Jose Medina

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Officer Jose Medina is an active member of the Piscataway (N.J.) Police Department's SWAT team and runs Awareness Protective Consultants (Team APC) tactical training.

From Jose Medina
SWAT
Incorporate Fitness Into Your SWAT Training
Part of the SWAT lifestyle is fitness; make no mistake about it. Teams should not have the "look" of a model but actually just good sound fit individuals to hold things together in a time of crisis.
August 11, 2013
Photo via Artic Warrior/Flickr.
SWAT
Every Officer Should Be Trained In SWAT Basics
Shouldn't every good basic cop have the ability to quickly stack, flow into a room, hold a position if a SWAT team leader stated, "you two post this hallway," and back-clear or secondary search several rooms?
January 30, 2013
Photo courtesy of Jose Medina.
SWAT
Going 'Hands On' During an Entry
How well prepared you are to make entry into a structure, order subjects to the ground, and transition to hands to place handcuffs or control subjects on the ground?
October 29, 2012
SWAT
Deploying a Ballistic Shield
The most common ballistic rating carried today by officers is a Level IIIA shield. Level IIIA shields handle the job and are also much more affordable than Level III or Level IV shields. Once the levels go up, so does the weight, as well as the price.
April 25, 2012
LCOA Composites' DeadStop ballistic shield. Photo: LCOA
SWAT
How To Recognize a Troubled Operator
Leading a tactical team can be a tedious and mentally draining task. When a tactical member, let alone one of your best operators in the game, suddenly has a life crash, keep an open line of communication with that person.
January 31, 2012
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