Being a police firearms instructor is a difficult and largely thankless job.  One of the more difficult aspects of the job can be coming up with lesson plans and courses of fire.  When I first started as an instructor I had to create my own class materials from scratch.  That was interesting.

Since then my lesson plans and courses of fire have gone through revision after revision, continuously moving toward the goal of providing training that balances range safety and realism in order to help an officer survive a deadly force encounter.  If you are a police firearms instructor looking for some ideas to use in your own training program, I'd be happy to help.  For a very, very low fee (you have to say "thank you") I will burn a CD containing all of my lesson plans and courses of fire and mail it to you at your department.  The material is copyrighted but I'm giving you permission to use it for training your department.  If anyone wants to sell it we'll have to get together to discuss my cut.

In Brookfield, we carry Sig-Sauer P226's and P229's in .40 caliber.  We also have Bushmaster .223 caliber patrol rifles.  The lesson plans can easily be adjusted to work with pretty much any types of rifle or semi-automatic pistol.  We used to carry Benelli M1 S90 12-gauge semiautomatic shotguns and I still have the lesson plans and courses of fire for those as well.

If you have any specific questions as to what my lesson plans include or whether they will work for your department fee free to email me through the links found at the bottom of every page on this site.  If you would like me to send you a CD you can likewise contact me through the link at the bottom of every page on this site.  I'll need your name, department phone number, department address, and your ORI in order to verify that you're a law enforcement officer.  Since my lesson plans detail how cops are trained to respond in deadly force situations I will not send them to anyone outside of law enforcement.  Once I get all that information and verify that you are who you say you are, I'll burn a CD and mail it to you free of charge.

Please do not leave me a voice mail message at work with all of your information on it.  It seems that most people who have done that were under the impression that they were participating in some sort of speed-talking contest and I had a hell of a time deciphering their hypersonic babble.

After you get the CD feel free to edit/alter/adjust the material any way you like.  If you just needed some ideas you can look over the files and then come up with your own.  If you want to use the lesson plans or courses of fire exactly as they are you can do that too.

Picture this situation:  You respond to an active shooter at your local high school.  The shooter has a rifle, you and your fellow officers have shotguns and pistols.  How long are the corridors in a typical high school?  Fifty yards?  A hundred yards in certain spots?  Even longer?  Do you want to be in a position where a rifleman is firing at you from a hundred yards away and you are returning fire with your pistol or a shotgun?  Even a shotgun loaded with rifled slugs?  You need a rifle.  A semi-automatic-only .223-caliber rifle to be exact.

Unfortunately there can be a lot of obstacles in the way of implementing a patrol rifle program in your department.  I can help you overcome those obstacles.  In addition to the lesson plans and courses of fire I offer, I can also give you a copy of my original proposal to my own Chief of Police regarding the implementation of a patrol rifle program.  That report has enough information in it to give you a head start in coming up with your own proposal.  As with the lesson plans I am only willing to give this information to other law enforcement professionals, and I am willing to do so for free.  If you would like me to send you a CD with the patrol rifle report you can contact me through the link at the bottom of every page on this site.  I'll need your name, department phone number, department address, and your ORI in order to verify that you're a law enforcement officer.  Once I get all that I'll burn a CD and mail it to your department address.