Hosted by the Prior Lake Police Department
This instructor level course will focus on arrest and control techniques specific to S.W.A.T. and tactical team applications. This program has been adapted from the U.S. Army’s Tactical Combatives Course (MACP, USACS) and modified for law enforcement tactical entry teams to provide fundamental concepts in controlling resistant or aggressive suspects. This system has been implemented by the Saint Paul Police S.W.A.T. Team and many other S.W.A.T./Tactical Teams throughout the region.
The principles taught in this course are easy to learn and effective regardless of the actions taken by the subject. This system can be integrated into existing tactics and trains officers to seamlessly transition to appropriate levels of force in a dynamic and fluid environment. The skills taught in this course will keep officers safe, while providing the knowledge and physical tools to apply reasonable and lawful levels of force during operations in a tactical environment.
Course objectives include but are not limited to:
- Establish standard operating procedures for addressing unarmed, assaultive subjects during tactical operations
- Perform single-officer and multiple-officer takedowns on a resistant subject
- Develop skills in controlling and restraining combative subjects
- React to a fully resistant subject at close quarters
- Integrate arrest and control tactics during dynamic room clearing procedures
Agencies are encouraged to send at least two officers to this course to enhance the team component of this training.
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT
- Duty belt and/or tactical vest
- Plastic training pistol and holster
- Eye protection (ballistic)
- Team equipment and tools (optional)
- Patrol rifle, with Simunition bolt (if available)
- Simunition pistol (if available)
- One box of Simunition, UTM, or Force on Force ammunition for pistol and rifle (if available)
