Penforhire
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Taking a tangent from the current "Hollywood Shootout on FX" thread. I'm wondering how much LEO training is devoted to handling aggressive BG's who really don't care who they kill?
I used to own a paintball company and we provided equipment and facilities for training exercises to SWAT, Sheriff, and nuclear power plant private security forces in Northern CA.
One of the things we noticed was every single group was initially unprepared for an attack. They ALL assumed the BG's would hole up and take some form of defensive stand. Any assertive BG who did not care for his own safety could engage them while they were diddling with their mirrors-on-sticks and yakking on the radios. This had nothing to do with the use of paintball equipment (although one SWAT captain had an AD in our lobby, which I assume his team will never let him forget). It was more about the focus of the responders.
Once they arrived and began setting up a perimeter they sort of slacked off behind cover. After the paint was sprayed I heard a lot of "well, I thought YOU were covering that corrodor."
After a few disastrous encounters the team got much better at maintaining their defensive focus. I know that's the point of training and in these cases I think it worked well. But I was disappointed by their initial lack of preparation for an offensive scenario, considering this paintball training was more of a break-in-rountine-training for these already-working teams.
Oh, it was also big fun playing a hostage, terrorist, or other BG for these teams to train on.
Any thoughts or LEO responders?
I used to own a paintball company and we provided equipment and facilities for training exercises to SWAT, Sheriff, and nuclear power plant private security forces in Northern CA.
One of the things we noticed was every single group was initially unprepared for an attack. They ALL assumed the BG's would hole up and take some form of defensive stand. Any assertive BG who did not care for his own safety could engage them while they were diddling with their mirrors-on-sticks and yakking on the radios. This had nothing to do with the use of paintball equipment (although one SWAT captain had an AD in our lobby, which I assume his team will never let him forget). It was more about the focus of the responders.
Once they arrived and began setting up a perimeter they sort of slacked off behind cover. After the paint was sprayed I heard a lot of "well, I thought YOU were covering that corrodor."
After a few disastrous encounters the team got much better at maintaining their defensive focus. I know that's the point of training and in these cases I think it worked well. But I was disappointed by their initial lack of preparation for an offensive scenario, considering this paintball training was more of a break-in-rountine-training for these already-working teams.
Oh, it was also big fun playing a hostage, terrorist, or other BG for these teams to train on.
Any thoughts or LEO responders?