Tactical Medicine
Tactical Medical for First Responders is an emergency medical course that is designed to prepare Law Enforcement how to respond and treat life threatening traumatic injuries involving major extremity hemorrhage, penetrating injury to chest or abdomen. The training is based on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines and is presented by FLETC certified instructors experienced in EMS with reality-based training techniques.
Course Topics:
- Direct Threat Care that is rendered while under attack or in adverse conditions. · Indirect Threat Care that is rendered while the threat has been suppressed, but may resurface.
- Hemorrhage control and treatment of shock
- Airway management
- Chest injuries
- Lifting, moving and extricating victims from a tactical or hostile environment
At the conclusion of this course each participant will receive a Mini First Aid Kit (M-FAK) containing all the immediate critical care items needed for treatment of penetrating, blast or other traumatic injuries. An $80 value!
Disclaimer: Our active-bleeding training devices are breathtakingly realistic and simulate actual traumatic injuries and major hemorrhage. Trainees should wear clothes that can get dirty, allow movement, and be exposed to training blood. Physical activity is included in the training, including kneeling, lying on the floor, and the manipulation of casualties.
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RAPID RESPONSE TO CIVIL DISTURBANCE
This 8-hour block of instruction presents the patrol officer with the concept of an appropriate lawful response to planned mass gatherings or spontaneous events.
This course will provide the patrol officer with the skills to effectively respond to mass gatherings, protests, or civil unrest. Officers will have an overview of the contemporary legal issues fueling protests including First Amendment rights, appropriate levels of force, conducting mass arrests and most important, how to safely contain and control these events. This training culminates with a series of hands-on activities to effectively prepare officers and agencies in crowd control techniques, mass arrest procedures and officer rescues. This course meets the NTOA's Public Order Standards for a Basic Public Order Unit.
Course topics include:
- Identifying legal considerations during mass gatherings, protests, civil disturbances and civil unrest.
- Understanding the makeup crowd situations and the types of participants
- Identifying local protest groups and their tactics
- Equipment considerations
- Crowd control tactics
- Mass arrest procedures
- Use of force
- Officer safety in crowd situations
PLANNING AND COMMANDING MASS GATHERINGS (8 HOURS)
Planning and Commanding Mass Gatherings course prepares the management-level responder to serve as a member of an incident management team during mass gatherings or civil unrest. The course provides instruction on planned or spontaneous events and how to implement response actions from the management level. The course covers several in depth tactical debriefs of actual events and lessons learned focusing on case law, common legal defenses and civil lawsuits related to protest situations
The course culminates with several tabletop exercises in which students use knowledge and skills developed in the previous sessions to plan for and command resources at the incident site.
Course topics include:
- The right to protest and law enforcement response
- Protest groups
- Pre-planning
- Responsibilities of management-level responders during civil unrest
- Use of force
- Equipment considerations
- Crowd control tactics
- Mass arrest procedures
RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SAFETY ACT (LEOSA)
TCC offers retired law enforcement officers residing in Pennsylvania and New Jersey the ability to satisfy federal and state requirements to carry a firearm after retirement. Please contact us for more information.