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OVERVIEW:
Our 3-Day Active Shooter Counter Terrorism Immediate Interception course will prove to be both physically challenging and mentally taxing for even the experienced instructor. Tactical strategies, concepts and skill development will greatly enhance the skilled operator and senior instructor. This is a chance to fine tune existing skills, significantly improve transitional capabilities under stress and build justifiable confidence to effectively neutralize a live terrorist threat.
Present training does not adequately address the complexities and realities associated with present dynamics within an Active Shooter / Terror situation. An Active Shooter Terrorist act is a weapon of mass impact. Systems which have originated through discussion, static ranges and Power Point presentations of non-live events are truly missing the mark.
This is an opportunity to learn directly from those professionals who have been continuously successful in neutralizing this threat throughout the world. Classroom man-hours can never replace real world experience.
Ask yourself the following three questions:
Does your Agency currently have a mandate for immediate response to an Active Shooter attack?
Is the objective of your Agency’s mandate for immediate response to an Active Shooter attack to save as many innocent civilian lives as possible?
Are your Agency’s Active Shooter response protocols, strategies, and tactics actually conducive to achieving the objective of saving as many innocent civilian lives as possible?
The answer, surprisingly enough is still no in most jurisdictions. Even after the paradigm shift that occurred within the North American Law Enforcement community after the Columbine High School Massacre of 1999. This historically tragic event identified the crucial necessity for first responder IMMEDIATE intervention.
Agencies that actually have a clear operational Active Shooter mandate are typically still lacking. While their mandate is based on good intentions, most present mandates do not support the objective of saving as many innocent lives as possible. Present protocols, strategies, and tactics, as they stand today simply will not suffice.
In our professional opinion the most pressing reason supporting this fact is that current Active Shooter response protocols, strategies, and tactics are based on all the Active Shooter incidents which have occurred in North America to date.
In all of those past incidents, the Active Shooter was a mentally ill/emotionally disturbed individual that killed themselves, surrendered or were permitted extensive time to carry out their mission long before police officers implemented direct intervention.
This skewed methodology systematically transformed the officer’s Active Shooter intervention intentions; into a deliberate secure search mindset of an Active Shooter aftermath.
This transformation has armed police officers with protocols, strategies, and tactics that are conducive to responding to a moderate threat and stress free incident. While the officers are responding with the stress of believing the Shooter is actively carrying out his cold and calculated multiple homicides. Most responses reflect moderate action more appropriate for a barricaded suspect, less threatening situation or stress free scene.
This dormant disposition towards Active Shooter intervention has diverted the Law Enforcement community from addressing the threat and ignoring the harmful impact an Active Shooter will have on society.
An over abundance of emphasis is placed on peripheral elements that will not assist in a successful immediate intervention and in most cases will only prevent the officers from responding with optimal efficiency.
These elements can be defined as exhaustive protocols; spending too much time on strategies and intelligence gathering and not enough time on intervention. The highly unrealistic and excessive equipment officers are expected to carry only further impedes their ability to optimally function during an Active Shooter crisis.
The dangerous misconception that a Counter Terror Active Shooter crisis requires a team orientated immediate response involving chaotic formations is further evidence of not truly understanding the threat.
If your objective is your mandate, then there is no need to continue reading. If your Agency’s true objective is not your mandate; but rather to save as many innocent civilian lives as possible, then let’s keep moving forward.
So far we have only examined half of the problem. The two most predominant terms concerning North American Law Enforcement today are Active Shooter and Terror Attack. Yet very few individuals realize that the foundation of those two threats is identical. In both cases the threats will carry out their actions of systematically murdering as many innocent civilians as possible.
Responding officers will not know the orientation of the threat they are dealing with until the immediate threat has ceased and an investigation is carried out.
That point aside, it is still imperative to understand that although it is not possible to determine the type of threat during an attack; (mentally/emotionally ill or terror oriented) the Active Shooter response mandate of the responding officers must ensure no one is wasting valuable time.
In the case of a mentally/emotionally ill perpetrator, time may not be as concerning an issue due to the probability that the perpetrator will more than likely already be deceased by the time officers arrive on scene and are prepared to engage the threat.
However, in the case of a Terror oriented Active Shooter attack, the terrorist will not kill himself. A terrorist only has one goal and that is to achieve his objective with maximum effect.
The terrorist’s objective: to kill as many innocent people as possible.
The Terrorist objective will only come to an end when they are no longer capable of continuing to function. The underlining focus must be to mitigate the time associated with all peripheral elements not directly pertaining to saving innocent lives. In a Terror oriented Active Shooter attack, every second that our mandate allows the attacker to remain alive, is another innocent man, woman, or child we have allowed to die.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course focuses on the following two crucial elements:
To enhance and optimize the individual officer’s ability to effectively survive, dominate, and neutralize a deadly threat during a violent deadly force engagement under stress.
To enhance and optimize the officer’s ability to effectively respond to and neutralize an Active Shooter attack in the minimal time, minimizing the loss of innocent civilian lives.
This course will educate officers on the real outcomes that occur during an Urban Terror oriented Active Shooter attack and provide them with the necessary mindset, knowledge, and tactics to rapidly assess, dominate, and resolve the incident.
Specifically, this course will focus on Immediate Rapid Deployment strategies for Active Shooter Attacks which require immediate action with minimal availability of back-up, resources, and specialized equipment in a civilian populated environment to include: a school, shopping mall, hospital, office building, or airport.
This response system is effectively applicable to an Active Shooter Attack of a Terror oriented threat or a criminal/mentally/emotionally disturbed oriented threat.
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