Description

The High Risk and Felony Vehicle Stop Training for Officer Survival

This course challenges officers to reevaluate traditional methods for conducting high-risk vehicle stops. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises, participants will learn to maximize cover, improve teamwork, and implement tactical strategies to safely manage high-threat encounters. Based on FBI data, which shows that a significant number of officer fatalities occur around vehicles, this course emphasizes safer approaches, focusing on vehicle setup, cover use, and suspect callout procedures to prevent rushed or dangerous confrontations.

This training also includes live fire, dry fire, and simunition drills with carbines and pistols, helping officers practice unconventional shooting positions around vehicles and develop a tactical mindset that reduces the risk of excessive force incidents.

Objectives

• Reevaluate traditional vehicle stop methods for high-risk traffic stops.

• Maximize officer safety by utilizing vehicle cover and tactical positioning.

• Foster a team approach to vehicle stops, including ambush and vehicle assault scenarios.

• Learn suspect callout procedures and safe team vehicle approaches.

• Practice tactical shooting drills from unconventional positions in and around vehicles.

• Develop a tactical mindset to reduce excessive force and improve decision-making during high-stress stops.

Requirements

• Currently Sworn and Actively Employed Law Enforcement Officer

• Ability to safely handle a handgun and patrol rifle

• Semi-Auto handgun w/ 3 magazines (duty weapon preferred)

• Duty belt with Holster (no Serpa holsters allowed) & magazine pouches

• IFAK or minimum of TQ carried on person

• 250 rounds of pistol ammo

• 100 rounds of rifle ammo

• 200 rounds of Simunition or other Non-Lethal

• Training Ammunition (NLTA)

• Simunition OR other NLTA handgun & mags