Dynamic Apprehensions

This course focuses on planning, surveilling and conducting high risk apprehensions for violent offenders in mobile situations.

This course is for specialized / plain clothes units and/or SWAT, who track and apprehend armed and violent criminals. These criminals use their skills to avoid detection and have a high propensity to evade arrest. Our course is built to provide you and your team with the tactical and technical advantage over these criminals by foreseeing obstacles and solving them with proven methods. This course encompasses operations planning, static and mobile surveillance, and multiple proven tactics to apprehend these offenders. These tactics are dynamic in nature and are based around using your vehicle as a platform. We teach not only the tactics, but best practices on when to utilize them. Our instructors will provide you with sound options and unconventional methods for operational environments that are filled with variables and ever changing circumstances in a highly scrutinized time for police work.

From our years of experience we know that these types of operations can be put together on short notice and executed by teams with less equipment and training than traditional SWAT teams. We use our blend of instructor’s professional backgrounds and skill sets to improve decision making processes in dynamic environments and help you formulate what works best for your team’s configuration.

For Contracting this Course: This is typically a four day course due to the large amount of material covered. If you are contracting this class, we can scale it to the needs of your unit / team and work with you to maximize the training. We will also meet prior to the class to discuss departmental policies and team SOPs to enhance your training plan.


Topics Covered:

  • Operations Planning - Hasty and Deliberate

  • Vehicle Selection and Equipment Considerations

  • Mobile Surveillance Into an Apprehension

  • Vehicle Based Apprehension Tactics - Mobile and Static

  • Threat Assessments

  • Resource Management

  • Supervisor and Team Leader Considerations

Equipment Needed:

  • Duty Vest / Kit

  • 2 Rifle Mags (Empty),

  • Eye Protection

  • Long Sleeves, Pants,

  • Notepad / Pen

  • Simuntion equipment (Rifle bolts, pistols and magazines, rounds, protective gear) WILL be provided.

  • ***This course is LIGHT on the classroom portion and HEAVY on outdoor training. Plan accordingly with the weather.***

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