Swat Tactics for patrol

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Swat Tactics for patrol

• Tom Earnhardt
• Lieutenant, Raleigh Police Department

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Tom Earnhardt

• Patrol
• 10 Years full-time SWAT
• Training Section
• Lieutenant / Drugs and Vice
• Patrol Lieutenant / Combat Zone
• Sniper Team commander

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Sharpen the saw!
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Get your mind right

• Do patrol officers need any upgrade in
• Weapons
• Training
• Tactics
• Teamwork
• Mindset

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Get your mind right
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s.w.a.t

• Special
• Weapons
• And
• Tactics

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Weapons and weapons training for patrol

• Some poor line officer has to find out this is a
  SWAT call
• Without proper weapons and training, they may not
  survive to make the hand off

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Special weapons

• Beyond the ordinary
• Pistols
• Shotguns

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Subguns

• Close quarters / -
• High capacity
• Cyclic rate / -
• Expense -
• Extensive Training -

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Rifles

• Increased range
• Increased capacity
• Defeats most body armor

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Distance
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But I cant have a rifle!
Become a ninja with what you have!
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The best weapon is the one you haveThe first
rule of a gunfight is to have a gun
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swat firearms training

• What have they got that I dont have?

Aggression!
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Conditioning for chaos

• Your training should replicate the worst
  environment you may face
• Train for injury
• Train for weapon stoppage
• Train for fighting from the ground

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• Every battle of the warrior is confused
  noise
• Isaiah 95

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Team tactics weapon training

• Are you planning to fight as a team, a squad as a
  pair?

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Real world weapons training for patrol

• Should work backwards from what we already do
• Should not be predicated on the fear of what
  might possibly happen on the range

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Real world weapons training for patrol

• Should train for movement
• Aggression
• Contact
• Control

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tactics
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Any maneuver for gaining advantage or success
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Advantage

• If you are in a fair fight your tactics suck
• The only unfair fight is one you lose

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Success

• Win with all due aggression
• Negotiation
• The art of saying nice doggie until you can pick
  up a stick

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Success

• Maximum violence while falling back
• Remain undefeated

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Tactics superior numbers

• One on one? (that aint in there)
• Work in pairs at least
• Superior as an individual, unbeatable as a team

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Two officer tactics

• Contact / cover
• High / low takedowns

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SWAT Teamwork

• SWAT is effective not necessarily because of
  equipment or techniques, but because they work as
  a team

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Teamwork is essential, it gives them
other people to shoot at.
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Rapid deployment Open air takedowns Rapid
vehicle takedowns Building searches
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SWAT / patrol Mindset
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The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no
possible victory in defense...
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...The sword is more important than the shield,
and the mind is more important than either.
John Steinbeck
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SWAT / patrol Mindset

• No possible victory in defense?

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SWAT / patrol Mindset

• Controlled aggression
• Neither under-react or over-react
• Conditioning
• Conditioning in a realistic environment
• What Lt.Col. Grossman calls The gift of
  Aggression

hooah?
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SWAT / patrol Mindset

• Be polite, be professional, but be prepared to
  kill everyone you meet

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SWAT / patrol Mindset

• Mushin

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• True warriors are fierce because their training
  is fierce Miamoto Musashi

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The wicked flee when no man pursueth but the
righteous are bold as a lionProverbs 28.1
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Swat Tactics for patrol

• Tom Earnhardt
• Lieutenant, Raleigh Police Department
• EARN_at_Bellsouth.net