Joint Public Safety Response to the Active Shooter/Active Assailant

This eight-hour course is designed for public safety and organizational leaders responsible for preventing, responding to, and recovering from hostile events including firearms, vehicle-as-a-weapon, fire-as-a-weapon, mass stabbing, explosive, and other active assailant scenarios. The course connects threat history and attacker behavior to the practical decisions that shape response outcomes, covering law enforcement priorities, fire and EMS responsibilities, incident command and communications, 9-1-1 coordination, casualty management, Rescue Task Force integration, and organizational planning across multiple disciplines. Drawing from over 400 scholarly references, lessons from numerous active assailant incidents, and Threat Suppression's experience leading 75 large-scale multi-agency exercises and serving as incident commanders at actual events, the course identifies gaps in planning, coordination, and training to help agencies build truly integrated response capability.

​Format: Lecture | Audience: Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, Emergency Management, Government Agencies, School Administrators | Time: Eight hours

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Active Assailant Incident Command: Beyond the 60-Minutes
This eight-hour course is designed for public safety leaders, emergency managers, and senior government officials responsible for command-level decision-making during and after these incidents, addressing the operational, legal, logistical, and psychological challenges that arise after the immediate threat has ended. Drawing from more than 110 published after-action reports spanning two decades, the course covers mass casualty management, reunification, decedent considerations, crisis communications, evidence handling, witness documentation, community psychological recovery, and the staggering financial impact these events impose on jurisdictions. The tactical phase may last minutes, but the leadership, coordination, and accountability required in the aftermath will shape a community's recovery for years.
Format: Lecture | Audience: Incident Commanders, Emergency Managers, Supervisory Staff, Government Leaders, Command Staff, School Administrators | Time: Eight hours

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Active Assailant Rescue Task Force Train-the-Trainer
This eight-hour practical course prepares experienced law enforcement, fire, and EMS instructors to deliver Rescue Task Force training within their agencies, providing the instructional material, demonstrations, and field-tested procedures needed to support agency-level RTF programs. Built on over 50,000 hours of Threat Suppression research, more than 100 large-scale active shooter exercises, and instructors' first-hand experience commanding multiple active assailant attacks, the course covers exterior and interior RTF operations, fire-as-a-weapon response, force protection, downed-officer rescue, victim extraction, and scenario-based exercises that test real-world decision-making. Students train through round-robin stations with demonstrations, drills, and practical exercises conducted in outdoor settings across all weather conditions, learning how to integrate law enforcement, fire, and EMS personnel into coordinated rescue operations. The course (which requires completion of Joint Public Safety Response to the Active Assailant course beforehand) equips trainers to develop certified instructors capable of deploying consistent RTF training across their organizations and regions.
Format: Practical | Audience: Recognized instructors with law enforcement, fire, and EMS | Time: Eight hours