Northwest Indiana Law Enforcement Academy

Dispatchers: Fighting the Crime of Domestic Violence From Behind the Console

Course Information

Course ID: 23-016
Course Start: 11/8/2023
Course End: 11/8/2023
Course Time: 11/8/2023 1:00 PM} to 11/8/2023 4:00 PM}
Course Days: SMTWHF
Course Hours: 3.00

Location Information


705 East 4th Street
Hobart, IN 46342

Pricing Information

Member Tuition: 0.00
Non Member Tuition: 0.00

Class Participant Information

Class Maximum Size: 20

Course Description

Objectives of this training:

  • Acknowledge that our employees at our Public Safety Answering Points are our law enforcement agencies’ first line of defense 
  • Inform of Indiana laws pertaining to intimate partner violence
  • Equip with pertinent questions to ask the caller
  • Discuss safety strategies
  • Identify the correlation between domestic batterers and the danger to law enforcement
  • Understand the importance of the 911 recording, excited utterances, and spontaneous admissions

Course Materials