5-Day / 40-Hour Instructor Level Course of Instruction
Tuition: $795

3-Day Operator Course of Instruction
Tuition: $450

Emphasis on the use of the Shield
The Riot Shield is typically viewed as a passive defense tool. While it can serve in such capacity, it is important to examine and study the work of individual officer, small cell (2 or 3 officers) and large riot control/suppression team deploying riot shields in given situation in more pro-active manner.

The basic riot shield offers an array of possibilities to be deployed in a pro-active manner against the aggressive elements in hostile crowd/riot situations. In many cases the need to deploy impact weapons (batons, sticks, etc.) to defend against, control and subdue the subjects will be minimized once the use of the shield is mastered.

This mastery requires that an officer remains relatively calm, maintains situational awareness and thinks in situations that often could are extremely chaotic and stressful.

This approach has number of benefits:

• Quick, efficient and less visually aggressive apprehension/neutralization of the subjects
  
  
• Less use of impact tools that potentially can cause severe trauma/death of the subject
  
  
• Lower risk to the officers

The natural consequence of this is the reduction of liability and better management of public relations issues associated with the modern LE environment.

While visually less aggressive, work with the riot shield can be escalated by trained operator in situations requiring such course of action. Through understanding of the basic principles involved, knowledge of biomechanics and use of specific methods taught, the operator gains ability to work with the shield throughout the spectrum of the force continuum.

This ability extended to all officers of the riot control team in combination with specific methods of small team work (2 and 3 man cells), large team tactics, solid management by commanding officers and effective communications will make riot control/suppression operations much more efficient and effective.


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Course Overview
Rigorous Five-day course for law enforcement professionals.

Individual officer skills with the riot shield & baton as a defensive and preventive/offensive tool in riot control/suppression and hostile crowd control situations.

Team work utilizing riot shield as the primary tool.

Practical large team drills to promote large team riot control tactics. Crowd dynamics, psychological factors, communications and formation work and transitions.

Command structure, communications, formations and transitions.

Heavy contact daytime full mission profile training.

Heavy contact low light environment full mission profile training with wide spectrum of additional stress factors.

The course will include Full Mission Profiles in order to demonstrate the importance of both individual skills and team work. This course is physically demanding and involves substantial amount of contact drills. Proper attention should be paid to safety of other trainees and actors.

Part of the course is dedicated to learn and understand some basic principles behind PCR (Physical Conflict Resolution) combatives method.

It will require that officer keeps his or her ego in check.

The mind will need to be open to new ideas and techniques.

These ideas and techniques are easily transferable to work with riot shield and/or many other tools available to law enforcement officers.

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