Emergency Medical Training-Emergency Medical Education Classes (EMT, Paramedic, Accelerated EMT, Advanced EMT Classes, Medic & EMT Refreshers/CEU/Inservice. AHA CPR & ACLS, PHTLS, PEPP, AMLS, NSC. First Aid for general public.)

Pelham Tactical offers training in the following areas: Click on links for full course descriptions

Future Courses

• Managing a Training Division
• Law Enforcement Pursuit Driving
• Tactical Officer Defensive Tactics
• Officer Survival Course
• Urban Survival I & II
• Quick Clear Active Shooter Response
• Counter Disturbance Tactics for Correctional Facility Staff

Tactical Course Descriptions

High Risk Warrant Service Planning and Preparation
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Cost: $300

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.

Course Content:
• 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)

Student Minimum - 10

High Risk Building Search Techniques for Patrol and Detective Personnel
Course Duration: 1 day
Course Cost: $175

The vast majority of building searches are not performed by tactical units but by patrol officers and detectives yet most agencies offer no training in this critical function to these officers except at the police academy and during the field training program. Searching buildings for suspects in hiding is a critical and often life threatening skill which must receive on-going and continual training.

This 1 - day course will deal with searching a wide variety of structures including commercial, residential and government style buildings. Officers in this course will deal with all lighting conditions and will execute these searches utilizing both small and large groups to achieve a balance of search speed, consistency and safety while at the same time taking into account the staffing levels of smaller agencies.

Course Content:
• Case Studies
• De-briefs of Actual Events
• Classroom examination of Building Search Tactics
• Hands-on Building Search Tactics

The following components will be introduced to show the differences between each, some such as the Officer/Civilian Down and Active Shooter, will be but a small part of a much larger, separate class. They are presented here for comparison purposes only.

• Two officer search
• Four officer search
• Searching with K9’s
• Common obstructions
• Stairs and Entry Points
• Dynamic v. Hidden Search Techniques
• Officer/Civilian Down within structure
• Active Shooter|

Student Minimum - 10

Crisis Management for Field Supervisors
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Cost: $300 per student / Agency pricing available

The resolution of many crisis situations will hinge on what the first field supervisor on scene does, or does not do. Many field supervisors have never had training, nor have they even considered what actions that they will need to take in incidents that clearly exceed the norm. This course deals with the overall management of a crisis situation from both the tactical and strategic perspectives. This course will look at not only the immediate situational outcome of the decisions that must be made but will also look at the broader implications of those decisions from a management perspective.

Crisis Management for Field Supervisors will examine several critical situations and discuss the actions, or inactions of supervisors that were present at each incident. The course will not only discuss options for use during field level operations but will examine the broader implications of how those decisions may impact not only the agency involved but on law enforcement as a whole.

Students will take part in several mock situations to examine critical thinking and the overall ability of the student to adapt to changing situations such as:

• Vehicle Pursuits
• Officer Down
• Mass Protests/Riots
• Active Shooters
• Hostage Situations
• School Takeovers
• Domestics Disturbances

Student Minimum – 10

Vehicle Assault Tactics and Concepts
Course Duration: 1 day
Course Cost: $175

Topics will include assaults on school, transit and interstate buses along with passenger automobiles. Both dynamic and covert approach and entry will be taught with a special focus on school and transit buses. Students will progress through the various makes and models of vehicles and buses that are common in their area of responsibility. This is a hands-on course that will teach the basics of retaking a vehicle that is being held with hostile intent.

Course Content:
• Historical perspective on Vehicle Assaults
• Classroom Overview of Vehicle Assault Skills to Include:

• Hands-on skill building - Mock Vehicle Assaults
• Officer Safety

Student Minimum - 10

Officer Down Rescue
Course Duration: 1 Day or 2 Day ‘Train the Trainer’
Course Cost: 1 Day / $175 - 2 Day 'Train the Trainer' / $300

The nightmare scenario that is unfortunately becoming all too common is a police officer down and injured while still in the line of fire. There may be no time to wait for SWAT or other specialty units and a rescue must immediately take place. Rescuing a downed officer who is still in the line of fire is a skill that is not often taught to patrol officers or detectives, but can be invaluable when the chips are down. This course will cover a wide range of scenarios and will demonstrate a wide range of options.

Course Content:
This course will examine several actual officer down incidents with a focus on what went right, what went wrong and what could have been done to improve the ability of the street officers to effect a safe rescue.

The course will teach, in a hands-on manner, tactics for rescuing a downed officer or civilian in a building, open area or a vehicle.
It will also show several field expedient modes of extracting downed officers such as using patrol cars and other vehicles or tools that are commonly available to patrol officers and detectives during their tour of duty.

Student Minimum - 10

Four Day Basic Field Training Officer Course
Course Duration: 4 Days
Course Cost: $450

This 32 hour course is designed to provide knowledge and training to develop Field Training Officer’s skills. Each new FTO will be presented with ideas and techniques to assist them in becoming more professional and confident in the application of their skills. This course is based on a modified “San Jose” program. This course is appropriate for any agency and/or group that utilize apprentice based or “on-the-job” training. This model has been used to effectively train law enforcement, corrections, communications, private security, fire and EMS personnel.

Upon completion the FTO will be able to:
• Discuss the "San Jose" and other program models
• Identify demands on FTOs as Instructors
• List five of the errors in rating
• Understand the basics of Adult Learning Theory
• Identify liability issues
• Understand performance evaluations
• Instruct from Training Briefs
• Understand the Rating Scale and Reference Numbers
• Complete the Daily Observation Report
• Develop a Scenario and Additional Training plans
• Understand the purpose of program management and control

Advanced Field Training Officer Course
Course Duration: 2 days
Course Cost: $300 per student

This 16 hour course is designed to provide additional knowledge and training to further develop the Field Training Officer’s skills. Each FTO will be presented with ideas and techniques to assist them in becoming more professional, proficient, and confident in the application of their skills. This course is based on a modified “San Jose” program. This course is appropriate for any agency and/or group that utilize apprentice based or “on-the-job” training. This model has been used to effectively train law enforcement, corrections, communications, private security, fire and EMS personnel.

Upon completion the FTO will be able to:
• Discuss the importance of leadership for the FTO
• Identify ethical issues regarding FTO’s
• Identify poor performance
• Understand the basics of correcting poor performance
• Write and develop lesson plans
• Create Personal Improvement Plans for recruits
• Instruct from Training Briefs
• Create and evaluate scenario based training

Managing the Field Training Officer Unit
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Cost: $375

This 24 hour course is designed to provide knowledge and skills necessary to properly lead and manage a Field Training Unit. Each Field Training Manger will be presented with ideas and techniques to assist them in becoming more professional and confident in the application of their skills. This course is appropriate for any type of field training program however it does focus on the “San Jose” model program which is applicable to law enforcement, corrections, communications, security, fire and EMS personnel.

Upon completion the Field Training Manager will be able to:
• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different FTO models
• Identify demands on Field Training Managers
• Define the duties of the Field Training Manager and Coordinator
• Correct recruits poor performance
• Identify liability issues
• Understand performance evaluations
• Understand the Rating Scale and Reference Numbers
• Complete the Weekly Managers Report
• Develop a Scenario and Additional Training plans
• Understand the purpose of program management and control
• Manage the FTO
• Understand proper implementation of termination procedures.

High Risk Vehicle Stops
Course Duration: 1 day
Course Cost: $175

Today’s criminal is highly mobile and every law enforcement officer, regardless of the reason, must condition themselves to conduct a threat assessment on each motor vehicle they stop.
This course reviews past training, introduces new approach techniques and fine tunes the skills that officers have acquired over the years, while at the same time works to eliminate those bad habits that are ingrained by doing what seems to be ‘just another car stop’.

Course Content:
• What constitutes a high risk stop?
• Defining tactics and their basis in “good police practice”.
• Legal authority to remove occupants
• Knowledge of the suspect
• The pre-stop period
• Location
• Cover
• The actual stop
• Vehicle positioning
• Verbal commands
• Extrication of occupants
• Clearing and securing suspect vehicle
• Due regard for safety of all
• CHP Newhall Incident
• FBI Miami Shootout
• LAPD ‘Rodney King” incident
• Blue Island Ohio Pursuit and Shooting Incident
• Supervisory Personnel Issues and Concerns
• Hands-On Field Exercises:
   o High Risk Traffic Stops
   o Pursuit Termination Stops
   o High Risk Personnel Extractions
   o Vehicle Immobilization Techniques

Extreme Close Quarters Combatives
Course Duration: 2 days
Course Cost: $300

This two day, intensive hands on course introduces officers to the basics of advanced ground fighting combat. This course introduces the principles of grappling with combative suspects in a variety of law enforcement situations. During this course officers will learn the art of the takedown, body lock and a variety of control techniques to designed to safely bring a suspect into custody. This course will also instruct officers in the techniques and theories behind a law enforcement escape and weapons retention from an offender who has knowledge and training in martial arts concepts.

Required equipment: Mats, replica guns (preferably both duty and back-up gun replicas). Students need duty gear, mouth piece, and groin cups.
Optional gear: Marking knives, wall matting.

Plainclothes Operations
Course Duration: 2 days
Course Cost: $300 per student

This 16 hour course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for an officer/detective/operator assigned to a plainclothes detail involving covert surveillance and operations. Each student will be provided with ideas, tactics, and techniques to improve their ability to function in a covert setting. Upon completion students will be able to:

• Identify equipment and equipment options for plainclothes operations
• Understand the plainclothes mindset
• Select items necessary to conduct a plainclothes detail
• Understand safety concepts specific to plainclothes operations
• Effectively deploy safety equipment in plainclothes operations
• Successfully engage targets with sidearm from concealment
• Understand the importance of proper identification
• Plan a plainclothes operation
• Conduct a plainclothes operation

Student Minimum - 10

Basic SWAT Officers Course
Course Duration: 5 days (55hrs)
Course Cost: $450

The course is designed to instruct officers in the techniques and tactics used in high threat law enforcement situations. The course will assist officers in developing the skills needed to deal with crisis situations in the safest most reliable manner using a team concept. The course will cover techniques that are used to deal with incidents such as high-risk warrant service, barricaded suspects, hostage situations and active shooter scenarios.

The course will cover concepts associated with a Special Weapons and Tactics team as well as providing hands on training in a variety of different threat environments including residential, school and workplace settings as well as public transit and school buses. Designed to encompass a wide range of tactical instruction the five-day course will provide each officer with over 55 hours of continuing education credit. A complete course syllabus is available upon request.

Course size is limited.

Tactical Medic SWAT Course
Course Duration: 4 days
Course Cost: $450

This course is designed to meet the training requirements necessary to become operational, safe and effective at the entry level functioning as the Tactical EMS (TEMS) provider with a SWAT team.

Upon Successful completion of the TEMS course students receive paperwork outlining skills evaluations and didactic training and course completion certificate.

The Tactical Medic SWAT Course consists of approximately 50 hours of classroom and hands on training.

Student Minimum - 10
This course can be taught in a 5 day format if requested. Call for details.

Law Enforcement Patrol Carbine Instructor Course
Course Duration: 5 Days
Course Cost: $500 / Agency Rates Available

The carbine instructors’ course focuses on the development of the student as an instructor in the carbine specifically for the law enforcement environment. The course will develop a student’s ability to function and operate the AR-15/M-16 platform in a law enforcement environment. We then help the student develop their ability to teach those skills to other officers. In this course students will learn not only the how, but the why. During the course the student will have to successfully pass a qualification course and a variety of other courses. Students will also have to pass a written test and demonstrate teaching skills to the cadres’ satisfaction through teach backs and coaching sessions. The standards for instructors are high and only those who have satisfied all the standards will become instructors.

Course Objectives:
• Understand the function and operation the AR-15/M-16 weapon system.
• Understand the proper maintenance of the AR-15/M-16 weapon system.
• Diagnose and clear ongoing weapons malfunctions on the range.
• Understand the ballistics of the 5.56mm round.
• Proper zeroing of the AR-15/M-16 weapon system.
• The set-up of the weapon system for real world application. Proper selection of slings, optics, etc.
• Understand and demonstrate the application of the Combat Triad.
• Understand the use of various shooting postures.
• Shooting on the move.
• Deployment from vehicles.
• Understand course design and proper coaching.
• Develop awareness of legal issues and policy concerns.

Prerequisites: None. Though it is strongly recommended that students have attended a state certified general instructor or basic firearms instructor course.

Equipment: 1500 rounds for carbine, 100 rounds for pistol, 20 dummy rounds for the carbine. Minimum 3 magazines each weapon system (the more the better, especially for the carbine). Duty belt, flashlight, body armor, eye protection, ear protection, inclement weather gear, sunscreen, hydration.

Law Enforcement Tactical Trauma Course (LETTC)
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Cost: $325

This course studies actual officer down scenarios with a focus on the medical strategies that should be employed to better treat the injuries identified as the cause of preventable death. The principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) are deeply embedded into this course, putting the medical need into your tactics. LETTC is an extremely hands-on, demonstration and scenario based course with minimal classroom time.

The course is physically demanding. Students are expected to lift heavy objects, function in confined spaces, and safely assume standing, kneeling, and prone positions for periods of time in adverse conditions while being able to recover without assistance.

LETTC is designed for patrol officers as well as specialty units such as SWAT or Counter-Narcotics teams which have a greater capability to carry equipment and who, by the nature of their job function, routinely face threats that exceed the "norm". This course will also focus heavily on wound packing and tourniquet use but also instruct officers in other life saving procedures.

This course emphasizes aggressive medical strategies that go well beyond the basic first responder skills taught to most police officers. The principles of the U.S. Military's Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) are deeply embedded into this course.

Close Protection Detail Training for Law Enforcement
Course Duration: 5 days
Course Cost: $450 / Agency rate available, call for quote

Law enforcement agencies of all types are often called in to provide close protection details for visiting dignitaries, high risk witnesses or high profile prisoners with little or no advanced planning or training for the event. This course will take officers through the steps necessary to plan, brief and ultimately execute a protective detail in a permissive or semi-permissive environment.

Topics will include the formation and movement of a close protection unit, motorcade operations and the steps to take during an attack on a protectee. This course will delve heavily into the pre-planning of an event in regard to route, contingencies and the legal ramifications and justifications for a close protection detail.

Back to Tactical Course List

Corporate Protection Course Descriptions

Corporate Contingency and Catastrophic Event Planning and Preparation
Course Duration: 2 days
Course Cost: $300 / Corporate rates available

Corporations and their personnel exist in the real world and as such are faced daily with real world dangers. Riots, tornados, floods, earthquakes and terrorist attacks are but a few of the dangers facing Corporate America each day. Pelham Tactical’s law enforcement and military special operations group trainers bring their real world experiences to the corporate contingency planning process.
Topics such as threat recognition, risk abatement and planning for continuity of operations during a disaster are but a few of the many topics discussed in this course from the perspective of the personnel who are tasked with entering these situations and mitigating their effects.

This customizable training package is available in your location or in one of Pelham’s two corporate training locations in either Florida or Indiana. The training is available as part of Pelham Tactical’s Rapid Resource Training on 72hrs notice. All training conducted for corporate clients is done in the strictest confidence.

Student Minimum - 10

Back to Corporate Protection List

High Risk Personnel Training for Deployed Corporate Assets
Course Duration: 5 Days (Standard) / Customized Packages Available
Course Cost: Call for quote

Corporations by their nature are forced to move human assets into world trouble sites during both routine business and during disasters. These personnel are placed at great risk of attack, kidnapping and other threats to their personal safety while deployed. Pelham Tactical’s High Risk Personnel Training for Deployed Corporate Assets addresses the growing need to train your personnel to safely negotiate their way through the world’s trouble spots.

Topics that will improve the safety of your at-risk personnel are taught by veteran law enforcement and military special operations group trainers in a discrete environment. This training is available at your site or one of Pelham’s two corporate training locations in either Indiana or Florida. This customizable training package is available as part of Pelham Tactical’s Rapid Resource Training on 72hr notice. All training conducted for corporate clients is done in the strictest confidence.

Back to Corporate Protection List

Basic Executive Protection Driving School
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Cost: Call for quote

This three (3) day course focuses strictly on the skills necessary to evade a terrorist or criminal attack while operating an automobile. This training is Ideal for security professionals (who already have surveillance detection training) or individuals who want are protecting themselves and their dignitary inside the vehicle.

This course is very intensive in nature as all individuals should be physically able to sustain the driving maneuvers. This course will bring the participant to a highly proficient skill level in vehicle control.

Course topics will include the following: vehicle dynamics, vehicle control methods, driver reaction techniques, collision avoidance techniques, high-speed driving, high speed backing, vehicle force continuum, and evasive maneuvers to only mention a few.

Back to Corporate Protection List

Advanced Executive Protection Driving School
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Cost: Call for quote

This three (3) day course focuses strictly on the skills necessary to evade a terrorist or criminal attack while operating an automobile. This training is Ideal for security professionals (who already have surveillance detection training) or individuals who want are protecting themselves and their dignitary inside the vehicle. This course is very intensive in nature as all individuals should be physically able to sustain the driving maneuvers.

This course will bring the participant to a highly proficient skill level in vehicle control. Course topics will include the following: vehicle dynamics, vehicle control methods, driver reaction techniques, collision avoidance techniques, high-speed driving, high speed backing, vehicle force continuum, and evasive maneuvers to only mention a few.

Back to Corporate Protection List

Close Protection Detail Officer-EMT
Course Duration: 18 days
Course Cost: Call for quote

The EMT-CPO Course is an eighteen day training program specifically designed for police, military, close protection and civilian tactical teams deployed to locations not immediately accessible by professional medical responders. The coursework is fast paced and complete. Course instructors promptly put into action the materials covered during the course through the use of proven training methods including basic algorithm charting, trauma lanes and real time scenarios. Students will learn to apply basic medical protocols to emergency situations in remote, austere and hostile environments that can effectively save lives.

The Tactical Medical Care Course consists of training in the four sections listed below. Each of the following sections of the Tactical Medical Care Course is taught by experienced instructors uniquely qualified to teach the subject matter.

Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (EMT-B): The EMT-B section follows the training curriculum outlined by the USDOT/NHTSA. Successful completion of this section qualifies the student to sit for the national registry written and practical examination for the EMT-Basic.

American Heart Association CPR for the Healthcare Provider: The BLS Healthcare Provider section is designed to meet the needs of healthcare professionals who respond to cardiac and respiratory emergencies. The content of this section includes adult and pediatric CPR, foreign-body airway obstruction, and two-rescuer CPR. This section contains new information on barrier devices, stroke, and automated external defibrillation, including a new algorithm for use of automated external defibrillators.

Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS): PHTLS courses are nationally recognized continuing education credentials that are based on the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course for physicians and follow the protocols developed by the Committee on Trauma. PHTLS courses are designed to provide every practicing emergency care provider with a specific body of knowledge to enhance the assessment and care of the trauma patient.

Trauma Combat Casualty Care (TCCC): The specifics of casualty care in the tactical setting will depend on the tactical situation, the injuries sustained by the casualty, the knowledge and skills of the first responder (who may not be a medic or a corpsman), and the medical equipment at hand. In contrast to an Emergency Department setting where the patient is the mission, on the battlefield, care of casualties sustained is only one part of the mission. TCCC recognizes this fact and structures its guidelines to accomplish three primary goals: treat the casualty, prevent additional casualties and complete the mission.

In a combat environment many challenges exist that will affect patient care. Although the principles of trauma care must be carried out, the preferences used may change significantly. The TCCC program was developed to customize the principles of good trauma care for successful use on the battlefield.

Back to Corporate Protection List

Course Objectives:
• Understanding the function and operation the AR-15/M-16 weapon system
• Understanding the proper maintenance of the AR-15/M-16 weapons system
• Diagnosis and clear ongoing weapons malfunctions on the range.
• Understand the ballistics of the 5.56mm round.
• Proper zeroing of the AR-15/M-16 weapon system
• The set-up of the weapons system for the real world application. Proper selection of slings, optics, etc.
• Understanding and demonstrate the application of the Combat Triad.
• Understanding of the use of various shooting postures.
• Shooting on the move.
• deployment from vehicles
• Understanding Course design and proper coaching.
• Develop awareness of Legal issues and policy concerns.

Prerequisites: None. Though it is strongly recommended that students have attended a state certified general instructor or basic firearms instructor course.

Equipment: 1500 rounds for carbine, 100 rounds for pistol, 20 dummy rounds for the carbine. Minimum 3 magazines each weapon system (the more the better, especially for the carbine). Duty belt, flashlight, body armor, eyepro, earpro, inclement weather gear, sunscreen, hydration.

Back to Corporate Protection List

Required equipment: Mats, replica guns (preferably both duty and back-up gun replicas). Students need duty gear, mouth piece, and groin cups.

Optional gear: Marking knives, wall matting.

Back to Corporate Protection List

Pelham Tactical Courses

Pelham Tactical Calendar

Tactical Course Descriptions

Corporate Protection Course Descriptions

Telephone: 812.824.7975 Fax: 812.824.7841 Toll Free: 800.339.7914	Email: info@pelhamtraining.com
Address: 699 East Dillman Road, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA