COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
STOPS Courses
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Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Instructor, Snead Police Department- STI2022-35
(December 05, 2022 08:00)
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Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Instructor, Kentucky State Police- STI2022-36
(December 05, 2022 08:00)
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Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Instructor, Dothan Police Department - STI2022-22
(December 12, 2022 08:00)
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Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Instructor, Alexandria Police Department- STI2023-03
(April 10, 2023 08:00)
Advanced STOPS Instructors Tactical Live Fire (1 Day)
Advanced STOPS Instructors Tactical Live Fire (1 Day)
Potential Students attending this training must be certified Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Instructors. This advanced level class will be both physically and mentally challenging, and the STOPS Instructor will need to overcome multiple obstacles to win the battle.
STOPS Instructors will engage in numerous force on force scenarios that will challenge the officer to perform well under pressure in order to survive the threat. STOPS Instructors also will need to overcome physically demanding scenarios that end in live-fire overcoming threats both inside and outside of vehicles.
Our goal is for all STOPS Instructors' skill set to be razor-sharp, and we challenge all STOPS Instructors to push themselves to be the tip of the spear. Being the 1%'er that will bring the others back requires you to challenge yourself to be your best, and this class will help you accomplish this goal.
STOPS Basic Certification
STOPS Tactical Criminal Interdiction
About this course
"Good tactics can save even the worst strategy.
Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy."
-George S. Patton
Course Overview
Interdiction is widely taught across the country. Whether learning "The Drive" or employing a high volume of stops, various classes teach on this topic. However, the "tactics" to keep the interdiction officer safe are constantly overlooked or rarely highlighted. STOPS Criminal Interdiction Tactics is a training program that stresses proactive officers' safety, giving them a foundation for success in the interdiction world.
Pro Train's mission is to provide the best and most current tactical training to officers. We are constantly revising training areas that we notice are lacking focus in tactical procedures for officer safety. We have combined many tactics from our proven and nationally accredited STOPS course into this course's newest Interdiction training approach. Pro Train cadre had studied, attended, and applied many interdiction teachings from across the country into this new course. STOPS Tactical Criminal Interdiction results from seeing the lack of focused "tactical" training in interdiction stops. The STOPS Tactical Criminal Interdiction Course focuses on tactics the proactive officer should utilize when "seeking the criminal element" is the focus of traffic enforcement. We have developed a tactical course that breaks the stop/contact into three parts: the beginning, middle, and end of contact. Using these concentrated training areas, we can identify where tactics need to override habit, routine, and complacency. While taking drugs, guns, and criminals off our roads is pivotal to interdiction, it is more important to get home to loved ones at the end of the shift. This course gives an outline of practical and easy-to-implement tactics to employ when hunting down criminals in your jurisdiction. With a combination of classroom and outdoor instruction, this course will cover the rapid assessment needed to categorize a traffic stop properly. We will highlight several tactics taught in the STOPS program, including an in-depth breakdown of Unknown Risk Stops. Using these proven tactics can accentuate the ability to read verbal and non-verbal cues of criminal activity. While this is not a class covering specifics of a roadside interview or hidden compartments, it is an overview of what criminal interdiction is, where to employ it, and the differences between street and highway interdiction. Tactics taught here work in either application.
What will the student learn?
- Approach patterns on traffic stops with emphasis on passenger-side approach.
- Walk-Back and Walk-Thru patterns to use in stops deemed Unknown-Risk.
- How to determine between a Low-Risk and Unknown-Risk traffic stop.
- How to escape from Ambush Positions outlined in the classroom.
- How to safely search under consent and proper placement of violator(s) and back-up.
- Case law pertinent to stopping vehicles and then leading into a consensual or PC search.
What will the student be required to do?
- The student will learn from a structured PowerPoint in the classroom covering facts and outlines of tactics to be employed later in outdoor/field training. There will be a breakdown of several vital videos showing why these tactics are so necessary to successful interdiction.
- This course is a combination of classroom and outdoor activities to keep the student engaged and interested in learning concepts to enhance his/her ability to seek out the criminal element, quickly identify it, and be prepared if a lethal force encounter were to occur.
Course Breakdown
Train Hard * Train to Win
Course Intensity
The content and pace of this course will be challenging to most students. Some videos used in this course may shock those of a more sensitive conscious.
Physically Demanding
This course's style is a combination of classroom lectures and outdoor practical applications; the student must successfully demonstrate the ability to escape from ambush zones.
Mentally Challenging
Seeking out the criminal that has masked himself within the general innocent motoring public is not easy. Conducting rapid assessments of violators while also staying tactical is challenging and will be addressed throughout this training course. Students will analyze situations represented in videos and reach conclusions about safer tactics to use while conducting interdiction stops.
Core Building
Proactive officers engage in traffics stops daily. Now, more than ever, officers dealing with the public on traffic stops or other calls for service are under the microscope. Successful completion of this course will provide students with a foundation rooted in safe tactics and professionalism that will lead to successful interactions with criminals and the innocent motoring public.
Student Take Away
- Several approach patterns for initial walk-up to a violator and options for calling violator back to patrol vehicle.
- A clear understanding of what interdiction is, why it is needed, and the differences between street and highway interdiction.
- The ability to recognize ambush zones and quickly escape them in a lethal force confrontation.
- A safe and effective way to search vehicles while in contact with a violator.
Course Accreditation/Certification/Completion
- The student will receive a certificate of course completion.
Course Hours
- (3 day) 21-hour course.
- No Re-certification required.
Instructor: Brad Kellar
- Currently a Detective Sergeant in Criminal Investigations
- STOPS Instructor for over 19 years
- STOPS Instructor Trainer
- Indiana Certified Instructor in Defensive Tactics and Taser
- Mechanical & Ballistic Breaching Instructor
- National Criminal Enforcement Association Board Member
- Master Interdictor Certification, NCEA
- Robbie Bishop 314 Award Winner
- Certified Police Motorcycle Operator
Instructor: Ron Hantz
- 25 plus year police officer
- Khan Police Control Tactics (KPCT) Close Quarter Combat Instructor
- MarTac Tactical Physical Tactics Instructor
- Pressure Point Control Tactics (PPCT) - Instructor
- Protective Training Systems (PTS) Close Quarter Combat Instructor
- DPS Close Quarter Combat Instructor (certification through Black Belt Dr. Paul Whitesell)
- Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board Certified Physical Tactics Instructor
- Kung Fu San Soo Black Belt
- Police Use of Force Expert Witness
Required Course equipment
Attending students will need to be enrolled individually online. The student will be required to provide proof of employment either by credentials, work verified email or authorization from their agency's training coordinator. All students must be on duty and not forced to attend the training course.
Students are required to bring the following equipment with them to class.
- There are no required items to bring to this course.
**No live weapons, chemical agents, or intermediate weapons are allowed in the training area**
Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Instructor (4 days)
The Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops officers survival course is designed to instruct police officers in the following:
- how to conduct tactical traffic stops with officers survival being the foremost concern
- how to counter both accidental and felonious assaults
- how to assess the risks and recognize the threat cues by both the driver and passengers
- how to safely position the police and violator vehicles
- how to safely approach vehicles and keep control while making contact with the driver/passengers
- how to safely conduct commercial vehicle traffic stops
- how to tactically conduct high-risk stops
- how to counter ambush assaults and win
- how to escape from the 12 ambush zones
- how to safely conduct drug interdiction stops
- how to avoid citizen complaints and conflicts with violators
Pro Train will be certifying officers in your region in our proven officer survival tactics. There are nearly 3000 STOPS Instructors throughout the United States. Officers completing this course will be certified to INSTRUCT officers in the STOPS officer survival program. Upon completion of the STOPS program your officers will be able to SAFELY execute vehicle stops, pedestrian contacts, commercial vehicle stops, vehicle extractions, drug interdiction stops, and high risk (felony) stops. Officers will be trained in risk assessments, and proven methods to counter both felonious and accidental assaults. Vehicle stops will be broken into 12 ambush zones for the officer to be aware of, and escape techniques to counter and defeat any type of assault.
The STOPS program is based upon research from officers that have been injured or killed in the line of duty. We then developed strategies and tactics that countered the assaults, which will greatly increase the officers survival probability. The STOPS program is nationally and internationally recognized as the leading program in tactical/officer survival training available.
Vehicle stops will be divided into low risk, unknown risk, and high risk. Each category has pre planned options to minimize the chances of being assaulted by both accidental and felonious means. One of the goals is for the officers to always be thinking about the safest way to deal with every situation, and for the officer to recognize the danger cues. If an assault occurs our students will dominate through superior training and a warrior mindset.
STOPS training is realistic and extremely dynamic with both classroom and dynamic field exercises. These classes will also include our bonus simunitions force on force training, and our tactical live fire course. Upon obtaining instructor level certification instructors will then be certified to teach the STOPS Officers Survival System for 36 months.
Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Instructor Course Outline
- Chapter 1- Introduction to Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops
- Chapter 2- Low Risk Stops (5 approach patterns)
- Chapter 3- Unknown Risk Stops ( 5 patterns that bring a violator back to the patrol car)
- Chapter 4- When Risk Factors Change (Escape from the 8 kill zones)
- Chapter 5- High Risk Stops (The safest way to take violent perps from the vehicle)
- Chapter 6- Commercial Vehicle Stops
- Chapter 7- Tactical Stops for Motorcycle Officers
- Chapter 8- Pedestrian Stops
- Chapter 9- Tactical Drug Interdiction Stops
- Chapter 10- Tactical Two Officer Deployments
- Chapter 11- Tactical Vehicle Extractions
- Chapter 12- Ambush Tactics for Undercover Units
- Chapter 13- Subject Control Tactics for Stops
- Chapter 14- Survival Mindset
- Chapter 15- Legal Issues
- Chapter 16- Firearms Training
- Chapter 17- Simulated Training Scenarios
- Chapter 18-Accident Scene Control
- Chapter 19- Mental Health Survival for Law Enforcement
- Chapter 20- Instructor Protocols
Please contact us regarding scheduling a course at your training facility or when you are ready to enroll your officer(s) you can do so here.
STOPS is our most popular and fastest growing course and is being taught by many police academies nationally, and by thousands of local, federal and state police departments nationwide.
Simply put....STOPS saves cops!!
STOPS Tactical Field Training Officer Certification (3 days)
Tactical Courses
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**POSTPONED**Officer Survival on Traffic STOPS- Live Fire, Clark County Sheriff’s Office- OSTLF2022-01
(December 02, 2022 08:00)
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***Postponed** Tactical Vehicle Combatives Live Fire, Clark County Sheriff's Department TVCLF2022-01
(December 19, 2022 08:00)
Close Quarter Combat
Khan Police Control Tactics Close Quarter Combat Course (2 days)
Khan Police Control Tactics Instructors Certification (5 days)
KPCT Khan Do Kwan lead instructor and developer of the system, Grandmaster Javed Khan a veteran martial artist and police officer had created and developed this multifaceted Police Control Tactics Program comprising of three levels, which trains a police officer in the following:
- Use of Force Case Laws.
- Physical and Psychological Changes to Humans During Combat.
- Control Tactics.
- Tactical Handcuffing.
- Disengagement Tactics.
- Self-Defense and Escapes from Street Attacks.
- Edged Weapon Defense.
- Close Range Combat.
Law Enforcement Response to the Mixed Martial Arts Fighter (2 days)
About this course
"Hire character. Train skill." —Peter Schutz
Course Overview
Officers attending this course will be challenged mentally and physically to their limits. Officers will be forced to make shoot or don't shoot decisions while overcoming fatigue and a stressful training atmosphere. During this course, officers will be subjected to fighting and shooting in dynamic and realistic scenario-based training. This course will require the student to bring 100 rounds of target ammunition for their duty weapon.
What will the student learn?
- Approach patterns on traffic stops with a concentration on dynamics of utilizing angles to counter assaults.
- Environment and bystander awareness (terrain concerns and escape avenues), controlling space.
- How to escape from Ambush Positions.
- Proper placement of violator(s) and backup units.
- Case law pertinent to police use of force vehicle stops.
What will the student be required to do?
- Make shoot or don't shoot decisions while overcoming fatigue and a stressful training atmosphere.
- Fight through being attacked by single and multiple opponents in a dynamic and realistic scenario for police officers.
- Officers will be subjected to fighting and shooting in dynamic and realistic scenario-based training.
- Think outside the box and consider multiple threats at one time. This training method increases the real-world scenario of continually evolving high-stress situations.
- Accurately examine their mindset and identify areas where they have begun to lose ground physically and psychologically. They will be pushed to their mental and physical limits.
- Successfully address threat(s), gain compliance or control, and maintain situational awareness and mental clarity during these practical exams.
- This course is a hands-on outdoor activity to keep the student engaged and interested in learning concepts to enhance their ability to seek out the criminal element, quickly identify it, and be prepared if a lethal force encounter occurs.
- Required to bring 100 rounds of target ammunition for their duty weapon
Course Breakdown
Train Hard * Train to Win
Course Intensity
This course is a very high-level intensity and will challenge the student to consider their personal, physical, and psychological vulnerability and then adapt to and overcome any adversity or threat they are approached with.
Physically Demanding
OSTLF is a tactical course that will require high levels of physical exertion. You will leave dirty, exhausted, and ultimately fired up about what you just completed!
Mentally Challenging
This course will challenge the student to fight physically and mentally without ceasing during scenarios that may feel too intense or overwhelming. They will use technique and mental mindsets to expand their current understanding of tactical counters to life-threatening situations.
Core Building
If implemented as instructed, the student will be given proven techniques to counter assaults that mentally and physically prepare them for victory in battle.
Student Take Away
- A greater understanding of strategies and tactics to counter vehicle approach ambushes and planned assaults on officers.
- Core techniques to identify, improve, and master their tactical skills, leaving them prepared for victory.
- Proven training imparts very tactical mindsets and movements into a student-level course for successfully applying these strategies to real-world police encounters.
Course Accreditation/Certification/Completion
- The student will receive a certificate of course completion.
Course Hours
- (1 day) 7-hour course.
- No Re-certification is required.
Required Course Equipment
Attending students will need to be enrolled individually online. The student will be required to provide proof of employment either by credentials and work verified email or authorization from their agency's training coordinator. All students must be on duty and not forced to attend the training course. Students will be required to complete several liability waivers.
Students are required to bring the following equipment with them to class.
- 100 Rounds of ammo for their duty weapon. Duty positioning of their weapon, either full belt or side holster. But it must be what they wear daily. This training is for how they encounter assailants daily, which is why uniform of the day (weapon placement only) is required.
- Department-issued or approved bulletproof vest that is not expired.
- OSHA-approved Eye and ear protection.
**No live weapons, chemical agents, or intermediate weapons are allowed in the training area prior to inspection and cleared by the range safety instructor**
Tragically officers are being ambushed at record levels throughout the United States. Ambush assaults on law enforcement escalated over 150% in 2016 from the prior year. We have to teach our officers to recognize and overcome these threats.
The Police Counter Ambush Assault Course will challenge officers through force on force scenarios to overcome threats while deploying from a patrol vehicle, while seated inside of a patrol vehicle, and while in close-quarters scenarios with other potential threats. We have to be prepared to overcome and dominate these ambushes, and this course will dramatically increase the officer's ability to win the assault, and return home safely to their family.
SAFE (Survive, Adapt, Fight, Escape) Survival Training (1 day)
About this course
“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.”
– Archilochus
Course Overview
Pro Train Inc is honored to have partnered with former UFC Fighter Todd Brown and develop our newest and most physically challenging course for 2021. This course was created to push the students to their limit, with real-life scenarios that can save lives. The techniques used come from over 30 years of combat training and experience, learning first-hand what strategies work and which ones are useless in real-world combat. These techniques are simple and effective. Pain compliance techniques are the gateway to controlling resistive behavior and the best way to prevent escalation of force.
What will the student learn?
- Environment and bystander awareness (terrain concerns and escape avenues), controlling space
- Arts to fall, technical get up, foot sweeps…. staying Safe
- Defense of chokes, back escapes, side mount escapes
- Body control escapes, choke escapes, and counters
- Striking stance, striking, defense, and counters
- Open guard, sweeps, and gun retention
- Wrist control and pushing counters
- Turtle, running escape and rolling
- Suspect extraction from vehicle
- Pistol, stick, and knife defense
- Mount, knee on stomach
- Clinches and takedowns
- Multiple attackers
- Retention drills
- Review
What will the student be required to do?
- Fight through being attacked by single and multiple opponents in a dynamic and realistic scenario for police officers.
- Think outside the box and consider multiple threats at one time. This training method increases the real-world scenario of continually evolving high-stress situations.
- Accurately examine their mindset and identify areas where they have begun to lose ground physically and psychologically.
- Successfully address threat(s), gain compliance or control, maintain situational awareness and mental clarity during these practical exams.
- Continually choose to place themselves beyond the possibility of defeat.
Course Breakdown
Train Hard * Train to Win
Course Intensity
This course is a very high-level intensity and will challenge the student to consider their personal, physical, and psychological vulnerability and then adapt for that and overcome any adversity or threat they are approached with.
Physically Demanding
S.A.F.E is a tactical course taught by former UFC Fighter Todd Brown. In all areas of the course, it will require high levels of physical exertion. You will leave dirty, exhausted, and ultimately fired up about what you just completed!
Mentally Challenging
This course will challenge the student to physically and mentally fight without ceasing during scenarios that they may feel or too intense or overwhelming. They will use technique and mental mindsets to expand their current understanding of tactical counters to life-threatening situations.
Core Building
The student will be given proven techniques to counter assaults that will mentally and physically prepare them for victory in battle if implemented.
Instructor Todd Brown
Student Take Away
- A greater understanding of where their training is vulnerable to attack.
- Identified core techniques to identify, improve, and master their skills, leaving them prepared for victory.
- Proven training that imparts very technical aspects of fighting skills into a student level course for successfully applying these fighting skills into real-world police encountering
Course Accreditation/Certification/Completion
- This training will count for 7 hours of LETB Physical Tactics Training.
- The student will receive a certificate of course completion.
Course Hours
- (1 day) 7-hour course.
- No Re-certification required.
Instructor: Todd Brown
- UFC Veteran
- 3rd Degree Black Belt Brazilian Jiujitsu Carlson Gracie Team
- Muay Thai Kickboxing Kru, Master Toddy
- 93 wins and 4 losses in fighting career
- USMC Veteran
Instructor: Ron Hantz
- 25 plus year police officer
- DPS Close Quarter Combat Instructor (certification through Black Belt Dr. Paul Whitesell)
- Pressure Point Control Tactics (PPCT) - Instructor
- Defensive Tactics -Straight baton -Weapon Retention / Disarming techniques
- MarTac Tactical Physical Tactics Instructor
- Master Instructor Trainer for the Strategies & Tactics of Patrol Stops Officer Survival Program. (1 of 3 promoted to this status, out of nearly 4500 S.T.O.P.S Instructors in the United States).
Required Course equipment
Attending students will need to be enrolled individually online. The student will be required to provide proof of employment either by credentials, work verified email or authorization from their agency's training coordinator. All students must be on duty and not forced to attend the training course.
Students are required to bring the following equipment with them to class.
- There are no required items to bring to this course.
**No live weapons, chemical agents, or intermediate weapons are allowed in the training area**
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About this course
"Good tactics can save even the worst strategy.
Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy."
-George S. Patton
Course Overview
Interdiction is widely taught across the country. Whether learning "The Drive" or employing a high volume of stops, various classes teach on this topic. However, the "tactics" to keep the interdiction officer safe are constantly overlooked or rarely highlighted. STOPS Criminal Interdiction Tactics is a training program that stresses proactive officers' safety, giving them a foundation for success in the interdiction world.
Pro Train's mission is to provide the best and most current tactical training to officers. We are constantly revising training areas that we notice are lacking focus in tactical procedures for officer safety. We have combined many tactics from our proven and nationally accredited STOPS course into this course's newest Interdiction training approach. Pro Train cadre had studied, attended, and applied many interdiction teachings from across the country into this new course. STOPS Criminal Interdiction results from seeing the lack of focused "tactical" training in interdiction stops. The STOPS Criminal Interdiction Tactics Course focuses on tactics the proactive officer should utilize when "seeking the criminal element" is the focus of traffic enforcement. We have developed a tactical course that breaks the stop/contact into three parts: the beginning, middle, and end of contact. Using these concentrated training areas, we can identify where tactics need to override habit, routine, and complacency. While taking drugs, guns, and criminals off our roads is pivotal to interdiction, it is more important to get home to loved ones at the end of the shift. This course gives an outline of practical and easy-to-implement tactics to employ when hunting down criminals in your jurisdiction. With a combination of classroom and outdoor instruction, this course will cover the rapid assessment needed to categorize a traffic stop properly. We will highlight several tactics taught in the STOPS program, including an in-depth breakdown of Unknown Risk Stops. Using these proven tactics can accentuate the ability to read verbal and non-verbal cues of criminal activity. While this is not a class covering specifics of a roadside interview or hidden compartments, it is an overview of what criminal interdiction is, where to employ it, and the differences between street and highway interdiction. Tactics taught here work in either application. !
What will the student learn?
- Approach patterns on traffic stops with emphasis on passenger-side approach.
- Walk-Back and Walk-Thru patterns to use in stops deemed Unknown-Risk.
- How to determine between a Low-Risk and Unknown-Risk traffic stop.
- How to escape from Ambush Positions outlined in the classroom.
- How to safely search under consent and proper placement of violator(s) and back-up.
- Case law pertinent to stopping vehicles and then leading into a consensual or PC search.
What will the student be required to do?
- The student will learn from a structured PowerPoint in the classroom covering facts and outlines of tactics to be employed later in outdoor/field training. There will be a breakdown of several vital videos showing why these tactics are so necessary to successful interdiction.
- This course is a combination of classroom and outdoor activity to keep the student engaged and interested in learning concepts to enhance his/her ability to seek out the criminal element, quickly identify it, and be prepared if a lethal force encounter were to occur.
Course Breakdown
Train Hard * Train to Win
Course Intensity
The content and pace of this course will be challenging to most students. Some videos used in this course may shock those of a more sensitive conscious.
Physically Demanding
This course's style is a combination of classroom lecture and outdoor practical application; the student must successfully demonstrate the ability to escape from ambush zones.
Mentally Challenging
Seeking out the criminal that has masked himself within the general innocent motoring public is not easy. Conducting rapid assessments of violators while also staying tactical is challenging and will be addressed throughout this training course. Students will analyze situations represented in videos and reach conclusions about safer tactics to use while conducting interdiction stops.
Core Building
Proactive officers engage in traffics stops daily. Now, more than ever, officers dealing with the public on traffic stops or other calls for service are under the microscope. Successful completion of this course will provide students with a foundation rooted in safe tactics and professionalism that will lead to successful interactions with criminals and the innocent motoring public.
Instructor Brad Keller
Student Take Away
- Several approach patterns for initial walk-up to a violator and options for calling violator back to patrol vehicle.
- A clear understanding of what interdiction is, why it is needed, and the differences between street and highway interdiction.
- The ability to recognize ambush zones and quickly escape them in a lethal force confrontation.
- A safe and effective way to search vehicles while in contact with a violator.
Course Accreditation/Certification/Completion
- The student will receive a certificate of course completion.
Course Hours
- (3 days) 21-hour course.
- No Re-certification is required.
Required Course equipment
Attending students will need to be enrolled individually online. The student will be required to provide proof of employment either by credentials, work verified email or authorization from their agency's training coordinator. All students must be on duty and not forced to attend the training course.
Students are required to bring the following equipment with them to class.
- There are no required items to bring to this course.
**No live weapons, chemical agents, or intermediate weapons are allowed in the training area**
A course instructed at the FBI Academy for many years to FBI Special Agents, by the legendary Frank White (DEA/Retired). Frank White will be the primary instructor for this challenging course. Learn more about Frank White at The White Report -- DEA Watch
This course was designed for Undercover Officers, but all police officers will benefit attending this close quarter battle course.
Our top training goal is to ensure that the officer when confronted in a violent encounter will be able to make better decisions faster, while at the same time acting decisively and effectively.
The officer must be able to think clearly under stress and act tactically within the context of extreme peril. Untrained officers oftentimes make disastrous tactical mistakes, display poor decision making and react too slowly in real world gun battles.
My team of instructors will provide the officer the wisdom of whether to engage, when to engage and how to engage. The officer will develop tactical wisdom which comes from actionable practice drills and mental rehearsal strategies coupled closely with use of force legal case doctrine. There are three distinct and equally important elements that will be taught to the officer, the struggle before the gunfight, the fight itself and the legal ramifications after the fight.
This is a physically and mentally challenging 3 day course of instruction that will teach officers Close Quarter Combat in the gym, on the firing range, and how to win the battle through superior mental mindset. Officers will be required to bring 1500 rounds of target ammunition for the close quarter live fire drills.
About this course
"Hire character. Train skill." —Peter Schutz
Course Overview
Officers attending this course will be mentally and physically challenged to their limits. Officers will be forced to make shoot or don't shoot decisions while overcoming fatigue and a stressful training atmosphere. In dynamic and realistic scenario-based training, officers will be subjected to fighting and shooting during this course. This course will require the student to bring 100 rounds of target ammunition for their duty weapon.
What will the student learn?
- Approach patterns on traffic stops with a concentration on dynamics of utilizing angles to counter assaults.
- Environment and bystander awareness (terrain concerns and escape avenues), controlling space.
- How to escape from Ambush Positions.
- Proper placement of violator(s) and backup units.
- Case law pertinent to police use of force vehicle stops.
What will the student be required to do?
- Make shoot or don't shoot decisions while overcoming fatigue and a stressful training atmosphere.
- Fight through being attacked by single and multiple opponents in a dynamic and realistic scenario for police officers.
- Officers will be subjected to fighting and shooting in dynamic and realistic scenario-based training.
- Think outside the box and consider multiple threats at one time. This training method increases the real-world scenario of continually evolving high-stress situations.
- Accurately examine their mindset and identify areas where they have begun to lose ground physically and psychologically. They will be pushed to their mental and physical limits.
- Successfully address threat(s), gain compliance or control, and maintain situational awareness and mental clarity during these practical exams.
- This course is a hands-on outdoor activity to keep the student engaged and interested in learning concepts to enhance their ability to seek out the criminal element, quickly identify it, and be prepared if a lethal force encounter were to occur.
- Required to bring 100 rounds of target ammunition for their duty weapon
Course Breakdown
Train Hard * Train to Win
Course Intensity
This course is a very high-level intensity and will challenge the student to consider their personal, physical, and psychological vulnerability and then adapt to that and overcome any adversity or threat they are approached with.
Physically Demanding
TVC-LF is a tactical course that will require high levels of physical exertion. You will leave dirty, exhausted, and ultimately fired up about what you just completed!
Mentally Challenging
This course will challenge the student to physically and mentally fight without ceasing during scenarios that they may feel too intense or overwhelming. They will use technique and mental mindsets to expand their current understanding of tactical counters to life-threatening situations.
Core Building
The student will be given proven techniques to counter assaults that will mentally and physically prepare them for victory in battle if implemented as instructed.
Student Take Away
- A greater understanding of strategies and tactics to counter vehicle approach ambushes and planned assaults on officers.
- Develop core techniques to identify, improve, and master tactical skills, leaving them prepared for victory.
- Proven training imparts very tactical mindsets and movements into a student-level course for successfully applying these strategies to real-world police encounters.
Course Accreditation/Certification/Completion
- The student will receive a certificate of course completion.
Course Hours
- (1 day) 7-hour course.
- No Re-certification is required.
Required Course Equipment
Attending students will need to be enrolled individually online. The student must provide proof of employment by credentials, work verified email or authorization from their agency's training coordinator. All students must be on duty and not forced to attend the training course. Students will be required to complete several liability waivers.
Students are required to bring the following equipment with them to class.
- 100 Rounds of ammo for their duty weapon. Duty positioning of their weapon, either full belt or side holster, must be what they wear daily. This training is for how they encounter assailants daily, so uniform of the day (weapon placement only) is required.
- Bulletproof Vest
- OSHA-approved Eye and ear protection.
**No live weapons, chemical agents, or intermediate weapons are allowed in the training area prior to inspection and cleared by the range safety instructor**
Classroom Courses
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Understanding Police Use of Force - The Real Rules, Hamilton County Sheriff's Office UOF2022-08
(December 02, 2022 08:00)
Advanced STOPS Instructors Tactical Live Fire (1 Day)
Sun Tzu & the Officer Resiliency Mindset (1 Day)
About this course
"The skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible...."
- Sun Tzu
Course Overview
Remember when you first began this job? You would've done it for free!
NOW? … The thrill is gone...
Armchair quarterbacks declare guilt before they know the facts. Politicians are working to eliminate resources and tools that ensure you return home safely to your family each night!
Civil unrest, looting, violence, and destruction of property, It's all somehow our fault. "If it weren't for this pension," you think … I'd be out of here.
Couple it with the fact that 2.19 times as many cops took their own lives as died by felonious gunfire last year (felonious gunfire rates up 37% from 2020), and it can look hopeless.
Evil is real! It has a plan to destroy you! Once you understand it, it'll make all the difference.
Examining the battle strategies identified by a highly revered ancient warrior named Sun Tzu, we can use them as a highly effective tool in illustrating the psychological vulnerabilities of the profession and how they are exploited. Armed with that understanding we can then identify preventative strategies that can make all the difference in helping officers develop a resilient mindset!
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general and tactician born in 544 BC. A brilliant strategist, he authored the epic war tome, The Art of War, which required reading for the CIA, U.S. Military Intelligence, and the Marine Corps Reading Program. Sun Tzu specialized in tactics that equipped an inferior force to defeat a superior one. Employing such principles as using deception, carefully accommodating oneself to your enemy's purpose, studying your enemy's disposition, baiting his forces to divide/conquer them through the ambush, and ideally breaking their resistance without fighting was the primary goal. This 7-hour training will examine how these same tactics are used to destroy law enforcement officers' psychological well-being. We will identify the deceptions employed against officers; the ways evil accommodates itself to the profession, the baits offered to lure officers, and the sobering reality of success in getting them to quit without a fight." The skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible…", stated Sun Tzu. This course will share "rubber meets the road" strategies that are not touchy-feely but will armor up warriors psychologically, fortifying them against defeat! Don't miss it!
What will the student learn?
- Students will be given a fresh perspective on why the profession of law enforcement is one of the highest of callings.
- Students will be challenged to consider a core foundational element that, when lived out, will guarantee them success.
- Students will identify nine professional strategic vulnerabilities that are often exploited psychologically.
- Students will be given effective, proven resiliency strategies for each that will PREVENT them from being exploited psychologically.
What will the student be required to do?
- Think outside the box.
- Fearlessly examine their mindset and identify any areas where they have begun to lose ground psychologically.
- Replace the above areas with concepts that will ensure their success mentally.
- Continually choose to place themselves beyond the possibility of defeat.
Course Breakdown
Train Hard * Train to Win
Course Intensity
This course is low-level intensity but will challenge the student to consider their level of psychological vulnerability.
Physically Demanding
This is a classroom course and does not require any physical exertion.
Mentally Challenging
The student will be challenged to consider the process that transforms their mindset from one where they have a tremendous love of the job at the beginning of their career to one of hopelessness and depression, all with the same exact ingredient toward the end.
Core Building
The student will be given proven resiliency concepts that, if implemented, will strengthen their warrior mindset and grant them psychological victory.
Core Building
Student Take Away
- A greater understanding of how the battle for the mind is waged.
- Identified core resiliency principles that keep students psychologically prepared for victory.
- A proven vehicle for imparting understanding to coworkers.
Course Accreditation/Certification/Completion
- The student will receive a certificate of course completion.
Course Hours
- (1 day) 7-hour course.
- No Re-certification is required.
Required Course Equipment
Attending students will need to be enrolled individually online. The student will be required to provide proof of employment either by credentials, work verified email or authorization from their agency's training coordinator. All students must be on duty and not forced to attend the training course.
Students are required to bring the following equipment with them to class.
- There are no required items to bring to this course.
**No live weapons, chemical agents, or intermediate weapons are allowed in the training area**
About this course
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice,
and a judicial system in which the rights of some are
not secured by the denial of rights to others."
- Jonathan Sacks
Course Overview
Understanding Use of Force examines the major legal concepts supporting the use of force by LEOs; it also examines and analyzes current "hot button" topics in the use of force area.
The very essence of a law enforcement officer is the ability to use force to gain compliance with laws and orders. Pro-Train, Inc., an acknowledged leader in post-academy law enforcement training, offers this seminar to advance the road officer’s professional training to ‘state-of-the-art’ levels. A brief historical foundation of use of force is followed by a critical examination of the ‘force continuum’. Seminal U.S. Supreme Court cases are examined, as well as current case law from the U.S. Supreme Court, the 7th Circuit, and Indiana. ‘Hot button’ use of force topics, including ‘choke holds’ and proportionality, are also scrutinized with tips and suggestions for avoiding civil and criminal liability. (Please note that, due to the ever-changing nature of this subject, the ‘hot button’ topics will vary from time to time.) Finally, the topic of qualified immunity for police officers is reviewed. This may very well be the most important training that a LEO could attend.
What will the student learn?
- The history and dangers associated with the ‘force continuum’;
- The legal standard for LEOs’ use of force established by the U.S. Supreme Court;
- How the concept of ‘proportionality’ affects a LEO’s delivery of force;
- How to recognize a ‘person in crisis’ and when to employ de-escalation techniques;
- What is meant by ‘qualified immunity’ and how it protects LEOs;
- Legal analyses and tips on ‘hot’, and potentially hazardous, topics in use of force.
What will the student be required to do?
- The student will be challenged to set aside preconceived notions and ideas about police use of force.
- Think outside the media-driven pressure and ignore the current social pressures to ‘soften’ on criminals.
- This course is moderately paced and requires the student to focus attention and think logically.
Course Breakdown
Train Hard * Train to Win
Course Intensity
The content and pace of this course will be challenging to most students. Some videos used in this course may shock those of a more sensitive constitution.
Physically Demanding
The style of this course is classroom lectures; there are no physical challenges for the student.
Mentally Challenging
An in-depth examination of U.S. Supreme Court, 7th Circuit, and Indiana cases form the foundation of this course. Using concepts provided by the judicial system, students will be expected to analyze situations represented in videos and reach conclusions about use of force by LEOs.
Core Building
LEOs engage in the delivery of force every time the law is enforced. A thorough understanding of use of force concepts is fundamental to professionalism and effective delivery of police services. The result of successful completion will be a confident and more mentally resilient officer when confronted with use of force challenges.
"WE STAND TOGETHER; UNITED BY BADGE AND BY LIBERTY"
Student Take Away
- A greater understanding of how the Federal and State case laws regarding police use of force support an officer’s ability to protect themself, and others.
- Ability to identify use of force principles that keep students psychologically prepared for victory.
- A proven vehicle for imparting understanding and confidence during police use of force incidents..
Course Accreditation/Certification/Completion
- Certificate of course completion available for a fee of $3
- Certificate request must be generated through the online certificate request link @ www.PROTRAININC.com
Course Hours
- (1 day) 7-hour course.
- No Re-certification is required.
Required Course equipment
Attending students will need to be enrolled individually online. The student will be required to provide proof of employment either by credentials, work verified email or authorization from their agency's training coordinator. All students must be on duty and not forced to attend the training course.
Students are required to bring the following equipment with them to class.
- There are no required items to bring to this course.
**No live weapons, chemical agents, or intermediate weapons are allowed in the training area**
Enrollments are online and available
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