Course Overview

There are nearly 4500 STOPS Instructors throughout the United States.  Officers completing this course will be certified to INSTRUCT officers in the STOPS officer survival program.  Upon completion of the STOPS program, your officers will be able to execute vehicle stops SAFELY, pedestrian contacts, commercial vehicle stops, vehicle extractions, drug interdiction stops, and high-risk (felony) stops.  Officers will be trained in risk assessments and proven methods to counter felonious and accidental assaults.  Vehicle stops will be broken into 12 ambush zones for the officer to be aware of and escape techniques to counter assaults.

The STOPS program is based on research from officers injured or killed in the line of duty.  We then developed strategies and tactics that countered the assaults, significantly increasing the officer’s survival probability.  The STOPS program is nationally and internationally recognized as the leading program in tactical/officer survival training available.

Vehicle stops will be…