CAPCOG’s Regional Law Enforcement Academy is offering specialized instructor courses in July and August that will allow policing agencies to enhance their own local training curriculum. In June, it also is offering a specialized tactics course that improves officers’ lifesaving interventions during active shooter events and other life threating incidents.
A Law Enforcement Tactical Trauma Course is scheduled for June 21 and 22. The hands-on course builds officers’ confidence and skills for treating injuries that maybe sustained while responding to an active shooter event. Its instruction emphasizes tourniquet use, wound packing, and bleeding and circulation management as well as tactical rescue and evacuation. While designed to be used during shootings, these lessons can assist officers in providing wound care on injuries before emergency medical teams arrive at vehicle accidents, stabbings, shootings, domestic violence scenes and other life-threatening incidents.
On July 6, CAPCOG will conduct a TASER Instructor Course. The 8-hour course, which grants a two-year instructor certificate, teaches training techniques and best practices that prepare officers for using TASER equipment. The course reviews safety protocols and covers training drills and use liability.
A Threat Pattern Recognition Instructor Course will be held from August 23 to 27. The course provides officers with certificates to teach 12 different non-firearm defensive techniques. It focuses on controlling a situation in a safe, nonlethal manner while defending against criminal activity and using minimal force. The tactics rely on hand-to-hand response from officers to minimize the risk of injury while defending others or themselves.
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