Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs - The Biker Culture - Garden Grove PD - April 16, 2025

Course Description:

This course is for every law enforcement officer or investigator who wishes to increase their expertise or get up to date in the area of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. This class is designed to enhance the officers’ knowledge and safety when coming in contact and investigating members of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. This is an 8 - Hour Class. 

Please have your Law Enforcement ID when you enter the class.

 Topics include:

•Brief History of Motorcycle Clubs and Outlaw Motorcycle gangs
•Club Patches and Meanings
•Motorcycle Clubs in California
•Hells Angels – History, Conflicts and Updates
•Hells Angels & Bandidos Connection
•Vagos - History & Updates
•Mongols - History & Updates
*Pagans MC Alliance
•Current Trends
•The 1% Mindset within the Biker Culture
•Infiltrating Mainstream Society
•Developing a Source
*Malos Hechos RICO Case
*Savage Assassins MC
*Infiltration in the Military
*Infiltration into Mainstream Society
•Officer Safety
•Traffic Stops

For this class only - Guest speaker CHP Captain Nick King is a certified instructor and specializes in search and seizure training throughout the state. He will be providing a 2-hour block training specific to traffic stops and search and seizure. Captain Nick is a former TFO with the Riverside Sheriff's Office - Gang Task Force, where he has taken part in numerous investigations involving OMG's. He is also the former Vice President of the Riverside County Gang Investigators Association.

Instructor: Rudy Negron is a retired (2018) Police Officer from the Garden Grove Police Department with 28 years of Law Enforcement experience. Rudy worked outlaw motorcycle gang intelligence for 14 years and participated in multiple outlaw motorcycle gang investigations and takedowns. Recently Rudy provided training in Sturgis, in South Dakota prior to the Sturgis Motorcycle Bike Rally and in the city of Hollister. His other assignments included Field Training Officer, Assistant Reserve Officer Coordinator, Bicycle Patrol, Mental Health Team, State P.O.S.T. Certified Trainer.