Hidden Compartments and Other areas of Concealment

The searching of vehicles and items inside of vehicles is of paramount importance to officers in law enforcement. The search of these areas result from many legal practices. Locating contraband can be challenging with the sophistication that many Criminal Organizations take advantage of.

Participants will learn of the incredible advanced concealment places in land vehicles that smugglers and other people involved in criminal activity hide the drugs, weapons and currency. This course is of strictly concealment methods and the challenges they bring to law enforcement.

After attending:
Each student attending will have been provided the instruction to:

• Locating hidden contraband in very sophisticated compartments
• Learn various ways hidden compartments can be located
• See the inherent value to take legal searches to the legal limit
• Learning the importance of a thorough search after Probable Cause is revealed
• Discovering magnets and their value
• Learning of areas even small-time users may hide small amounts of contraband.
• Learning how to bypass electrical compartments
• Discovering traps in Recreational Vehicles and Campers
• Discovering traps in other things hauled in or on vehicles