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FATS Inc.’s new Self-Contained Law Enforcement Training System is a portable training unit with complete FATS functionality, including FATS’ extensive DVD courseware that provides realistic virtual training in vital skills such as verbal commands, escalation and de-escalation of force, marksmanship, and non-lethal weapons use. Components include a 17-inch LCD monitor and keyboard, speaker, projector, hit-detect camera, and joystick, all housed in a resilient polyethylene case.
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Training for any agency’s SWAT team is physically, mentally, and tactically challenging. Add in long and changing shift work hours, family obligations, and not enough time in the day, and your goal of joining a SWAT team appears even more difficult. The goal of this article is to assist those police officers currently on the force in achieving the fitness level of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) officers.
Read More →AccuScope, a sight-in reference tool for scopes, allows you to easily and accurately sight in a firearm scope. With the user providing the shooting distance from the target and the number of inches off center, the AccuScope slide chart calculates the precise number of “clicks” to adjust both the windage and elevation simultaneously to help the shooter put the next shot on center.
Read More →The TRACS remotely operated vehicle system from Northern Lights Tactical is a flexible target platform and tactics training tool created for police, SWAT, civilian, and military uses. Designed to emulate the unpredictable actions of live targets, TRACS is capable of moving as fast as a running man over a wide variety of terrain.
Read More →The newest HitPad target for Impact Training Systems’ HitMaster Personal Trainer product line registers contact from fists or impact weapons in three distinct zones. The human silhouette-style target works with the existing HitMaster Personal Trainer controller to record hits in up to three independent zones: head, midsection, and groin.
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Emotionally disturbed persons, or EDPs, present a major challenge to the law enforcement officer sent to deal with their sometimes bizarre and frequently unpredictable behavior.
Read More →The Operational Tactics Urban & Airport Sniper Operations School hosted by the Lee Co., Florida Sheriff's Office, will be held March 18-22, 2002.
Read More →Telling my partner that we would handle this, I pulled my badge from out of my pocket, cleared my clothing away from my firearm, walked up on the car and yelled, "Police!" The female driver slammed the car into reverse, heading toward my partner.
Read More →You've made a traffic stop and the suspect does not respond to your verbal commands. He moves his index finger from his ear to his mouth. Then he begins to reach for the glove compartment. Many veteran patrol officers say they've had to forcefully arrest or almost tire their weapon under similar circumstances-only to discover the subject they thought was being aggressive or uncooperative was deaf or hearing impaired.
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