Block 1
Planning the proceeding
Start with the docket. Who is on trial, who is coming to watch, what the judge wants, and what the sheriff can commit. A written plan that survives the first change of courtroom.
High risk trial operations
You have a trial coming that will draw a crowd. This is the day to plan it.
One eight-hour course for the supervisor who owns the courtroom on the day it matters. They leave with a plan on paper, a threat picture, and a way to brief the judge, the sheriff and their own people.
- TCOLE 21009
- 8 hours
- $99 per officer
- Booked around your docket
- 254-423-5675
What the day covers
From the docket to the last transport.
Seven blocks, in the order a real trial happens.
A high-profile trial is a planning problem before it is a security problem.
The courtroom that handles a Tuesday docket without incident is the same courtroom that comes apart on the first morning of a trial the whole county is watching. Nothing about the building changed. The plan did not exist. This course is that plan.
Block 2
The threat picture
The defendant, the family on both sides, the co-defendants not in the room, and the people who found the case online. What to look for and who to ask.
Block 3
The courtroom and the building
Screening for a trial instead of a docket day. Where the gallery sits, where the overflow goes, and the routes between the front door and the bench.
Block 4
Movement and holding
Bringing the defendant in and out, the elevator, the hallway, holding, and the transport at the end of the day. The parts of the day where most things go wrong.
Block 5
Media and the crowd
Cameras at the door, a line down the sidewalk, and a demonstration in the parking lot. Where they stand, who talks to them, and what the plan says when they will not move.
Block 6
The judge and the jury
Protecting the bench, sequestering and moving a jury, and the conversation with the judge before the trial about what the court will and will not see.
Block 7
After action
What to write down, who to brief, and how the plan for this trial becomes the plan for the next one.
The case material
Built on trials that happened, not on a slide deck.
The operational material in this course comes from high-profile trials that our founder planned and worked: national news coverage, out-of-state media, demonstrations at the door, and a defendant with people willing to act for the defendant. The decisions, the mistakes and the fixes are taught as they happened.
That is the part no course outline can reproduce. A supervisor can read a policy on their own. They cannot read what it was like to move a jury through a hallway full of cameras, or what was decided at six in the morning when the plan changed.
Who attends
The people who will be asked what the plan is.
- The lieutenant or sergeant over court services
- Chief deputies and command staff who will sign off on the plan
- Bailiffs and court security officers who will run the courtroom on the day
- Court administrators and the judge’s staff, at the host’s invitation
A standalone day, or added to a hosted week.
Any agency can host this course on its own as a one-day class for its region. It is also added to a hosted forty-hour week as a sixth day, so the supervisors train in the same building the same week their officers do.
The course follows TCOLE’s curriculum for 21009, High Risk Trial Planning and Operations, and is eligible for TCOLE credit hours reported through the host or each officer’s own department.
No public dates are scheduled. This course is usually booked by an agency for a trial it can see coming. Call, and it goes on the calendar.
$99 per officer for the day. Booked around your docket, not ours.