Conducting Vehicle Stops and Searches with Confidence
Increasing the Effectiveness of Patrol Officers and Supervisors
🕒 Length of Training: 16 Hours
Take the guess work out of conducting legal traffic stops and searches and apply your legal authority with confidence from beginning to end.
Most importantly, participants will understand the dire importance of conducting lawful vehicle stops and how those stops can detect and solve crime, take dangerous operators and wanted persons off the road, and save lives.
Course Highlights
- Perform legal vehicle stops with confidence from information provided by identified and anonymous sources.
- Lawfully search vehicles and vehicle occupants and their belongings
- Determine who is required to identify and the extent of controlling the placement and movement of vehicle occupants
- Confidently apply reasonable suspicion and probable cause in stop, search, and arrest situations
- Distinguish detention v. custody and how each relates to handcuffing, Miranda, and officer safety issues during vehicle stops
- Apply the Citizen Informant, Collective Knowledge, and De Minimis Doctrines during vehicle stops and increase your effectiveness!
- Get answers to many other vehicle stop situations!
Conducting Vehicle Stops and Searches with Confidence
Increasing the Effectiveness of Patrol Officers and Supervisors
🕒 Length of Training: 16 Hours
Take the guess work out of conducting legal traffic stops and searches and apply your legal authority with confidence from beginning to end.
Most importantly, participants will understand the dire importance of conducting lawful vehicle stops and how those stops can detect and solve crime, take dangerous operators and wanted persons off the road, and save lives.
Course Highlights
- Perform legal vehicle stops with confidence from information provided by identified and anonymous sources.
- Lawfully search vehicles and vehicle occupants and their belongings
- Determine who is required to identify and the extent of controlling the placement and movement of vehicle occupants
- Confidently apply reasonable suspicion and probable cause in stop, search, and arrest situations
- Distinguish detention v. custody and how each relates to handcuffing, Miranda, and officer safety issues during vehicle stops
- Apply the Citizen Informant, Collective Knowledge, and De Minimis Doctrines during vehicle stops and increase your effectiveness!
- Get answers to many other vehicle stop situations!

Taught By Don McCrea
- Search and Seizure & Use of Force Expert
- 35+ Years in Law Enforcement
- IADLEST Nationally Certified Instructor
- IADLEST International Certified Instructor
Considered to be a leading expert in Search & Seizure and Use of Force, Don brings a level of experience, passion, and commitment to serving both law enforcement officers and citizens that is second-to-none.




