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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