Upcoming ECLEF-Supported Training
ECLEF is proud to work with other law enforcement agencies and allied organizations to provide training at no cost to law enforcement agencies.
FREE Training
For Law Enforcement & Military
sponsored by ECLEF
Tues-Thurs, September 1-3, 2026
8:00am - 4:00pm
Hilbert College - Swan Auditorium
5200 South Park Avenue, Hamburg, NY 14075
Course Description:
This course explores the current trends, identifiers, and dynamics of street gang investigations. Understanding and identifying gang culture both on the street and in correctional facilities requires investigators from both local law enforcement and corrections to work together and share information. The intent of this course is to prepare officers in both large and small agencies to properly identify and interdict gang activity in their respective jurisdictions, collect and manage their gang intelligence, and communicate this information with neighboring jurisdictions and correctional facilities. Many states have their own gang enhancement statue but it is often not utilized to prosecute at the state level. The instructors of this course will demonstrate how to take the evidence and stored gang intelligence in a gang case and apply it in the courtroom. Not all street gangs establish themselves with a nationally recognized gang name. The instructors will provide reasonable explanations why their local hybrid street gangs are just as violent, and dangerous as nationally recognized gangs are in larger cities. This class will explain the command structure, membership requirements, and adopted signs and symbols, hybrid gangs will create.