NCTC Narcotics Enforcement and Trafficking Investigations in Hotels/Motels and Parcel/Freight Carriers

This course focuses on hotel/motel and parcel/freight interdiction and provides an update on legal and constitutional issues related to each interdiction technique. Students will identify each of the seven exceptions to the search warrant rule with emphasis upon stop & frisk, search incident to arrest, probable cause, plain view, plain feel, inventory, and consent. The class will express a working knowledge of the parcel and freight carrier system and the labeling practices for each.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

1.  List reasons why parcel carriers are used by the criminal element to ship narcotics and monies

2.  List and identify some of the patron saints of the “drug underworld” and their impact on narcotics enforcement

3.  Identify the test used by the courts to justify the length of an investigative detention

4.  Identify how trash searches of abandoned property can be used