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Tactical






                                                                  Course Requirements
                 Solo Active Shooter Response                     Students must successfully pass all written and practical
                                                                  exercises. Seventy-fi ve percent is the passing score on
                 Conditioning for Law Enforcement                 the written exam. All practical exercises are pass or fail
                 Offi cers/School Resource Offi cers                with the opportunity for remediation for failures.

                                                                  Special Concerns
                                                                  Students must provide the following equipment:
                                                                  ➤  Assigned duty gear including handgun, soft body
                Who Should Attend                                     armor protective vest, duty belt, three (3) handgun
                Any offi cer who may be tasked with responding to an   magazines, fl ashlight, and handcuffs with key.
                active shooter situation, particularly offi cers who are   ➤  Five hundred (500) rounds of handgun ammunition.
                assigned as School Resource Offi cers. SROs are usually   ➤  Hat, ear protection, and eye protection.
                already present at a school and capable to defend   ➤  Gloves and long sleeve shirt for scenario practicals.
                innocent lives. Rural offi cers may not have backup
                available in a reasonable time to form an Active Shooter   Range exercises may be outdoors in unpredictable
                contact team, so they may have to go alone. Active   weather, so offi cers must prepare as they would when
                Shooter events are dynamic and usually over quickly;   working their duty shift. Bring inclement weather gear; rain
                therefore, solo response may be the best option to stop   clothing, cold weather gear, gloves, and head protection.
                the rapid mass murder of innocent parties.        Simunitions  FX based training will require special
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                                                                  protective gear which will be provided by the Academy.
                                                                  Groin protector for both male and female offi cers is
                Course Goal
                To introduce the School Resource Offi cer (SRO) or line   mandatory. Standard (baseball/softball) protector may
                offi cer to characteristics of mental and tactical preparation   be used if provided by offi cer. Bring civilian clothes for
                helpful to successfully mitigate an Active Shooter situation   scenarios.
                as a solo unit.
                                                                  Course Coordinators
                                                                  Rodney Harris
                Course Objectives                                 Floyd Yoder                  LIMIT 2 STUDENTS
                The student will be able to:                                                  PER DEPARTMENT.
                ➤  Identify and demonstrate the concepts of tactical   Length of Course
                   thinking and performance as it pertains to School   Three days (24 hours)
                   Resource Offi cers or fi rst-responders to active shooter
                   situations.
                ➤  Develop fi rearm skills and profi ciency needed when
                   encountering an active shooter event.
                ➤  Build tactical profi ciency by using stress inoculation in
                   scenario-based training.


                Methodologies
                This course will employ lecture, conference and practical
                exercises. This course comprises traditional classroom
                delivery and extensive practical exercises. This training
                is challenging based on practical exercises designed to
                induce stress and allow the offi cer to successfully learn
                methods to neutralize an active shooter. This course does
                include one day of live-fi re range exercises, and one day
                of force-on-force scenarios.





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