Policing Convergent Threats (PCT) Program
NCAP provides program management and curriculum development support to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Policing Convergent Threats (PCT) program. Through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the LAPD is developing Instructor-Led and Web-Based training for State and local law enforcement officers. The training focuses on Intelligence-Led investigative strategies that can be applied to the convergent threats of terrorism, gangs, organized crime, human trafficking, and narcotics trafficking. The courses are currently in development and will be offered throughout the country starting in late 2012.
The term convergent threats refers to the post-globalization phenomena of transnational criminal networks increasingly leveraging each others’ resources and working together for mutual gain. These overlapping criminal activities require a more sophisticated, networked approach by state, local and tribal law enforcement that is rooted in solid criminal intelligence techniques and knowledge of available resources on the national and international levels.