Virtually Instructor-Led Training

Arrest-Related, In-Custody Deaths, Agitated Chaotic Events Instructor Program (version 6.5)

The post-George Floyd culture has changed the law enforcement landscape. Peace officers are being criminally prosecuted and convicted in higher numbers, and that trend shows no signs of slowing. California enacted a statute in January 2022 that can hold peace officers accountable for individuals who die from asphyxiation if officers cause a subject's respiratory airway to be compressed or if they impair a person's breathing or respiratory capacity, which includes application of pressure or body weight to a person's neck, torso, or back. This includes methods of restraining the individual. 
 
Colorado, too, has passed legislation classifying "excited delirium" as not being a "medical emergency," thus prohibiting the use of the sedative Ketamine on active, combative, agitated, individuals.

TOPICS
The IPICD Instructor program is based upon scientific, medical, experiential, and legal research and is the most current multidisciplinary program available on the subject. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Post-George Floyd culture (officers criminally prosecuted and convicted)
• Capture, not combat: The changing paradigm
• Officers using force in the United States (statistical summary)
• Critical thinking for first responders: The basics
• History of sudden death
• Who is at risk for sudden death?
• Pre-disposing factors: Humans
• Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) defined
• In-custody Deaths (ICD) defined
• Delirium history and causes (includes excited delirium)
• Agitated Chaotic Events (ACE) and sudden death (categories, behaviors, & responses)
• Agitated Chaotic Events Intervention Evidence-based Practices
• Causation (scientific, legal, medical, general, & specific)
• Behavioral Cues (psychological, communication, & physiological)
• 9-1-1 Call-Taker and dispatcher roles
• Electronic control weapons (ECW)-associated deaths

• Asphyxia definition and categories (more than 8, including positional, crush, traumatic, mechanical etc.)
• Asphyxia vs. Asphyxiated
• Abnormal breathing: Identifying distress signs
• Neck restraints and A-RD/I-CD
• Restraint methods: New research findings (includes spit restraint devices)
• Positioning a suspect: New research findings
• Pepper spray and A-RD-I-CD
• Illicit drugs and A-RD/I-CD (e.g., cocaine, methamphetamine, Ecstasy, etc.)
• Prescription drugs (e.g., Zoloft®, Adderall XR®, Ritalin®, etc.)
• Synthetic drugs and A-RD/I-CD (e.g., bath salts, etc.)
• Over-the-Counter drugs and A-RD/I-CD (e.g., Aspirin, etc.)
• Poly-drug combinations
• Alcohol withdrawal: behaviors & responses
• Autism: causes, behaviors, & responses
• Epilepsy: SUDEP, behaviors, & responses
• Diabetes: categories, behaviors, & responses
• Delirium: types, causes, behaviors, & responses
• Dementia: types, causes, behaviors, & responses
• Hyponatremia: causes, behaviors, & responses
• Sickle cell trait and sudden death
• Energy drinks: New research findings

• Mental disorders (types, causes, behaviors, & responses): Mind-body disconnect
• Schizophrenia; Panic; OCD; PTSD; ADHD
• Suicide-by-cop
• Developing Agitated Chaotic Event User-Level training
• Americans With Disabilities Act issues;
• Transport issues;
• Psychological autopsy and its use in A-RD/I-CD
• Report writing guidelines for ACE, and A-RD/I-CD
• Teaching a User-Level program

Instructors: A. David Berman, CLS, M.S. and John G. Peters, Jr., CLS, Ph.D. are the scheduled instructors, along with IPICD Master Instructors (if available).

TUITION
 $495 per person. Materials include a program workbook, handouts, articles, table-top exercises, handouts, special supplemental pages on the IPICD Website to stay current with new research and analyses, online assessment, certificate, and more.

Required Materials (Virtual)
Computer with sound, computer monitor, internet access, keyboard, mouse (touch screen), comfortable chair or seat, printer, video with audio recording device (e.g., Smartphone), and writing instrument for taking notes.

Consecutive Days and Times
The 16-hour virtual instructor-led program meets four hours (9am - 1:pm Pacific Time; Noon-4p.m. New York) on four consecutive days. Attendance is required each day.

Instructor Certificate
Upon successful completion of the instruction and an online assessment, you will receive an instructor certificate. This IPICD 16-hour instructional program will qualify you as an instructor to teach a User-Level program to your colleagues and others to save lives, save careers, minimize governmental entity liability, and officer liability. 

Help save careers and lives.