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High Risk Warrant services are a fact of life in law enforcement. Often however these warrants are served with no real thought as to the planning or execution of the tactics that will be used during these operations. This 2-day course will deal with not only the legal aspects of a forced entry into a dwelling, but also with the physical tactics that will need to be used as well as the detailed planning that must occur. This is a hands-on course that will have students planning and executing mock search and arrest warrants on several occasions.

Who should attend this course:

Supervisors, patrol officers, detectives, correctional officers, parole and probation officers, Federal, State and municipal law enforcement officers, and military personnel.

Course Content:

• Comparison of Forced Entry Tactics and Other Methods
• Surround and Call-Out
• Limited Incursion Operations
• Dynamic Forced Entry
• Covert Entry
• Legal Aspects of Forced Entry
• Legal Planning for High Risk Warrant (HRW) Planning
• Risk Analysis
• Training Issues Relating to HRW Service
• HRW Tactics (Hands On)
• Intelligence Gathering on a Structure
• Intelligence Gathering on a Suspect(s)
• Mission Preplanning
• Mission Briefing/Debriefing
• Mission Execution (Strategic)
• Mission Execution (Tactical)
• Historical Mission Debriefing (Case Studies)
• Apartments
• Residential Structures
• Mobile Homes (Facility Dependant)
• Others (Facility Dependant)
• Physical Defensive Tactics
• Dynamic Entry Specific Methods
• Basic Manual Breaching
• High Risk Warrant Service Scenarios (To Include Entire Process from Planning through Operation)

This course is also available in 1 day or 3-5 day formats.  Please call for pricing.

Instructor:  Sgt. Scott Oldham, Bloomington, IN is an eighteen year law enforcement veteran with over thirteen years assigned to his agency’s Special Weapons and Tactics unit where he currently commands the primary entry team. Sgt Oldham has instructed officers from many different law enforcement agencies on a wide variety of operational and tactics based topics. Sgt. Oldham has been involved in, planned and lead numerous tactical operations including resolution of incidents involving barricaded suspects, high risk warrant services and the rescue of persons held hostage

Sgt. Oldham is a published author contributing to such magazines as S.W.A.T., Tactical Response and Law and Order. He currently writes the bi-monthly “The Sergeant” column for Hendon Publications’ Law and Order magazine where he focuses on topics important to first line supervisors.

Instructor: Sgt. Mick Williams, Bloomington, IN, is a thirteen year law enforcement veteran where he has been involved in the training and development of special operations units within his agency for several years.  He is a certified Indiana Law Enforcement Instructor where he specializes in Physical Tactics, Emergency Vehicle Operations and Firearms,  He has developed training programs in defensive tactics, civil disturbance tactics, less lethal tactics, firearms, EVO, basic SWAT and other topics. 

Sgt. Williams is a regular contributor to Law and Order, Tactical Response and SWAT Magazine.

Tuition $ 299 US

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