I. Course Description
An intensive course for adult corrections and juvenile institution personnel in team response critical incidents involving high-risk encounters with potentially violent or assaultive subjects.

This is an excellent course for juvenile institutions experiencing problems with gang confrontations, violence between minors, and assaults on staff during critical incidents.

Course emphasizes teamwork and safe, tactical team responses to a variety of critical incidents involving a full range of resistant and violent behavior.

II. Course Topics Covered
Use of Force guidelines, the Force Continuum and reasonable steps for officer safety, pre-contact threat assessment and critical decision making; components of successful contacts and arrest; proper dress and safety equipment; contact & cover; team building and selection; intelligence gathering and briefings; cross-training; tactical negotiation; verbal management of aggression; isolation & containment; person searches; concealed and improvised weaponry; arrest, control & restraint tactics; tactical use of OC pepper spray; introduction to unarmed defensive tactics (UDT) and weapon (OC canister) retention. Written documentation of reasonable force.

Team responses to: room searches, confrontations, gang fights, riots, escapes, staff assault, extracting injured staff, using chemical agents, room extractions, barricaded subjects and introduction to hostage situations.

* Participating officer teams will be involved in significant hands-on training and will be evaluated on their responses to a variety of realistic, stress-induced scenarios.

III. Audience
Officers working in juvenile and adult corrections environments

IV. Performance Objectives

1. Understand basic Use of Force guidelines, case laws, and the Force Continuum. Be able to articulate a reasonable use of force under diverse resistive to assaultive circumstances.
2. Understand the importance of team dynamics, team training and cross training. Be able to work effectively within a team environment as a cohesive unit.
3. Understand basic officer safety and tactical concepts. Be able to perform pre-contact threat assessment, develop intelligence data and deploy as a team using safe methods in response to a variety of critical incidents, while under stress.
4. Understand the dynamics of and be able to effectively use a variety of low- to moderate-level defensive force techniques and weaponry to include: verbal communication and negotiation, arrest, control and mechanical restraints, chemical agents and Unarmed Defense Tactics (UDT), during realistic, stress-induced scenarios.

Minimum Class Size: 16-20
Tuition Per Trainee: Depends on travel cost