How to Write a Search Warrant
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Description
This 8-hour course is intended for the new criminal investigators, law enforcement officers, or experienced officers who will be writing and obtaining Search Warrants, during the course of criminal investigations. The class is hands-on, and students will be writing affidavit for search warrants and completing search warrants. Students will be given an address of a property and told of a crime which occurred on said property. The student will then be given time to go locate the property (within a 3 mile radius of the technology center), take photographs (legally from the street), and return to the classroom where they will prepare the most suitable document(s) needed to lawfully enter the structure given for the nature of the crime given. Students will become familiar with, and draft in class: Search Warrants (including but not limited to daytime service, nighttime service, knock and announce, no knock, persons, social media platforms, and articles). Also covered in class will be warrants to Internet Service Providers, as well as electronic storage devices (cell phones, computers, tablets). Students will further learn how to search Oklahoma State Law for the elements of crimes, jury instructions for crimes, and what prosecutors expect from law enforcement officers when criminal reports are submitted for prosecution.
Description
This 8-hour course is intended for the new criminal investigators, law enforcement officers, or experienced officers who will be writing and obtaining Search Warrants, during the course of criminal investigations. The class is hands-on, and students will be writing affidavit for search warrants and completing search warrants. Students will be given an address of a property and told of a crime which occurred on said property. The student will then be given time to go locate the property (within a 3 mile radius of the technology center), take photographs (legally from the street), and return to the classroom where they will prepare the most suitable document(s) needed to lawfully enter the structure given for the nature of the crime given. Students will become familiar with, and draft in class: Search Warrants (including but not limited to daytime service, nighttime service, knock and announce, no knock, persons, social media platforms, and articles). Also covered in class will be warrants to Internet Service Providers, as well as electronic storage devices (cell phones, computers, tablets). Students will further learn how to search Oklahoma State Law for the elements of crimes, jury instructions for crimes, and what prosecutors expect from law enforcement officers when criminal reports are submitted for prosecution.
Location
Northwest Technology Center
801 Vo-Tech Drive
Fairview
State: OK
801 Vo-Tech Drive
Fairview
State: OK
Start Time
10-28-2025 09:00 AM
End Time
10-28-2025 04:30 PM
Course Information:
Cost: Free
Hours: 8
Contact Information:
Contact: Adam Honeyman
Email: ahoneyman@nwtech.edu
Phone: 580-327-0344
Last Modified on
Sep 19, 2025
