3 day Crowd Management Strategies for Command Staff
* Offered as an "Open" course
This course is offered as an "Open" course for those agencies who have either suffered the De-Fund movement and have had their training budget cut, or it does not make sense to host an agency specific course due to agency size.
As an open course, agencies may send one to twelve officers to attend training that will be held in Ontario, California at a hotel by the Ontario International Airport making transportation and lodging easy for traveling officers. MTS always attempts to gain room discounts for its clients.
This course has rapidly become the most requested course and fills the gap between line tactics and the strategies for an Incident Commander, or Officer in Charge of a station or department. It is designed for department command staff (Lieutenants and above) although line supervisors would gain insight into pre-planning of a crowd event.
The three day course is designed to provide Command Staff with insight and understanding into the Mobile Field Force Concept and tactics, and the capabilities of their trained personnel (the how, when and why of deployment). In addition, are training discussions on use of resources such as Bike Units, Motors, Mounted Officers, SWAT or special operations officers, and Plain Clothes personnel.
This three day course includes MFF overview, how to plan for crowd events, management techniques, spontaneous response to events, dealing with the media, use of force in crowd control including less lethal munitions as well as use of force reporting protocol, deployment strategies, First Amendment Rights and application to demonstrations, risk management issues, and unlawful assembly and dispersal. In addition, the course covers several in depth tactical debriefs of actual events and lessons learned illustrating in real world events tactics that have failed, were improperly deployed, lacked proper planning, or worked well. During this three day course there are also four escalating tabletop exercises to re-enforce concepts learned.
The Management Strategies for Command Staff course includes a 265 page textbook written for this specific course and laminate reference cards.
Class Sizes are limited to a maximum of 16 students who will be broken down into four planning cells of four officers each.