Rescue Task Force Train-the-Trainer

 

***Note, this course is for agencies and not open for individual enrollment.***

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Research-Driven Training 

Many public safety agencies are examining how to implement integrated active assailant response. This eight-hour train-the-trainer course is grounded in more than 50,000 hours of research, 100 large-scale active assailant exercises, and direct response to multiple active assailant events. The course material has become the foundation for RTF training across dozens of local, state, and federal agencies and serves as the gold standard for Department of War rescue task force training.

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What You'll Receive

Upon completion, your agency receives a 400-slide instructor PowerPoint with accompanying voiceover by Dr. Clumpner, 8GB of supporting materials (2,000+ active shooter studies, articles, videos, and audio), and an educational site license for multi-agency use. You'll have everything needed to deliver a 40-hour RTF training course to your personnel. This course provides instructor candidates with tactics, techniques, and procedures that they can use when teaching RTF courses. It is recommended that students bring cameras to photograph and film different procedures taught in the course.

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Course Structure

This practical course uses "round robin" training stations where all participants (law enforcement, fire, and EMS) rotate through multi-discipline evolutions demonstrating integrated response. Each 1 hour 45-minute station covers specific RTF operations with time for questions and rotation. Two stations are conducted outdoors. Instructors recommend bringing cameras to document the techniques you'll teach.

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Prerequisites

Participants must be recognized, experienced instructors at their agency. All attendees are required to first complete the eight-hour “Joint Public Safety Response to the Active Shooter/Active Assailant” course, which teaches the application and context for the practical skills covered here. Without attending that course first, participants will slow down the training as the instructor has to provide both the application (“when”) of the tactic/technique and the practical knowledge (‘how”) to perform the tactic/technique.

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Topics Covered

• Review of basic building entry and room clearing techniques

• RTF force protection consideration for hallways, T-intersections, stairwells, and more

• Use of K-9s with the RTF to identify victim locations

• Quick action drills when the RTF encounters hostile action

• RTF movement to contact outside to the crisis site

• RTF movement to contact using armored vehicles or fire trucks

• Civilian extraction from the crisis site using fire trucks

• Spontaneous RTFs and incident command established RTFs

• RTF response to fire-as-a-weapon event

• Law enforcement direct-to-threat response in low visibility of no visibility environments

• RTF response in low visibility or no visibility environments with victim rescues

• RTF movement and operations with potential/actual IEDs

• Contact team movement from outside to the crisis site

• RTF downed officer or downed RTF member rescues

• Tubular assaults and MCI management on buses

• Defeating denial of entry tactics, including tactical door breaching

• Casualty collection point considerations

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This course is NFPA 3000 compliant, and compliant with Department of the Air Force AFI 32-2001 for mandatory RTF planning and response training.​ To download a PDF description of this training, please click the course PDF below. If you would like more information on booking this course, please fill out the contact form below, call us at 1-800-231-9106, or email us at info@ThreatSuppression.com..

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