The below training is only $10 and is in our neighboring state, North
Carolina, about an hour and a half from Chesapeake. If you have any
questions about the training, please contact Gail Hutchison of Outer
Banks Hotline, Inc. directly at hutchison@... or at
252-473-5121.

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The Outer Banks Hotline, Inc will be sponsoring a 2 day training on May
11 and 12th, presented by Supervisory Special Agent (SC SLED) Michael
Prodan. Class size is limited to 150.

Day 1: Sexual Victimization of Children:

Not every child molester is a pedophile, Some substitute children for
adults, others view children as "young adults." This course will
illustrate how to tell the difference which is important in setting the
stage for that all important suspect interview. Also included will be
the role of sexual imagery (pornography) and the use of the internet by
offenders in sexual victimization of children.

Day 2: Late reporting of Sexual Assault and Rape: How To Make the Case.
Victims of acquaintance rape or sexual assault often report to law
enforcement weeks, months or even years later. Mr. Prodan will offer
cognitive ways of working with compliant victims, dealing with the
various levels of Rape Trauma Syndrome, the best ways to obtain
ancillary interviews and search warrants, and working pretext phone
calls. Finally, Mr. Prodan will wrap up the training with how to present
the case to the district attorney.

Cost: $10.00 to cover cost of training materials and light refreshments,
lunch will be on your own.

The Outer Banks Hotline, Inc. is currently working with the NC Justice
Academy to sanction this training for credit (for all NC officers
attending both days). State budget cuts may curtail this, but a
certificate of attendance will be given, regardless.

Place of training: Kitty Hawk NC Town Hall.

Time: 8:30-4:30 both days.

Please call Gail Hutchison at 252-473-5121, fax 252-473-9895, or email:
hutchison@...

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Supervisory Special Agent MICHAEL PRODAN SOUTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENT
DIVISION SPECIAL OPERATIONS - BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE UNIT Michael Prodan is
a Senior Special Agent /Criminal Investigative Profiler.
He has served with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division -
Behavioral Science Unit since 1998. Prior, he was with the Covina,
California, Police Department and the California Department of Justice's
Bureau of Investigation. From 1990 to 1998 Mr. Prodan was the supervisor
of California DOJ's Violent Crime Profiling Unit.

Mr. Prodan is one of only 34 graduates worldwide of the FBI's Police
Fellowship in Criminal Investigative Profiling and Crime Scene Analysis
at the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. He has also
attended training with the United States Secret Service at their
National Threat Assessment Center in Washington, DC. He has 30 years of
law enforcement experience, including 20 years investigating violent
crime. He has qualified as an expert witness in violent crime scene
analysis and criminal sexual behavior in Superior Courts in California,
Oregon and Texas and in threat assessment in North and South Carolina.
He is an adjunct instructor at both the South Carolina Criminal Justice
Training Center and North CarolinaJustice Training Center. Mr. Prodan
has been both a course designer and instructor of the California
Commission of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Institute of
Criminal Investigation - Homicide/Death Investigation and Sexual Assault
Investigation Foundation Specialty Courses.


Mr. Prodan has also instructed nation-wide for a number of Sexual
Assault Response Team / Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SART/SANE)
training courses.

He holds a BS Degree in Criminal Justice from California State
University - Long Beach and is a graduate of the University of Southern
California's Delinquency Control Institute. He is currently a member of
the International Criminal Investigative Analysts Fellowship and was its
vice-president from
1999-2001 and the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals.