Active Shooter Response for Armed Security & Law Enforcement

Two-Day Certificate Course: 12 Hours Total

Day 1: Classroom Instruction: 6 Hours
Day 2: Tactical Application: 6 Hours

Hearing protection required. Please bring your own.

Active shooter incidents demand rapid threat recognition, disciplined judgment, clear communication, and coordinated action.

At Mr. B’s Security Training Center, this course combines classroom instruction with realistic practical exercises for armed security guards and law enforcement personnel. Participants examine the responsibilities of an armed response and apply those concepts through supervised simulations inside a configurable interior training environment.

Instruction emphasizes protecting life, distinguishing threats from bystanders, making lawful force decisions, and maintaining accountability under pressure. Response responsibilities are addressed in the context of each participant’s role, legal authority, and employer or agency policies.

The classroom component establishes the knowledge needed to prepare for, recognize, and respond to an active shooter incident.

Topics include:

• Active shooter awareness: Incident characteristics, case studies, national trends, and lessons learned from previous incidents.
• Situational awareness: Recognizing suspicious behavior, monitoring changing conditions, identifying exits and protective options, and maintaining awareness of occupants, potential threats, and responding personnel.
• Prevention and preparedness: Recognizing warning behaviors, reporting concerns, identifying facility vulnerabilities, and understanding emergency plans and response responsibilities.
• Lockdown procedures: Understanding when lockdown is appropriate, initiating facility procedures, securing designated areas, communicating instructions, accounting for occupants, and coordinating with responding law enforcement.
• Response priorities: Protecting life, evaluating evacuation and sheltering options, assisting occupants, and adapting decisions as conditions change.
• Professional responsibilities: The roles of armed security personnel and law enforcement, lawful force decisions, employer and agency policies, and professional accountability.
• Emergency communication: Calling 911, using radio and telephone communications, conveying critical information, and coordinating with responding officers and emergency medical personnel.
• Care under fire: Understanding emergency-care priorities during an ongoing threat, including rescuer and casualty safety, self-aid and buddy-aid awareness, urgent bleeding-control considerations, and movement to relative safety when conditions permit.
• Emergency first aid awareness: Recognizing life-threatening injuries, understanding basic trauma-care priorities, requesting medical resources, and coordinating the transfer of care to EMS.
• Post-incident responsibilities: Scene safety, evidence preservation, documentation, reporting, personnel accountability, and after-action review.

Classroom instruction includes discussion, case review, and a final review of key concepts before practical application.

Participants apply classroom concepts through instructor-led exercises involving rooms, hallways, doorways, and transitional spaces.

Practical training focuses on:

• Threshold and interior assessment: Evaluating doorways, corners, visibility limitations, and changing conditions.
• Movement and positioning: Navigating confined environments while maintaining awareness, firearm control, and accountability.
• Individual and team response: Communication, coordination, and clearly understood responsibilities during evolving scenarios.
• Reduced-light conditions: Maintaining target identification and communication when visibility is limited.
• Threat discrimination: Distinguishing active threats from bystanders and making appropriate force decisions.
• Performance under pressure: Practicing composure, communication, and judgment during simulated gunfire and other controlled distractions.
• Shot accountability: Reviewing target results and timing alongside the decisions made throughout each exercise.

Our training environment incorporates Laser Ammo’s CQB target system, providing reactive target feedback and recorded split and total times for performance review.

The Gunshot Box introduces simulated gunfire cues into instructor-controlled scenarios, giving participants opportunities to practice maintaining awareness and communication during sudden auditory distractions.

Laser simulation supports repeated exercises, immediate feedback, and instructor-directed correction. Practical scenarios are conducted without live ammunition.

Our training area uses American Range Walls to create modular rooms, hallways, doorways, and connected interior spaces.

These configurable layouts allow instructors to vary visibility, room arrangements, and movement challenges between exercises. Participants must assess the environment and apply the lesson objectives as conditions change.

Each scenario concludes with an instructor-led after-action review connecting performance to the exercise objectives.

Reviews examine:

• Threat recognition and decision-making.
• Communication, coordination, and awareness.
• Movement, positioning, and firearm handling.
• Target results, timing, and shot accountability.
• Procedural errors and specific opportunities for improvement.

Participants receive feedback they can apply during subsequent exercises, reinforcing a consistent approach to assessment, communication, and professional responsibility.

Training opportunities include individual response exercises, paired and small-team coordination, scenario-based decision-making, and agency or security-team training blocks.

These sessions provide a setting to examine response responsibilities, practice communication, and identify areas requiring further development.

Contact Mr. B’s Security Training Center for upcoming class dates, registration information, and agency or security-team training inquiries.

Participants receive a certificate of completion upon completing the course

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After checkout, you will receive a link to submit your driver’s license or another approved photo ID. Booking and payment do not guarantee enrollment. Completion of the training center’s ID & Anti-Fraud verification is required before admission. If verification is not completed, enrollment will be denied and payment refunded.

This is a supplemental training course that awards a certificate of completion. It is not a DCJS certification course and does not qualify participants for an armed security guard registration.

This course does not replace New York State’s required security-guard training or annual firearms training. Participants remain responsible for applicable licensing, registration, and agency training requirements.