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 innovative investigative assistance, such as criminal personality profiling and the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP). A natural extension of this assistance is to train law enforce­ment officers in, or at least acquaint them with , the application of behavioral science techniques to the investigation of violent crime. The NCAVC training program accomplishes this task in four ways: 1) Field police schools, 2) FBI Academy courses, 3) speaking engagements, and 4) NCAVC police fellowships.

Field Police Schools

Members of the NCAVC and specially trained Agents assigned to FBI field offices provide cost-free training in violent crime investigative methodology for law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. Such courses are 1 to 5 days in length and are conducted at sites selected by the requesting agency.

FBI Academy Courses

Courses 3 to 14 days in length are conducted at the FBI Academy and in­ clude speakers from a variety of disciplines. Officers invited to attend the courses do so at no expense to themselves or their departments.

Speaking Engagements

The NCAVC provides speakers for law enforcement and other professional organizational meetings or conferences. Since June 1985, NCAVC speakers have participated in national meetings of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs Associa­tion, the Harvard Associates in Police

Science, and the FBI National Academy Associates, to name a few. The NCAVC training program has also provided guest lecturers for courses offered at the Southern Police Institute, the North­western Traffic Institute, the Delin­quency Control Institute, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Police Fellowship Program

The NCAVC offers a 1-year fellowship in criminal personality pro­filing at the FBI Academy to selected officers. All expenses except salary and benefits are borne by the FBI. This pro­gram is discussed more fully below.

The NCAVC Police Fellowship

'Developmental History

The police fellowship in criminal personality profiling predated the establishment of the NCAVC and evolved from FBI Director William H. Webster's mandate to provide intensive training on the behavioral analysis of violent crime to law enforcement agen­cies. It was determined that a 9- to 12-month program would be necessary to train and provide sufficient hands-on profiling experience to individuals who could then be expected to provide behavioral science expertise to their departments.

In 1982, at the direction of Assis­tant Director James D. McKenzie, Roger L. Depue, current NCAVC Adminis­trator, asked several large police agen­cies if they would be interested in participating in such a program. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Assistant Director James D. McKenzie 24 / FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin