Legal Fundamentals: Critical Decision-Making for Law Enforcement

IADLEST has received funding from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance to provide training support to the nation’s law enforcement agencies on topics related to critical decision-making and legal fundamentals.

Project Goal:

The project goal is to provide free training resources that increase the competence and confidence of officers related to their legal authority, parameters, and responsibilities. This includes strengthening officer understanding about the constitutionality of daily decisions they make.

In support of this project, IADLEST is developing a cutting-edge digital training resource designed to support critical decision-making based on legal fundamentals for law enforcement professionals.

Project Scope:

The Legal Fundamentals: Critical Decision-Making digital job aid will incorporate best practices for adults to interact with and learn foundational information related to legal fundamentals and implications for daily decision-making for officers. Working with our legal, technology, and curriculum development experts, the digital job aid is being designed around a set of fundamental legal categories so users can explore core principles of critical decision-making. Each principle will offer a variety of ways for users to interact including scenarios, videos, audio, case law, resources, and knowledge assessments.

The digital job aid will be accompanied by a robust guide for users and a trainer’s guide with examples on how the tool can enhance or supplement existing basic, in-service, and roll-call training, including sample scenarios and test questions. 

Projected Launch:

The anticipated launch date for the digital job aid is in the Fall of 2025. For questions or additional information, Project Manager Dianne Beer-Maxwell can be reached at Dianne@iadlest.org.

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This project was supported by Contract No. 15PBJA-22-GK-03711-JAGT awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.