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Firearms Instructor Refresher Training Program (FIRTP)

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The Firearms Instructor Refresher Training Program (FIRTP) is a one-week (forty-hour) program, designed to update field firearms instructors with contemporary firearms issues, trends, tactics, and training techniques. Topics that become current and timely are integrated into the program and subjects that are no longer pertinent are discontinued. The program objectives are achieved through classroom discussions and practical hands-on exercises. All students are required to safely complete several dynamic "live fire" steel stress courses demonstrating individual firearms proficiency as a "shooter" and instructor skills as a coach. They will also actively participate as a team member tasked with the development of an interactive training exercise using specialized non-lethal marking cartridges. Participants should bring their agency issued handgun and leather/web gear for this training.

Type: Advanced

Length: 5 class days

Curriculum

  • Range/Off-Range Safety for FIRTP
  • Situation Awareness
  • Static Course Development
  • Reduced Light with Flashlight
  • Shotgun Drills for Instructors
  • Live Fire Cover Course
  • Dynamic and Interactive Course Development
  • Interactive Cover Drills (Level II)
  • Officer Liability
  • Use of Force

Instructors

Instructors assigned to coordinate and work with these programs have a significant background in law enforcement/military and special weapons training.  The instructional staff includes personnel from federal law enforcement, military, state and municipal law enforcement agencies.  All instructors assigned to teach in these programs attend special instructor training programs in the disciplines assigned.

Prerequisites for Attendance

For acceptance into this program, the applicant must meet the following criteria: pass a FLETC health screening; have graduated from a Firearms Instructor School presented by such organizations as the FLETC, NRA, FBI/DEA, USSS or equivalent; be in good physical condition; actively engage in firearms training; be agency-designated as a firearm’s instructor; and currently serving as a full-time law enforcement officer. The Program Manager also recommends that the applicant be a graduate of an instructor development course offered by recognized training academies. The applicant should be highly motivated to attend and have a minimum of one year since graduation from a firearms instructor school.

Training Dates

E_FIRTP-001 / Cheltenham, MD -- Mar 29, 2010 to Apr 02, 2010
E_FIRTP-002 / Cheltenham, MD -- Apr 12, 2010 to Apr 16, 2010
E_FIRTP-003 / Cheltenham, MD -- Aug 23, 2010 to Aug 27, 2010
E_FIRTP-004 / Cheltenham, MD -- Sep 20, 2010 to Sep 24, 2010
A_FIRTP-002 / Artesia, NM -- Mar 22, 2010 to Mar 26, 2010
A_FIRTP-003 / Artesia, NM -- May 24, 2010 to May 28, 2010
A_FIRTP-004 / Artesia, NM -- Aug 02, 2010 to Aug 06, 2010