Our high level, Public Order Level 1, is a hybrid of material from Hong Kong, the United States and the United Kingdom. It’s designed to train police support units, consisting of 1 Lieutenant/Inspector, 4 Sergeants and 24 uniformed officers. While classes of up to 3 units at a time can be supported, the 1/4/24 model, up to a total of 40 students, is preferred.

Content covered includes:

• In-depth introduction into the use of riot equipment; public order formations; tactics, techniques and procedures
• Close Quarter Combatives
• Riot survival
• Introduction to less lethal force within a crowd
• Less lethal munitions and the legal aspects of their use
• Live simulated OC/CS Agent training
• Integration of firearms
• Canines; Mounted Law Enforcement
• Artificial lighting; Molotov cocktail (petrol bomb) awareness training
• Law enforcement action; crowd behaviour; crowd management principles
• The disorder scale
• Briefing structure
• Guidelines for civil disorder units.

This course also has 1 night of night riot scenarios/ FTX and a day time scenario FTX.  This 4-day course (40 hours) is roughly twenty percent didactic and eighty percent practical.

Covert Interdiction 4-day courses designed for undercover officers and agents in a covert role (Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT)) and Evidence Gathering, designed to aid small teams in close contact with crowds to identify dangerous suspects and aid in the removal of ring leaders from behind the blue line.

Additionally, we can tailor-make programs for your Department’s specific needs. We do not offer Mobile Field Force training, as we find it to be insufficient to meet the needs of modern day public order forces. Instead, S.E.T.S., Inc. offers highly practical real-life training, training like we fight. We have 40 sets of riot equipment which is the current British HOSDB (Home Office Scientific Department Branch) standard, which sets the standard for all riot equipment in Europe available for students; to not only protect them, but to encourage full force participation and engagement.

Advanced Public Order Command Foundation Course

S.E.T.S., Inc. offers a variety of practical, scenario-based training courses for patrol officers through upper level managers.

Condensed 5-day introduction to Advanced Public Order Commander Training. Focused on the mechanism of effective command and control the course develops knowledge and understanding of Metropolitan Police Key subject areas that underpin public order rationale and critical decision making.

Main topics will introduce the role police play within protest and disorder command structures, roles, responsibilities, strategy, tactical plans and the police decision making model. Subject matter will include:

• Intelligence, threat/ risk, lethal frameworks
• Crowd dynamics
• Recce
• Media firearms in public disorder and Audit trails.

Through group and individual participation, students will develop their thinking, culminating in a tabletop public protest exercise. This course forms and excellent theoretical foundation prior to tactical development (Module2 – recce/workbook) and practical assessment (Module 3 • Briefing and scenario command training).