CENTRAL ILLINOIS POLICE TRAINING CENTER
Brian Fengel, Director
Phone: (309) 690-7355
Fax: (309) 690-7359
Heather Grove: hgrove@icc.edu
Diane Schrementi: ds018b@icc.edu
Robert Pyszka: rp717@icc.edu
Gang Combat Dynamics
Instructor: Dom Cappelluti, Public Grants & Training Initiatives
November 9-10, 2026
8am – 4pm
Class will meet at: CIPTC, ICC Peoria Campus, Poplar P101, Peoria
Enrollment Deadline: November 2, 206
Course Size: Min 15, Max 64
Course Overview
The focus of this course is to provide law enforcement personnel with specialized training that will assist in developing the knowledge and skill level needed to effectively and professionally combat today’s most dangerous street gangs. This 16-hour (2-day) course will provide strategies to vigorously target, investigate, interview/interrogate, prosecute and prevent resurgence of criminal street gangs.
Course Goals
Understanding today’s gang alliances and their growing social network
Gangs in schools
Effective street interviewing
Conducting gang investigations- graffiti to homicide
Being successful in the interview- getting confessions from gang members
Strategize your follow up attack- eradication strategies
About the Instructor
CFI, is a veteran detective with the Waukegan (Illinois) Police Department and a former Group Supervisor of the elite Lake County, IL Major Crime Task Force. With over 24 years of experience Dom has specialized in high profile violent street crimes, gang homicides, murder for hire cases on gang and drug officers and officer involved shootings. During his career, he has worked in various divisions, and avidly supervised the Criminal Investigations Bureau and the Gang Suppression Unit. Dom has proudly conducted and directed hundreds of gang and drug related operations throughout Lake County, Cook County and the Chicago metropolitan area targeting Chicago based street gangs. He is fluent in Spanish and Italian and has successfully conducted thousands of interviews and interrogations in Spanish with gang members from various gangs.
Mobile In-Service Training Team#7 Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
MTU 7 request for certification of this course has been approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Meets the following mandatory training criteria: Civil Rights 4 hours; Const and Proper Use of LE Authority 8 hours; Procedural Justice 4 hours and Specialized Training 16 Hours
