Policing Forward Training Calendar
Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course
Date: July 30, 2025-August 1, 2025 8:00am-4:00pm
Cost: FREE
The Threat Evaluation and Reporting Course (TERC) is a three-day course that will teach participants how to apply Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) best practices to assist in preventing acts of targeted violence, such as, but not limited to, terrorism, school shootings, or mass attacks in public spaces, by identifying those threats or observable behaviors that may indicate the potential for violence. The TERC teaches students to utilize a four-step BTAM model to identify, investigate, assess, and manage individuals who display threats or observable behaviors that may concern others.
Master Tactical Breacher (MTB)
Date: September 8-19, 2025 8:00am-5:00pm
This course consists of two parts:
- 6-Days Tactical Explosive Breacher Certification (TEBC) - September 8-13, 2025
- 5-Day Manual, Mechanical, Ballistic, Thermal, Hydraulic (MMBTH) - September 15-19, 2025
Cost:
- MTB (11-day course): $2,875.00
- TEBC only: $1,595.00
- MMBTH only: $1,585.00
(TEBC and MMBTH Courses can be taken individually or as combined in the Master Tactical Breacher Certification Course.)
This complete breaching course is designed to provide tactical operators with complete knowledge of breaching methodologies and their applications in various environments. The 11 day hands-on training combines our Basic/ Intermediate Explosive Breacher Course (TEBC) and our Manual, Mechanical, Ballistic, Thermal, and Hydraulic Breacher course (M.M.B.T.H) into one continuous curriculum.
This comprehensive format maximizes the participates overall understanding, proficiency, and tactical abilities in matching the most sound breaching methods to specific targets, missions, and environments as well as properly deploying different breaching methods in support of one another. Furthermore, by combining all breaching methodologies into one course, this training minimizing the cost and time associated with attending separate venues.
Training Topics:
- Breacher Responsibilities in Various Tactical Missions
- Basic/Advanced Breaching Concepts
- Target Analysis (Basic/Advanced)
- Basic - Advanced Deployment Considerations
- Operational Safety Protocols
- Equipment Selection
- Maintenance and Troubleshooting of MMBTH tools
- Use of MMBTH tools in Support of Explosive Breaching
- Mission Intelligence, Planning, and Briefing
- Considerations for department and SOP's
Advanced Patrol Tactics
Date: September 28-30, 2025 8:00am-4:00pm
Cost: $350.00
It is no longer an option for patrol officers to not be tactically sound in today’s policing environment. Our goal in this three-day class is to increase your patrol tactics knowledge and skills through classroom presentation and scenario-based training. Students will also build their tactical leadership skills and knowledge through classroom presentation, debriefs, and table-top scenarios. By the end of the course the student should have a basic understanding of the following:
- Manual Breaching
- Containment/Perimeter Deployments
- Less Lethal Deployments
- Room entry and clearing techniques
- Barricaded Subject Operations
- Hostage Rescue Basics
- K9 Use and Operations
- Decentralized Command
- Getting the most out of your team on a tactical call
- Advanced Tactical Concepts
- Debriefing
Crisis Intervention Teams Advanced (CITA) Training - Dane County
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
More Information to Come!
Questions? Contact Tiaira@namidanecounty.org
Reality Based Training (RBT) Actor Course - Instructor Training
Date: October 29, 2025 8:00am-4:00pm
Cost: $100.00 + Service & Processing Fees ($108.55)
One often overlooked, but critically important, area of scenario instruction is the cultivation of effective role players. This course seeks to improve scenario training by developing actors who understand and embrace their responsibilities in terms of creating a safe learning environment, providing opportunities for realistic conditions and actions, and working collaboratively with the instructor to achieve student success. This course will discuss considerations for scenario actors and share the lessons learned from several years of scenario development and instruction at both recruit and in-service level training. This a physical course, with an emphasis on use of force decision-making exercises, so participants should be prepared to simulate resistive or assaultive subjects and respond to a variety of officer actions.
Prerequisites:
Students should bring duty belt with a training gun (if so equipped), mouthguard, groin protection and attire appropriate for physical skills exercises. Candidates must be adequately physically fit with no medical limitations to participate in this course.
LE Only
Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE)
Date: November 13-14, 2025 12:00pm-8:00pm
Cost: FREE
The Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) program was developed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). ARIDE was created to address the gap in training between the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) and the Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC) Program. ARIDE is a 16-hour training course and is taught by DRE’s (Drug Recognition Experts). This class will cover the following topics: SFST skills, refresher, Advanced sobriety tests (Modified Romberg balance, etc,), Legal update for SST/OMVWI Laws, Drugs in society and How drugs affect the human body. This class will also serve as a pre-requisite for those officers who wish to become Drug Recognition Experts (DRE’s).