Patrol commanders, patrol officers, detectives and any other field personnel (non-tactical) may find themselves involved in a critical incident where the mission is time critical, the tactical team may not arrive in time, or a tactical response team may not exist at all, and lives will be lost if action is not taken. This course will cover the initial response to a critical incident, situation and risk assessment, containment and isolation of a problem, intelligence-gathering procedures, resolution techniques, team dynamics and communication, and tactics for surviving ambushes.

Patrol officers will learn lifesaving self-defense tactics when dealing with an armed criminal/terrorist. Topics include mental conditioning for armed encounters, lessons learned from recent armed confrontations, mobile ambush of police/military and mobile counterambush tactics, defense tactics against deadly threats in and around vehicles and deployment of the police rifle from a vehicle. In light of recent events, this course will also look at counterambush tactics and countermeasures when confronted with improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Innovative tactics and tried-and-true techniques are the hallmark of this course which is designed for individuals assigned the responsibility to teach police and SWAT personnel in immediate deployment/rapid intervention techniques. This is a train-the-trainer course. Topics to be covered include an historical overview of active shooter situations including school shootings, immediate deployment/rapid intervention tactics, barricade-hostage rescue concepts and instructional techniques. Training weapons will be used in field training exercises.

This course is designed for law enforcement instructors who have the responsibility of teaching patrol officers the proper deployment of the patrol rifle. At the conclusion of this course the student will have a thorough understanding of instructor development and safety issues; rifle nomenclature and operation; basic and advanced marksmanship skills, including shooting on the move; various barricade positions; and low light shooting. This course also covers contemporary deployment issues such as response to active shooters and counterambush techniques.

This is a 1,000-round course of instruction that will give the patrol officer a thorough understanding of nomenclature, operations, disassembly and assembly skills, as well as marksmanship fundamentals and skills and the care, cleaning and use of the urban rifle. The officer will come away from the course with a thorough understanding of shooting on the move, firing in dim light and being able to utilize other tactical equipment while maintaining control of the police rifle. Although the urban rifle is often thought of as a long-range application weapon, this urban rifle course will focus on short- and mid-range applications of the rifle.

This course is designed for the law enforcement professional responsible for preparation for and response to active shooters and other violent critical incidents on college and university campuses, on school grounds or in the workplace. Patrol officers, tactical officers and law enforcement administrators will benefit from the information in this course. Topics to be covered include a history of attacks in public environments; threat analysis; vulnerability assessments and other pre-planning activities; first responder rapid deployment; tactical team response; and personnel and equipment selection. Students will participate in group discussions and exercises.