Tactical Options Vehicles Counter Ambush and Maneuvers Course is a 08-hour program designed to enhance a 
Law Enforcement Officer’s and/or tactical team on advanced critical counter threat 
engagement criteria and tactical skills. LEO’s throughout the USA are increasingly becoming exposed to unexpected threats with more deliberate deadly intents. The requirement to understand principles, fundamentals, and efficiency techniques in deadly street encounters are becoming an even more crucial capability for officers to train and prepare for. Not just as a readiness status, but execution to reduce threats in aggressive and accountable means to ensure survivability. 

Students will go through progressive and safe building stages that 
will increase knowledge and skills on every day readiness. Students 
will develop and execute capabilities to manipulate and engage targets 
in confined spaces of vehicles, perform various maneuvers on a series of threat contingencies, and know how to maximize usage of cover in immediate close deadly street encounters. Student’s will leave with enhanced vehicle / barricade knowledge on offensive and defensive tactics, situational assessment and execution, communication and counter-maneuver tactics with multiple officers. Skill sets and tactics will be validated through multiple safe live fire stages. 

This 8-hour course objectives includes:

• Equipment vehicle set up, mission essential equipment sop development, and employment techniques. thoughts for everyday readiness
• Vehicle engagement methodologies and various counter-ambush tactics
• Weapon transition, magazine changes / tac-mag reloads weapon dynamic safe handling techniques
• Barricade / vehicle shooting positions and engagement methods: rollover prone, bend-over prone, kneeling, crouching, confined space fundamental application
• Care under fire (limited): individual / collective application, covering methods under stress while evacuating casualty, down officer response procedures
• Ballistic impacts on glass and vehicle body penetration familiarization: offensive vs defensive
• Situational assessment requiring immediate threat reductions methods on multiple high percentage and low percentage targets
• Vehicular engagement maneuvers and counter-engagement techniques
• Single, two-man, four-man maneuver drills, procedural flows, and live fires
• Weapons malfunctions drills, clearance procedures, and threat reduction follow-through
• Live fire counter ambush execution and clearing into the unknown: individual to team movement procedures, danger zone penetration condition set, split lane procedural flows, shoot / no-shoot identification, communication methods, low percentage engagements
• Deliberate and methodical vehicle / dead space clearance procedures vs hasty maneuvers: individual to multi-officer

• Immediate action drills (IAD) individual / collective: multi-angle high percentage / low percentage shot placement, linear –360-degree vehicle IAD drills, communication pro word actions & execution methods
• Confined vehicle space, weapon manipulation and target engagement with both pistol and carbine
  • Focal cognitive drills, problem solving, assessment, and execution drills

Active LEO or TTPOA member