Course Length: Three days

 

Course Description: The three day Active Shooter Response course will prepare students to operate as part of a formal departmental/unit team or as part of an emergency multi department/unit team. Students will learn practical team based tactics for confronting and subduing an active shooter in progress as well as the skills needed to act as part of a secondary emergency evacuation team. The concepts and principals instructed in this course are based on lessons learned in domestic and foreign Active Shooter incidents. These cornerstone tactics allow for a fluid and effective overwhelming response to an active shooter that reduces preparation dwell time and minimizes response time.

 

Instruction in this course includes:

 

• Addressing Active Shooter Response in LE SOPS

• History of the Active Shooter

• Active Shooter Response bag preparation

• The OODA loop, Information Theory, Hicks Law and Occam’s Razor

• Basic close quarters tactics

• Team formations

• Emergency and deliberate entries

• Direct action/deliberate search tactics

• Interior and exterior movement

• Room entries/room clearing

• Practical marksmanship

• Active Shooter response pre-planning and intelligence gathering

• Identifying “defense free zones”

• Multi-agency integration and training

 

Course Cost: $650.00  Team discounts available.

 

Equipment:

 

• Patrol rifle (if carried)

• Duty handgun

• Duty belt and gear

• 100 rounds rifle (if bringing patrol rifle)

• 100 rounds handgun

• Weapon mounted light (if carried)

• Handheld light

• Spare batteries for all lights

• Ear and eye protection

• Hat

• Long sleeves and pants mandatory (If uniform is to be worn, a second set of clothes must be brought)

 

Optional (recommended) gear:

 

• Gloves

• Sunblock

• Hydration

• Field cleaning kit

• Basic maintenance tools

 

Class size: Minimum of 5, no more than 10.

 

Prerequisites: Credentialed Law enforcement, military or private security authorized to be armed.