Law Enforcement on the Stand

Our Experience

Our professors have more than 50 years of combined trial experience with law enforcement officers testifying at various phases of criminal cases. We know that officers are called to the stand to give significant testimony at motions, hearings and trial, often without any meaningful training on how to answer lawyers' questions. We have taught officers strategies and tactics at departments all over the United States giving officers the skills to effectively answer the questions lawyers are trained to ask.

Our Approach

Law enforcement officers may be called upon to testify at several phases in criminal cases. Officers provide impactful testimony at motions, hearings and at trial. Unfortunately, law enforcement too often takes the stand without adequate preparation and without meaningful training about how to answer lawyers' questions. Teaching officers strategies and tactics to effectively answer the questions lawyers are trained to ask is critical to successful prosecutions. Law enforcement personnel need to exercise these strategies and tactics in a training setting and receive meaningful feedback. The objective of this program is to provide meaningful preparation that applies to testimony in criminal cases, training officers to become effective and credible witnesses.

Why Us?

Interactive training based on our decades of trial experience gives officers the skills necessary to maximize the odds that an arrest ends with convictions by a jury. Current issues of Social Justice Reform are addressed and officers will learn how to "de-escalate" testimony and respond to attacks on police credibility in today's highly charged environment. Our training is not a lecture about testifying — it is an interactive experience that develops skills you will use for the rest of your law enforcement career.