# ASP ALPR Operator Training Program A cluster of May 2025 threads shows [[Dennis Overton|Lt. Overton]] coordinating ALPR operator training across ASP. Troopers from multiple troops, the Criminal Investigation Division, and Company D request seats in a Leonardo/ELSAG-delivered course — documenting that ASP's ALPR adoption extends well beyond the small ICP team, to line troopers statewide. ## What's inside ### The course: `RE_ Class Description.msg` (2025-04-30 → 05-05) Leonardo's [[Robert Ryan|Rob Ryan]] supplies the curriculum description; [[Craig Duncan]] arranges Teams access for remote attendees. The course: > *"Leonardo/ELSAG HIDTA EOC User Training — This is a 4-hour course on the use of the EOC software platform that runs the HIDTA LPR Program. This course is beneficial for new users as well as advanced users of the system. Training includes basic and advanced tools, starting with basic building blocks, leading up to advanced searches, including hot-listing, Cross search, Convoy Search, Road Runner etc. The discussion also includes policy, best practice procedures and insight into privacy issues surrounding the use of LPR."* (Tier-1 corpus, `RE_ Class Description.msg`). The instructor is *"Rob Ryan, Leonardo's Senior Business Development Manager… over 32 years of law enforcement experience as a police officer with the Norman Oklahoma police department and federal narcotics agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration"* (Tier-1 corpus, same file). ### Sign-ups across ASP (2025-05) - **`ALPR CLASS.msg` (2025-05-06).** Sgt. Scott McLaughlin (Troop C, Post 2, Jonesboro): *"If space is still available, I will be sending Cpl. Zack Paschal, Troop C, Post 2, to the ALPR training on the 14th of May."* - **`Re_ Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Training for Arkansas State Police Camera Systems (11).msg` (2025-05-06).** A multi-trooper thread — *"I want to go!"* (Cleyton McDonald); *"I would be interested as well."* (Sgt. Nathan Williams, Highway Patrol Troop A) — cc'ing roughly a dozen ASP personnel across troops. - **`Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Training.msg` (2025-05-13).** Lt. Phillip Pierce (Criminal Investigation Division / Company D): *"Is it alright for Company D to send a couple of guys to the training in the morning?"* - **`Re_ ALPR.msg` (2025-05-12).** Trooper Eric Varner signs up at his sergeant's direction; Overton: *"I'll put you down for the class now sir."* (Tier-1 corpus, `ALPR CLASS.msg`, `Re_ Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Training for Arkansas State Police Camera Systems (11).msg`, `Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Training.msg`, `Re_ ALPR.msg`.) ## Key takeaways - **ASP's ALPR training is the HIDTA EOC platform course.** The class troopers sign up for is the *"Leonardo/ELSAG HIDTA EOC User Training… on the EOC software platform that runs the HIDTA LPR Program"* (Tier-1 corpus, `RE_ Class Description.msg`) — training ASP operators directly on the federal HIDTA analytics platform, not a standalone ASP system. - **Adoption spans the agency.** Requests come from Highway Patrol Troop A, Troop C (Post 2, Jonesboro), the Criminal Investigation Division, and Company D (Tier-1 corpus, the sign-up threads) — evidence that ALPR use is being pushed to line troopers statewide, coordinated centrally by Overton. - **The curriculum includes advanced surveillance analytics.** *"Hot-listing, Cross search, Convoy Search, Road Runner"* (Tier-1 corpus, `RE_ Class Description.msg`) are taught as standard tools — see [[HIDTA LPR Network Training and EOC Analytics]] for the analytics side. - **The trainer is a former DEA agent.** Rob Ryan's background as a *"federal narcotics agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration"* (Tier-1 corpus, same file) reflects the drug-interdiction lineage of the HIDTA LPR program ASP plugs into. ## Cross-references - [[HIDTA LPR Network Training and EOC Analytics]] — the HIDTA-EOC webinars and back-end analytics. - [[ASP–Houston HIDTA MOU and ELSAG Domain Architecture]] — the platform access the training is for. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **How many ASP personnel were trained, and with what access level?** The threads show broad interest and enrollment but not a final trained-operator roster.