in this issue SWAT CHALLENGE ARTICLES AND MORE BREAKING NEWS SPONSOR SECURITY NEWS WORLDWIDE COMIC OF THE WEEK SPONSOR MALL CHAPLAINS CORNER FRANKS REVIEW

SWAT CHALLENGE

Training Tracks

The World SWAT Conference training program is designed to provide participants the highest quality SWAT training that is both realistic and relevant. While focusing on live fire exercises that can be taken back to home organizations, the conference will also present the opportunity to exchange ideas with renowned SWAT instructors and other SWAT officers from all over the world.

Each day of the Conference will start out with a General Session presentation on a topic key to successful SWAT operations. The speakers and topics will be:

Date/Topic/ Speaker
Tuesday 18 May/ Hostage Situation /Don Bartnik - (FBI- HRT/CIRG)
Wednesday 19 May /Street Intelligence /MAJ David Kotser - /Israeli Police Forces
Thursday 20 May /The Bulletproof Mind /LTC Dave Grossman, Ph.D. - USA-Ret

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	ARTICLES AND MORE
Role-Playing A Vital Tool in Crisis Negotiation Skills Training By By VINCENT B. VAN HASSELT, Ph.D., and STEPHEN J. ROMANO, M.A. Role-playing has become one of the most frequently used training tools employed by law enforcement agencies. In fact, recent surveys show that over 80 percent of law enforcement agencies use some form of role-playing in their training programs.1 Also, nearly all survey respondents agreed that role- plays are valuable in a variety of training situations. They involve simulations of real-world situations likely to be encountered by personnel in a wide range of law enforcement activities (e.g., SWAT operations and interviews/interrogations). Further, role-playing has become a hallmark of law enforcement recruit selection and promotional tests. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw 2004/articles/0322role.html Intuitive Policing Emotional/Rational Decision Making in Law Enforcement By ANTHONY J. PINIZZOTTO, Ph.D., EDWARD F. DAVIS, M.A.,and CHARLES E. MILLER III On a warm summer evening in a large American city, narcotics officers, working the 4 p.m. to midnight shift, began a "buy-bust" operation at an intersection known as an open-air drug market where approximately 50 to 60 persons, many presumably involved in narcotics trafficking, had congregated on the sidewalk. Five minutes earlier, two undercover officers had walked into the area and purchased illicit narcotic substances from several street dealers. The undercover officers then walked away from the intersection and broadcast the physical descriptions of the sellers to arrest teams, consisting of three unmarked vehicles containing three officers each, who began canvassing the vicinity to locate the suspects. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw 2004/articles/0322intuit.html A Small Police Department's Success By William L. Wilcox The German Township, Ohio, Police Department, currently consisting of six full-time and nine reserve officers, serves a small agricultural community in southwestern Ohio of approximately 2,800 residents.1 Like many other small police departments in rural areas, the German Township Police Department patrols relatively safe streets, free of many of the crime problems that often plague more populated areas. However, despite its size and location, this department considered it worthwhile to face the monumental task of becoming one of the smallest forces to receive accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA).2 Its experience demonstrates that any law enforcement agency, large or small, can find accreditation both beneficial and attainable. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/bt w2004/articles/0322success.html Top of Page

	BREAKING NEWS
IMoLIN Database The Internet based information network IMoLIN serves as a clearinghouse of money laundering information for the benefit of all national and international anti-money laundering agencies. It was developed and is administered by the Global Programme against Money Laundering of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) on behalf of the United Nations and other international organizations, including the Interpol. There are five main features of IMoLIN, and all but one accessible to the public: AMLID - Anti Money Laundering International Database- A compendium and analysis of national anti- money laundering laws and regulations as well as information on national contact and authorities. The database is password restricted. Reference Data: research and analysis, bibliography, conventions, legal instruments and model laws. Country Page: including full text of anti-money laundering legislation where available and links to national FIUs. Calendar of Events: chronological listing of training events, conferences, seminars, workshops and other meetings in the anti-money laundering field. Current Events: current news of recent anti-money laundering initiatives. http:// www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4561529/ Three Philadelphia court officers shot, one fatally, while serving bench warrant Three court officers were shot, one fatally, early Friday while they were trying to serve a warrant on a man for failing to appear at trial, police said. The man who was being sought also was shot and wounded. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/news/archive/2004/03/19/national1100EST0586.DTL Two split reward in D.C.-area sniper case Two men will share a $500,000 reward for providing information that led to the capture of convicted D.C.-area snipers Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad. The county executive for Montgomery County -- center of the sniper investigation -- said without the crucial information provided by the two men the killers would not have been caught. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Sout h/03/20/sniper.reward/index.html Top of Page

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	SECURITY NEWS WORLDWIDE
Security News Worldwide is sponsored by Blackwater Security Consulting. Check out their website here. Israeli Cabinet approves more targeted killings The Israeli Cabinet today approved an Army plan to increase assassinations of Palestinian militants and to send more troops sent into the Gaza Strip. Israeli Army helicopters then fired missiles at a house in northern Gaza City, killing two people and injuring at least 14, including a two-year-old girl, according to hospital officials. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/ 0,,1-1040446,00.html Large bomb factory discovered in Kabul Up to 20 sophisticated devices found in Afghan capital KABUL, Afghanistan - A bomb factory with material for up to 20 sophisticated devices has been uncovered in the center of the Afghan capital, the NATO-led peacekeeping force said on Sunday. http:// www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4571905/ Terrorists Are Made, Not Born: Creating Terrorists Using Social Psychological Conditioning Anthony Stahelski, Ph.D. Psychologists have thus far been unable to verify the existence of an individual-level universal terrorist profile. This disappointing finding makes the search for terrorists who appear and act normally in a larger population of non-terrorists much more difficult. However, sociologists and social psychologists have discovered that terrorist groups use cult-like conditioning techniques to convert normal individuals into remorseless killers. The premise of this article is that the limited global counterterrorism resources should focus on eradicating the terrorist group training camps where the conditioning takes place, rather than on trying to find terrorists after they have already been conditioned. Five phases of conditioning are described: depluralization, self-deindividuation, other- deindividuation, dehumanization, and demonization. All conditioning phases are supported by powerful group dynamics that reinforce the effectiveness of the conditioning. http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/ Articles/displayarticle.asp?article=109 Who is Ayman al-Zawahri? Egyptian doctor is bin Laden's No. 2, chief ideologist http:// www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4555901/ Top of Page

	COMIC OF THE WEEK
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	SPONSOR MALL
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	CHAPLAINS CORNER
LET EVERY PERSON BE LOYALLY SUBJECT TO THE GOVERNING (CIVIL) AUTHORITIES. FOR THERE IS NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD [BY HIS PERMISSION, HIS SANCTION], AND THOSE THAT EXIST DO SO BY GOD'S APPOINTMENT. THEREFORE HE WHO RESISTS AND SETS HIMSELF UP AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES RESISTS WHAT GOD HAS APPOINTED AND ARRANGED [IN DIVINE ORDER]. AND THOSE WHO RESIST WILL BRING DOWN JUDGEMENT UPON THEMSELVES [RECEIVING THE PENALTY DUE THEM]. FOR CIVIL AUTHORITIES ARE NOT A TERROR TO [PEOPLE] OF GOOD CONDUCT, BUT TO [THOSE OF] BAD BEHAVIOR.   WOULD YOU HAVE NO DREAD OF HIM WHO IS IN AUTHORITY? THEN DO RIGHT AND YOU WILL RECEIVE HIS APPROVAL AND COMMENDATION. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0322chaplain.html »

	FRANKS REVIEW
SureFire X200 LED Pistol Light When I attended the Low-Light Instructor Program in February of 2002 - then a part of the SureFire Institute - the staff reviewed SureFire's line of lighting products.  Since then, the SureFire Institute has become a virtual entity, but the line of products continues to grow and develop.  At that time, their biggest weakness in the contemporary market was their group of pistol lights.  Competing against such folks as Insight Lights and Streamlight, SureFire's lights seemed unnecessarily large and bulky given their light output.  That has since changed. Incorporating a Light Emitting Diode (LED) bulb, digital energy flow control, power from two 123 3V Lithium batteries and a toggle switch for touch on or constant use, the SureFire X200 is that company's entry into the next generation of pistol lights.  I received my test unit in January and, like a kid with a new toy, immediately began playing with it.  Just as a bit of trivia, I noticed that my X200 was serial number A00381 - so I assume it was the 381st unit to come out of the plant. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0322frank.html »

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