Professional Training Series Course Descriptions
The classes below are currently offerered by the IACA:
Web-Based
The ability to make effective crime bulletins is one of the most important skills an analyst may possess. A bulletin provides officers/investigators w...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Instructor-Led
This class will provide students with an understanding of many advanced crime mapping techniques. Students may use their own data as they perform and ...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Mapping, Spatial Analysis
Web-Based
This webinar teaches the fundamentals of creating and formatting charts in Microsoft Excel. The webinar also discusses a few graphic design tips and ...[Read more]
Certification Skills: n/a
Instructor-Led
Computer Applications is a five-day, hands-on workshop in Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (with the majority of the time spent on the fi...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Spreadsheets, Publications, Charting, Presentations
Web-Based
This webinar will cover how to develop and create a journey to crime (JTC) analysis to determine the most likely location where an offender in a crime...[Read more]
Certification Skills: NA
Web-Based
The ability to make effective crime bulletins is one of the most important skills an analyst may possess. A bulletin provides officers/investigators w...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
This webinar will demonstrate the relatively easy process of creating a kernel density map in CrimeStat III for use in ArcGIS. We will go over how to...[Read more]
Certification Skills: NA
Instructor-Led
Crime Analysis for Smaller Jurisdictions is a two-day workshop designed to provide an introduction to Crime Analysis and an understanding of its appli...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Research Methods, Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, Qualitative Analysis, Demographic Analysis, Spatial Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Publications
Web-Based
Students will learn crime analysis skills and specialized techniques of conducting research, analyzing data and producing crime analysis products. Stu...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Fundamentals of Crime Analysis, Interpreting Crime Statistics, Critical
Thinking, Criminal Behavior, Data Integrity, Spatial Analysis.
Instructor-Led
Crime Mapping is a five-day, hands-on computer-based course that covers the fundamentals of mapping crime for tactical, strategic, administrative, and...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Spatial Analysis, Data Integrity
Web-Based
This course is designed specifically for crime analysts in the use of CrimeStat III. CrimeStat III is a Windows-based spatial statistics software pack...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Data Integrity, Interpreting Crime Data and Statistics, Descriptive and Multivariate Statistics, and Crime Mapping
Web-Based
Data Management with Microsoft Access” demonstrates how to use the power of Microsoft Access to establish a daily strategy for importing, linking, cle...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
During this one-hour webinar, students will first receive a presentation providing an overview of Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
In this 12-week online course, students will work through the first ten chapters of the IACA book entitled "Exploring Crime Analysis". The topics cove...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Fundamentals of Crime Analysis, Interpreting Crime Statistics, Critical Thinking, Criminal Behavior, Data Integrity, Research Methods, Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, Qualitative Analysis.
Web-Based
In this 12-week online course, students will work through the second ten chapters of the IACA book entitled"Exploring Crime Analysis". The topics cove...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Temporal Analysis, Demographic Analysis, Inferential Statistics, Crime Mapping, AnalyticalCharting, Effective Crime Analysis Writing, Crime Analysis Publications, Giving Effective Presentations and Working the Web (Internet and IntranetTechnology).
Instructor-Led
Fundamentals of Crime Analysis explores the basic terms, concepts, and techniques of crime analysis. It is intended for new analysts, officers or exec...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Fundamentals of Crime Analysis, Interpreting Crime Statistics, Critical Thinking, Criminal Behavior, Data Integrity
Web-Based
This course provides an introduction to crime analysis and crime mapping and examines types of techniques used to study crime and disorder patterns an...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Fundamentals of Crime Analysis, Understanding Criminal Behavior, Demographic Analysis, Crime Mapping, Temporal Analysis and Crime Analysis Publications
Web-Based
Note: This is an intensive, 8 week version instead of the normal 17 week version. Each week will cover 2 chapters of the book.
This course provides...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Fundamentals of Crime Analysis, Understanding Criminal Behavior, Demographic Analysis, Crime Mapping, Temporal Analysis and Crime Analysis Publications
Web-Based
GIS for Crime Analysis is a 15-week online course for students, crime analysts and professors wishing to better understand how GIS technology can be u...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Data Integrity, Quantitative Analysis, Interpreting Crime Data and Statistics, Crime Mapping.
Web-Based
IDENTIFYING HOT SPOTS WITH CRIMESTAT
CrimeStat is a free spatial statistics application, developed by Ned Levine under contract from the National I...[Read more]
Certification Skills: NA
Web-Based
CrimeStat is a free spatial statistics application, developed by Ned Levine under contract from the National Institute of Justice, that performs diffe...[Read more]
Certification Skills: NA
Web-Based
Are you a student looking for a job in crime analysis? Are you already in law enforcement, working toward a crime analysis position? Or, are you alr...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
Risk terrain modeling (RTM) is an approach to crime analysis that uses a geographic information system (GIS) to communicate criminogenic and vulnerabl...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
Microsoft Access Functions and Expressions” looks at the multiple ways an analyst can manipulate, concatenate, clean, calculate, and transform data in...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
Microsoft Excel - Pivot Tables explores the very powerful use of Pivot Tables and Charts which can be used to summarize data, like finding the average...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
Want to separate date and time from a single cell? Want to convert military time? Want to find the difference between any time types? Want to ident...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
The IACA Certification Commission will be presenting on the purpose, prerequisites, requirements, and test process that designates applicants as Certi...[Read more]
Certification Skills: NA
Web-Based
Using sophisticated computer models and data about previous crimes, police may be able to anticipate, and possibly prevent, many types of crime. For e...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Instructor-Led
Problem Analysis is a four and a half-day (12-week online) workshop on the skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary for an analyst to identify, anal...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Research Methods, Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, Qualitative Analysis, Demographic Analysis, Spatial Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Publications
Web-Based
Problem Analysis
Traditionally, crime analysis in a police department has been broken down into administrative, tactical, and strategic approaches. ...[Read more]
Certification Skills: NA
Web-Based
Do you have problem apartment complexes in your community that are a drain on police resources? They significantly reduce the quality of life of resid...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
Responding to high-risk field operations is one of the most dangerous police activities. From arresting a heavily armed and barricaded suspect, to res...[Read more]
Certification Skills: n/a
Instructor-Led
Tactical Crime Analysis is a five-day workshop that trains analysts in the techniques used to identify, analyze, and solve crime patterns and series.
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Certification Skills: Criminal Behavior, Temporal Analysis, Descriptive Statistics, Spatial Analysis, Charting, Publications, Qualitative Analysis
Instructor-Led
This custom-designed class will cover multiple areas of crime analysis over the 4.5 days, including:
Fundamentals of Crime Analysis: basic terms, c...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Criminal Behavior, Temporal Analysis, Spatial Analysis, Charting, Publications, Qualitative Analysis, Research Methods, Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, Demographic Analysis, Reading Comprehension.
Instructor-Led
This custom-designed class will cover multiple areas of crime analysis over the 4.5 days, including:
Tactical Crime Analysis: This portion of the c...[Read more]
Certification Skills: Criminal Behavior, Temporal Analysis, Spatial Analysis, Charting, Publications, Qualitative Analysis, Research Methods, Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, Demographic Analysis, Reading Comprehension.
Instructor-Led
This hands-on computer based course will equip students with the techniques and skills to effectively analyze and interpret telephone data.
Studen...[Read more]
Certification Skills:
Web-Based
Threshold Analysis will demonstrate the theory and technique of identifying abnormal crime volumes, in both the short-term and long-term, to help tria...[Read more]
Certification Skills: N/A
Web-Based
Research is very important for effective crime analysis. Conducting research can range from searching for resources on the Internet (and in other trad...[Read more]
Certification Skills: n/a
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