Shortly after the April 20, 1999 tragedy at Columbine High School, law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and Canada began training on the "contact and extraction teams" approach to threat and casualty management during active violence. However, because conventional fire department and emergency medical services personnel lacked the risk appetite, procedures, training, and equipment to enter the warm zones of such environments and Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS) providers weren’t always readily available, significant delays in accessing, treating, and transporting victims remained.

In the 24 years since that fateful spring day in Colorado, more and more law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and ambulance services have realized the importance of cooperative effort before, during, and after such critical incidents. This includes operations within the inner and outer perimeters and at the command and public messaging levels. Given the ever-increasing amount of mass violence now plaguing the country, virtually every public safety organization in North America is currently contemplating how to achieve such collaboration.

In response to this need, “High-Risk Unified Commander (HRUC)” was developed to provide contemporary and realistic strategies, tactics, and related information front-line supervisors and training officers from the aforementioned three disciplines can then use to simultaneously "stop the killing, dying, and crying.”

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With four of the eight hours of interactive content, “HRUC” is a fast-paced yet comprehensive and practical training program that offers participants unparalleled information in a reasonable amount of time.

Rather than offering theoretical and potentially impractical recommendations, the information shared is based on the experiences of hundreds of supervisors who have responded to such tragedies. Participants will also learn how to apply lessons learned and resulting recommendations from the past to future incidents occurring in not only urban environments with high operational tempo but also rural ones with limited resources.

NOTE: This is the furthest thing in the world from a National Incident Management System (NIMS) class. Instead, it's “real world” command training intended to be utilized on the hood of a patrol vehicle, at the breach point, or within a hallway.

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