This course is designed to provide law enforcement personnel with essential skills and knowledge for effectively using red dot sights on their firearms. Participants will receive hands-on training in the installation, adjustment, care / maintenance, and operation of red dot optics, emphasizing accuracy and rapid target acquisition. The course will also cover safety protocols, legal considerations regarding the use of deadly force, and situational decision-making through practical scenarios.

Critical Incident Leadership for Patrol Operations

This course prepares responding officers, regardless of rank, to lead during critical incidents. Participants learn to recognize incident dynamics, set priorities, and take timely action to de-escalate and intervene effectively. Leadership begins with the first responder on scene, shaping outcomes and guiding resolution when seconds count.

Participants will learn to:

• Recognize essential characteristics of a developing incident
• Identify factors that influence the event’s progression
• Establish clear priorities
• Take timely action to promote de-escalation and initiate effective intervention toward a successful resolution.

Every critical incident has a first responder. Every first responder has the opportunity to lead. Regardless of rank, leadership begins the moment you arrive on scene.

The High Risk Search Warrant Planning and Execution course by RA Tactics is designed for SWAT and tactical teams responsible for planning and executing high-risk search warrant operations, including both pre-planned operations and call-outs.

This hands-on course provides students with a structured framework for managing the critical phases of a high-risk search warrant, from the initial collection of intelligence through operational planning, reconnaissance, briefing, and execution. Emphasis is placed on teamwork, tactical precision, communication, decision-making, safety, and adherence to applicable legal and agency protocols.

The Patrol Hostage Rescue Tactics course by RA Tactics is designed to provide patrol personnel with a structured, repeatable approach to responding to hostage situations and making critical decisions during rapidly evolving incidents.

This 5-day (40-hour) combination semi-automatic pistol and AR platform rifle instructor certification course will prepare the new Instructor to think with a systematic, strategic, and diagnostic mindset allowing seamless integration to their new instructor assignment. Additionally, this course will provide participants with the information needed to properly evaluate and improve the basic operator’s technique with both weapon systems.

This 2-Day instructor level course will give students the knowledge and skills to deploy ballistic shields with great mobility, flexibility, and offensive accuracy without risk of malfunctions to the weapon system. As instructors, students will learn to adjust and deploy the shield in any environment, defeating threats without hesitation and with conviction. 

This 1-day course is designed to provide participants with the general knowledge and tactics to prepare students for threshold, dynamic, covert, and single operator room entry necessary for patrol-oriented building searching.  The course focuses mainly on time-proven techniques and tactics plus an overview of organizational structure and necessary protocols.  Basic Entry and Building Search is additionally complimented with information regarding small team assault planning, practical breach points and breaching, and follow-on arrest procedures.