ID-003-RESP - Type I Advanced SWAT Operations for Terrorist Environments

The preparedness of State and Local SWAT teams is one of the major initiatives of the United States Department of Homeland Security. Under the Department of Homeland Security typing system, there are three typing classifications ranging from a Type III team (the basis of this course), to a Type I team, the most equipped and capable. The typing system has been created to flow with the overall Incident Command System (ICS) structure. In response to the Department of Homeland Security’s creation of the SWAT Team Typing system, the Government Training Institute (GTI), has created three advanced courses for SWAT teams.

Advanced SWAT Operations for Terrorist Environments Type I

TYPE I SWAT COURSE (20 DAYS) DHS PRE APPROVED COURSE
For full-time SWAT teams with robot, tech surveillance, explosive breaching, rappelling and fast roping capabilities.
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Program Overview

The Government Training Institute and Idaho State University (ISU) proudly announce the first SWAT Team training system in the United States to address the Department of Homeland Security SWAT Team Classification System. This course is now approved to receive U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) grant funds, allowing state and local law enforcement agencies to attend the training using D.H.S. grant monies to pay for tuition, overtime, meals, lodging, and associated backfill costs. While the class is approved for the use of these funds at the federal level, each state’s Point of Contact (POC) must also approve the use of the funds for officers to attend the course.

To achieve the status this 179 hour / 20 day course has obtained from D.H.S.’s Office of Grants & Training, the Government Training Institute and Idaho State University had to go through a lengthy and thorough 5 phase review process that took 6 months to complete. The 920 page student manual took time to thoroughly review.

This course creates standardized curriculum throughout the United States. Until the creation of this course, SWAT team training varied greatly from state to state and jurisdiction to jurisdiction, making it extremely difficult for Incident Commanders to gain a true barometer of capabilities of the resources available to them.

Course Benefits

Agency heads, SWAT Team Leaders and SWAT operators will benefit from this course by attending training that:

Addresses current case law
Is approved by the federal government for utilization of SLGCP funds
Is the new national standard for SWAT team training
Addresses the human body’s true response when encountering perceived deadly threats
Addresses and utilizes the newest technologies available
Thoroughly addresses PPE and WMD issues

Course Details

The Type I SWAT Operator’s Course is the most comprehensive SWAT program ever to be offered to state and local agencies. The program covers 56 separate modules in 20 days. Each student will be issued a training manual, copies of student’s written exams and practical application examinations.

Students who successfully graduate the Type I SWAT Operator’s Course will have earned it. There are stringent standards that all students must achieve in order to pass the course. They will be tested daily, and on occasion, several times a day. Every student must prove that they are capable of being an operational member of a Type I SWAT team. Student evaluation and performance measures are broken down into the following: Student performance will be evaluated by a variety of methods. These methods include:

Written Pre-Test
Daily Written Tests
Written Post-Test
Daily Practical Exercise Evaluations
Final Comprehensive Exercise

The student’s scores will be compiled and tallied in the following manner:

13 Written Daily quizzes = 25% of final score
1 Final Written Exam = 25% of final score
20 Daily Performance Evaluations = 25% of final score
1 Final Scenario (Culmination Exercise) = 25% of final score

Students must complete the course with a minimum of 70% average in order to receive a Certificate of Training.

Four college credits from Idaho State University can be purchased by those who successfully complete the course of instruction.

Funding

State and local law enforcement agencies can utilize Department of Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) funds to pay for the course. Of the six programs making up the HSGP, agencies can utilize funds from the following programs:

State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program (LETPP)
Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)

It is important to note that although this training and the use of HSGP Funds is approved by DHS, the agency’s state Point Of Contact must approve the use of the funds to attend the course.

Tuition, housing, meals, lodging, overtime and backfill costs are all allowable expenditures with the SHSP, LETPP and UASI funds. Agencies should experience no out-of-pocket expenses for the Type I SWAT Operator’s Course.

Tuition for the Type I SWAT Operator’s Course is $5,200 per student and includes the student manual, student progress book, over $250,000 worth of equipment for use in the course and an instructor to student ratio of no greater than 1/10.

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