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About Current News NTOA Chairman Message on SWAT Standards and Dynamic Entry Tactics
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In the Winter 2010 issue of The Tactical Edge, Chairman of the Board Lt. Phil Hansen addresses NTOA's rationale for issuing SWAT Standards and explains the origin, development and anticipated future of the Standards document. He also clarifies NTOA's position on the definition and employment of dynamic entry tactics. The Winter 2010 issue mails to our members on February 1. Read Lt. Hansen's message here: ntoa_chairman_message_on_swat_standards_and_dynamic_entry.pdf . |
Comments
I have not read the piece on dynamic entries in the Tactical Edge, however, I am in total agreement with the issues discussed in this article by Phil Hansen.
If you take a group of officers and ask them to make an entry into a structure chances are they will make a dynamic entry with little or no information regarding circumstances. This is because it is all they know or have seen on TV.
Certainly there are situations that dictate this type of a response, but it should be measured with s degree of successful outcome.
Entries and building searches should be tempered with a combination of breach and delay, limited penetration, dynamic when necessary, slow and deliberate when possible and fluid throughout.
Entries and searches of structures is an art form and must be mastered in order to minimize casualties. Speed and firepower may work some of the time, but experience, knowledge and skill are indispensable
If you take a group of officers and ask them to make an entry into a structure chances are they will make a dynamic entry with little or no information regarding circumstances. This is because it is all they know or have seen on TV.
Certainly there are situations that dictate this type of a response, but it should be measured with s degree of successful outcome.
Entries and building searches should be tempered with a combination of breach and delay, limited penetration, dynamic when necessary, slow and deliberate when possible and fluid throughout.
Entries and searches of structures is an art form and must be mastered in order to minimize casualties. Speed and firepower may work some of the time, but experience, knowledge and skill are indispensable.