Seminars

CONTACT & COVER: Two-Officer Suspect Control
Realistic Expectations for Police Improvement

•We typically team-teach the Contact & Cover training seminar in four-hour blocks, with two hours for classroom work and two hours for controlled field exercises (simulated car and ped stops, arrests, searches, etc.).

• We can manage up to 20 officers per session.

• For each participant, we will provide: two Contact & Cover article handouts and a pocket-sized Contact & Cover Field Guide Card.

•For the classroom, we use a set of PPT slides and two Contact & Cover videos. We will provide a laptop and projector; we will need a screen and a VCR/TV.

• We can provide as many paperback Contact & Cover textbooks that your agency will need for the participants, at $19.00 per copy.

• For the field session, we will need a quiet, safe, and (preferably indoor/cool) place to work. We will need one patrol car and one normal car. These will be parked and will not be driven or moved during the training.

• We will provide two red guns for the training. Officers should wear comfortable clothes (or their uniforms). There will be NO loaded weapons, ammo, or impact weapon use in the field training environment. We will simulate handcuffing.

• Fee: $3000 for two four-hour sessions, $2000 for one four-hour session. Travel is billed at cost.

CONTACT & COVER: Two-Officer Suspect Control

A Four-Hour Tactical Seminar

HALF-DAY SEMINAR LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Classroom Portion
(PowerPoint slides, two article handouts, Contact & Cover textbook, Contact & Cover field card, two Contact & Cover videos)

Hour 1:
A Review of 132 Police Fatalities In 2003

Our Training Day Agenda

Counter-Intuitive Problems in Patrol

History of Contact & Cover: The San Diego Experience

The Role of the Cover Officer

The Role of the Cover Officer

BREAK

Hour 2:
Preventing Assaults

Safe Pat-Downs & Searches

Preventing Escapes and Pursuits

Contact & Cover Fine Points

Putting Contact & Cover to Use

BREAK

Hour 3:
Fieldwork Portion

Contact & Cover Field Scenarios (using one parked, marked patrol vehicle and one parked traffic violator vehicle)

Props: 2 red guns, holsters, jackets, flashlights, pads, pens, baggies

1. FI / Pedestrian Stop One Suspect, FI only

2. FI/ Pedestrian Stop One Suspect, arrested

3. FI/ Ped Stop Two Suspects, FI's only

4. FI/ Pedestrian Stop One Armed Suspect, arrested

5. FI/ Ped Stop Two Suspects Evidence Destruction

6. Ped Felony STOP One Armed Suspect, arrested

BREAK

Hour 4:
Fieldwork Portion continues

7. Traffic Stop One Violator Cited

8. Traffic Stop One Violator Arrested

9. Traffic Stop Two Suspects Both arrested

10. Traffic Felony Stop One Armed Suspect, arrested

11. Traffic Felony Stop Two Armed Suspects, arrested