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OSI Basic Courses

OFFICER SAFETY: TACTICS FOR HIGH RISK ENVIRONMENTS
(16.0 Hours)

I. Course Description
One or two-day officer safety tactics courses for armed and unarmed field probation, parole officers, plainclothes officers working in high-risk environments. An excellent course for new officers and yearly update training.

II. Course Topics Covered
Use of Force, officer safety and street survival tactics; pre-contact threat assessment, critical decision making, contact & cover, teamwork; components of arrest, body searches and search & seizure; concealable, improvised and exotic weapon familiarization to include assault weaponry; arrest, control and handcuffing tactics; building searches.

The 16.0-hour course includes additional training on officer safety, raid planning and building searches.

Courses stress significant hands-on practice and participation in realistic field scenarios.

III. Audience
Plainclothes probation, parole, police, law enforcement investigators and supervisors.

IV. Performance Objectives

Articulate a legal and reasonable use of defensive force within state and constitutional guidelines.
Identify the steps in the continuum of force.
Demonstrate basic officer safety principals and tactics during high-risk contacts.
Identify the components of high-risk contacts, available safety and force options.
Employ correct critical decision-making.
Be familiar with profiles and tactics of potentially violent subjects.
Identify and articulate danger signs prior to contact.
Develop effective searching, control and handcuffing techniques.
Identify types of commonly used weapons and demonstrate techniques in weapons disarming and weapons retention

Minimum/Maximum Class Size: 16/20
Tuition: Depends on travel costs

Probation officers who have taken this course have reported significant increases in recoveries of weapons & illegal contraband immediately following participation in this course. These comments were made by Probation Officers from Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Mariposa, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, & Tehama County Probation Departments on evaluations from our last 2 classes:

"I learned more in 2 days than I have in 2 years"

"Unlike anything before. Safe, effective and very useful"

"The instructors were great. This class should be given to all P.O.'s before they ever do field visits"

"Best training I've been to" "Instructors were skilled & knowledgeable; best training ever"

"I liked the pace, attitude & reality of what was being taught. This was by far the best training & most relevant I have been to"

"The whole course was 100% applicable to my job. Instructors presented the material in a very understandable manner. Would love to participate in this type of training on a regular basis"

"I would like to see my whole department participate in a course like this one"

"Training at this level of excellence should be required for all P.O.'s"

"Best use of force training I have ever taken"

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