Patrol and Tactical Courses

This two day course is designed for police officers that have attained a moderate level of proficiency with their hand gun and want to improve their speed, accuracy, and overall gunfighting pistol skills.   This course moves the participant towards mastering the foundational skills and seven fundamentals of marksmanship.  The student will be challenged to perform asymmetric movement exercises while confidently and competently handling their duty pistol. Students will shoot on the move, into and out of vehicles, moving targets, and work reloads and various malfunction drills.

This demanding, five day course is designed for the entry level or newly appointed tactical officer assigned to the role of police sniper.  This course focuses on the basics of  precision riflework with a sniper-grade rifle and the intricacies of the scout/sniper in tactical police operations.  Topics covered will include: range estimation, understanding the effects of weather on ballistics, scouting and covert surveillance, urban and rural stalking, setting up a hide position in rural and urban environments, and implementing modern tactical technology specific to the police sniper.  We will spend the majority of the course outside the classroom on ranges, stalk lanes, and urban training areas. We will also conduct scenarios where students will have to covertly infiltrate a training area and observe, communicate, provide intelligence, and potentially prosecute a threat without being detected.

This course will teach the art and science of structure breaching to officers that are assigned to tactical teams and task forces that execute high risk entry and no-knock warrant service.  Participants will be certified in manual, ballistic, and mechanical breaching entry methods for tactical personnel. There is optional days available for operator level explosive breaching training and certification.

This course is designed and taught by highly trained operational personnel with hands on experience with the .50 cal M2 heavy machine gun, .50 cal M82A1 Barrett Rifle and M240 Bravo systems.  The course consists of classroom presentation and range (dry and live fire) exercises for these specific Heavy Weapons.  This course is designed specifically for nuclear facility security personnel that employ these type of weapons or any other agency with similar armament and mission requirements. We offer this course in operator level and instructor level depending on your needs.

This course is designed to take law enforcement personnel through the art and discipline of man tracking. Students will learn how to track and use tracking skills to successfully pursue dangerous criminals fleeing on foot in most rural terrain.  Students will leave our course with the confidence and skills to track in any terrain, an increased awareness of their surroundings and situations, and learn or “refresh” their land navigation skills.

The five-day Basic Tactical Officer Course is designed for the entry level or newly appointed tactical officer. This high intensity course focuses on the basics of working in the team environment; concentrating on tactical team skills, operations and concepts. There will be extensive range drills and dynamic scenarios and the SWAT student must pass physical fitness and shooting standards.  Students can expect 10-12 hour days as we firmly believe a 40 hour course cannot cover all of the material needed to prepare an officer to operationally join a tactical team upon return to their agency. Students should have a high degree of proficiency with their hand guns and rifles (or subguns) prior to enrolling.

The three day Advanced Sniper Course is designed specifically to address the unique needs of the law enforcement SWAT sniper who has graduated from a basic sniper school and yearns for additional training and knowledge.  Instruction will include covert urban operations, moving targets, low and no light engagement, constructing and shooting from urban and vehicular hides, shooting through various mediums to include vehicles and glass, and sniper initiated assaults as well as the sniper’s role in hostage rescue and counterterrorism.  Range training will include engagement of targets out to 300+ yards. Additional training considerations incorporate the use of suppressed weapons, night operation devices and Low / No Light operations.

This three day course is designed for the officers who work in rural environments and want to improve their odds of success operating in rural terrain.  This unique environment can prove difficult and dangerous for individual officers / deputies and most tactical operations. This course will involve extensive training in operations and tactics of tactical personnel in the wooded, rural or remote environment.  We will teach you how to navigate through this environment and use it to your advantage.