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Tag: Defensive Tactics: Page 15
Patrol
Structure Searches
Thousands of times a day in this country peace officers search homes, businesses, schools, and other structures for hidden offenders. Structure searches can turn into a high-risk assignment for the officers performing them.
August 31, 2003
Patrol
Disarming
Most police departments nationwide didn't start training their recruits and sworn officers how to protect their guns until the early '80s when law enforcement became widely aware of the staggering statistics regarding officer shootings.
July 31, 2003
Weapons
Rapid Reload
Without bullets, a handgun is nothing more than an expensive paperweight. Reloading this paperweight with bullets quickly is a necessary skill.
June 30, 2003
Patrol
Search Patterns
Patting down a suspect is serious business and you can never be reminded enough of the hazards of doing it poorly.
April 30, 2003
Patrol
Unleashing the Warrior Spirit
What about learning how to become the aggressor? That's right, you need to know how to become the attacker and let your assailant react to you.
February 28, 2003
Patrol
Countering Canine Attacks
You have no choice. You draw your service weapon and fire three rounds into the dog. Two find their mark in its chest cavity, while the third rips through one of its front legs. It takes a few more paces, collapses, and dies.
February 28, 2003
Patrol
Preventing Training Tragedies: Hard Knocks
Today's DT training is much more gritty, more physical, and closer to an approximation of what officers experience in a real street encounter. Unfortunately, it's also much more dangerous.
December 31, 2002
Patrol
The Call Out
For those of us involved in law enforcement we know that there is no such thing as the "routine traffic stop." The names of well over 300 officers who have been killed while making a traffic stop are engraved on the gray granite walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
November 30, 2002
Patrol
Killing 'em Softly
Ask police defensive tactics (DT) instructors what's the most frequent cause of injury in their classes and they'll point the finger at an unlikely hazard: mats.
November 30, 2002
Patrol
Ties That Bind
Today there are scores of new and innovative products aimed at keeping officers safe while handling and transporting prisoners.
November 30, 2002
Special Units
Jumping into the Fire
At Columbine, the officers, deputies, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel did an incredible job in their response to an unbelievably bad situation. But through no fault of their own, the tactics they were trained to use were not suited to the nature of the incident.
September 30, 2002
Weapons
On the Cutting Edge
No department would dare let said officer hit the street without training and instruction in policies governing the use of a pistol. Many PDs even have policies regarding the use of flashlights. But in most departments an edged weapon/cutting tool clipped to the pocket of the officer's duty pants flies under the radar.
September 30, 2002
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