Train your officers to read the ground they patrol.

Yes. Every course on this page is delivered on site, nationwide — including Arizona, New Mexico, and the wider Southwest. Traveling to you is the point: the field problems are worth far more when they run on the ground your officers actually work.

It depends on the course, the class size, and what it takes to get instructors to you — which is why there is no price on this page. Tell us where you are, roughly how many people you want trained, and what you need them to be able to do, and we will put a written number in front of you.

Field tracking runs in teams of three under instructor supervision, so class size and instructor count move together. Give us your numbers and we will tell you what staffing it takes to keep the ratio right rather than quietly overloading the class.

We supply a documented course outline and the training hours delivered, in writing, for each attendee. We are not a certifying body — if you need the hours approved through your state POST, your tribal commission, or BIA, tell us early and we will provide your training officer with whatever the submission requires.

That is the normal case, not the exception. Every course we teach is adaptable to agency needs — the syllabus above is a starting point, and instructors routinely alter the plan for weather, terrain, and what a class turns out to need. Tell us the gap and we will build toward it.

Both. IRIS provides investigative support to law enforcement, government, and tribal entities as well as training — cold case review, forensic DNA, geographic profiling, tracking, and digital evidence. Many agencies start with a course and call back about a file.

Practitioners with operational backgrounds — retired major crimes detectives, professional trackers trained by Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Services, a forensic DNA expert with more than 27 years in the discipline, and a geographic profiler who developed the model he teaches. Not a training company that hires contractors.