Mission During the 1981 regular legislative session the Mississippi Legislature enacted a bill to establish standards for the employment, training and education of law enforcement officers. Governor William Winter signed the “Law Enforcement Officers Training Program (LEOTP) Act” in April of 1981, and the law became effective 1 July 1981.
The Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Association (MLEOA) will sponsor training for requesting agencies that have specific needs and are willing to provide a location for the training. Sponsored training is based on the availability of Certified Instructors, availability of funds, and approval from the MLEOA Executive Board.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MDPS) has over 1,000 sworn and non-sworn employees dedicated to the safety of our fellow Mississippians. Each day, MDPS employees help make Mississippi a safer place by patrolling its roads and highways, keeping drugs off the streets and by providing training, certification and support to law enforcement agencies across the state.
procedures the BLEOST has established concerning the employment of law enforcement officers in Mississippi. This manual is promulgated pursuant to authority granted the Board on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Training by Chapter 474, General Laws of …
I’m not sure where this came from. Seems incomplete, and is not annotated.
Tactical Pistol Course (TPC). This course is shot cold (no warm-up) on the FBI QIT target (or IDPA 0/-1). All strings are shot from 7 yrds.
I found this in a few places, but haven’t been able to confirm an actual SEAL standard for par times. These times are targets created by me (Brian). We’ll see how it goes the first time.
In the Security Course of fire, the shooter has a total of 5 magazines - 4 magazines with 6 rounds in each and 1 magazine with 12 rounds.
All strings begin with the weapon loaded and holstered, unless guard position is noted.
These are the minimum requirements for a course of fire. No specific course is specified, so individual departments are left to develop their own courses. Even as a low bar, this seems very low.
Connecticut guidelines are a bit loose, so departments are free to develop their own course.
Conduct law enforcement firearms qualification on Commission-approved courses of fire.
For more information on the Specialized Firearms Instructor Training Course contact Chad Thompson at chthompson@ncdoj.gov
A pistol qualification course has some similarities to shooting free-throws in a basketball game. Basketball games are full of dynamic variables as long as the clock is running. However, during a free-throw, the normal dynamics of the game are temporarily paused.
Similarly, police recruits learn firearm safety, efficient gun handling and weapon manipulation, how to press the trigger and shoot with accuracy, how to control recoil and shoot with speed.
Limited time is an important factor because as important as skill verification is for armed, public protectors, testing does not increase skill and increasing skill matters more. Skill with a service pistol is a required part of an LEO’s job description. Training and practice develop and maintain skills.
Qualification is a physical skills test and not an assessment of an LEO’s judgment, understanding of policy or propensity to comply with deadly force law. Mar 8, 2021. Because firearms are inherently dangerous, the need to train law enforcement officers (LEOs) in their safe and proficient use is a self-evident truth.
Training and practice are necessary to initially attain the shooting skills required to become certified as an LEO. Basketball players learn to dribble and pass. Layups are different from jump shots, which are different from free-throws. Players learn techniques for each of these skills.
LEOs are authorized to carry and deploy firearms in the performance of their duties, and the public has a right to expect each LEO to do so without posing additional risk to the community. LEOs who are not skilled in the safe and proficient use of their firearms present inordinate levels of risk to unintended targets.
Qualification is different. It is not training, and it is not practice. Learning is not the goal, nor is learning expected. Nevertheless, whenever an LEO is intentional about doing their best with a firearm, then the officer is getting meaningful repetitions. In this sense, qualification is practice because the trigger time that is caused by mandatory qualification ensures that every LEO maintains some level of regular live-fire familiarity with their weapon. But qualification is, first and foremost, a physical skills test.