OPERATIONAL PATROL TACTICS
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Street craft: Mastering the Job from the Driver’s Seat

Designed specifically for working patrol officers, this 3-day course delivers the skills, mindset, and tactical clarity needed to dominate the street, stay sharp under pressure, and go home safe. Whether you're working nights, pulling traffic stops, or running interdiction, this course meets you where you operate — behind the wheel, on the call, or face-to-face with the unknown.
Built by a veteran officer with decades of field-tested patrol, interdiction, and leadership experience, this course covers the stuff that actually matters: pre-contact threat cues, crossfire prevention, suppression-proof vehicle searches, high-risk stop tactics, courtroom-ready report writing, and trauma response that can save a life — yours or someone else’s. You won’t be bored. You will be challenged. And you’ll leave better than you arrived.
This is the class that turns good officers into tacticians. If you’re ready to lead from the driver’s seat — this is your next step.

 ​🔥 The Most Impactful Patrol Course You’ll Take All Year! 🔥
This 3-day, real-world patrol officer survival course is designed for today’s line-level and street-duty officers who want to sharpen their skills, hone their instincts, and go home safe. Built from over two decades of field experience, this course combines street-smart tactics, legal survival tools, and behavioral insights into the kind of training that actually sticks.
DETAILS:
📅 Dates: September 3–5, 2024
📍 Location: Charleston Police Training Center
118 Dickenson Street, Charleston, WV
💵 Cost: $395 per person
📜 Certificates awarded upon successful completion
🕓 All payments due by September 2, 2025
 
REGISTRATION & PAYMENT:
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ktsleotraining.com/course-schedule.html  
 
This isn’t theory. It’s tactics you can use on your next shift.
 
COURSE TOPICS INCLUDE:
✅ The 5%er Mindset – Win mentally before the fight starts
✅ Behavioral Traits of Assaulted Officers – How not to be chosen
✅ Pre-Contact Assessment – Danger cues and street flashpoints
✅ Contact & Cover – Officer safety through teamwork
✅ Conflict Resolution & Verbal Tactics – Tactical communication that de-escalates or dominates
✅ Use of Force – Federal law, articulation, and what wins in court
✅ Vehicle Searches – Case law you can trust across state lines
✅ Criminal Interdiction – Behavior-based patrol stops with purpose
✅ Unknown & High-Risk Stops – Tactics, movement, and control
✅ Major Crimes First Response – Scene control when it matters most
✅ Gang Identification – Real-world patrol-level street gang recognition
✅ Report Writing That Holds Up – Tactical articulation of actions and observations
✅ Stop the Bleed™ – Certified trauma care for patrol survival
  
🧱 Operational Patrol Tactics
Street craft: Mastering the Job from the Driver’s Seat
Three-Day Law Enforcement Officer Development Course

📅 Day 1 – Survival Mindset, Presence & Officer Safety

• 0800 – 0815 | Welcome, Course Overview, Safety Briefing
• 0815 – 0930 | The 5%er Mindset – Resilience, identity, grit, personal leadership
• 0930 – 1045 | Behavioral Traits of Assaulted Officers – Presence, posture, and why suspects choose targets
• 1045 – 1100 | Break
• 1100 – 1200 | Pre-Contact Assessment – Flashpoints, spacing, and early danger recognition
• 1200 – 1300 | Lunch
• 1300 – 1430 | Contact & Cover – Role discipline, crossfire awareness, ambush prevention
• 1430 – 1630 | Conflict Resolution & Verbal Tactics – Tactical phrasing, EQ, de-escalation, Verbal Judo
• 1630 – 1700 | Day 1 Debrief & Q&A

📅 Day 2 – Legal Grounding, Interdiction & Enforcement

• 0800 – 0930 | Use of Force – Graham, Garner, decision-making, articulation of force
• 0930 – 1045 | Vehicle Searches – Carroll, Ross, Gant, Whren, consent, suppression-proofing (federal foundation)
• 1045 – 1100 | Break
• 1100 – 1200 | Criminal Interdiction for Patrol – Behavioral cues, PC development, nervous behavior indicators
• 1200 – 1300 | Lunch
• 1300 – 1430 | Unknown-Risk Traffic Stops – Fundamentals, positioning, control tactics, integrated national training content (FDLE/CHP/Boston PD)
• 1430 – 1630 | High-Risk Stops – Felony vehicle stops, team movement, commands, positioning
• 1630 – 1700 | Tactical Q&A and Day 2 Wrap-Up

📅 Day 3 – Investigation, Reporting & Survival

• 0800 – 0930 | Response to Major Crimes – First responder priorities, scene control, information relay
• 0930 – 1200 | Street Gangs (Intro & Identification) – Gang structure, recognition, set dynamics, patrol officer intel value
• 1200 – 1300 | Lunch
• 1300 – 1500 | Report Writing That Holds Up – Articulating force, behavior, threat cues, and legal language that protects
• 1500 – 1600 | Stop the Bleed™ – Certified tactical medical training: self-aid, buddy-aid, tourniquets, wound packing
• 1600 – 1700 | Final Q&A, Evaluations, and Certificates