Criminal Justice Program
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CJ Students Learn Search and Rescue Spring 2010: Criminal Justice students taking the Perspectives of Homeland Security course recently completed Campus Community Emergency Response Training. The learned basic emergency preparedness and disaster response skills. They were trained first aid techniques, search & rescue skills, light fire suppression skills, and dealing with disaster stress management. |
Criminal Justice students learn self-defense
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Iowa Central graduate works on cold cases
Their mission is to educate the public about these open cases, share and exchange resources in efforts to publicize these unsolved crimes, and ensure every victim's story is told and kept alive until those responsible are held accountable. ICC is dedicated to Iowa's cold case victims, their families and friends, and the countless officials who've committed their lives to making a difference and seeing justice served for all. Rebecca plans to enter the field of private investigation upon her graduation and continue her passion of investigating cold cases. “Justice for the families and friends of the victims is what motivated me to pursue cold case work as a career,” Rebecca says. “No one should ever have to give up on finding out what happened to their loved one.” For more information on Iowa Cold Cases click here.
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Criminal Justice Students visit Woodward Academy
Recently students from Iowa Central's Criminal Justice Program visited the Woodward Academy in Woodward, Iowa. Woodward offers three different residential programs ranging from 90 days to 18 months, working with youth from 12 to 18 years old. Woodward Academy also offers one non-residential program, Day School. The non-residential programs serve the greater Des Moines and surrounding areas. As of June 30, 2004 nearly 1,500 youth have entered Woodard Academy's residential programs. |
Criminal Justice students visited the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in April 2009. They toured the facility and learned about the training current police officers receive. They also got to see a current academy class going through beginning firearms training at the firearms range. |
Crime Scene Awareness for EMS
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On October 22, 2008 Criminal Justice students participated in a Mock Disaster Drill at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility. They were role players as inmates, hostages, and onlookers. |
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During the 2008 Fall Field Trip Iowa Central Criminal Justice students visited the Midwest Forensic Resource Center on Iowa State University's campus. They learned about trace evidence analysis and high-speed digital analysis of blood stain patterns. Current technologies used by the FBI and the Secret Service. |
You want a true hands on course.... try Defensive Tactics! Iowa Central Criminal Justice students learn self-defense skills that teach them how to protect themselves. During this course they learn ways to defend and control assailants, use legal force appropriately, and use proper judgement on what level of force to use in defense. Recently Iowa Central's Homeland Security Training Center purchased a "Red Man" Training Suit which can be used to teach students how to actually perform the self-defense skills they have learned on an instructor. This suit protects the instructor from injury as students demonstrate the techniques they have learned. It is a vital tool in teaching criminal justice students the things that may keep them from harm in their future profession. Students also use a MILO Firearms Simulator to learn quick decision making skills and proper use of force during this course.
Iowa Cold Cases introduced their first intern, Rebecca Russell. Rebecca received her Criminal Justice Diploma from Iowa Central and is currently attending Grand View University. She will help with research and case summaries, e-mail inquiries, updates to the ICC blog and our Facebook group, and in other areas as needed. Iowa Cold Cases is an independent, non-profit organization committed to providing case summaries, articles and updates for all Iowa open homicides and missing person’s cases where foul play is suspected. 
Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Trip
On Saturday, February 7, 2009 EMT's and Paramedics gathered at the Webster City Fire Station for annual continuing education training on various topics. One of the topics was Crime Scene Awareness taught by Joe Wright of the Iowa Central Criminal Justice Program. This may seem out of place, but many times EMS professionals find themselves in situations that have involved criminal activity. This two hour block of training involved the recognition of dangerous situations, tactical procedures responding to scenes, response to violence at scenes, and recognition of evidence at scenes. EMS has the priority of patient care and law enforcement has the priority of scene safety and investigation. Working together they can accomplish those two goals and result in helping people and solving crimes! Unfortunately there are a number of EMT's and Paramedics that get hurt and killed at medical calls as a result of violent patients, crimes in progress, and dangerous traffic at accident scenes. They are all heroes that put their safety and well-being on the line to help other people! 
Mock Disaster Drill