought processes and psychosocial backgrounds of these extraordinarily violent men, including but not limited to inmates housed on death row. He has either offered his impressions, or worked directly with law enforcement agencies on hundreds of cold case homicides and numerous sex-related crimes. His seminars will intrigue and horrify.

This workshop is relevant to all law enforcement personnel and is primarily designed for homicide and sex crimes detectives. This exclusive training offers extensive analysis into the minds of violent sexual  predators and serial murderers who generally target women and children. Sexual deviant pathologies discussed at length will include criminal sexual sadism, necrophilia, bestiality, cannibalism, and some of the rarest and remarkably violent and perverse sexual deviancies ever perpetrated.

Sexual homicide case studies and crime scene photos, interview samples of serial killers, videos of violent pornography and overall mindset of criminal sexual sadists and serial killers discussed.

Primary Objective

Obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the general mindset and psychosocial backgrounds of serial killers and criminal sexual sadists in an effort to identify and better prepare for interviews and case preparation.

The workshop is set up as meeting style