Tag: Tactical

Much of what is written and taught in the training realm these days addresses the issue of physical encounters. Reality-based training, for the most part, focuses on teaching participants how ...

Don't think for one moment an assignment that allows you to do law enforcement in plainclothes is any safer than any other law enforcement position. Not only do you still ...

Late one afternoon while sitting at my desk, gazing over the mounds of paperwork I had to review, approve, and push forward to my supervisor's Inbox, I heard the pleasing ...

Quality room clearing and search training can take place in a structure that s simple and inexpensive in design and construction. In my October column, I discussed how to construct ...

A few years ago, I was asked to set up some training classes in Brazil. Excited at the opportunity to visit this amazing country, I decided it would be advantageous ...

Dear Bullethead: I'm on a regional tactical team that handles situations for seven agencies. I'm one of three supervisors assigned to the team. It's a good setup. Everyone has worked ...

I think most officers would agree that the thought of seeing your own blood rapidly exiting an ugly looking wound is one of the most disturbing images you hope you ...

Over the past several years, the number and frequency of force-on-force scenarios run in even the smallest agency have increased quite a bit. Initially constrained to those agencies and units ...

Few cops like to hear about physical fitness, conditioning or nutrition.

As a direct result of the actions overseas, law enforcement agencies are discovering that there is a shortage of ammunition. Government plants pump out literally billions of rounds of ammo, ...