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SWAT CTU Ops - Explosives Awareness & Mitigation Workshop |
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New Dates: February 22-26, 2010 Camp Blanding FL. Call for pricing and details!
Agencies that participated in 2009:
- 16th MP BDE
- Anaheim Police Department
- Appalachian State University
- Bellevue Police Department
- Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office
Brea Police Department
- Collier County Sheriff's Office
- Costa Mesa Police Department
- Douglas Sheriff's Office
- Durham Police Department
Everett Police Department
- Fairfax County Police Department
- FLETC
- Franklin County Sheriff’s Office
- Gardenia Police Department
Garden Grove Police Department
- Glen Ellyn Police Department
- Huntington Beach Police Department
- Irvine Police Department
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
- Lee County Sheriff's Office
- Marysville Police Department
- Miami Police Department
- Monroe County Sheriff's Office
Nebraska State Patrol
Norfolk Police Department
- Orange County Sheriff's
- Orange Police Department
- Pierce County Sheriff's Office
Placentia Police Department
- Santa Ana Police Department
- Sarasota Sheriff's Office
- Sandy Springs Police Department
Sarpy County Sheriff's Department
- Seal Beach/West County SWAT
- Seattle Police Department
- Snohomish County Sheriff's Office
St. Johns Sheriff's Office
- South Snohomish County Sheriff's Office
- Rock Hill Police Department
- York County Sheriff’s Office
Read the latest testimonial here!
Workshop Objectives
During this workshop participants will learn:
1. Past CT operations from around the world in order to understand the differences between CT work and SWAT operations
2. Techniques for responding to terrorists in fortified structures.
3. Techniques for “secure search” clearing of rooms
4. Techniques for interdicting terrorists in vehicles and on foot
5. Impact of IED’s on Hostage rescue operations
6. Bus assaults involving terrorists armed with IED’s
7. Conduct of raids against terrorists in schools, hotels and apartments
8. Integration of: snipers, rapellers, ladder teams, bomb techs/ EOD, K-9 and medical support to operations
Course Enabling Learning Objectives
Without the aid of references, students will be capable of responding to a range of terrorism incidents utilizing appropriate techniques.
A. Study actions of the Yamam, the US Marine Anti-Terror unit, and other CT units’ (one hour lecture).
1. Discuss Madrid bombing suspects in apartment and Spanish Police CTU action
2. Discuss Taibe incident in Israel learning about the YAMAM
3. Learn about several smaller incidents (recent shooting of terrorist in Dimona by Negev border control incident)
B. Techniques for responding to terrorists in a fortified structure
1. Demonstrate closing techniques on the target location that isolate the structure and prevent the egress of target suspects, or the ingress of outsiders (innocent civilians, potential sympathizers, etc).
2. Develop control measures that provide positive control of the assault force, provide complete coverage of the target location, and minimizes the potential for fratricide.
3. Describe methods of increasing pressure (based on rules of engagement/force continuum) to induce the surrender of suspects.
C. Techniques for room clearing
1. Describe “secure” methods of searching
2. Demonstrate 4-man tactics/movement
3. Securing and searching a room in a terrorist safe have in a deliberate manner with safety to the team of the highest concern.
4. Entries into rooms are accomplished only after clearing as much of the room as possible from the outside.
5 Gaining as much as possible from outside the rooms using various techniques including new uses of ladders, rappelling and more.
Note: For some SWAT teams, some of the techniques will seem inapplicable based on previous experience handling criminal incidents. It is important to remember the context of the module: clearing a building harboring terrorists armed with assault weapons and explosive devices who are deliberately attempting to ambush SWAT team members without expectation of personal escape.
D. Interdiction of terrorists on foot and in vehicles
Differentiate between encounters with known terrorist bombers and encounters with lesser degrees of certainty.
1. Demonstrate techniques for controlling a potential bomber.
2. Demonstrate techniques for apprehending a suspect from unmarked vehicles.
E. Impact of IED’s on Hostage Rescue and clearing operations
1. Learn about the different type of booby traps
2. Working with intelligence to formulate the assault plan
2. Entry - using the Bomb tech as the lead of the team
3. Practicing the tactics for encounter with bomb laden terrorists
4. Discuss the impact IEDs have on assaulting a fortification.
5. Demonstrate techniques for negotiating IEDs
6. Identify common types of IEDs that may be encountered.
7. Demonstrate Positioning options for Bomb Techs in assault element
F. Advanced Hostage Rescue- Bus Assaults
1. Demonstrate the techniques used by the ladder teams.
2. Demonstrate the techniques of the entry team.
3. Demonstrate mobile assault options.
G. Conducting Raids where there may be terrorists
1. Demonstrate the techniques used by the ladder team.
2. Demonstrate the techniques of the entry team.
3. Demonstrate mobile assault options.
4. Demonstrate other options
H. Final Exercise
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