Active Attack Incident Management

The ALERRT Center at Texas State University has been awarded funding to develop a state-of-the-art eLearning program to train Law Enforcement personnel on using the Incident Command System (ICS) while responding to Active Attack events.

The importance of an effective Incident Command System (ICS) is underscored by numerous after-action reports from recent active attack incidents. This eLearning course is designed to enhance participants' skills, abilities, and performance in utilizing the NIMS ICS process during active attacks and other major critical incidents. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of ICS, enabling them to improve both individual and agency response capabilities. The AAIM course will introduce and explain various command phases, zones of operation, command elements, and terminology, as well as interagency coordination, communication, transfers of command, Incident Command Posts, Area Command, and EOC operations. Developed with input from subject matter experts, and based on NIMS ICS principles and real event research, this course offers a comprehensive platform to boost participants' ability to effectively use the incident command structure in dynamic situations. 4 hours of ALERRT training are awarded for completion of this course. 

TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT ONLY:

This course satisfies the TCOLE requirements for course #3366 and will count as 4 hours of TCOLE training. This course does count toward the SB1852 mandate.

This course was designed in conjunction with TEEX (Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service) to provide first responders and other professionals with a model response program they can deliver to civilians within their communities. May also be referred to as Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events Train-the-Trainer (CRASE).

This course satisfies the TCOLE requirements for course #3364 and will count as 4 hours of TCOLE training. This course, however, does not count toward the SB1852 mandate.

The ALERRT Center at Texas State University and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) have been awarded funding to develop a state-of-the-art eLearning program to train Fire and Law Enforcement personnel on responding to Fire as a Weapon (FAAW) events.

Fire as a weapon (FAAW) is the use of fire, smoke, or flammable materials normally used with other attack vectors that confound incident response and which requires an integrated response for incident stabilization. Criminals and terrorists have used FAAW in many incidents, including well-known incidents such as: Waco TX, 1993; Mumbai India, 2008; Ferguson MO, 2014-15; and Honolulu HI, 2020 as well as many smaller incidents. FAAW incidents are continually evolving, both in magnitude and frequency, and the training to mitigate FAAW must also continually evolve.

4 hours are awarded with ALERRT training for this course. 

This course satisfies the TCOLE requirements for course #3356 and will count as 4 hours of TCOLE training. This course does count toward the SB1852 mandate.

This course is designed to introduce ALERRT's researched based concepts and principles for Law Enforcement when responding to an active attack event. Taking from our in-person courses, this eLearning designed format will provide a scenario based platform to reinforce proper response options. For more in-depth training, please consider hosting and attending our instructor led courses on our website. 

This course is intended for Law Enforcement and First Responders.

This course does not have a TCOLE number assigned and does not satisfy the SB1852 mandate.

This course was designed in conjunction with TEEX (Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service) to provide telecommunicators, first responders, and other professionals with information on effective dispatching to better prepare them to save lives and reduce chaos in an active attack event. 

This course satisfies the TCOLE requirements for course #78052 and will count as 3 hours of TCOLE training. This course does count toward the SB1852 mandate.

The goal of this course is to provide leaders in first response and emergency management agencies with strategic leadership and integrate response strategies that will prepare them to not only “stop the killing” but to also “stop the dying” in active attack events. Participants will also be able to recognize the need to prepare their communities for an active shooter attack and use this as an opportunity for positive outreach and community engagement.

This course was designed in conjunction with TEEX (Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service) 

This course satisfies the TCOLE requirements for course #667371 and will count as 4 hours of TCOLE training. This course does count toward the SB1852 mandate.

A webinar focusing on the subject of mental health and resiliency in the First Responder community.

This webinar explores how quick action, decisive leadership and good training will allow responders to get ahead of a bad call and mitigate any disaster.

This webinar examines how the use of Pre-Staged RTFs allowed for a quick integrated response in the city of Austin during the events in the summer of 2020.

Note: Our Recertification course is currently unavailable. It will plan to relaunch in 2025 with the new 8.0 Version of Level 1 T3. Please email elearning@alerrt.org or sjones@alerrt.org with any questions.

The purpose of the Level 1 T3C recertification course is to ensure that all certified Level 1 Instructors are provided the most current, updated and relevant information, regarding tactics, policies and procedures relating to the efficient, effective and unified response to an active attack. 

The Level 1 course is designed to prepare the first responder to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter. This course will cover shooting and moving, threshold evaluation, concepts and principles of team movement, setting up for and room entry techniques, approach and breaching the crisis site, secondary responder tactics, improvised explosive devices, and post engagement priorities of work. 

• •  This class is required for certified instructors to be updated and certified to continue to instruct Level 1 to their agencies and neighboring agencies. 

• •  Price is 100 dollars 

• •  Mandate for all Level 1 Instructors (CIs and Adjuncts). This course is mandatory for all certified instructors to take every three years.

• •  This course satisfies the TCOLE requirements for course #3355 and will count as 8 hours of TCOLE training. This course does count toward the SB1852 mandate.

How to enroll:

One month before the Level 1 T3 certificate expires ALERRT sends an email with a link to access our payment site, or students can click on the Moodle Icon (little M with a hat) here https://alerrt.org/student/attendings/certificates at any time.

From there the steps below apply:

• • Instructor pays for the online recertification course.
• • When the payment is done (and successful) the system automatically enrolls the user into the eLearning recertification course. Enrollment is only available in this way.
• • After the user successfully completes the course, their Level 1 T3 certificate is renewed for 3 years. The recertification course must be completed within 100 days of payment, otherwise secondary payment will be required