Tag: Tactical

Some of you may have suffered that sinking feeling of realizing you busted down the door of the wrong house. Your mistake was innocent, but it's unpleasant apologizing to a ...

Caution: This article provides a viable deadly force option for officers engaged in a life-threatening ground fight. However, you must remember that once a gun or knife is introduced to ...

There are two words I hate, says Stu Segall, owner of the Strategic Operations Training Center in San Diego, and those are paintball and moulage. We don t play paintball ...

In the early 1990s, portable less-lethal chemical agents became standard issue for patrol operations, and these irritant sprays typically prove helpful when attempting to control resistive or violent subjects without ...

The National Tactical Officers Association has launched the new Tactical Rescue Technician (TRT) course. Following a comprehensive, four-day tactical rescue and medicine curriculum, the course covers innovative high-threat immediate extraction ...

The Virtual Terrorism Response Academy (VTRA), developed by the Interactive Media Laboratory (IML) at Dartmouth Medical School, has introduced the terrorism-response course Ops-Plus for WMD Hazmat, available on CD-ROM. The ...

Again, a recent incident prompted this month s Tactics column. Over the past few months, I ve been working with a couple of attorneys who are defending two officers, each ...

What gets you sued gets you hurt. It s that simple. Use-of force and motor-vehicle operations remain the high-risk areas of law enforcement. Look at the reports of officer injuries ...

This article will inform the ballistic-shield operator how to safely and effectively deploy a shield. But first, a caveat: The tactical element is responsible for effective and safe tactical decision-making. ...

I'd like to deviate from the usual tactical concepts this month and wax philosophical on a concept that has been near and dear to me for many years.