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HIGH-RISK

UNIFIED COMMANDER

(HRUC)

8-HoURS CONTINUING EDUCATION WORKSHOPS Appropriate for EMS, FIRE, LAW ENFORCEMENT

front-line supervisors, training officers, & SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS

PreSENTED BY THE REGION 5 REGIONAL TRAUMA ADVISORY COMMITTEE

INTRODUCTION

Shortly after the April 20, 1999, tragedy at Columbine High School, law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and Canada began training on the "contact team and extraction team" approach to threat and casualty management during active violence. However, because conventional fire department and emergency medical services personnel still lacked the procedures, training, and equipment to enter the warm zones of such environments and Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS) providers weren’t always readily available, significant delays in accessing, treating, and transporting casualties remained.

In the nearly 23 years since that fateful spring day in Colorado, law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and EMS agencies have realized the importance of collaborative effort before, during, and after such critical incidents. This includes not only operations within the inner and outer perimeters but also at the command and public messaging levels. Given the ever-increasing amount of mass violence now plaguing the country, virtually every public safety organization in North America is contemplating how to best achieve such collaboration.

The High-Risk Unified Commander (HRUC) program was developed to provide contemporary and realistic strategies, tactics, and related information that front-line supervisors and training officers from the three aforementioned disciplines can use to simultaneously "stop the killing, dying, and crying."

When:

Tuesday, January 3rd | 8am – 5pm

Wednesday, January 4th | 8am – 5pm

Thursday, January 5th | 8am – 5pm

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Where:

Georgia Public Safety Training Center

Conference Center Bay B

1000 Indian Springs Drive

Forsyth, Georgia

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The High-Risk Unified Commander (HRUC) program was developed to provide contemporary and realistic strategies, tactics, and related information that

front-line supervisors and training officers can use to simultaneously

"stop the killing, dying, and crying.”

FAST-PACED • COMPREHENSIVE • PRACTICAL • INTERACTIVE

Eight-hour workshops, four of which are hands-on, offer participants an unparalleled amount of information in a reasonable amount of time.

Based on the experiences of hundreds of supervisors who have responded to active shooter and intentional mass casualty events

Table-top exercises allow participants to learn to apply recommendations from the past to future incidents

Applicable to urban environments with high operational tempo and rural settings with limited resources

Command training opportunity intended to be utilized on the hood of a patrol vehicle and within a hallway

Command training opportunity

Appropriate for EMS, FIRE, LAW ENFORCEMENT

front-line supervisors, training officers, & SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS

MULTI-DISIPLINARY TRAINING:

The HRUC program is designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, and EMS responders during critical events. Participating organizational representatives are welcome and encouraged to attend the program with their local response partners. The same information is provided each day to enable agencies to send multiple supervisors and training officers.

Course INSTRUCTOR

Lieutenant Jim Etzin is the Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services Coordinator for the Oakland County Tactical Training Consortium (OakTac), a mutual aid organization in Michigan comprised of 40 law enforcement agencies, numerous fire departments, and other stakeholders protecting approximately 1.3 million residents. He is also the founder of the International Tactical EMS Association (ITEMS) and served as a United States Navy corpsman during combat operations in Operation Desert Storm and then as a full-time combat medicine instructor for the 1st Marine Division. After becoming the first Corpsman to ever attend the United States Marine Corps Military Police School and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) School, he then served as both an operator and medic within the only full-time Marine Corps SWAT team at the time.

In the immediate aftermath of the infamous North Hollywood Bank of America takeover robbery and shootout in 1997, two years prior to the incident at Columbine High School, Etzin was the first in the United States to conceptualize what's now known as the Rescue Task Force approach to casualty management.