Course Summary
The Law Enforcement Active Shooter Emergency Response (LASER) course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills and abilities to rapidly deploy and neutralize violent offenders during active shooter incidents or mass casualty incidents in order to prevent the loss of innocent lives.
Topics covered during the classroom instruction include the evolution of active shooter incidents, providing valuable lessons to law enforcement officers of any experience level regarding response to an active shooter attack. Classroom instruction covers the planning and implementation of appropriate response measures to achieve the primary goal of stopping a perpetrator in order to protect innocent lives. Participants will also observe and then carry out entry and clearing techniques based on various response team sizes and structural configurations. In addition, the course briefly addresses medical concerns often encountered during an active shooter incident. The class stresses fundamental considerations that, when applied, can significantly improve response efforts.
Finally, the course features numerous practical exercises that employ Non-Lethal Training Ammunition (NLTA) in order to create a realistic training environment. The scenario-based practical exercises serve to solidify the knowledge gained throughout the course and provide participants the opportunity to apply the techniques learned in class using NLTA Force-on-force rounds. These practical exercises depict active shooter scenarios in which responding officers must use the knowledge and tools taught throughout the course to intervene in the incident rapidly.
This physically demanding course raises the stress level of the first responder through real world scenario-based training. The use of 8 mm blank weapons will also enhance the real- world scenarios. LASER is a hands-on course where participants will be tasked with multiple breaching exercises and real-world scenario-based training. The hands-on field training featured in this course includes information on both mental and physical tools necessary to achieve an effective and efficient response to an active shooter incident.
- Prevent
- Protect
- Respond
- Recover
Prerequisites
To enroll in this course, participants must be US citizens and must possess or obtain a FEMA student identification number (SID). Additionally, participants of the train-the-trainer course should have prior instructional experience and knowledge of instructional methodology and should have instructor certification by the authority having jurisdiction. It is also recommended that in order to attend the Law Enforcement Active Shooter Emergency Response (LASER) course, participants should have completed Incident Command System (ICS) courses 100, 200, and 700.
Disciplines
The target audience for this course includes state and local law enforcement and support personnel, range instructors, firearms instructors, school resource officers, and first-line supervisors who will respond or support the response to any type of active shooter incident. This audience includes individuals who are directly involved in an active shooter response.
Focus Area
Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction
Primary Core Capabilities
- Planning
- Communications
- On-Site Incident Management
- Responder Safety and Health
- Emergency Public Safety and Security Response
Training Certificate
Completion
Site Map: Training is at the Sanford Officers' Training Center in Mandan, ND. Google map
Additional Registration Info:
This course requires dual-registration at our partner's site - LSU Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education. Clicking the registration button below will take you to their site to complete your registration.
Class ID: 29421
Class Access Code: NCBRT275
Confirmation Email:
Once your registration is complete, you will receive an email confirmation. This email will contain your FEMA SID and registration Confirmation Number. Make sure to have this information available to you in class! You will need this to complete the online post-test and class evaluation.
Pre-Test:
As soon as you complete registration, you will see a link "Begin Class Pre-Test". Click on this link to access the class pre-test. A completed pre-test is required in order to later take the post-test and receive class credit.
Travel Info:
For those students who are first responders, work in emergency management, are employees of state, local or tribal jurisdictions and live or work in North Dakota, NDDES will reimburse lodging and per diem at state rates. NDDES does not reimburse mileage.
ND POST Board Credit?
YES
NDEMSA Credit?
NO
Number of Students Allowed:
30
Class Full:
No
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