29th Annual Covert Ops Training Conference
29th Annual Covert Ops Training Conference
July 21 - 25, 2025 at the Flamingo Hotel
Las Vegas
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A new and advanced five day training program for law enforcement officers who supervise and participate in covert undercover investigations. The course is specifically designed to provide officers with a comprehensive knowledge of undercover techniques and methods they can employ to safely plan and manage covert investigations. This program changes every year in our effort to bring you the latest information about covert operations. All of the presenters have been involved in covert operations for many years. You do not have to be a member of The International Association of Undercover Officers to attend this training.
Who Should Attend This Course?
This advanced training is updated annually and designed for law enforcement officers who participate in undercover investigations. Managers who supervise such operations will find the course particularly focused on matters relating to their day to day activities.
Why Should I Attend This Course?
Officers who participate in covert operations are not born with the talents needed to perform effectively in undercover situations. These talents are developed from experience, hard work and training. You will learn the techniques and tactics necessary to compliment your present undercover experience. Many times this is what makes the difference between success or failure and safety or injury.
Program Overview
Covert Operations
Undercover Reverses
Case Study
Emerging Drug Trends
Undercover Risk Analysis
Undercover Training Issues
Undercover Psychological Case Study
Fentanyl
VICE/Human Trafficking
Investigation & Identification of Pirated/Counterfeit Items and Their Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism
Other topics to be announced! This course is only open to law enforcement officials. Proper identification is required.
Your Department does not have any travel money? No problem, all of our training programs can be exported to your area. For information, e-mail: Info@Undercover.org
Instructors
GUY DANIELS – Sgt. Guy Daniels is a twenty-three-year veteran with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, with over seventeen years’ experience as a narcotics detective. He has developed numerous narcotics and tactical courses and is the lead instructor for The International Association of Undercover Officers. Guy started his narcotics career with street-level tactical units where he participated in several hundred undercover operations and several long-term undercover operations including Operation Pill Nation 1 and Pill Nation 2 as a DEA force officer. He has served as the President of the Florida Narcotics Officers Association and is currently the Vice Sergeant with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
JOHN MORIARTY – John is a retired law enforcement officer from the Montgomery County Police Department with over 25 years of law enforcement experience including Special Investigative Division – Repeat Offender Unit. He has conducted complex criminal fugitive investigations and apprehended fugitives that have either fled from the Washington DC Metropolitan area or are currently wanted by another law enforcement jurisdiction and have fled to the Maryland, Washington DC area. As a Task Force Officer and Team Leader with the US Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force he was responsible for cell phone tracking for fugitives and investigative targets. He is an Instructor for Special Assignment Team School/Computer Investigative Systems/EVOC /Top Gun.
WILLIAM “BILL” NELSON - Bill Nelson is a thirty two year veteran of Law Enforcement and has over seven years experience as a supervisor running under cover operations as well as working under cover. In 1991, Bill began his career in Law Enforcement with the Sumter City Police Department in South Carolina and in 1995 he moved to Florida and joined the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. After fourteen years with JSO, as a Patrol Officer, Bill then became a Patrol Sergeant in 2009. In 2016, Bill moved to the Vice/Narcotics unit where he supervised and participated in hundreds of under cover interactions. In 2018, he transitioned to the Integrity Unit where he currently works. As the Integrity Sergeant, Bill specializes in public corruption cases, human trafficking targeted operations, and murder for hire operations
JIM ORR – Jim is a retired law enforcement detective sergeant with many years of investigative (narcotics & gang) experience. Mr. Orr is a Retained Investigator and Anti-Piracy Trainer for the Recording Industry Association of America, the Entertainment Software Association, brand owners of intellectual properties and a former Retained Investigator and Anti-Piracy Trainer the Motion Picture Association of America. Mr. Orr has trained over 23000 local, state and federal law enforcement officers, investigators, deputy district attorneys, prosecutors, city attorneys and private investigators in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Canada. Mr. Orr has conducted and assisted with many piracy and trademark counterfeit investigations and is a court recognized expert. Mr. Orr has been conducting counterfeit and piracy investigations for over 17 years.
TIMOTHY BECK – Tim is a 24-year veteran with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The last nineteen years he has been assigned to the Major Violator/Narcotics Crime Bureau, Narcotics Section. The first nine years in narcotics he was the primary undercover for my squad and was tasked with purchasing narcotics from the suspects in the cases we were working. After doing nine years on a street team, he was selected to a DEA Taskforce and spent ten years as a Task Force Officer. In March 2021, he was assigned to the newly formed Overdose Response Task Force, which is responsible for investigating Fentanyl related overdoses in Clark County, NV and charging the Fentanyl traffickers. His experience and training related specifically to narcotics and investigations involving narcotics trafficking spans over nineteen years. He has conducted hundreds of interviews with members of multiple Drug Trafficking Organizations and Mexican Cartels. He has over 900 hours of training related to Narcotics and Narcotic investigations and have worked on hundreds of related cases, as well as provided a significant amount of assistance to outside units and agencies throughout the United States. Since working with the DEA he has authored over 240 wire taps that were related to Drug Trafficking Organization and Drug Cartel members in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States.
Other instructors to be announced.
Registration Information
Registration fee for the five day training program is $495.00 per person. We accept cash, check or Visa/MasterCard/Amex. Group discounts are also available. Tuition cost includes the cost of the instruction, handout materials and certificate of completion and free membership in The International Association of Undercover Officers. All checks or purchase orders must be made payable to the Undercover Officers Association. For further information, call Gayland Hammack at 702-379-5769 or Trish Daniels at 904-556-1586. E-mail: trish@undercover.org
Attendance is limited. Register early to insure your participation.
Training Site and Hotel Info
The training will be held at the Flamingo Hotel, 3555 S. Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Training will be held Monday through Thursday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Friday from 9:00AM to 12 Noon. Dress is casual. No meals are provided.
The Flamingo Hotel has arranged a special rate of $90 per night. You can book your reservations by going to this link: https://book.passkey.com/go/SFUOA4 . You can also call them at 888-373-9855 to make your reservations, however, there is a $15 charge for booking by telephone. To obtain this special rate, please mention International Undercover Training/IAOU Covert Ops Training and make your reservations prior to June 13, 2024. Please note that this special rate INCLUDES the resort fee. For further information, call Trish Daniels at 904-556-1586. You can also e-mail questions to trish@undercover.org.
Have friends who want to go to Las Vegas but not attend the training? Feel free to share the Flamingo Booking information with them. Their rate will be the same special rate.