CENTRAL ILLINOIS POLICE TRAINING CENTER
Brian Fengel, Director
Phone: (309) 690-7355
Fax: (309) 690-7359
Heather Grove: hgrove@icc.edu
Jean Swan: jswan@icc.edu
Robert Pyszka: rp717@icc.edu
Laws Concerning Stops, Searches and Use of Force
Instructor: Don Hays, Illinois Prosecutor Services
April 29, 2025
8am – 3pm
Class will meet at CIPTC, ICC Peoria Campus, 5407 N. University, Poplar Hall 101, Peoria, IL
Enrollment Deadline: April 22, 2025
Course Size: Minimum – 20 Maximum – 64
Course Object
This USE OF FORCE presentation has been modified to comply with the Use of Force Training requirements now mandated by the Police Reform Act of 2021. The Training Standards Board’s Key Use of Force Guidelines will be analyzed.
Course Content
All topics mandated by the Act will be covered in this presentation. The latest Use of Force case law will be identified and analyzed. Discussions will include how use of force issues are being applied to and affect Illinois law enforcement officers. Topics will include: a review of an Illinois Police Officer’s modified statutory and case law authority to use force (including deadly force); the ramifications resulting from the use of force by police officers, including civil and potentially criminal ramifications, immunity from liability found in both the Federal and the Illinois law and many other related topics. Numerous case examples will be used to illustrate each of these areas. Used in this presentation will be the Use of Force Guidelines and the Illinois Mandatory Firearms Training Manual produced by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board; the Law Enforcement Liability Update and the Use of Force Quarterly produced by the Illinois Prosecutor Services, LLC.
About the Instructor
Don Hays – Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Eastern Illinois University. Twenty-five years’ experience in training State’s Attorneys and Law Enforcement Officers in various areas of the law. Instructor at the Lincoln Land Police Training Institute for five years. Subjects: Arrest, Search and Seizure; Criminal Justice Legislation; Evidence Law; the Controlled Substances and Cannabis Control Acts. Instructor for numerous police training organizations training Law Enforcement Officers on numerous topics related to law enforcement. Produced and presented numerous training presentations for State’s Attorneys. An approved presenter of numerous M-CLE General Law and Ethics presentations for the Office of the Appellate Prosecutor.
Mobile In-Service Training Team#7 Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
MTU 7 request for certification of this course has been approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Meets the following mandatory training criteria: Meets the following mandatory training criteria: Civil Rights – 1.50 hours, Const. Use of LE Authority- 1.50 hours, Legal Updates – 1.50 hours, Law concerning stops, searches, and the use of force – 1.50 hours
