First Responder Training
Collaborative Training For First Responders
- Train with Your Team, Train with Your Region: Instead of training with strangers in individual classrooms, our programs are designed for first responders to train alongside their colleagues and with other professionals from their region. We provide real-world scenarios through field-based training exercises.
- Real-World Partnerships: Build strong working relationships with the first responders you’ll be collaborating with during emergencies.
- Effective Coordination: Learn how to work seamlessly with your team and regional partners to deliver efficient and effective responses.
Explore First Responder Courses And Conferences
Combating Terrorism, Homeland Security Conference: Lessons from October 7th
This one-day conference addresses how to enhance information and intelligence sharing as well as understanding how Hamas carried out their attacks. It will also cover lessons learned in response and lessons learned in community resilience.
Integrated Counterterrorism and Cyber Defense Training
Course Objectives:
- Provide participants with knowledge and skills needed to protect, prevent, mitigate, respond, and recover from a terror or cyber-attack.
- Examine the historical threats, conflicts and attacks against Israel, as well as Israeli best practices in counter terrorism, cyber defense, and emergency response following the October 7th terror attacks.
- Describe the impact of social capital on the resiliency of the Israeli people.
- Provide participants with practical, hands-on learning activities including a Table-top Exercise.
(3-day classroom-based course)
Active Shooter Response
Course Objectives:
- Preplan for an incident at school(s) and identify high-value targets.
- Identify traffic control points, staging areas for EMS and the media, landing zones, and tactical advantage points.
(1-day+ course, dependent upon number of facilities to assess)
Introduction to the Intelligence World
Audience: Public service personnel who work in cooperation with intelligence entities, Fusion Center personnel, Terrorism Liaison Officers
Course Objectives:
- Describe the history of intelligence from ancient times to the modern era.
- Differentiate between the various kinds of intelligence sources and best practices, when to use each, implementing intelligence products in different practices, including business intelligence.
- Describe the different methodologies of intelligence collection, analysis, and fusion.
- Review ways of decision making based on intelligence fusion.
- Learn the ways and importance of protecting clandestine sources.
- Participate in class exercises to implement the material studies.
(16-hour course)
Recruiting and Running Human Sources
Audience: Public service personnel who work in cooperation with intelligence entities, Fusion Center personnel, Terrorism Liaison Officers
Course Objectives:
- Introduce and describe the importance of human sources.
- Learn about the psychological motives of the human source, both positive and negative and best approaches to recruitment.
- Describe how to prepare and conduct a successful recruitment conversation.
- Apply techniques in recruitment exercises.
(1-day course)
Vetting Sources
Audience: Public service personnel who work in cooperation with intelligence entities, Fusion Center personnel, Terrorism Liaison Officers
Course Objectives:
- Define source reliability.
- Review the importance of checking source’s reliability.
- Describe the different levels of reliability and how to deal with each one.
(8-hour course)
Intelligence Reporting
Audience: Public service personnel who work in cooperation with intelligence entities, Fusion Center personnel, Terrorism Liaison Officers
Course Objectives:
- Describe the need for reporting.
- Identify the different kinds of reports and different kinds of reporting sources.
- Describe the methods of reporting.
- Write a comprehensive report based on the five “W”s.
(16-hour course)
Introduction to Intelligence
Audience: Intelligence analysts
Course Objectives:
- Recognize the flow of the intelligence process.
- Describe the components of intelligence analysis – from raw material to the final intelligence product.
- Explain the challenge of recognizing and choosing the right information from the never-ending flow of materials.
- Define the different intelligence sources and the correct evaluation of each.
- Explain how to protect intelligence sources.
- Describe the process of developing intelligence products fusion.
