Tactical Mantracking for Law Enforcement level I Course 5 days, 50 hours
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of tracking and how they can apply those principles to their daily tactics.
The course is designed to take an untrained student and turn them into a confident tracker who understands the need for tracking and using the tactical mindset to increase officer safety and achieve successful results in the field.
Topics to be covered:
- Introduction to Tactical Mantracking
- Glossary of Tracking Terms
- Visual Tracking Indicators and Interpretation
- Human Step Dynamics
- Rules of Tracking
- Roles of a Tactical Mantracking Team
- Lost Spoor Procedures
- Tracking Team Formations
- Processing and Preserving the Scene and Evidence
- Basic Land Navigation, Compass and Map Reading
Tactical Mantracking for Law Enforcement level II Course 5 days, 50 hours
In this course, students will build upon the fundamental foundation established during level I.
The course is designed to take tactical tracking concepts and apply them to real world situations and scenarios where tracking may be utilized. Students must have successfully graduated from a TTTS TMT level I course or an approved alternative to attend this course.
If your agency has access to Night Vision, it is highly encouraged to bring your equipment for the night tracking portion of the training.
Topics to be covered:
- Deception and Anti / Counter Tracking
- Booby Trap / IED Recognition, ground Sign awareness
- Assessing the Age of Spoor
- Camouflage / Concealment and Movement
- Tracking to Surveillance
- Night Tracking
- Tracking in Urban Environments
Tactical Mantracking for Law Enforcement level III Course 5 days, 50 hours
In this course, students will be placed into more stressful scenarios while being required to maintain situational awareness despite tracking in smaller team sizes at time. This course features virtual no classroom time, with the heavy majority of the course taking place in the field for field exercises that will push the tracker to move faster and more decisively while simultaneously being aware of threats to the tracker and/or his team.
Topics to be covered:
- Hasty Crime Scene Tracking and Footprint Evidence Recognition
- Tactical Tracking Using Small Teams (1-3)
- Small Unit Lost Spoor Procedures
- Hasty Track from Jump and Run and B/E
- Pursuit of Fleeing Felons and Escaped Inmates
- Human and Drug Smuggling
- Rural Narcotics Investigations
- Expedited Site Processing
- Urban IED and Booby Trap Recognition
- Tracking Transition from Urban to Rural / Woodland Environments
- k9 Deception and Counter Tracking Techniques and Recognition
Rural Surveillance 5 days, 50 hours
The Rural Surveillance for Law Enforcement Course is designed to teach officers how to insert, establish, and construct an observation post from rural hide sites for the purpose of gathering useful data to be used as evidence and intelligence. The course covers issues for every part of conducting a successful rural surveillance operation from various equipment, tools and materials for building a hide, to the planning, briefing, insertion, personal and equipment camouflage, movement, navigation, recording, and associated legal issues.
Topics to be covered:
- Introduction to Rural Surveillance
- Dangerous Plants and Animals
- Personal Camouflage and Ghillie Suit Construction
- Mission Planning and Briefing
- Insertion and Extraction
- Surveillance Equipment and Concealment Materials
- Types of Hide sites
- Hide Site Construction
- Cameras, Video, and Optics
- Movement
- Logging and Reporting
- Legal Issues
Vehicle and Foot Surveillance for Law Enforcement Level I 5 days, 50 hours
The Vehicle and Foot Surveillance for Law Enforcement course is designed to introduce and train individuals to function as a competent and discreet surveillance operator while training the individuals to properly function in a surveillance team setting to achieve maximum efficiency and results without alerting the suspect that they are being observed. The course trains the surveillance team members to operate in vehicles or on foot during a single follow.
Students are required to drive unmarked vehicles, undercover vehicles, or a rental car (or POV if allowed by agency) for vehicle follows: Marked Patrol vehicles will not be acceptable.
Course Objectives:
1. Introduce students to the concepts and TTPs of modern-day surveillance teams
2. Train students to follow a suspect or suspects without alerting them to their activities while maintaining proper demeanor on foot and in vehicle(s)
3. Train each student to be a surveillance team controller (team leader) to include responsibilities of route tracking, flow management, and setting the box to control the subject at any possible stop along their route.
4. Train Student proper search patterns and logic to relocate an unsighted/lost subject during a follow.
5. Build confidence that students can successfully follow a subject/subjects at varying distances depending on the task or situation.
Topics to be covered:
- Surveillance Terminology and Communication
- Surveillance Equipment
- Roles and Responsibilities of the Surveillance Team
- Setting the Box and Reacquiring the Quarry
- Surveillance Demeanor
- Foot Follow TTPs
- Vehicle Follow TTPs
Vehicle and Foot Surveillance for Law Enforcement Level II 5 days, 50 hours
The Advanced Vehicle and Foot Surveillance for Law Enforcement course is designed to challenge the Surveillance operator and team to conduct surveillance while following quarry who may be surveillance aware or those who are using counter surveillance measures to attempt to detect surveillance. The course will utilize role players as quarry as well as counter surveillance team(s) attempting to detect the surveillance operator during practice exercises.
The course will also challenge students with multi-mode follows which could include transition from vehicle to foot, foot to vehicle, and/or utilizing public transit and/or taxis for transportation.
This course focuses more on practical field exercises, so students should be prepared for long challenging days/nights with varying start times.
Students are required to drive unmarked vehicles, undercover vehicles, or a rental car (or POV if allowed by agency) for vehicle follows: Marked Patrol vehicles will not be acceptable.
Course Objectives:
1. Introduction to Multi-Mode Follows.
2. Transitioning from vehicle to foot, and from foot to vehicle follows.
3. Detecting Counter Surveillance
4. Avoiding Detection from Counter Surveillance
Topics to be covered:
- Counter Surveillance
- Multi-Mode TTPs
Land Navigation & Orienteering -- 5 days, 50 hours
The Land Navigation and Orienteering, course is a comprehensive Navigational course. It is designed to train LE personnel how to navigate in various types of terrain in in all weather conditions. This class teaches the student how to outfit and prepare for a multitude of situations. This map reading / compass course focuses on teaching students to read different types of maps and interpret them. Concepts learned in this course include proximity, direction, region, density, latitude and longitude. Students may construct maps and learn about using computer mapping programs, and the use of various direction finding equipment.
This course is based on the US Army Special Forces Land Navigation Course.
Topics to be Covered:
- Marginal Map Information
- Orienteering and Dead Reckoning
- Navigation and route planning.
- Determine Location
- Orient a Map
- Lensatic or Hybrid Compass Selection and Use
- Terrain Feature Identification Navigation, map reading.
- Determine Grid Coordinates
- Determine Azimuth
- Pace Counts to Determine Distance
- Intersection & Resection
Police Basic Open Water SCUBA
The Police Basic Open Water SCUBA dive course is designed to teach law enforcement officers the basic fundamentals of an entry level SCUBA diver, without the distractions of the many diversionary silliness injected by the dive industry into the SCUBA training program. The student is trained by experienced professional instructors in a very structured program specifically geared to the law enforcement officer and his/her tolerances. The student will graduate with a universal open water diver certification, and have completed a course more stringent than the civilian counterpart. Students will be prepared for the advanced diver courses leading to certifications in Emergency, Public Safety Diver, Rescue, Recovery, Underwater Crime Scene Investigations, and a list of Technical Diver Certifications leading to Dive Master, and Instructor if desired.
* There is a lab fee associated with this course to cover outside costs.
** We will provide SCUBA equipment for the course and wetsuits if we have sizes available
Police Advanced Open Water SCUBA
This course if offered to Sworn Law Enforcement personnel who have current Open Water Diver Certifications.
The course is comprised of 5 specialty courses and check out dives resulting in the Advanced Open Water Diver Certification. The specialty courses making up the Advanced OW course consists of: Deep Diver, Underwater Navigation, Night / Limited Visibility, Search and Recovery, and NITROX.
Students should be able to provide their own gear for this level of instruction, as well as any specialty equipment such as dive lights, line reels, etc. D.O.D. SCUBA can provide equipment at a reasonable fee for the course, however it is encouraged that the students at this level of diving own their own equipment.
There will be a Lab Fee cost. and students will be responsible for the costs of the Certifying Agency Card(s), Dive Quarry Fees, and air fills*
*We will work with surrounding agencies to try and get them to offer air fills for no charge to students..