Officer Safety
Mental Preparation and Personal Survival for “Today’s Warriors”
This one day seminar provides an inter-perspective of an individual’s personal fitness for survival. It provides a look in the mirror to see if you are mentally prepared for a violent encounter and provides realistic options for recognizing and resolving those threats safely. This course is designed to review use of force options and applications within legal guidelines. This course is available to law enforcement officers, civilians, and security personnel. (click for a course information request)
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Tactical Self-Protection and Preservation
This advanced three-day course is designed to provide law enforcement officers, security personnel or civilians with the tools, techniques and confidence to survive a confrontation or spontaneous attack, escalating from a verbal confrontation to a physical or armed encounter. It combines lecture with extensive hands-on realistic training geared toward an identified group, (LEO, Security, and Civilian) to enable the recipient to identify cues and indicators of potential subject resistance and providing legal force options to resolve the situation. Class size limited to 30 students. (click for a course information request)
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Rules of Engagement - Consensual Encounter Techniques
This training includes lecture- and scenario-based training that will outline techniques in the use of consensual encounter techniques. The instruction includes legal foundation and case law issues, techniques, safety issues, and the use of plain-clothes and uniform officers. In addition, the program will discuss familiarization of the Fourth Amendment as it relates to search and seizure, determining reasonable suspicion and probable cause based solely upon behavior, recognizing suspicious or criminal behavior, planning a consensual encounter, approaching and talking to a target, specifics of consensual encounters and consent searches as well as their denial by a target, legal documentation, and preparation for courtroom testimony and the court’s review of the encounter. Role-playing scenarios are included to allow students to participate in the techniques featured and provide the student with feedback concerning their technique and investigative skills. (click for a course information request)
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Knock and Talk
This program discusses the latest techniques in the use of a narcotics interview to gain consensual search, make plain view seizures, and develop probable cause to search warrants. Also this class discusses ways to obtain informational sources over the internet.
Define the nature of Knock and Talk investigations.
Identify who can use a Knock and Talk.
Identify when to use a Knock and Talk.
Learn the steps to the Knock and Talk procedure.
Recognize the safety concerns surrounding Knock and Talk investigations.