About This Course

Have you ever heard an officer or detective complain because the prosecutor let the defendant plead out to a “sweetheart deal” which should have resulted in a more serious sentence? 

Have you ever wondered why one detective’s cases get filed while some other detective’s cases get declined?

It might simply be a matter of the officer or detective’s ability or inability to testify effectively. After all, no one wants to hand the ball to someone who is going to fumble it on the five-yard line. You might be a highly skilled, hardworking investigator, but if you can’t deliver on the stand, your skills aren’t complete.

In this two-hour webinar, Special Agent Everett C. Babcock will review the courtroom processes which law enforcement personnel may take part in over their career. This training provides advice and tips to help the attendee testify more effectively and confidently from the witness stand. 

Special Agent Babcock has a unique insight on this topic, developed from three decades of service with the Kansas City Police Missouri Police Department, and from his years of experience working alongside prosecuting attorneys during his employment with the District Attorney’s Offices in both the second and twenty-second judicial districts of the State of Oklahoma. 

Topics Covered Include:

  • Effective courtroom testimony preparation as part of your investigation
  • Courtroom appearance and demeanor
  • What happens during the trial before and after you testify? 
  • Dealing with “stage fright”
  • It’s not about you, it’s about the case

Instructor

| Special Agent Everett Babcock

Special Agent Everett Babcock began his law enforcement career in 1988, serving as a Patrol Officer, and later as an Investigator for the Sayre Police Department in Sayre Oklahoma. In 1992 Babcock took a position as a District Attorney’s Investigator assigned to the District 2 Drug Task Force in Oklahoma’s Second Judicial District, conducting narcotic investigations in the northwestern part of the state. In 1995, Babcock moved to Missouri and began a career with the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, serving as a Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, Patrol Sergeant, Patrol Captain, Domestic Violence Detective, Homicide Detective, Assault Squad Sergeant, Property Crimes Captain, Homicide Unit Sergeant, and Homicide Unit Captain. Babcock retired from Kansas City Missouri P.D. in February of 2024 after 29 years of service. In March of 2024 Babcock returned to Oklahoma, taking his current position as a Special Agent working for the District Attorney’s Office in Oklahoma’s 22nd Judicial District where he is currently employed. In addition to teaching for the Dolan Consulting Group, Babcock has taught law enforcement classes for the University of Central Missouri, the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, the Missouri Highway Patrol, The International Homicide Investigator’s Association, and the Oklahoma District Attorney’s Association. Babcock holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Missouri. Babcock is currently the Northern Regional Director for the International Homicide Investigator’s Association, and is a member of the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth’s Child Death Review Board. Babcock’s homicide investigations have been profiled on America’s Most Wanted, American Gangster, The First 48, Fatal Attraction and The Killer Next Door.