Tactical Drug Operations

Course Length: 5 days (40 hours)

MCTFT Coordinators: SSG Tyler Morris (904-682-3912)

This is an intensive “tactical” applications course designed for the explicit purpose of officer safety for those officers involved in high-risk encounters with subjects implicated in drug and other investigations. The training is relevant for federal, state and local drug task forces, narcotics squads, officers who encounter drug violators in their patrol duties, and teams investigating and executing arrest warrants for subjects involved in drug trafficking and violent crimes. The training is offered at two locations: Camp Blanding, Florida, and the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia. These sites provide the necessary facilities for the intensive hands-on and scenario-based training used throughout this class. High-impact learning is aided by Simunitions-equipped weapons for tracking operational skills and student survival behaviors. Exercises develop skills of rules of engagement relevant for traditional police activities and military-law enforcement.

Course Objectives

• Articulate the importance of operations orders, briefing skills, site surveys, proper equipment, control and communications, medical support and contingency plans for safe tactical operations.
• Apply “tactics” in practical situations.
• Plan, prepare, rehearse and execute search warrants for subjects involved in drug trafficking and violent crimes in the safest manner possible.
• Effectively brief team members.
• Plan and implement contingency plans.
• Demonstrate the skillful use of ballistic shields, weapons, mechanical breaching, cover and concealment, dynamic entries, and methodical searches and clearings.
• Demonstrate individual tactics and movements.
• Demonstrate proper techniques for vehicle assaults and extractions, making arrests and handling subjects.
• Demonstrate survival behaviors.

Overview of topics

• Operational Planning
• Operational Briefing
• Breaching
• Individual Tactics and Movement
• Ballistic Shield
• Defensive Tactics
• Building Entries and Clearing
• Vehicle Assaults
• Mindset of the Narcotics Detective

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