This course adopts an approach that empowers the first responding officers to take command promptly and effectively. It establishes a systematic and organized process to then expand the Incident Command structure as key leadership, partner agencies, and resources arrive. Anchored in the principles of NIMS ICS, this simple but systematic approach minimizes confusion, improves communication, manages chaotic situations, and ultimately increases casualty survival rates.

Emphasizing the effective collaboration among various response units such as law enforcement, fire, EMS, public safety communications, and emergency management, the course focuses on how each agency establishes command and then seamlessly integrates together to improve efficiency and control. The course will address the many mission critical decision points throughout the process, as well as the importance of staging, integrated response, Unified and Area Commands. This course involved lecture, discussion, tabletop exercises, then culminates in multi-disciplinary exercises with law enforcement and Fire/EMS students from other concurrent conference courses.

Dates: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 60 students (Mix of LE, fire, EMS of any rank)
Location: At hotel
Instructors: Stan Standridge

The Advanced Tactical Medicine course will follow TECC guidelines and go above and beyond the basic medical blocks covered in AAIR and FRM. Course topics include bleeding control, whole blood transfusion, surgical cricothyrotomy, and needle/finger thoracostomy.

This course will culminate in a muti-disciplinary exercise with law enforcement and command elements from other courses.

Dates: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 30 students (Paramedics)
Location: At hotel
Instructors: Andrew Huitt

This operator level course is a comprehensive introduction to the proper deployment and application of ballistic breaching. The course highlights weapon and ammunition selection, aim points and angles of attack, and hinge breaching. During this course students will conduct patterning drills, approaches and set up at the breach point, and live-fire practical application.

Student equipment list: 12 Ga Shotgun; 5 12Ga Shotgun rounds (department issued ammo); 50 rounds of 12Ga bird shot; personal body armor; eye and ear protection; gloves; hydration system; appropriate range attire; note-taking material

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 20 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors: Patric Bradshaw & James Crosson

First responder agencies are frequently requested by schools, businesses, and community members for direction and presentations on what they should do if confronted with an active attacker event. The Civilian Response and Casualty Care (CRCC) course, designed and built on the Avoid, Deny, Defend (ADD) strategy developed by ALERRT in 2004, provides strategies, guidance and a proven plan for surviving an active shooter event. This course combines the civilian response with the Stop the Bleed Campaign, which empowers civilians to provide life-saving medical aid before first responders ever arrive. Topics include the history and prevalence of active shooter events, civilian response options, medical issues, and considerations for conducting drills. Participants in this Train-the-Trainer course will receive a manual and PowerPoint presentation suitable for use in their own presentations.

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 50 students
Location: At hotel
Instructors:  TBD

Fire as a weapon (FAAW) is the use of fire, smoke, or flammable materials normally used with other attack vectors that confound incident response, and which requires an integrated response for incident stabilization. Criminals and terrorists have used FAAW in many incidents, including well-known incidents such as: Waco TX, 1993; Mumbai India, 2008; Ferguson MO, 2014-15; and Honolulu HI, 2020 as well as many smaller incidents. FAAW incidents are continually evolving, both in magnitude and frequency, and the training to mitigate FAAW must also continually evolve. This course will be a lecture and discussion.

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 4 hours
Class Size: 60 students
Room: At hotel
Instructors: John Cantarella, Brad Elkins, Russ Howard, & Scott Hembree

This course will cover reasons and methods to carry off-duty and on-duty for plain clothes officers, levels of intervention, deadly force policies and case studies, ergonomic considerations for plain clothes carry, options for mitigating the occurrence of blue-on-blue shootings.

Student equipment list: Students will need eye protection/ear protection/duty gear, 200 rounds of pistol ammo and at least 2 magazines

This class will be divided up into two groups of 20 students, running at the same time: Group A and Group B.

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class size: 40 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors - Group A: Glen Gold, Randy Milstead, Jamie Harvel, Steve McCurley
Instructors - Group B: Brian White, Tony Pissarro, Pat Straker, James Maddox

This 4-hour overview will cover use of a hand-held light vs a weapon-mounted light in approaches, working thresholds, and suspect control in various lighting conditions.

Learning Objective 1 - The student will be able to recognize the importance of proper mental conditioning, tactics, physical skills, and equipment and how together they will increase the probability of winning a low-light confrontation.

Learning Objective 2 - Students will be able to recognize and articulate different lighting conditions and how to best work approaches, thresholds and entries in that condition.

Learning Objective 3 - Students will be able to demonstrate how to properly perform during approaches, thresholds and entries under varied lighting conditions.

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8 AM or 1 PM
Length: 4 hours
Class Size: 20 students
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors: Erin Clewell & Brian Ellingson

This operator level course is a comprehensive introduction to the proper deployment and application of manual breaching. The course highlights tool selection, strike points, breaching techniques, and identifying inward / outward opening doors. During this course students will conduct a series of breaches with traditional and exigent breaching tools.

Student equipment list: Eye protection, ear protection, long sleeves, gloves. hydration system; appropriate range attire; note-taking material. If you have a tool you would like to try out please bring it.

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8AM or 1PM
Length: 4 hours
Class Size: 20 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors: Erik Spriegel & Brad Doring

The Rescue Task Force (RTF) program has become a national model for the triage, treatment, and rapid transport of casualties from a crisis site to higher definitive care. The Pre-staged RTF Course challenges the notion that the RTF model is exclusive to “surprise” active attack incidents and demonstrates that the process can be extremely effective in any large scale or significant event. The course will address concepts such as interagency agreements and responsibilities, deployment locations and strategies, unified command organization, terminology, communications, equipment/vehicles, and training. Through case studies, data, and live scenarios the students will learn and practice this life saving program that can be pre-deployed for concerts/festivals, sporting events, entertainment districts, planned protests, and so much more. The course will culminate with integrated force-on-force deployment scenarios, with medical components. Don't miss this chance to see how valuable the process can be for your agencies!

Presentation: Lecture, discussion, scenarios, and force-on-force exercises

Students: LE and Fire/EMS of any rank and active-duty military

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 24 students (12 LE & 12 Med)
Location: ACC Public Safety Training Center - Kyle, TX
Instructors: TBD

This 4-hour course is designed to familiarize the student with conducting firearms proficiency, close-quarter engagement considerations, and mass-casualty care within a hostile environment. Weapons manipulation/accuracy/proficiency (primary and secondary system), Officer down scenarios, and medical treatment will be following established Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines and ALERRT-established medical protocols.

The course will utilize a combination of range instruction, individual and buddy team skill stations, and scenario-based exercises with the incorporation of role players. After this course, students will have better confidence with weapons systems, active shooter response communication, a basis of LE incident command considerations, individual tactical gear, and vehicle support from high repetition application in continued exposure to multiple scenarios.

Multiple instructors from ALERRT/ 18 Systems Consulting will be present to assist the students throughout the duration.

Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Times: 8 AM or 1 PM
Length: 4 hours
Class Size: 20 students
Location: ACC Public Safety Training Center - Kyle, TX
Instructors: TBD