Covert Movement

(8 hours)

Covert Entry Defined:  The art of stealth, combined with slow, coordinated, quiet team movement, utilized in searching for and/or neutralizing a suspect safely.

-Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department SEB

K9 handlers and patrol officers often tend to be more rushed and hurried during moderate to high risk entries and clearings when they should be moving slow and deliberately to better assess threats and make safer entries. 

This class is recommended for K9 handlers and patrol officers who want to better understand and learn covert movement techniques for application in patrol as well as tactical team environments.   It is an essential class for those K9 handlers who later plan to incorporate themselves and their police service dog into more advanced-type tactical training to better understand team movement and cover responsibilities.  

This class can also serve as a “refresher” course for patrol and tactical operators. 

This class does not include dogs and it is a part of or a prerequisite for “Tactical K9 Deployments for Patrol” for non-SWAT operators.

The course is limited to twelve (12) officers and will include:

• Evaluating the entry and determining the risk factor

• “Why covert?”

• Planning the entry

• Assignments

• Weapon selection

• Entry methods

• Tempo

• Cell movement

• Angles and threat assessments

• Cover responsibilities

• Non-verbal communications

• Locating a suspect/arrest techniques

• Use of light

 

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