Nationally Certified Program

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!!

Proactive enforcement is now more paramount than ever in today’s policing. With many theories and practices of interdiction being taught, there is a severe lack in the teaching of tactics to compensate this type of enforcement. With this program, the focus is on the tactics utilized for stopping vehicles and a variety of approach patterns to pick from based on ever-changing assessments. Whether stopping passenger cars or commercial motor vehicles, this training is vital for officers who pursue criminals on the interstates as well as city streets. By completing this training program, officers will be given tools to be safer during interdiction-style stops, be prepared to match lethal force encounters, but more importantly, be driven to survive and win the encounter!

S.T.O.P.S. TACTICAL CRIMINAL INTERDICTION 3-DAY COURSE DESCRIPTION

Develop tactics to use during vehicle stops intended for criminal interdiction, pro-active traffic enforcement, and/or traffic stops resulting from local narcotics investigations. The focus of this program is on tactics for interdiction officers/narcotics investigators.

Day 1:

1. Overview of the S.T.O.P.S. program and why proven tactics are essential for law enforcement officers dealing with current issues police officers face when conducting traffic stops.
2. Students will review S.T.O.P.S. assessment categories (low, unknown, high)
3. Four (4) approach patterns
4. Two (2) patterns for Unknown-Risk assessments
5. Vehicle/officer positioning for High-Risk stops
6. When Risk Factors Change
   1. When Low-Risk changes to Unknown-Risk
   2. When Low-Risk changes to High-Risk
   3. STOPS Firearm Response Theory: MOVE… Draw… Take Appropriate Action…MOVE TO COVER!
   4. 4 Steps of Reaction Time:Perceive…Evaluate…Decide…Act…
   5. “The 12 Ambush Zones”

Day 2:

1. Explore the two (2) theories of criminal interdiction enforcement with regards to working “The Drive” or conducting “High Volume Stops”
2. Highway vs. Street Interdiction
   1. Highway positioning
   2. Street/City positioning
   3. High crime areas, gas stations, parks, etc.
3. Overview of indicators
   1. Indicators of criminal activity while vehicle is still in motion
   2. Vehicle indicators
   3. Interior indicators
4. Discuss the two (2) most important indicators officers must recognize
5. Consent or Probable Cause Search
   1. Pirtle Warning, when to advise
   2. Miranda Warning, when to advise
   3. Pat Down or Search?
6. NEVER SEARCH ALONE (South Carolina Trooper Mark Coates)
   1. Three (3) methods of search techniques for a pair of officers to utilize
7. Tactics to employ in proactive stops vs. a known drug stop investigation
   1. Walk-Up vs. Walk-Back
8. Case Law pertinent to traffic stops/criminal interdiction
9. Current trends/other training opportunities

Day 3:

1. Participants will explore the practical application of back-up positioning to protect search officer while watching violator for verbal/non-verbal cues
2. Practical walk-thru of the four (4) Low-Risk approach patterns
   1. Standard Left Walk-Up
   2. Standard Right Walk-Up
   3. Tactical Left-Side Walk-Up
   4. Tactical Right-Side Walk-Up
3. Practical application of Unknown-Risk tactics
   1. Walk-Back
   2. Walk-Thru
4. Review of High-Risk set-up and responsibilities of Officer’s 1 through 4
5. Escaping from the 12 Ambush Locations
6. Live Fire Training Scenarios
   1. Point of Contact
   2. Unknown Risk “Ready Stance”
7. At the end of this course, participants will have a course review of time-proven S.T.O.P.S. techniques and tactics to make proper traffic stop assessments, contact violators professionally, search vehicles safely, and survive an ambush assault, winning the encounter

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.