Tactical Divided Attention: Breaching Tactics for Active Shooter Situations – One-Day Course
Course Overview:
This one-day course provides officers with the skills and mindset necessary to manage multiple simultaneous tasks while conducting breaching operations during active shooter incidents. Breaching requires a high level of divided attention—operators must coordinate tools, weapons, communication, team movement, and situational awareness under extreme stress and time pressure. Through classroom instruction, practical skill-building, and realistic scenario training, participants will learn to integrate breaching tactics into active shooter response while maintaining safety, speed, and tactical effectiveness.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the decision making matrix PIE and apply it to real world situations
- Understand the role of divided attention in breaching during active shooter incidents.
- Apply breaching fundamentals (mechanical, ballistic, thermal, and manual) under cognitive and physical stress.
- Balance weapons handling, team communication, and breaching tool employment simultaneously.
- Demonstrate situational awareness and prioritization while initiating entry under time sensitive conditions.
- Execute breaching tactics as part of a coordinated active shooter contact team.
Course Schedule and Length: One Day (8 Hours)
Morning Session (Classroom & Practical):
- Breaching in active shooter events: PIE, stop the killing, stop the dying, and start the healing
- Divided attention demands: tool management, weapons safety, and communication
- Safety considerations and breaching tool familiarization
- Practical drills: weapons manipulation and breaching tool use under stress
Afternoon Session (Scenario-Based Training):
- Stress inoculation drills combining breaching, weapons handling, and communication
- Team-based breaching exercises with simultaneous tactical movement and radio updates
- Full-scale scenarios: breaching into buildings, classrooms, and interior spaces during active shooter simulations
- After-action reviews focusing on decision-making, prioritization, and tactical execution
Who should attend (all armed law enforcement and school safety/responder staff):
- Patrol officers
- Tactical operators
- Breachers
- Field supervisors
Training Methods: Classroom lecture, hands-on drills, stress inoculation, and scenario-based training
Upon completion, participants will demonstrate the ability to effectively manage divided attention while performing breaching tactics in active shooter situations, ensuring safe, rapid, and coordinated entry to neutralize threats and protect innocent lives.
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