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Armored Tactical Rescue Vehicle (2 days) |
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This course is designed to provide proven deployment
methods of the armored tactical rescue
vehicle in hostile environments. The
different roles of the armored tactical
rescue vehicle, to include victim rescue,
utilization as a weapons shooting platform,
delivery of team elements, negotiation
phones, chemical agents and other
utilization will be discussed.
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Cell
Extraction Program (3 Days) |
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This course is designed for law enforcement and
correctional personnel who may be called
upon to lead or participate in the cell
extraction of a prisoner. Topics covered in
this course include an overview of cell
extraction situations, including the Gentles
incident overview, risk assessment, planning
and CET tactics.
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Counterterrorist Threat Detection and
Surveillance Strategies (5 days) |
This training is designed to give students
the knowledge, skills and ability to
recognize pre-attack indicators from a
terrorist point of view as well as from a
law enforcement perspective. Upon completion
of this course, students will be able to
provide their agency with constructive
resources for developing a strategy of
threat detection.
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Defensive Tactics For Aggressive / Combative
Subjects (3 Days) |
This course is designed for law enforcement
personnel who may need to use reasonable and
necessary physical force to defend
themselves and/or control an aggressive
combative subject(s). The focus of this
training will be learning the appropriate
physical techniques to apply in a
use-of-force situation with an unarmed
combatant. This course will not cover the
use of chemical sprays, baton techniques or
other less-lethal devices. Practical
applications will consist of learning and
demonstrating the physical techniques with
control and proper form, performing
techniques and combinations with a partner
and defending against a live attack from a
padded assailant.
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Ground
Fighting Techniques for Law Enforcement (2
days) |
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This course will give law enforcement
officers a good foundation and working
knowledge of techniques that will help them
prevail in an altercation that ends up on
the ground. The ground fighting techniques
taught in the two days of instruction cover
reversals, escapes, weapon retention,
takedowns, preventing takedowns, ground
defense and the neck restraint.
Furthermore, all the techniques will flow
into a handcuffing position. Practical
application training will consist of
learning and demonstrating the physical
techniques with control and proper form,
performing proper ground fighting techniques
with a partner and defending against a live
attack from a padded assailant.
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High
Risk Transportation for Corrections (3 Days) |
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This course is an intense three days of classroom lecture
and practical application. Students will
participate in mock high-risk prisoner
transports to various locations. The course
will address the considerations involved in
transporting high-risk prisoners to and from
court appearances, hospital/doctor visits
and transfers to other correctional
facilities or jurisdictions. Topics covered
in this course include operational planning,
route selection, surveillance and counter
surveillance measures, court building
security and contingency planning, medical
and hospital considerations and prevention
versus reaction.
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Law Enforcement HazMat WMD Planning and
Response: Train-the-Trainer
(3 days) |
This course is designed to train the
trainers for SWAT and HazMat team leaders
and members, EOD team leaders and members,
patrol supervisors, communications center
staff, and federal tactical teams mandated
to use NIMS under HSPD 5. The course focuses
on how to plan for, respond to and conduct
tactical law enforcement operations during
all hazards, Hazardous Material (HazMat),
and WMD events using NIMS and Unified
Command
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Hostage Rescue Linear Interventions (3 days) |
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This course is designed to provide intermediate skills
needed by personnel who are assigned as
members of SWAT. Topics include hostage
rescue concepts, rapid deployment and
emergency entry tactics, hostage rescue
force options including long rifle
operations, aircraft interventions and bus
interventions.
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Mobile Field Force Tactics and Deployment (2
days) |
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Students will receive an overview of the mobile field force
concept to be implemented to provide a rapid
response by on-duty uniform personnel to a
critical incident. Topics to be covered
included the basic elements, organization
and responsibilities of the field force;
formations and movement; use-of-force;
support personnel (including K-9 personnel);
dealing with arrests and injuries; and
departure from scene. Students will
participate in hands-on scenarios and
role-playing.
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Protective Operations (3 – 5 days) |
This course is designed to provide a
thorough overview in protective service
liaison, posting, command post procedures,
advance survey procedures, close proximity
security procedures, contemporary methods of
operation of potential threat groups and
individuals, defensive and counter ambush
techniques and scenario-based exercises.
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Response to Barricade Extremist/Terrorist
Incidents (5 days) |
This course is designed for individuals who
have recently been assigned to SWAT. Topics
include extremist/domestic terrorism
overview, jurisdictional issues relating to
terrorism incidents, response to barricade
situations involving extremists and
contemporary counterterrorism team
organization and structure. Specific tactics
covered include covert/stealth individual
and team movement, chemical agent
deployment, tactical firearms and multiple
field-training exercises. It is a hands-on
school where students practice tactics and
techniques in the field
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Response to Civil Disorder
(3 Days) |
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This course is designed for officers, supervisors and
tactical unit leaders or general patrol
leaders who have basic crowd management
training and/or experience. Students will be
introduced to the following subjects:
history, crowd control formations, mobile
tactics, less-lethal weapons, leadership and
planning as well as mass arrest procedures.
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Suicide/Homicide Bomber (4 hours) |
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The alarming and disturbing trend of
terrorists using suicide/homicide bombers as
mass casualty weapons continues to escalate
throughout the world. The current global
trend analysis indicates the potential
threat of suicide/homicide bombers operating
within the United Stats is high. This course
will help prepare responders to deal with
the mindset of the suicide bomber(s).
Attention will be given to culture,
religion, and tactics of the suicide bomber
groups. Discussion will address active and
proactive means of possibly preventing
suicide bomber attacks.
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Tactical EMS (TEMS) (3 or 5 days) |
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The Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS)
course is an extensive course providing the
most recent administrative, clinical and
tactical skills related to medical support
within a law enforcement special operations
team. The basic TEMS curriculum provides
classroom instruction followed by field
training exercises to test each student’s
ability to function as a TEMS operator. Upon
completion, each student will understand the
importance of TEMS and have the knowledge
and ability to apply those skills during
special operations. This course is available
as a three- or five-day class. A five-day
class using live fire is available as well.
Students do not need to be sworn law
enforcement to attend this course, but must
be attached to an existing tactical team.
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Tactical K-9 and K-9 Explosives Detection (3
days) |
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This course will familiarize tactical personnel with the
planning, preparation, training and
utilization of police K-9s during tactical
operations. This three-day class will be
separated into two tracks — one specifically
for tactical canines, the other for
explosives detection canines.
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Tactical Operations in a Hazardous
Environment Using
Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)
Equipment (4 days) |
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This course is designed to provide a
familiarization and certification in using
self-contained breathing apparatus during
tactical operations in a hazardous
environment. Topics to be covered include
the SCBA equipment nomenclature; tactical
considerations when using SCBA; system
failure drills; low light scenarios; clan
lab recognition and procedures; lab entry
scenarios; WMD overview with WMD scenarios;
and implementing an SCBA program and other
SCBA systems.
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Tactical Rappel and Beginning Lead Climber
(5 days) |
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This is a basic lead climber course designed to provide the
student with the skills necessary to rappel
safely, become a rappel master and begin the
certification to become a lead climber. This
five-day school will place emphasis on
knots, anchor systems and beginning climbing
skills. Students will also be introduced to
equipment to aid in both ascension and
descension as well as alternate methods of
rappelling. As a prerequisite for this
course, students must be in excellent
physical condition. Students must also
supply a minimum of safety equipment
(climbing harness, rappel gloves, steel
locking carabineer, rescue-8 and safety
helmet). All other climbing gear and ropes
will be supplied.
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Tactical Rappel and Rappel Master (5 days) |
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This course is designed to provide the student with the
skills necessary to rappel safely and become
a rappel master during static rappels and
helicopter insertions. This five-day school
will place emphasis on knots, anchor systems
and safety. Students will also be introduced
to equipment to aid in descending as well as
alternate methods of rappelling.
As a prerequisite for this course, students
must be in excellent physical condition.
Students must also supply a minimum of
safety equipment (rappel harness, rappel
gloves, steel locking carabineer, rescue-8
and safety helmet). All other climbing gear
and ropes will be supplied.
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Terrorism Tactics and Countermeasures —
“Homicide Bombers” (3 days) |
This three-day seminar and hands-on course
is designed for those individuals assigned
the responsibility of making threat
assessments for specific events and the
development of the operational and/or
security plans for those events. This course
will provide an in-depth examination of
terrorism tactics and the countermeasures
used to maintain homeland security by both
patrol and SWAT personnel. Topics include an
overview of terrorist homicide bombings
(international and domestic), explosive
devices, blast dynamics, legal review,
use-of-force policies, tactical intervention
and interdiction team concepts, long
rifle/observer concepts, threat assessment,
operations and security planning.
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Terrorist Indicators and the Investigator (2
days) |
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This two-day course will give the law enforcement
investigator the ability to recognize
terrorist activity, understand the terrorist
mindset and investigate incidents of
possible terrorist involvement. Knowing the
planning techniques, surveillance
capabilities and intelligence tradecraft of
terrorist groups will give the investigator
the tactical edge to successfully conduct
reported suspicious activity of terrorist
incidents. Students will also participate in
a terrorist surveillance exercise.
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Wooded Terrain Operations (3 days) |
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This course of instruction is designed to expose law
enforcement tactical personnel to effective
deployment techniques and procedures for
conducting a law enforcement search for an
armed suspect(s) in a wooded terrain
environment. Topics to be covered include
situations requiring a wooded terrain
operation, individual member movement, team
movement, movement formations, search
strategy, counterambush techniques, Binary
Search Theory, nighttime searches, weapon
and equipment considerations and command and
control issues.
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