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RAID Training (Rapid and Immediate Deployment to Active Shooters)

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This course can be modified to the level of expertise in the audience and can be adapted in the classroom for multiple levels of experience and understanding. It is however primarily for the First Responder to the scene.

Training Goals and Objectives 
Understanding what Rapid and Immediate Deployment means to the First Responder to a SceneStudents will exercise the use a common sense approachesStudents will gather an understanding of the mindset of the Hostage Taker and his intentStudents will gather an understanding of what their department expects of them in a RAID situationGather an understanding of RAID-SWAT tactics but that we are not a SWAT teamWhen to identify and deploy RAIDRAID tactics, identifying deadly force vs. containment of a situationUnderstanding the different types of officer RAID tacticsBy use of table top exercises and field exercises officers will get an understanding of the concept of RAID deployment

What is Less Lethal Force and how is it available to the First Responder?
Review actual less lethal situations unfold where the use of less lethal weapons was appropriate available/not availableIdentify what less lethal is available to the first responder

Students will utilize what they learned in the classroom and apply tactics in field exercises using equipment already available to them

Training Audience, Format and Content

This course is for the first line officer as well as the fist line supervisor and detectives who have not been exposed to RAID/less lethal force and the Hostage Taker.
This is an eight (8) hour course, which very easily can be extended to twelve (12) hours. The course contains a PowerPoint presentation with lecture as well as videotapes for review of actual situations and further training material. Several blackboard and tabletop exercises all the students to think interact and become involved. The field exercises allow the students the opportunity to apply what they learned in the classroom in a close to real setting utilizing the tools and resources available to them.Class size should be limited to twenty students (to get through an eight hour day)Class time can be extended to twelve hours to accommodate more studentsThis is normally a course that is held during the day time hours since most RAID situation are traditionally during the day