Search & Seizure:
What Every Officer Should Know and How to Teach It
Instructor Level
✎Taught by: Don McCrea
🕒 Length of Training: 5 Days (Consecutive)
Be part of the solution! The image of the law enforcement profession is being tarnished due to poor search & seizure training.
When officers are unsure or uninformed in their search & seizure skills, it places them, their agency, and the safety of their community at risk. The majority of lawsuits and settlements against officers does not come from excessive force incidents. The majority of lawsuits and settlements come from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Premier Police Training, LLC has specifically designed this search & seizure course for dedicated law enforcement professionals to become competent and knowledgeable search and seizure instructors.
Become a vital part of your agency training team that provides officers with the confidence they need to protect themselves, their agency, and the constitutional rights of the citizens they serve.
Course Highlights

- Fully designed and updated search & seizure instructor development course including lesson plans and facilitator guides
- Train officers to apply the duty to intervene during stops, searches & seizures
- Instruct officers to lawfully apply their search & seizure authority through all phases of various police-citizen contacts from beginning to end
- Train officers to confidently perform legal stops of pedestrians and vehicles
- Train officers to confidently perform lawful warrantless searches of pedestrians, vehicles, and warrantless entries and searches of residences
- Evaluate the effectiveness of your agency search and seizure training program
- Assess the current level of knowledge possessed by officers and draft training solutions based on those assessments
- Command a search & seizure training program that will better protect your agency and community, increase the effectiveness of officers, and minimize mistakes in the field
Search & Seizure:
What Every Officer Should Know and How to Teach It
Instructor Level

✎Taught by: Don McCrea
🕒 Length of Training: 5 Days*(Consecutive)
Be part of the solution! The image of the law enforcement profession is being tarnished due to poor search & seizure training.
When officers are unsure or uninformed in their search & seizure skills, it places them, their agency, and the safety of their community at risk. The majority of lawsuits and settlements against officers do not come from excessive force incidents. The majority of lawsuits and settlements come from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Premier Police Training, LLC has specifically designed this search & seizure course for dedicated law enforcement professionals to become competent and knowledgeable search and seizure instructors.
Become a vital part of your agency training team that provides officers with the confidence they need to protect themselves, their agency, and the constitutional rights of the citizens they serve.
Course Highlights
- Fully designed and updated search & seizure instructor development course including lesson plans and facilitator guides
- Train officers to apply the duty to intervene during stops, searches & seizures
- Instruct officers to lawfully apply their search & seizure authority through all phases of various police-citizen contacts from beginning to end
- Train officers to confidently perform legal stops of pedestrians and vehicles
- Train officers to confidently perform lawful warrantless searches of pedestrians, vehicles, and warrantless entries and searches of residences
- Evaluate the effectiveness of your agency search and seizure training program
- Assess the current level of knowledge possessed by officers and draft training solutions based on those assessments
- Command a search & seizure training program that will better protect your agency and community, increase the effectiveness of officers, and minimize mistakes in the field
“The vastness of Don’s knowledge never ceases to amaze me and the quickness of his recollection to a specific case law makes everyone so much more confident in what they are doing.”
Manny Langstraat, K9 Handler/Patrol Deputy

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.




