Tactical Field Manual for Small Agencies: Operations, Planning, and Survival Mid-Size Departments

There is no shortage of books on tactical operations. Walk the exhibit hall at any law enforcement conference and you will find shelves of them, most written by instructors who came up through large metropolitan teams or federal units. The doctrine in those books is sound. The problem is that almost none of it was written for the agency that will actually read it.The majority of law enforcement agencies in the United States are small. A large share employ fewer than twenty-five sworn officers, and a significant number operate with fewer than ten. These departments still answer the same calls that the large agencies answer. The barricaded subject does not check the size of the responding agency before he arms himself. The high-risk warrant does not become less dangerous because the agency serving it has no full-time tactical unit. The active threat at the rural school unfolds on the same timeline whether the nearest help is four minutes away or forty.This book is written for those agencies.