This training course will instruct law enforcement officers how to recognize the many characteristics of armed suspects as well as providing a variety of proactive and innovative tactics for effecting the apprehension of armed suspects and other firearm violators. Skills taught in this course include recognizing armed suspects, uncovering guns in vehicles, tactically developing information on gun violators, obtaining gun search warrants, approaching armed suspects, and other methods that have been highly successful in increasing law enforcement’s ability to seize guns, apprehend armed suspects, increase officer safety, and decrease gun violence in any community.

Topics Include:

• Characteristics of Armed Suspects
• Methods of Patrol to Identify Armed Suspects
• Gangs and Guns
• Drugs and Guns
• Characteristics of Armed Suspects in Vehicles
• The 8 Point Vehicle Search System©
• Safer apprehensions of armed suspects
• Tactics to make more apprehensions of gun violators
• Hiding Guns in Residential Hidden Compartments
• Obtaining intelligence on illegal guns and gun violators
• Practical exercises for identifying armed suspects and seizing firearms