Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that we will be holding the EUROPEAN POLICE TRAINERS CONFERENCE on May 6/7, 2024 in Leipzig at the exhibition center.
We are cooperating with GPEC® (https://www.gpec.de/en/), which is taking place at the same time. The Congress Center (https://www.leipziger-messe.de/en/locations/overview/) will be available to us for the first day of the conference on May 6 and Hall 2 for practical training on May 7 (https://www.leipziger-messe.de/en/locations/fair-halls/).
EPTC participants receive free access to the GPEC®.
Event details
Date
06. / 07.05.2024
Cost
210 – 290 €
Venue
Leipziger Messe
Messe-Allee 1
04356 Leipzig, Deutschland
Organizer
Polizeitrainer in Deutschland e.V.
Phone: +49 (0) 61 28 97 09 49
Email: info@polizeitrainer.de
Programme – 1st conference day
Program – 1st conference day
Monday, 06.05.2024, 09.00 – approx. 17.15 hrs
Welcome to EPTC 2024
Eckhard Niebergall
1st Chairman of the Police Trainers in Germany e.V.
- 1975 – 2017 Member of the Hessian Police Force
- until 1998 service at the police headquarters Frankfurt am Main
- Licensed weapons instructor (national & international)
- Instructor for tactics, close combat, personal protection
- Co-developer of INTERACT DEFENSE® TRAINING
- 1998 – 2017 Instructor at the Hessian Police Academy
René Demmler
René Demmler (52), Chief of Police, Head of the Leipzig Police Directorate since 1 February 2021, Head of the Zwickau Police Directorate from July 2020 to January 2021, previously Head of Department 32 (Police Organization, Planning, Controlling and Strategy) at the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior for one year, Head of Command Staff at the Dresden Police Directorate from February 2017 to June 2019, before that, various management tasks in staffs for the preparation of G7 and G6 meetings as well as for the preparation of the Bilderberg Conference and the Day of German Unity in Dresden, before that Head of Unit in the Zwickau Police Directorate and Head of the Zwickau Police Station.
With around 3,000 employees, Leipzig Police Headquarters is the largest police department in Saxony. Its catchment area includes the city of Leipzig as well as the districts of Leipzig and North Saxony with a total population of just over one million.
Harvey Hedden
Executive Director
Harvey V. Hedden is ILEETA’s Executive Director, having previously served as Deputy Executive Director for six years. He served 38 years in law enforcement in ranks from patrolman to chief. He spent 22 years in narcotics enforcement and was the Project Director for the Southeast Area Drug Operations Group. Harvey has a B.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and has been a law enforcement trainer for 42 years, having trained thousands of officers in the U.S. and abroad in a variety of subject areas, including use of force, investigations, firearms and defensive tactics. In these areas he has testified as an expert witness, written numerous articles and was a contributor to many law enforcement training videos, books and guides.
Riots and ambushes -a new phenomenon?
- Case studies
- Criminological classification
- Police self-protection -personal skills and abilities in the squad
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt
Chief Inspector
- Defensive tactics- and shooting instructor for special units
- Hesse University for Public Management and Security
Team training in virtual reality
- Results and implementation of the “VirTUOS” study
- Development of a VR training system for team training
- Identified advantages over traditional training methods
- Improvement of VR training through AI or reaction training with a weapon in VR
Referent: Frank Jaspers
has been working at the Weapons and Ammunition Technical Service for more than 30 years. After working in the field of telecommunications technology and ergonomics, he has been involved in the development of new extended reality applications for the Bundeswehr for over 10 years. This work has enabled him to establish the AR, VR and MR department at WTD 91. In addition to managing the department, he is also the project manager for the first digital pilot firing range.
The Berlin police shooting range affair -just a capital city problem?
- Chronology of a disaster
- The roles of administration and politics
- Medical assessment and causality
- Accidents on duty and compensation
Speaker: Karsten Löst
- 1988 Studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Administration of Justice in Berlin
- 1991 Patrol & Station management in the main section in Berlin-Kreuzberg
- 1992 Staff section of the Road Traffic Department, in the fall of the same year leadership of a platoon of the newly founded riot police
- 1995 Team leader at SEK-Berlin (more than 1000 deployments)
- 2011 Early retirement for health reasons
- 2018 Founding member and 1st Chairman of the association BERLINER INITIATIVE SICHERE STADT (B.I.S.S. e.V.)
AI and its impact on police operations
- Detecting attacks, attempted misuse or security breaches in systems
- Scenarios of attempted disruptions to operational measures
- Risks for own IT and fleet
Speakers: Nils Böcher & Isabell Jehle
Nils Böcher
was Head of Automotive IT at the Federal Criminal Police Office. Here he headed several working groups and expert committees, such as the group of coordinating bodies for automotive IT of federal and state authorities. In addition, he was chairman of the Automotive IT Competence Network within the Commission for Operations and Investigation Support.
He was also active in the Lawful Interception Committee of the European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute (ETSI).
Prior to this, he worked in the automotive sector as a development engineer for testing and (secure) diagnostic technology and in research, where he was involved in product security for the integration of software updates in connection with new post-series supply strategies.
Isabell Jehle
Isabell Jehle arbeitet als Senior Cybersecurity Manager für taktische Fahrzeuge bei der Rheinmetall Landsystem GmbH (RLS).
Zuvor hat sie einige Jahre als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der TU Clausthal gearbeitet und dort im Bereich der Cybersecurity für vernetze Fahrzeuge geforscht. Ihr Forschungsthema verknüpft Knowledge Engineering undkünstlicher Intelligenz für eine effektive Erkennung und Abwehr von Cyberangriffen auf Fahrzeuge oder Flotten mit Hilfe einer hoch automatisierten Intrusion Detection and Prevention System Architecture.
In diesem Feld verbindet sie ihr Fachwissen als Master of Science der angewandten Mathematik mit modernen informatischenTechnologien, um den Straßenverkehr der Zukunft ein wenig sicherer zu gestalten.
The weapon as a data dealer
- Data processing versus self-protection
- Data protection pitfalls
- Perspectives and possible consequences
Speaker: EPHK Ass. jur. Dirk Weingarten
After several years in the police, Dirk Weingarten moved to the years of individual police service and other assignments, in 2007 as a specialist teacher at the Hesse Police Academy (HPA) in Wiesbaden. For the first few years, he taught civil service, service pension and collective bargaining law. Since 2009, he has primarily taught intervention law (in particular HSOG and StPO), assembly law, weapons law, misdemeanor law, neighborhood law, civil law, data protection law and animal welfare law. As a certified specialist for data protection, he was the official data protection officer of the HPA from 2009 to 2021 and has been the coordinator of the data protection officers of the police forces in Hesse since 2011. Since 01.01.2022, he has been the full-time (official) data protection officer of HöMS, the Hessian University for Public Management and Security (merger of the Hessian University for Police and Administration (HfPV), the HPA and the Central Interdepartmental Further Training of the State of Hesse (ZF) on 01.01.2022).
The future of communication in police operations
- Challenges of satellite communication and mobile radio
- Internet of Things
- Meta-Data -Innovations
Speaker: Ingo Leunissen
After completing my vocational training as a mechanical engineer in 1988 in a specially profiled class for fighter pilots, I began a master’s degree in aerospace at the OHS “Otto Lilienthal” in Bautzen. In 1993 I completed a Bachelor’s degree at the FHB-Köln/Brühl with a major in “General/Internal Administration” and graduated in 1996. From 1996 to 2019 I worked at the BKA Wiesbaden, my last assignment was deputy RL (Regierungsrat) at OE23 TKÜ. During my many years at the BKA, I accompanied or took over the technical management of various projects in the field of TKÜ. Furthermore, I was a long-standing member of the KomGÜT (Commission on the Fundamentals of Surveillance Technology) and the resulting federal/state working groups on behalf of the BKA. Since 2019, I have been head of the T4 “Senior Experts TKÜ/ITÜ” unit at ZITiS in Munich. From May 2022 to May 2023, I was the acting head of the TC division at ZITiS.
The focus of my T4 “Senior Experts TKÜ/ITÜ” unit at ZITiS is the field of telecommunications services of the future, including national and international committee work (technical standardization TKÜ/ITÜ), mobile and satellite reconnaissance, the detection and decoding of data streams and the development of existing and future applications/tools in the field of TKÜ.
The lethal use of firearms in extreme situations
- Legal and ethical aspects
- Risk distribution between Police Officer and perpetrator
- Final rescue shot or lethal shot
- BVerfG and BGH case law
- The problem of guards in hostage situations
- Defense in the event of the initiation of preliminary proceedings
Speaker: Helgo Martens
Born in Kiel in 1968; after graduating from high school in 1989, served as a regular soldier in the military police force of the German Armed Forces; subsequently studied law in Kiel and trained for the higher police enforcement service in the Federal German Border Police (BGS) Criminal Police Service at the Police Management Academy in Münster-Hiltrup; since 2002, several management assignments in the Federal Police (until 2005 BGS); currently head of the Federal Police Crime Investigation Division in Hamburg; many years of part-time teaching activities, including as a lecturer in the joint council training of the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and in special criminal police training at federal and state level. Lecturer in the joint council training of the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and in the special criminal police training of the federal and state governments; editor and editorial contribution to commentaries on the BPolG and the LVwG SH as well as several articles in specialist journals on legal and police tactical issues;
Private martial artist since 1983, including karate, kickboxing and FMA.
Responder Readiness: Mission focussed suicide prevention for Law Enforcement
- Smash the Stigma! It’s time to talk about suicide
- Suicide: A hidden threat to officer safety
- Beyond Prevention: Creating a culture of readiness and resilience
Referent: Joe Willis
Joe Willis is a retired US Army Military Police First Sergeant who currently serves as Deputy Executive Director for the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) and was a founding board member of First H.E.L.P. From 2005 to 2009, Joe was an Operations Sergeant for Military Police at Wiesbaden Army Airfield.
Innovative technology and its influence on police self-protection
Speaker: Ralph Wilhelm
born in 67, is an expert for handguns and ammunition. Initially working as a journalist for the trade magazine “Deutsches Waffen-Journal”, he can now boast more than 500 specialist publications as well as various books and specialist lectures as an author. In this capacity, he vehemently advocated deformation ammunition and modern police holsters as early as the mid-1990s. After further positions at weapon (HK, B&T) and ammunition manufacturers (Brenneke, saltech), he now works for VECTED, a manufacturer of thermal imaging equipment based in Fürth. In all his activities, he continues to advocate sensible and modern police equipment in the field of weapons and ammunition.
Training 2000plus -Development of self-protection concepts
- From idea to practice
- Interact Defense®philosophy and standards
- Status quo and future of operational training
Speakers: Tim O ́Neill & Eckhard Niebergall
Tim O ́Neill
Tim is a specialist law enforcement, firearms and training professional with over 35 years of operational armed policing, threat management and training experience within the UK and International arena. He has served as an Armed Response Officer, Tactical operator / Team leader, Operational commander, Advanced driver, High Risk Vehicle Escort Operator, Sniper and Tactical advisor. He has regularly deployed in the armed resolution of high-risk incidents across city and rural environments and has extensive experience of providing senior commanders with tactical solutions.
Having spent over five years as the Operational Training Manager and Chief Firearms Instructor for a UK Government department deploying civilian experts to overseas missions, he has completed numerous operational deployments throughout the world and has extensive experience of delivering strategic solutions and specialist training, often with limited support, within hostile, hazardous and challenging environments.
Tim is a strong advocate of safe, realistic training, specialising in the delivery of weapon skills, conflict management, first-aid and Tactical emergency medicine that incorporates best practice and reflects operational need.
Tim holds recognised adult teaching, assessor, medical and safety qualifications and has delivered training events and presented to audiences at Regional, National and International seminars.
Eckhard Niebergall
1st Chairman of the Police Trainers in Germany e.V.
- 1975 – 2017 Member of the Hessian Police Force
- until 1998 service at the police headquarters Frankfurt am Main
- Licensed weapons instructor (national & international)
- Instructor for tactics, close combat, personal protection
- Co-developer of INTERACT DEFENSE® TRAINING
- 1998 – 2017 Instructor at the Hessian Police Academy
The Taser - tension between training and proportionality in police operations
- Experience and analysis from Austria
Speaker: Hermann Zwanzinger
Born in 1961, police officer since 1982, senior police officer since 1991, officer in the Weapons Department of the Vienna Regional Police Directorate for approx. 2.5 years, in the Federal Ministry of the Interior since mid-1993, (deputy) head of the Weapons Department of the Federal Police until 2000, then transferred to the Operations Department and, since 2000, officer in charge of weapons, resources and equipment as well as federal coordinator for operational training.
Among other things, cooperation in various research and procurement projects, as well as project manager for the topics of pepper spray, taser, operational ammunition.
Exchange of information and experience
between speakers, participants and the PiDteam as part of a GPEC® get-together from approx. 17.30 to 19.00
Members of authorities with security duties, the professional fire brigade, judges, public prosecutors and professional soldiers are entitled to participate.
Seminar language:
German / English simultaneous translation
Programme – 2nd conference day
Program 2nd day – Practical training
Tuesday, 07.05.2024, 08.45 – approx. 17.00 hrs
Police hand-to-hand combat
- Impact development and improvement of physical resilience
- Unconventional use of the firearm
- Body control techniques
Weapon retention
- Defense against attacks on short and long weapons
- Tactical options – individual & team responses
- Increasing competence through scenario-based training
Use of firearms from the ground
- Static, dynamic, interactive
- Tactics & training according to the KISS principle
- Physiological and legal aspects for training development
PiD training team leaders:
Eckhard Niebergall
1st Chairman of the Police Trainers in Germany e.V.
- 1975 – 2017 Member of the Hessian Police Force
- until 1998 service at the police headquarters Frankfurt am Main
- Licensed weapons instructor (national & international)
- Instructor for tactics, close combat, personal protection
- Co-developer of INTERACT DEFENSE® TRAINING
- 1998 – 2017 Instructor at the Hessian Police Academy
Ralf Schmidt
Chief Inspector
- Defensive tactics- and shooting instructor for special units
- Hesse University for Public Management and Security
Carsten Joppek
Carsten Joppek has been with the Berlin police for over 40 years. In addition to many organizational units, he also spent 10 years with special units. Here he was a senior shooting instructor for special operations units in Germanys northern network.
He is currently a specialist instructor for operational shooting training and head of the first team for training and further education at the Berlin Police Academy.
He is an assessor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
He advises companies and special professional groups on security risks and is a martial arts trainer.
He is the recipient of the Berlin State Medal of Honor for outstanding service to the Berlin Police.
Tim O´Neill
Tim is a specialist law enforcement, firearms and training professional with over 35 years of operational armed policing, threat management and training experience within the UK and International arena. He has served as an Armed Response Officer, Tactical operator / Team leader, Operational commander, Advanced driver, High Risk Vehicle Escort Operator, Sniper and Tactical advisor. He has regularly deployed in the armed resolution of high-risk incidents across city and rural environments and has extensive experience of providing senior commanders with tactical solutions.
Having spent over five years as the Operational Training Manager and Chief Firearms Instructor for a UK Government department deploying civilian experts to overseas missions, he has completed numerous operational deployments throughout the world and has extensive experience of delivering strategic solutions and specialist training, often with limited support, within hostile, hazardous and challenging environments.
Tim is a strong advocate of safe, realistic training, specialising in the delivery of weapon skills, conflict management, first-aid and Tactical emergency medicine that incorporates best practice and reflects operational need.
Tim holds recognised adult teaching, assessor, medical and safety qualifications and has delivered training events and presented to audiences at Regional, National and International seminars.
PiD instructor team:
Active and former members of authorities and organizations with security tasks who are or have been active in special assignments and have many years of operational and instructor experience.
PiD guest instructors & consultants:
John T. Meyer Jr.
John is President of Team One Network, LLC a company established to test, evaluate, train and market various manufacturers‘ products to the Law Enforcement community as related to officer survival. John led a team of instructors that pioneered the integration of formalized training doctrine with practical field experience. These cutting edge, realistic tactical training courses have become an industry standard. John was a Lieutenant with the DOD Police, where he served as a special reaction team leader and is a past President of FOP Middle Forge Lodge 100. He is Vice President of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI) John has written numerous articles that have been published on police training related subjects.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson currently works with the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association as a part-time employee assisting with the coordination of many of the Association training programs and has served in this position since 2006. He has been responsible for managing many of the Association Conferences to include Annual Training Conferences and the Spring and Fall meetings. Prior to joining the staff of the Association, Steve spent 34 years with the North Carolina Department of Justice, with 29 of those years at the North Carolina Justice Academy. Steve’s primary responsibility at the N.C. Justice Academy was as the lead instructor for all the firearms programs offered by the Academy. Steve was one of the co-authors of the N.C. Concealed Carry Handgun Training Model Program. He continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors where he served as President from 2000 to 2016 and currently serves as 2nd Vice President. He continues to teach the Law Enforcement Sniper Course for Durham Technical College as well as other firearms related programs for Team One Network. He has been fortunate to be able to teach, not just across the United States, but in Germany, Italy, and China as well. Steve served in the North Carolina National Guard for 35 years as a range instructor and a member of the Guard’s rifle and pistol teams. Steve served as a member of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Training and Standards Commission from 2009 – 2021. He still serves as a certified law enforcement officer, a criminal justice instructor and as a member of the North Carolina Private Protective Services Board.
Joe Willis
Joe Willis is a retired US Army Military Police First Sergeant who currently serves as Deputy Executive Director for the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) and was a founding board member of First H.E.L.P. From 2005 to 2009, Joe was an Operations Sergeant for Military Police at Wiesbaden Army Airfield.
Paul Wassill
Paul is a recently retired Sergeant from a major Canadian police department with 32.7 years of operational police experience including: uniform patrol officer, firearms/use of force/tactics instructor, Criminal Investigations Branch, uniform patrol supervisor, Tactical Support Unit operator and supervisor, and the implementation, strategies, equipment and training of the department’s Nuclear Security Division. Paul has instructor certifications in law enforcement handgun, shotgun, rifle, precision rifle, Taser© Master Instructor, and use of Simunition© non-lethal training ammunition. He is also a court qualified subject matter expert and lecturer on firearms and other offensive weapons. Paul also has completed police mentoring and training missions in Bosnia & Herzegovina, as a Canadian Civilian Police (CivPol) member of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina (UNMIBH), and the Canadian Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (KPRT) in Afghanistan. Paul also assists in the training of Canadian police contingents assigned to Afghan National Police training in Afghanistan.
Jason Meyer
Jason Meyer is the Director of the Public Safety Division of Team One Network, LLC. Jason has been in the first responders’ fleet industry since 2011. He started the T1N’s Public Safety Division in November of 2014. Their group focuses on meeting the needs of law enforcement agencies across the Mid-Atlantic Region. Jason is actively involved in new product development for multiple manufacturers . Accomplishments over the years include Sales Rep of The Year and Rep Group of the Year (3 times in the past 6 years). Team One Network has one of the most cutting edge fleet of Police Demonstration Vehicles in the industry.
Gary Monreal
Gary retired in May 2010 after twenty-three years of law enforcement experience in corrections, patrol, SWAT, and training. As a patrolman with the City of New Berlin (WI) Police Department, his duties also included SWAT Team Leader, specializing in explosive entry. Gary is an instructor-trainer and currently teaches Active Shooter, defensive tactics, firearms, high-level simulations, submachine gun, and SWAT. Gary has given various presentations at conferences throughout the United States, Germany, and China. A former adjunct instructor with Heckler & Koch®, International Training Division. Gary has taught with Team One Network since its inception and teaches for Simunition®. Gary has been recognized as an expert witness in the Use of Deadly Force and Force-on-Force simulation training; having given opinions in both State and Federal courts. Gary is recipient of multiple department awards and citations, including City of New Berlin Police Department Medal of Honor.
The training takes place at several stations in a rotating system. All participants train on all contents. Station content may alter due to circumstances
Members of authorities with security duties, the professional fire brigade, judges, public prosecutors and professional soldiers are entitled to participate.
Notice
Generally:
EPTC participants receive free access to the GPEC®.
1st conference day:
Members of authorities with security duties, the professional fire brigade, judges, public prosecutors and professional soldiers are entitled to participate.
Seminar language:
German / English simultaneous translation
2nd day – Practical training:
The training takes place at several stations in a rotating system. All participants train on all contents. Station content may alter due to circumstances.
Members of authorities with security duties, the professional fire brigade, judges, public prosecutors and professional soldiers are entitled to participate.
