Please Note: This training is NOT a prerequisite for the Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® Training.

This training is designed to equip law enforcement professionals with actionable strategies and cutting-edge tools to efficiently identify, investigate, and respond to threats of violence and worrisome online behaviors reported or detected within schools and communities. The course provides targeted resources and tactical guidance to help officers take swift, effective action when faced with these critical scenarios.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, law enforcement plays a pivotal role in ensuring public safety, and this training is tailored to meet the unique challenges faced by patrol officers, investigators, school resource officers, criminal analysts, and other personnel involved in threat assessment and online investigations. Delivered by subject matter experts in digital investigations, this training offers high-tech investigative techniques that have been developed and refined through years of field experience.

Safer Schools Together’s (SST) Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) training is renowned across North America for empowering law enforcement to proactively address the growing complexity of digital threats. By applying a Safety and Threat Assessment lens, this training equips officers with the skills to establish a Digital Behavioral Baseline, track potential threats, and document worrisome online behavior across popular social media platforms. Thousands of law enforcement professionals have used these techniques to successfully locate individuals on the pathway to violence, preventing harmful outcomes in their communities.

This training will include:

• Refresh on Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) best practices
• Tactical considerations for gathering and preserving digital evidence
• Understanding the impact of AI in the context of school-related threats
• Open-source investigation tips to enhance threat detection
• Strategies for obtaining and safeguarding records from social media platforms
• Navigating digital content takedown requests efficiently
• Juvenile interview protocols in the context of online threats

By participating in this course, law enforcement professionals will gain invaluable insights and techniques that can be immediately applied to safeguard their communities and ensure that emerging threats are neutralized quickly and effectively.