The Advanced Law Enforcement Training Center (ALETC) in Mount St. Mary’s University’s Division of Continuing Studies begins operation in January 2025 with the offering of an Advanced Crime Analysis (CJUST 409-1) course that will better equip crime analysts with skills to leverage data for strategic and tactical operations.
ALETC offers fully accessible talks, seminars, workshops and classes for advanced law enforcement skills development, including the use of recent technology, enhanced leadership skills, and a variety of specialized topics ranging from working with people with disabilities to the newest research and techniques on de-escalation. Taught by preeminent experts recruited from across the country, ALETC’s offerings will evolve as novel issues arise. Classes are geared toward practical skills that can be deployed immediately in the field as well as certifications, CEUs and college credits. All law enforcement and first responder participants enjoy a reduced partnership tuition rate on courses.
The hands-on Advanced Crime Analysis course provides deep technical training on efficiently navigating and extracting valuable information from core databases and beyond. Students will learn to automate workflows, scale outputs, manage and analyze relational data, perform complex queries, visualize data in Excel and Power BI, create paginated reports in MS Access, and use advanced SQL to automate link charts with SQL and NodeXL. Upon completion of the semester-long course, students will know how to create automated analytics common in law enforcement such as COMPSTAT presentations, trend analysis, link charts and offender workups.
Taught by Charles N. Giberti of the Center for Naval Analysis and Research Innovations Incorporated, the course is being offered synchronously online on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m., starting January 13 and ending on May 8. The discounted law enforcement and first responder rate for the Advanced Crime Analysis course is $1,368.
Enrollees who are not current Mount students should apply via the short non-degree seeking student application and register for the course. Questions about the application or registration process should be sent to dcs.admissions@msmary.edu. For more information about ALETC, contact Joe Vince, lecturer in the university’s Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Human Services, at vince@msmary.edu or Jack Trammell, Ph.D., department chair and professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Human Services, at j.k.trammell@msmary.edu