The Tactical Analysis Program

Certification

This course is certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.

Description

This course will be conducted by Patrick Van Horne, co-founder and CEO of The CP Journal out of Boulder, Colorado. The CP Journal provides training and professional consultation to the military, law enforcement, and private security industry in behavioral analysis and threat recognition. The course is based on the principals of the Marine Corps’ Combat Hunter Program that was developed during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Training Elements: Developing the ability to observe, classify, assess and communicate nonverbal behavior empowers our nation’s protectors to proactively recognize potential threats before an attack occurs. The observation process taught in this course improves both intuitive decision-making and the deliberate analysis of situations, persons, and environments.

The “Tactical Awareness and Threat Recognition” portion of the course provides instruction in the foundational behavioral observations used to make assessments about individual people. The course is focused on ensuring that students can accurately assign people to each of the four mutually exclusive primary clusters of behavior. Once officers have proven they can make these observations, articulate the reason for objectively assigning a person to each cluster, and understand the “why” behind the assessments, these behaviors are then put into the context of the “officer ambush” to determine the significance of each behavior in relation to the risks that police officers face.

The “Tactical Sense-making” portion of the course expands on the behaviors taught on the first day to include all four pillars of observable behaviors. Officers learn how to establish an all-encompassing baseline for operational areas using a deliberate, systematic and repeatable process.

This program is supported by Homeland Security funds awarded by the Illinois Terrorism Task Force through the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board Executive Institute.

Topics

• Overview of officer ambushes and terrorist attacks
• The behavioral analysis approach to threat recognition
• Variables and constant elements of violent acts
• Identifying threat specific behaviors
• Assessing and improving situational awareness
• Interpreting individual gestures, postures and expressions
• Building and observing clusters of cues
• Why attackers close the distance to their targets
• Learning and building behavioral file folders
• Principals for assessing groups of people
• Determining positive and negative atmospherics
• Baseline templates for anticipated situations & environments
• Recognition primed decision-making (RPD)
• Adapting to changing criminal tactics and techniques

Instructor

Deadline

Please register for this course by September 28.