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In this guide, we will describe potential effects and mitigation strategies for law enforcement and security organizations dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Training is more than just a lecture and watching someone complete a task. We should train in ways that allow us to practice our skills. Good training should also assess whether or not we can successfully execute these skills. This is where evaluation comes in.

Online training is not a panacea. It is not a replacement for instructor-led training. But there are distinct benefits, and downsides, to each type of training delivery.

We all know that some trainings are required and “buts in seats” may be the only thing that matters. In other cases, you may want to makes sure your officers learned something. This is why we evaluate. The second level of training evaluation is learning – assessing measurable skills that a trainee takes away from a course.   

Experience matters especially when dealing with stressful situations. Stress inoculation training is an approach that involves exposing trainees to gradually more stressful situations, allowing them to better handle hazardous or dangerous events or people they may face while on duty.

The tenants of instructional design can help you develop more efficient and effective training.

In police threat assessment training, and any form of training that involves interaction with people, it is important that it incorporates the human interaction and safety component associated with an interdiction. This doesn’t necessarily apply to all forms of threat assessment (other than active threat assessment), but is relevant in defensive tactics, verbal communication, or any training that involves police interaction with the public.

Assessing patterns of consistent behavior is the key to threat identification and assessment. Learn about assessing patterns of consistent behavior, or the behavioral baseline, and how this leads to active threat assessment.

Learn about the origin of active threat assessment for law enforcement through the Just Doesn’t Look Right Project and the Identifying Threats Training Program.

Learn more about why timing of observations matter and how active threats respond to your officers in our most recent blog post.

The United States Department of Defense-funded Just Doesn’t Look Right (JDLR) Project was undertaken to transfer tactics, techniques, and procedures to identify active threats from veteran to inexperienced military, law enforcement, and security personnel. Get the 411 from the head researchers on the JDLR Project and what this research means for active threat assessment.

Your officers have a “lingo” they use when communicating. This lingo, vocabulary, or glossary of terms allows them to quickly and efficiently talk to one another. Without this threat assessment vocabulary, it will take them longer to transmit information, give and receive orders, and may result in miscommunication.

How does active threat assessment lead to identifying threats?