Special Agents
Tactical Training
Special agent trainees, throughout the Special Agent Basic Training (SABT) curriculum, progress through a wide variety of demanding tactical judgment training. Areas of training include:
- Tactical team entries encountering both lethal and non-lethal targets, using proper judgment and demonstrating use of proper force and the appropriate level of control while encountering suspects
- Felony vehicle assaults/extractions
- Proper tactics in breaching a structure
As part of the tactical training, special agent trainees will be required to successfully complete the Final Tactical Practical administered at the end of tactics training. The Final Tactical Practical is a rigorous timed exercise consisting of:
- An obstacle course with trainees having to scale a 6-foot cinder block wall and chain link fence
- A half mile run in full tactical gear
- A shoot/no-shoot exercise
- Proper application of required use of force Close Quarter Countermeasures (CQC) techniques on encountered role players
- A simulated agent extraction by dragging a 100-pound dummy 25 yards