Interior launches virtual training series for tribal crime response

The Department of the Interior’s Victim Assistance Program is offering a series of free virtual trainings to strengthen law enforcement and public safety providers’ responses to violent crime in Indigenous communities, according to the Arizona Mirror.

The program is partnering with the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Indian Country Training Initiative, U.S. Indian Police Academy, FBI, DEA and ATF to provide sessions on topics including trauma-informed interviews, crime gun intelligence, evidence handling, social media exploitation and firearms trafficking. Nearly 900 people joined the first webinar in May on responding to domestic violence and strangulation incidents. The series will continue throughout the year and is open to federal, state, county and local agencies connected to Indian Country.