Constraints-Led Instruction for Room Entry and Hallway Movement
Friday 04 Dec / 1:00 PM / Boise Police Department
The session
A constraints-led build of active attacker tactics, run in hallway and room space. Role players wearing colored pennies (suspect, officer, innocent, unknown) stage at varying depths in rooms off a hallway while solo officers work the hall. Early repetitions hold officers close to or far from doorways so they feel distance and angle; the restrictions then come off, and officers self-organize toward the serpentine pattern. Room entries run under spacing constraints rather than scripted assignments. The trade: less explicit instruction, more active engagement per training hour.
About the presenter
Chris is the Lead Defensive Tactics and Use of Force Instructor for the Boise Police Department, responsible for all DT content at the academy and in-service levels. He is the lead Taser instructor, an Idaho Master Instructor for Defensive Tactics, and a BJJ black belt, with prior service as a SWAT operator, FTO, detective, and supervisor across 22 years in law enforcement.