2010 MINI-CONFERENCES

ILEE will be presenting a series of DUI Training Conferences in coordination with the PA DUI Association and PENNDOT.

There is no registration fee. The conferences are open to law enforcement personnel, probation officers, CRN Evaluators, DUI and UAD Instructors and other interested individuals.

The conferences begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 3:30 p.m.

Registration is open to the first 50 participants based on a first come, first served basis.

2010 Presentations

Interviewing Juveniles and Children, Presenter: Tom Piatek

Interviewing persons who are not yet adults is common among law enforcement and treatment professionals who work in and with the juvenile justice system. These “children” are encountered as suspects, victims and witnesses. The interviewer may even find that the juvenile has occupied several of these roles simultaneously during the interviewing process. The interviewer must deal with his/her needs and abilities, as well as the needs of the represented agency during the conversation while attempting to solve crimes and offer services to those in need. This practical workshop focuses on conversing/interviewing with primary school age children and adolescents, identifying the primary and secondary objectives of the encounter, and obtaining truthful - and useful - information. Participants assess the process in terms of meeting the needs of the child, family, and community; as well as the agency the interviewer represents.

Presenter: Tom Piatek, Instructor, ILEE

An instructor for ILEE since 1995, Mr. Piatek has over 20 years of police experience, currently serving as an Administrative Sergeant for a Pennsylvania Police Department in Montgomery County. He has worked as the School Resource Officer, and conducted the DARE programs for many years. As a DARE Officer and a Mentor for PCCD, Mr. Piatek provides team instruction for the required certification course. He pioneered the first Youth Aid Panel in Montgomery County, and implemented a youth diversion program for his area. With a BS in Criminal Justice and an MS in Public Safety Administration from St. Joseph’s University, along with his recent graduation for the FBI National Academy, Mr. Piatek combines academic knowledge with extensive law enforcement experience.

Sharpen Your Edge - Perception of Danger, Presenter: Gene Stull

This workshop approaches safety in a very unique way – improving the ability of an individual’s perception of dangerous situations by becoming aware of the sensation/perception process used daily by all humans, and utilizing a variety of tactics to improve the sensation, recognition and appropriate response of environmental cues. Participants assess their individual abilities to properly respond to information detected in various situations and use that information to improve both safety and performance. Topics include sensation versus perception, improving emergency warning device use, improving hearing and sight in various environments, use of smell in criminal and drug patrol, touch sensation and physical searches, improvement of perception from ambiguous sources of information, and compliance with orders made by authority figures. Participants will discuss why sirens become ineffective with time and distance, how to improve the location of a hidden person via sound, why most pat-down frisks and body searches miss dangerous objects, how to improve dim light vision, the effect of light brightness on color determination, why we see what we expect to see, why witnesses “fill in” details at an accident scene that they never witnessed, how an officer can improve his/her chances of citizen compliance to commands, how stress and lack of sleep changes perception, and how to detect motion and assess distance more accurately. This workshop is extremely valuable to all persons who face dangerous situations involving other persons and/or moving objects such as motor vehicles, but especially the first responder. Through discussion, demonstrations, practical exercises and videos, participants become more aware of their human limitations and how to maximize the perceptual equipment they do have.

Presenter: Gene Stull

Mr. Stull is a graduate of Gettysburg College where he received a B.A in Psychology. He worked as an Employee Relations Specialist for a major corporation before becoming a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As a Special Agent, he was stationed in Omaha, Nebraska; Dubuque, Iowa; San Francisco, California; and Oakland California. He was assigned general criminal and domestic security cases, and spent approximately one year on the Militant Extremist Intelligence Squad in Oakland.

Mr. Stull served as the Assistant Director for the Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Academy while earning a M.S. degree in Organizational Communications from Shippensburg University. He has been a police instructor for 35 years, and a police officer for 27 years, serving as Patrolman, Sergeant and Chief of Police in an Adams County department, and a part-time Patrolman in a township department in Franklin County. Mr. Stull retired from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Director of the Institute for Law Enforcement Education (ILEE), after serving a total of 32 years with the Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Academy, the Traffic Institute for Police Services and the Institute for Law Enforcement Education.

Mr. Stull is currently the General Manager of STAC Associates (Strategic Training and Consulting), specializing in client-centered training and security analysis in the fields of security risk analysis, interviewing, interpersonal communications, psychological and physical effects of alcohol and other drugs, handling anger and impaired suspects, and the application of psychology to the law enforcement function. He is a certified instructor in SFST, several field drug test kits, and a variety of chemical breath test instruments. He is an Instructor for Penn State University in Security Risk Analysis. Mr. Stull has developed, and instructs, several advanced training workshops in the areas of security risk analysis, alcohol and controlled substances, explosives, interviewing and interrogation, aggressive driving, and tactical communications.