The Los Angeles County Regional Training Center is now:

The Regional Training Center

California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Certified Courses

sUAS Crime & Accident Scene Investigations

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and the 3D Mapping software applications are emerging as extremely accurate and efficient tools for crime and accident scene documentation and enhanced investigations.  It is remarkable to consider that if it can be seen with the naked eye, or with magnification, with thermal imagery, or with infrared, it can be almost perfectly preserved forever.

Course Length: 3 days (24 hours total)
CA POST Approval: 1287-20188-19
Cost/Tuition: $875.00
Max Class Size: 15 Students
Prerequisite: LACRTC 48-hour UAS Operators Course, or  32-hour Basic Pilots Course, or have an FAA Part 107 license
Student Requirements: FAA 107 License
Technical Level: Intermediate UAS Operators
Recommended For: Criminalist, Accident Investigators, Detectives, UAS Operators

UAS Advanced Operators Course

The class consists of three days of intensive scenario-based, hands-on, flight training designed to increase piloting skills and to provide students with the ability to operate in all sUAS environments.  Students will be exposed to the equipment, tools, and techniques necessary to make their sUAS program fulfill all of the desired mission-sets.

Course Length: 3 days (24 hours)
CA POST Approval:​  #1287-20274-19
Cost/Tuition: $999
Max Class Size: 15 Students
Prerequisite: LACRTC 48-hour UAS Operators Course, or  32-hour Basic Pilots Course, or have an FAA Part 107 license
Notes: This training course is NOT for beginners

UAS Nighttime Operators Course

Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAV) are powerful tools for first responders.  However, nighttime operations add complexity that requires specific training and equipment.  The FAA maintains that an “applicant must assure all required persons participating in the small unmanned aircraft operation have knowledge to recognize and overcome visual illusions caused by darkness, and understand physiological conditions which may degrade night vision.” In this course, students identify night visual illusions and the physiological degradation occurring in darkness, then develop mitigating strategies.

Course Length: 2 days (16 hours)
CA POST Approval:​  #1287-20187
Cost/Tuition: $755
Max Class Size: 15 Students
Prerequisite: LACRTC 48-hour UAS Operators Course, or  32-hour Basic Pilots Course, or have an FAA Part 107 license

UAS Basic Pilots Course

The UAS Basic Pilot’s Course is a 32 -hour program of instruction (8-hours online, 24 hours in class) designed specifically and ONLY for agencies that already have an established UAS program and are flying missions with protocols and a comprehensive policy in place.

Course Length: 3 days in class and 8 hours online (32 hours total)
CA POST Approval:​  #1287-20275-19
Cost/Tuition: $999.00 (includes FAA 107 exam fee)
Max Class Size: 25 Students
Recommended For: sUAS Operators and Supervisors

FAA 107 Ground School

The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Aeronautical Knowledge Test for the Remote Pilot Airman Certificate is required to fly an unmanned aerial vehicle commercially (including public service).  This online course contains all of the material tested for the 107 pilot’s license.  The course is self-paced but follows a progression of information with due dates to aid in completing the material in a timely manner.

Cost/Tuition: $355
POST Approval: California, Cert #1287-20189-19 (16 hours POST credit total)
Max Class Size: 10 Students 
Recommended For: All personnel wanting to fly sUAS for their department, agency or commercially

UAS Program Operators Course

The Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program Operator’s Course is a 48-hour program of instruction designed to provide organizations with the knowledge and skills necessary to create and implement an aviation program based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms.

Course Length: 5 days in class and 8 hours online (48 hours total)
Cost/Tuition: $1,550.00 (includes FAA 107 exam fee)
Max Class Size: 25 Students
Prerequisites: None
Technical Level: UAS Operators and Supervisors/ Policy Creation

Implicit Bias and Community Policing

The Implicit Bias and Community Policing Course satisfies the CA Identity Profiling legislative mandate (PC 13519.4) and is made up of student-centered learning activities that allow attendees to understand their own biases using neural science-based research in a safe environment.  The curriculum design avoids accusatory tones and focuses on objective facts revealed directly to each student by their own in-class discovery.  Students learn in a safe environment with exercises that reveal deep personal preferences (biases) on things that are not at all controversial.  It is a less confrontational way to see how people make decisions based on how they were socialized.  Ultimately, students personally decide how they will apply the knowledge and skills learned that teach them to recognize their own implicit biases and how to mitigate them.

Course Length: Certified for 4 and 8-hour presentations
Cost/Tuition: $60/ $120
Max Class Size: 30 Students

Critical Incident Management - Working in the Edge of CHAOS

This course was created to achieve measurable student outcomes utilizing blended learning, classroom facilitation, and scenario-based training for critical incident commanders. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply intuitive sense-making strategies while working in a fast-changing, chaotic environment by using the 5 tenets of Working in The Edge of Chaos ©. Graduates of this course will have the knowledge and skills to establish and maintain a productive and purposed incident command.

Virtual Classroom Session: 30 days (8 hours certified instruction)
Session-1: 5 days in classroom (40 hours)
Course Recess: 3 weeks
Session-2: 4 days in classroom (32 hours)
Class Size: 20