Law Enforcement Training Week

The three-day Field Force Operations (FFO) course provides law enforcement and security officers with instruction in protest types and actions, legal considerations, responsibilities of mobile field force teams, and crowd-control methods. The course culminates with a series of hands-on activities that allow responders to practice all of the learned skills (baton-holding positions, mass-arrest procedures, and riot-control formations) in a realistic context.

Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Identify considerations of a protest situation.
• Use equipment to control crowds.
• Execute positions in crowd-control squad formations.
• Position yourself within a mass-arrest team to apprehend, search, and detain a subject.

Law Enforcement and Security Officers who require training and practice in mass-arrest procedures.

This course provides law enforcement officers with the knowledge and skills required to safely perform law enforcement roles during an active threat situation involving hazardous materials. The course provides instruction in responding to an incident involving hazardous materials; employing weapons, retaining weapons, and apprehending suspects while wearing personal protective equipment; preserving hazardous evidence; collaborating with hazardous materials personnel to monitor and detect hazard levels and maintain safety, and moving and communicating tactically wearing PPE to apprehend an active human threat in a hazardous materials environment.

Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Assume initial command of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive incident
• Handle a weapon while wearing personal protective equipment
• Perform weapon retention techniques while wearing personal protective equipment
• Apply restraint devices while wearing personal protective equipment
• Don and doff personal protective equipment
• Clear a room as a member of a team while wearing personal protective equipment
• Apprehend a suspect as a member of a clearing team while wearing personal protective equipment

Law enforcement or security personnel with a responsibility or requirement to respond to an active human threat in a known or potential hazardous materials environment

Field Force Extrication Tactics (FFE) is a three-day course that provides students with the knowledge and skills to operate the tools necessary to extricate individuals safely from protester devices while reducing liability and ensuring due process. Responders receive instruction in protest situations, legal considerations, responsibilities of extrication teams, and extrication techniques required to defeat protester devices. The course culminates in a series of hands-on activities that allow responders to practice the learned skills (operating extrication tools, defeating protester devices, and communicating with other students while operating power tools) in a realistic context.

Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Identify considerations of a protest situation in accordance with analysis of current legal precedence and crowd control best practices.
• Plan a response to a protester device situation in accordance with tactical objectives.
• Defeat protester devices.
• Operate the hand tools in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications.

Police Officers, Firefighters, Medical Personnel, and other responders who require training and practice in the extrication of protesters from devices.

The Intermediate Hands-On Training for CBRNE Incidents: Law Enforcement (HOT-LE) is a one-day course designed to give law enforcement officers confidence while operating in personal protective equipment and to provide complex practice in the skills and abilities necessary to identify and safely respond to CBRNE incidents.

Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Identify chemical, biological, and explosive hazards.
• Don and doff personal protective equipment.
• Assume initial command of a CBRNE incident.
• Preserve evidence.
• Process through technical decontamination.

Law Enforcement and Security Personnel who require practical application and confidence in responding to realistic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and/or explosive (CBRNE) incidents requiring law enforcement action.

Law Enforcement Response Actions for CBRNE Incidents (LERA) is a one-day training course during which law enforcement and security personnel apply the knowledge and skills they learned during Law Enforcement Protective Measures for CBRNE Incidents through practice and realistic incident scenarios. Students receive advanced practical application in the identification of CBRNE hazards, personal protective equipment, safety considerations, and hazards and evidence preservation.

Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:<

• Identify biological, chemical, and explosive hazards.
• Don and doff personal protective equipment.
• Assume initial command of a CBRNE incident.
• Handle a weapon and perform weapon-retention techniques.
• Preserve evidence.
• Process through technical decontamination.

Law Enforcement and Security Personnel who require training and practice in the identification of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) hazards and the response to CBRNE incidents.

Through this course, students receive instruction in protest types and actions, legal considerations, responsibilities of public order units, and crowd control methods. The course culminates in hands-on activities that allow students to practice learned skills in a realistic context.

Course Objectives

• Identify considerations of a protest situation
• Discuss mitigation and de-escalation strategies that result in minimal use of force in a crisis
• Discuss the evolution of the right to peacefully assemble and the law enforcement’s response
• Execute a position in crowd control squad formations

The target audience for this course is law enforcement officers or security personnel who require public order training. 

Overview

Public Order Public Safety - Basic, Train-the-Trainer is a one-day course for law enforcement public order trainers. The course provides students with the knowledge and skills to train law enforcement responders at the performance level in protest types and actions, legal considerations, responsibilities of public order units, and crowd control methods. Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Constructing learning objectives that includes a task, a condition, and a standard of performance.
• Identifying the techniques necessary to provide an effective presentation.
• Recognizing strengths and weaknesses of various training aids.
• Selecting and conducting practical exercises to facilitate the learning and capabilities of law enforcement protective measure team members.