Female Officer Survival

“We are not men, not built like men, yet we must be able to survive like the men.  Thanks for helping to prepare us.”

(Female Officer Survival Graduate, 7 years in Law Enforcement)

• What are you doing for your female officers to help prepare them for the streets?
• The ranks of female officers in law enforcement continue to increase.  From 1990 to 1997 the ranks of females in law enforcement increased from 10.6% to 13.63% [1] .
• Unfortunately these valiant officers are paying the price with their own blood.  According to the Officer Killed and Assaulted Summaries, from 1992 to 2001 (23) female officers were killed in the Line of Duty.
• In The Line of Fire: Violence Against Law Enforcement, (the definitive F.B.I. study), stated, “offenders interviewed stated, as they believed female officers would be easier to overcome during a physical confrontation, the sex of the victim officers would have a positive influence on their decision to assault.”
• Unfortunately these fine law enforcement officers frequently leave law enforcement early.  Training among other issues is often cited as one of the main reasons why women leave policing. [2]
• Many trainers suffer from “psycho-sclerosis” (a hardening of the attitudes) when it comes to females in law enforcement.  Comments such as “equal pay, equal work,” “if they want the job why should they have special training?” and a variety of other comments by trainers frequently ignore the fact that female officers oftentimes feel alienated by department trainers.  Failing to properly train these officers in the academy and during in-service creates a training dilemma, “they hate training and they frequently have problems in physical skill areas.”  Sound familiar?
• Let’s face it tactics and techniques that a 6 foot, 200 lb. male officer can “make” work may not apply to a 5’2”, 100 lb. female officer.  Why not train your female officers in suspect control and firearms skills that do work for them!
• What can you do?  At A.T.C. we have developed our Female Officer Survival Course to address some of these issues.  Listen to these comments:

“Excellent Training!”  “Overall: This survival course was excellent I’m so glad and fortunate to be a part of a dept. that cares about its female officers.”  “This course was very beneficial.”  “I feel more confident in my abilities and the instructors did a great job.”

        This is not an easy course!  Far from it, this is one of the most challenging hands-on courses in law enforcement and yet we have ladies that are signing up to attend the course a second time.  Why?  Because they know that in an actual street situation they will not “rise to the occasion but will rather download to their training!”

Call or email us today to find out how you can host this progressive training program or bring it to your agency.

Advanced Tactical Concepts    330.606-4160    kd1@advancedtacticalconcepts.com