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Program AA (ILERSBA/FFO)

Course Names

Initial Law Enforcement Response to Suicide Bomb Attacks (ILERSBA);
Field Force Operations (FFO)

Target Audience/Disciplines

Law Enforcement
FFO is designed for law enforcement officers and first line supervisors.

Course Descriptions

Initial Law Enforcement Response to Suicide Bombing Attacks (ILERSBA) was developed with support and cooperation from the Department of Homeland Security, National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory Board, and New Mexico Tech. It is designed to provide front-line law enforcement officers with the skills and knowledge to effectively interdict and respond to an imminent suicide bombing attack—whether person-borne or vehicle-borne—or a non-suicide attack involving a vehicle-borne device. Additionally, this course addresses the training gap of first-line officers in making immediate decisions when faced with improvised explosive device (IED) attacks. ILERSBA offers a blend of classroom presentations and practical exercises designed to familiarize participants with procedures for safe and effective responses to suicide bombing attacks.

Below are some, but not all, the critical skill sets learned during this training program:
  • Recognize tactics and techniques employed by suicide bombers and how these attacks affect the initial emergency response effort;
  • Employ preventive measures to protect themselves from the negative impact of a detonation;
  • Select appropriate response actions when responding to a suicide bombing incident;
  • Respond effectively and accurately to a person-borne improvised explosive device (PBIED); and
  • Apply legal principles in determining probable cause and use of force options in suicide bombing incidents.
Field Force Operations (FFO) is a three-day course providing state and local law enforcement personnel the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for and successfully mitigate threat incidents involving civil disorder. FFO combines classroom instruction with practical exercises that afford responders the opportunity to practice concepts and tactics in a controlled environment. Activities included in this course are mass arrest procedures, team tactics, demonstrator tactics, crowd dynamics and mob behavior, use of riot control agents and less lethal munitions, and the employment of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Below are some, but not all, the critical skill sets learned during this training program:
  • Understand how the First, Fourth, Eight and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution relate to civil action/disorder;
  • Express the considerations and processes for conducting mass arrests during civil action/disorder;
  • Act as a member of an arrest team and remove an arrestee using both two- and four-officer carry techniques;
  • Serve as a member of a mobile field force (MFF) team while conducting dismounted crowd control operations with and without personal protective equipment (PPE); and
  • Select for use, based on the liabilities and limitations of each, the best riot control agents and less lethal munitions.

Additional Qualifications/Certifications

Participants must have completed basic law enforcement training and, where applicable, on-the-job training under the supervision of a departmental training officer. All participants must have demonstrated successful performance as a patrol officer in a U.S. state or local law enforcement agency. All participants must have sufficient tenure remaining in their current or future position to allow for the application of course material upon their return.
Students must have the ability to march 100 yards, lift 185 pounds with assistance, kneel on one knee, run 20 yards intermittently, stand for long periods of time (approximately 3 hours), shout commands, and don, properly seal, and doff an air purifying respirator.

Course Lengths

1.0 day
3.0 days

Course Codes

PER-907
PER-200

CEUs

  • International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET): 0.8
  • Police Officer Standards and Training (POST; approved per state): 8
  • International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET): 2.4
  • Police Officer Standards and Training (POST; approved per state): 24
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