Introduction to Mission Planning

This course offers a standard for planning based on the spectrum of “tactical excellence” (accomplishing the mission with minimal costs) and “tactical failure” (a mission where the cost exceeded the benefit of accomplishing the mission).  The course also introduces a tool for managing time called the “Time-constrained Planning Process”, and a tool for managing information called the “Concept of the Operation”. 

Military Leadership for Law Enforcement: Decision making under conditions of uncertainty (Time-Constrained Mission Planning for Patrol Officers)

Course Description: The Military Leadership for Law Enforcement course will be a “choose your own adventure” experience for students. Students will be introduced to military leadership methods that have been battle tested through centuries of armies trying to win wars in complex contexts. After students initial exposure to the time tested methods, they will then choose which military leadership avenues to examine further. Ultimately, students will leave with practical tools and leadership methods that will improve their decision-making skills in all situations to include dynamic and uncertain situations, thus improving their overall leadership effectiveness.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Military Leadership for LEOs

Course Description: The ‘Military Leadership for Law Enforcement Officers’ class is a one-day, 8-hour course based on the Army’s manual ADP 6-22: Army Leadership and the Profession.  The first part of the class will focus on the Army’s definition of ‘leadership’.  Students will spend time discussing the different components of this definition, they will assess the effect on the unit if these components are missing, and they will assess how they can improve their ability to lead regarding these components.  The second part of the class will analyze ‘law enforcement leader attributes’: students will brainstorm what these attributes should be for an effective law enforcement leader, they will identify the cost if these attributes are absent, and they will assess how they can become a better leader regarding these attributes.  Students will repeat this process for ‘law enforcement leader intellectual attributes’ and for ‘law enforcement leader competencies’. The goal is that officers by the end of the course will have an effective definition of ‘leadership’, a model for an effective law enforcement leader, an enhanced awareness of the qualities and effects caused by ineffective leadership, and a strategy for improving their personal ability to lead.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 8 Hours

Mission and Operational Planning (Mission Planning)

This course provides military planning tools and practical guidance that will help students become better organized mission planners. The course will introduce general frameworks to help students improve their information, time, and risk management to support the foundational goal of officer safety. This course is designed to be highly experiential and hands-on.

Navigate with Confidence: Essential Field Skills (Land Navigation)

Students will be taught to interpret map marginal data, terrain features on a map, plot the grid of a location on a map, orient the map, determine elevation, create a route, use a compass to determine magnetic north, understand and use declination information to determine grid north, and shoot an azimuth.  We will also do a 3-hour daylight navigation practical exercise, and a 3-hour night practical exercise.

Operational Mindset: Performing Under Stress (Operational Mindset)

This class addresses the current high stress demands that face Law Enforcement Officers daily. Give specific tools, mitigation techniques and stress management techniques for LEO to address acute stress as it develops, 

A culmination of anatomy and physiology, sports science, de-escalation and force science techniques will be taught in a class room setting. The day will finish with a familiarization of the VR system prior to practical exercises on day two.  Utilization of Operator XR VR simulator to test practical application of the techniques taught. VR systems allows dynamic, rapid and continues scenario development. Each student will get a different look and feel to the scenarios presented. This allows for thousands of training options and observing students to get mental reps while observing. VR system also allows recordings for AAR after each scene is completed. VR system as a sketch tool that allows for the creation of any structure/room, multiple suspects, live roll player, additional partners, active shooter, force on force and much more. Specific needs of agencies can always be tailor made to meet specific training needs of the requesting agency.  

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 2 Days / 16 Hours

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement (PNLE)

Course Description: PNLE will take you on a journey of education and self-discovery. The course will explain the basics of human nutrition, nutritional challenges most law enforcement officers face, the importance of nutrient dense food choices, mental reframing techniques, and ultimately, how to build an individualized and executable performance nutrition plan. LEO’s will walk away with a new sense of confidence and ownership over their nutritional choices.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 day / 4 Hours

Prevention Ethics

Course Description: The Prevention Ethics Course identifies the standards of conduct for relating to service recipients, sets professional goals with prevention ethics standards, and describes methods of decision making for ethical situations. Participants will be instructed on the potential for moral and ethical dilemmas they may face when working in the prevention field and how to address them based on current knowledge and practice in the field. This training is designed to assist practitioners in reducing the likelihood of substance misuse and promoting well-being among individuals, families, workplaces, schools, and communities.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Resilience Training

Course Description: Resilience Training (RT) teaches students 14 distinct skills that allow them to develop themselves and others in the six RT competency areas: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. With these skills, students develop the ability to understand their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of others. Students master skills to to use during high and low stress situations to strengthen relationships through communication strategies and learn how to praise effectively, respond constructively to positive experiences, as well as discuss and manage stressful activating events effectively.

Prerequisites: Value in Action Character Strength Survey

Course Length: 3 Days/ 24 Hours

Resilience Training Workshop

Course Description:The Resilience Training Workshops are a modular version of our larger three-day Resilience Training. Workshops can include any combination of the 14 Resilience skills that increase the use of six Competencies that have been found to increase overall resilience, performance, and optimal functioning of an individual. The Competencies are Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. Upon course completion, students will have tools that will increase their abilities to handle stressful situations efficiently, perform optimally and communicate more effectively. Contact the WRCTC to coordinate the length and number of skills desired to learn. The 14 skills are:

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day/ 2 Hours

SAPST

SAPST is broken down into four sessions:

• Session 1 - Setting the Foundation: From Theory to Practice – The theories that lead to the evidence-based curriculums of today
• Session 2 - SPF: Assessment and Assessing Capacity
• Session 3 - SPF: Building Capacity, Cultural Proficiency, and Planning
• Session 4 - SPF: Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability / Bringing It All Together

Tactical Patrolling for Drug Interdiction (Patrolling for Drug Related Activity)

Patrolling is a two-day course that covers the basics of tactical movement in a classroom and culminates in day and night patrolling to a simulated objective without compromise. Students will demonstrate knowledge of Tactical Leading Procedures, group movement formations/techniques, hand and arm signals, crossing linear danger areas, and reacting to contact.

The Operational Edge: Managing Complexity In Large Scale Events (Deliberate Mission Planning)

Course Description: Elevate your tactical planning and execution with this essential course designed for law enforcement, criminal analysts, and community partners involved in counter-narcotics missions. Taught by instructors with over a decade of elite special operations and law enforcement experience, you will master the military's Deliberate Planning Process to dramatically improve time management, information management, and risk mitigation, all centered on the foundational goal of officer safety. This course will equip you to develop and brief comprehensive operations orders and conduct professional after-action reviews, ensuring your team executes complex missions with superior precision, safety, and success.
Prerequisites: None
Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours