Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT)

Police conduct an ERASE T3 in Frisco Texas This course is designed to prepare first responders for an open-air active shooter encounter. It addresses a wide range of tactics and techniques when addressing an exterior armed aggressor. This hands on course will cover equipment selection, vehicle ambushes, medical emergencies, vehicle and dismounted officer/citizen down rescue, individual/ team movement techniques, and emergency vehicle crisis response. Some participants attending this course have found it to be physically challenging. Officers attending this course should be able to walk moderate distances, jog, kneel, crawl, and lift moderate weight. This is an outside class and is routinely conducted during inclement weather conditions Find or request an ERASE course at www.alerrt.org

One of the key issues in developing training from an EcoD approach is that you must identify the things that don’t change (called invariants in the EcoD jargon). For shooting, the key invariant is barrel alignment. If the barrel is correctly aligned at the moment the trigger breaks and the gun fires, the bullet will strike the target. So what’s the problem? If your goal is target shooting, there isn’t one. Target shooting allows the shooter to stand the same way and work the pistol in the same way every time. The training at most ranges works very well for this type of shooting. Just watch a professional shooting contest—the shooters make it look effortless, like they’re machines! The high-friction grip, squared stance, arms fully extended, elbows and wrists locked, pistol directly aligned with the dominant eye way of shooting appears to be the most efficient way to shoot a pistol at range targets. How do we bridge the gap? Improve shot feedback, amplify barrel alignment information, change shooting positions are a few possible suggestions. Read more about it at the Tactical Science Substack: https://lnkd.in/g4QNe7SU

ALERRT Conference 2025 information coming at you: March 31 – Vendor Registration opens. March 31 – Call for Proposals for speakers opens. Will close on May 30, 2025, at 11:59pm CT. April 14 – Early Bird Registration opens ($250 fee) Aug 16 – Regular Registration ($350) Visit www.alerrtconference.org for the most up to date information Hope to see you there!

Massachusetts has adopted #NFPA3000 as our statewide framework for integrated Active Shooter / Hostile Event Response training. In partnership with the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, and the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center, DFS trained nearly 2,700 public safety personnel to #StopTheKilling and #StopTheDying last year -- including law enforcement and fire/rescue instructors who are now certified to deliver that training themselves.

This is the first of our series on Human Performance. Each month, we will be posting a topic related to the human factor in law enforcement, the man behind the machine. Today’s topic highlights the effects of training on physiological stress reactions during lethal force scenarios: The management of physiological stress plays a large role in the ability for Police Officers to safely perform their duties. This becomes more apparent during split-second life or death situations in which deficits in performance can have tragic consequences. A study conducted in 2022 found that among 122 active-duty police officers, elevated stress reactions were key predictors for substandard performance and increased lethal force errors. The largest predictor of improved performance was the officer’s level of training, while years of service showed a decrease in performance. The authors of this study opine that this result may be due to experienced patrol officers maintaining minimum qualifications and sustainment training without seeking out advanced training or practice. While it is well known that experience does provide the ability to perceive subtle irregularities a novice might miss, if it is not coupled with adequate training, the stress reactions during these events may lead to a decoupling of the affordances granted by experience. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gwniExN4

There is an ALERRT Command and Control-TCOLE 33111 course in Denison, Texas August 4th, 2025. Sign up using the link below or by contacting the POC listed in the flyer. https://lnkd.in/gBwFgNTH

The ALERRT website will be down for scheduled maintenance Friday, February 21st at 5pm CST until Saturday, February 22nd at noon CST. We apologize for any inconvenience.

“But firearms are different!” That’s the argument most often presented when introducing Ecological Dynamics to police trainers. And they’re right—firearms are different. Deadly weapons. Unparalleled responsibility. Life-or-death stakes. Yet, does that mean we should cling to outdated methods? Or does it demand better training rooted in science? We have to respect the unique risks that firearms pose during training, but the principles of EcoD still hold true. EcoD is a general theory about how people learn skills. If you buy into its core idea—that learners are naturally good at organizing around the opportunities in their environment to achieve goals—then the job of a trainer is to figure out how to apply those principles safely to firearms training. ALERRT Executive Director Dr. Pete Blair breaks down how traditional law enforcement firearms training is performed, and gives context to how EcoD can be applied to improve achieving goals, decision making, perception-action linkages and specifying information. Read the full article at the Tactical Science Substack here: https://lnkd.in/gnK5AmvV

In the last five years there was an average of 46 Active Attack events in the United States. 97.5% of the time, the attacker acted alone. The majority of attacks were carried out using a handgun (56.1%), with a small minority carried out by weapons other than firearms (6.2%). We define an active attack as follows: an active attack occurs when an individual or individuals is actively killing or attempting to kill multiple unrelated people in a public space. The key component of this definition is the word actively. For an event to qualify as an active attack, it must involve an active component. This requirement excludes cases where law enforcement is unaware that the attack is happening. The Research Department at The ALERRT Center recently updated our Attack Attack Data website. You can visit the improved and updated site here: https://lnkd.in/gujV3c-Q

ALERRT AAIR T3 SPOTS NEEDING TO BE FILLED. Details are as follows. AAIR T3 Corpus Christi, TX hosted by CCPD March 3-7, 2025 POC: Mariah Huerta-Garcia, [email protected]   https://lnkd.in/gHjUhBZF