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Gangs and Guns: Making Your Firearms Case More Prosecutable

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Goal and Objectives:
  • Familiarize both new and seasoned law enforcement patrol officers, investigators, prosecutors, and supervisors with techniques to make “solid” firearms cases.
  • Learn how to make “good” traffic stops, use in-car video and body cam equipment effectively, properly document a case through photos and report writing, conduct taped interviews, properly handle recovered firearms-related evidence, review jail calls, and work with prosecutors toward successful prosecution.
Intended Audience:

This training can be delivered to 50-100 attendees, to include the following individuals:

  • Federal prosecutors
  • County prosecutors
  • Federal agents
  • Local police
  • Crime scene/lab technicians
Length:

This is a two-day course.

Agenda:

The course covers the following areas:

  • Firearms: What can they tell investigators?
  • Proper recovery, documentation, and follow-up
  • Available investigative tools
  • Social Media: Proactive and Reactive
  • Firearm Laws: State and Federal
  • Establishing a Firearms Protocol for your agency
SMEs/Trainers:

Stephen Barborini and James Grindey deliver this training. Stephen Barborini is currently a Detective (on a part-time basis) with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in a specialized unit dealing with firearm violence which unit he co-created in the Violent Crime Division, which job he was offered after he retired as the Resident Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) West Palm Beach Field Office in December of 2011. Mr. Barborini is highly regarded as the Subject Matter Expert in the fields of firearms, firearm trafficking investigations, firearm cybercrime investigations, and the procedures, rules, and laws as it pertains to the import, manufacture, and sale of firearms. Mr. Barborini consistently creates and conducts training at the local, state, federal, and international levels. He is highly regarded in both the law enforcement circle and the industry as the “go-to guy” for firearm investigations, social media firearms investigations, and international arms smuggling investigations. James Grindey is a thirty-six-year veteran of law enforcement. He served in the United States Marine Corps as a Military Policeman for 23 years and retired as a Gunnery Sergeant. After his retirement, he joined the Honolulu Police Department in Honolulu, Hawaii where he served as a patrolman for 4 years. He was then hired by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in West Palm Beach, Florida where he has been employed for the last 16 years. His experience and continued training in working firearms cases led to his development of this class.