Law Enforcement Theme 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.

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.

The Surveillance Detection for Bombing Prevention course provides public safety and security professional fundamental knowledge and skills to recognize hostile surveillance at facilities and planned and unplanned events and respond appropriately.

This is a three day, in-person instructor-led training covering the following topics:

•Hostile Operations
•Vulnerability assessment
•Hostile surveillance requirements
•Surveillance detection requirements and fundamentals
•Activity reporting and response
•Compromise and deployment

Critical Infrastructure Owners and Operators, Public Safety Officers, Emergency Managers, Security Officers, Law Enforcement Officials, and Private Sector Security Professionals 

This course offering is instructed by Louisiana State University's National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education and hosted on the Center for Domestic Preparedness's campus. 

Terrorism involving active shooter attacks on population centers has become part of law enforcement officers’ awareness; however, increased awareness of ​a problem does not ensure preparedness or appropriate response tactics. This course addresses technical aspects of planning and implementing a rapid law enforcement deployment to an active shooter incident through classroom presentations, hands-on performance-based field training, and scenario-based practical exercises.​

Law Enforcement

The target audience for the Direct Delivery version of this course involves Law Enforcement Officials who respond to or support the response to any type of active shooter incident including:

• ​Certified State and local law enforcement
• Range instructors
• Firearms instructors
• School resource officers
• Law enforcement instructors
• Law enforcement first-line supervisors