Team member skills involving sniper weapons, equipment, tactics, projectile ballistics, communication procedures, urban and rural hides, rules of engagement and mission execution procedures. Team tactical skills involving multiple team threat engagement, medium ballistics, advanced shooting skills, in urban and rural situations and low light threat engagement procedures. Also addresses policy and procedures for field operations, day and night qualification courses and techniques of instruction. Instructor development, technical skills and range procedures for conducting agency firearms training - handgun and shotgun. Defensive tactics and firearms training - FBI protocol, structured for the recruit who is attending a POST certified basic police academy.
Training is integrated within the full curriculum as prescribed by the sponsoring academy.
Structured to provide the physical skills and procedures to safely control the resisting suspect using the minimum amount of force to ensure effective control. This course also provides the necessary self-defense procedures for dealing with single or multiple suspects. The most critical moment in any edged weapon confrontation will be the first few seconds, and can very much mean the difference between life and death. This course provides students with an understanding of edged weapon confrontations and dispels many myths about this topic. Provides officers with proven techniques to survive such an encounter.