Master Radar Laser Instructor Course
To NHTSA Standard / Law Enforcement Services
by Speed Measurement Laboratories Inc.
revision 11/05
Training Commission Approval
#P 11216
To follow text of Understand Police Traffic Radar & Laser noted by chapter and subsection.
Audio visual aids and field proficiency exercises noted
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 98-87615
| March 6 | |||
| Activity | Time Allotted (hrs.) | Student Activity | |
| Obejctives, Handouts | .5 | ||
| Introductions | .5 | All students to stand and indentify themselves by department and experience with radar and laser systems. | |
| Pre-instruction | 1.0 | Students to complete 100 question question examination to evaluate their present knowledge of radar and laser speed enforcement system use. | |
| Mock Trial | .5 | Students placed on witness stand and questioned to past and present court precedent on radar and laser. | |
| The Speeding Problem | 1.0 | ||
1.1 History |
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| The Learning Channel Video
"The Need For Speed" |
1.0 | ||
| Speed Laws and Public Safety | 1.0 | ||
2.1 Basic Speed Law |
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| 2.2 Speed Limit Misconceptions | Detailed discussion of Martin J. Parker's USDOT of Changing Speed Limits and speeding. Handout of highlights. | ||
2.3 Speed Limits and Compliance |
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Speed Enforcement |
3.0 | ||
3.1 Pacing |
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| 3.4 Radar | Students to view short presentations of old and new radar systems brought by instructor. | ||
| 3.5 Lidar | |||
| 3.6 Estimating Distances | Students broken into teams and elect team captains for field training exercises. Each student to estimate distances of twenty five (25) target vehicles with verification by different models of police laser guns. Each team captain to post results in classroom. | ||
| End of day one. | |||
| March 7 | |||
| (continue Speed Enforcement Section) | |||
| 3.7 Estimating Speeds | 3.0 | Each student to estimate |
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| 3.8 Stopwatch Calibration Checks | |||
| 3.9 Distance Calibration Checks | |||
| 3.10 Speedometer Calibration Checks | |||
| Radar Basics | 2.0 | ||
| 4.1 Types of Radar 4.2 The Doppler Principle 4.3 Waves and Frequencies 4.4 Characteristics of Radio Waves 4.5 The Doppler Shift 4.6 Police Traffic Radar 4.7 The Radar Beam 4.8 Understanding Trignometrics 4.9 Understanding Beam Widths 4.10 Lines of Equal Sensitivity 4.11 Inverse Square Rule 4.12 Contour Lines of Equal Sensitivity 4.13 Beam Range-Sensitivity 4.14 Automatic Gain Control 4.15 Target Reflectivity 4.16 Range Control Techniques 4.17 Doppler Audio 4.18 Cosine Effect |
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| Installation, Testing, and Operation | 3.0 | ||
| 5.1 Installation | Students using provided police units without guidance from instructor to install and make operational three different two piece radar units from Stalker, Kustom, and MPH-Field exercise with students estimating and additional fifty (50) target vehicles. Team captains to post scores |
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| 5.2 Testing | |||
| March 8 | |||
| Practical Exercises | 3.0 | Students to operate radar |
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| 5.3 Operation 5.4 Tracking History 5.5 Radar Effects Stationary 5.6 Enforcement Considerations |
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| 5.7 Radar Detectors and jammers | Students to view 40 min. video of television segments on radar and laser jammers courtesy of SML. |
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| 5.8 Radar Detector Detectors | Students to view demo of Radar Detector Detectors RDDs and radar detectors along with discussion of state and federal laws. |
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| Understanding Moving RADAR | 3.0 | ||
6.1 Principles of Moving Radar |
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| 6.8 Enforcement Considerations |
Students to view DVD courtesy of the Ontario Provincial Police on enforcement considerations and court room appearance. |
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| Modern Police Radar | 3.0 | ||
7.1 Digital Signal Processing |
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| 7.15 POP Mode |
Students to view table demonstration of POP mode using radar detectors. |
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| 7.17 Speed Detection Video Interface | |||
| March 9 | |||
| 2.0 | Continuation of Chapter 7 |
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| Lidar | 4.0 | ||
| 11.1 History of Laser 11.2 Principles of Operation 11.3 Lidar Sighting Systems 11.4 Lidar Tracking History 11.5 Lidar Effects 11.6 Time-Distance 11.7 Survey Measurements 11.8 Inclement Weather Program 11.9 Safety Considerations 11.10 Military Warning 11.11 Testing Lidar |
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| 11.12 Lidar Case Law | Field exercise with students using all laser guns making one hundred (100) estimates of speed of target vehicle vehicles. Team captains to report to class results of each team. |
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| Radar and Occupational Safety | 1.0 | ||
| 8.1 Energy Levels of Microwave 8.2 Microwave and Cancer 8.3 Safety Rules |
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| Photo Radar | 1.0 | ||
| 9.1 General Operation 9.2 Photo Radar and Private Enterprise 9.3 Photo Radar Court Cases 9.4 State Laws Regulating Photo Radar |
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| March 10 | |||
| Standards, Certifications, and Law | 2.0 | ||
10.1 Federal Standards |
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| Mock Trail | 2.0 | ||
| All students will again serve as witness for the prosecution and be given questions covered in course content as at the beginning of instruction. |
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| Course Review and Questions | 1.0 | ||
| Student to ask clarifying questions about course content. |
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| Final Examination and Grading | 2.0 | ||
| Students to take final examination and complete course evaluation form. When all students have completed, examinations will be exchanged and graded. |
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| Announcement of Graduation | .5 | ||
| The instructor will announce students graduating. Bill fold and wall certificates to be forwarded to graduates within two weeks. |
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This course complies with NHTSA requirements of 24 hours of classroom instruction and 16 hours of field competency. Credit given for officer’s experience with radar and laser Content/Graphics © 2003-2006 Speed Measurment Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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