Location: Coastal Bend COG, 2910 Leopard St, Corpus Christi, TX 78408 

FREE TRAINING! No Registration Needed.
Just show up and get great hands-on training.

Instructor:  HeroLight Training LLC

TCOLE Approved

Active threat calls have become numbingly common over the last decade, regardless of community size. This course will help dispatchers, call takers, supervisors, and those who support prepare to work against these threats - full-scale active assailants, cases of vehicle ramming, or cutting attacks.

The internationally recognized 6-step pathway to active assailant violence and the rapid response, rapid deployment response model will be taught. Also covered will be the reason that assailants are increasing the use of ramming and cutting instruments. This course will also address improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as they can be a diversionary tactic for a larger-scale attack, or they may be the mechanism of attack.

Students will be updated on the latest what we know about call-taking and dispatch techniques during an active threat call. Supervisors will receive information on how to manage the room and organize radio channels, while all will receive plans to guide the aftermath and long-term health of the agency.

This class edition will include information for both law and fire/ems dispatch. Our Founder, Tracy Ertl, was first exposed to active threat calls in 2007 while in Omaha, Nebraska, during their December mall active shooter. Attendees will be brought to that scene via recovered video narrated by Ertl. She was one of the first instructors in the country to teach communications during active threat calls to the 911 community in 2008. Ertl continues today with updated lessons and strategy to confront this deadly force.