OK, armchair quarterbacks, here's your chance to call the plays:
Imagine that you're the head (actually, the only) firearms training officer for a small suburban police department with 16 officers. You've been assigned to design a pistol qualification course using the following parameters:
- The officers on your department are all close to the statistical average for American LEOs in shooting skill, training background, and interest in firearms. You can't fire them all and replace them with veterans of Delta Force.
- The issue sidearm is the Glock 22, .40 S&W. You can't sell off the Glocks and replace them with S&W Model 10s, SIG P220s, or whatever else you think would be better.
- Each officer will have to qualify twice a year. You're expected to pass 75% of the force on the first try and 75% of the remainder after no more than four hours of remedial training.
- The qualification course can expend no more than 50 rounds and last no longer than 30 minutes.
- Before you start testing, you're going to get to give a 4 hour refresher class at the range, expending no more than 100 rounds of ammo per officer.
- You'll need to document the logic behind the design of your course should the department have to defend its training policies in court after a shooting.
- The department also issues Remington 870 shotguns and authorizes privately owned backup guns but those weapons are outside the scope of this exercise.
What does your qualification course look like?
Imagine that you're the head (actually, the only) firearms training officer for a small suburban police department with 16 officers. You've been assigned to design a pistol qualification course using the following parameters:
- The officers on your department are all close to the statistical average for American LEOs in shooting skill, training background, and interest in firearms. You can't fire them all and replace them with veterans of Delta Force.
- The issue sidearm is the Glock 22, .40 S&W. You can't sell off the Glocks and replace them with S&W Model 10s, SIG P220s, or whatever else you think would be better.
- Each officer will have to qualify twice a year. You're expected to pass 75% of the force on the first try and 75% of the remainder after no more than four hours of remedial training.
- The qualification course can expend no more than 50 rounds and last no longer than 30 minutes.
- Before you start testing, you're going to get to give a 4 hour refresher class at the range, expending no more than 100 rounds of ammo per officer.
- You'll need to document the logic behind the design of your course should the department have to defend its training policies in court after a shooting.
- The department also issues Remington 870 shotguns and authorizes privately owned backup guns but those weapons are outside the scope of this exercise.
What does your qualification course look like?