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RAID Training (Rapid and
Immediate Deployment to Active Shooters)
RAID Training (Rapid and Immediate Deployment
to Active Shooters) and Less Lethal Options/ Responding to the Domestic
Terrorist who takes Hostages with the intent to kill
This course can be modified
to the level of expertise in the audience and can be adapted in the
classroom for multiple levels of experience and understanding. It is
however primarily for the First Responder to the scene.
Training Goals and
Objectives
Understanding what Rapid
and Immediate Deployment means to the First Responder to a Scene
- Students will exercise
the use a common sense approaches
- Students will gather
an understanding of the mindset of the Hostage Taker and his intent
- Students will gather
an understanding of what their department expects of them in a RAID
situation
- Gather an
understanding of RAID-SWAT tactics but that we are not a SWAT team
- When to identify and
deploy RAID
- RAID tactics,
identifying deadly force vs. containment of a situation
- Understanding the
different types of officer RAID tactics
- By use of table top
exercises and field exercises officers will get an understanding of the
concept of RAID deployment
What is Less Lethal Force
and how is it available to the First Responder?
- Review actual less
lethal situations unfold where the use of less lethal weapons was
appropriate available/not available
- Identify what less
lethal is available to the first responder
Students will utilize what
they learned in the classroom and apply tactics in field exercises using
equipment already available to them
Training Audience,
Format and Content
This course is for the
first line officer as well as the fist line supervisor and detectives who
have not been exposed to RAID/less lethal force and the Hostage Taker.
- This is an eight (8)
hour course, which very easily can be extended to twelve (12) hours.
The course contains a PowerPoint presentation with lecture as well as
videotapes for review of actual situations and further training
material. Several blackboard and tabletop exercises all the students to
think, interact and become involved. The field exercises allow the
students the opportunity to apply what they learned in the classroom in
a close to real setting utilizing the tools and resources available to
them.
- Class size should be
limited to twenty students (to get through an eight hour day)
- Class time can be
extended to twelve hours to accommodate more students
- This is normally a
course that is held during the day time hours since most RAID situation
are traditionally during the day
Daily content and course
schedule/agenda:
Day One
- Instructor's Comments
- Common sense a
Practical training
- What a
department/community expects from an officer who is a First Responder
- RAID/SWAT Tactics why
RAID
- When to identify and
deploy RAID
- RAID Tactics (deadly
force situations vs. containment)
- Different types of
Officer RAID tactics
- What is RAID and why
RAID
- “It will never happen
here”-a review of all school/workplace violence
- What is less lethal
force-When can we use it-What is available
- Department equipment
- Table top exercises
- Review and discuss a
hostage situation at a bank
- Review and discuss
actual situations that unfolded when less lethal would/was appropriate
- Field exercise
utilizing departmental equipment and applying knowledge from the
classroom
Prerequisite: There are no
pre-requisites to this course.
Maximum Enrollment:
25
Class Evaluation:
Students will be required to participate in the
classroom setting by interacting with the instructor and teammates in
deploying recourses as well as demonstrating proficiency in the fieldwork.
Limitations /
Instructor Special Needs: None
Any audio/visual or
POSTC/Academy facility or staff needs will be addressed on a case-by-case
basis, but might include the use of an electronic projection unit, audio or
marker board materials.
Laptop, video, tape player,
PowerPoint and blackboard are needed. USE of a building for the practical
exercises will be required.
Student Materials
Student will receive Power
Point materials as well as other handouts when doing practical exercises
A wide range of digital
video and PowerPoint presentations will be used in the training session, and
the instructor will come prepared with everything he will need to make this
an informative, fast-paced learning experience.
Student Requirements
Students will be required
to bring their own weapons for practical drills. (NO LIVE WEAPONS WILL BE
ALLOWED IN CLASSROOM or PRACTICAL TRAINING) Barrel stoppers may be used.
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