[0:00] I'm Ron Vinden. I'm a police officer and [0:02] firearms instructor at the city of [0:03] Lakeville. [0:07] Today we're doing some tactical training [0:09] in our portable shoot house. So a [0:11] portable shoot house, it's segments of [0:13] 2x4s and then some cloth that you can [0:15] bring it out on the range and you can [0:16] simulate hallway movements, engaging [0:19] targets through the threshold, [0:21] practicing your angles. [0:22] Today we're just refreshing on some of [0:24] our weapon skills. U moving as a team, [0:26] clearing buildings, hostage rescue, uh [0:29] really working in tandem so uh we can [0:31] not only respond quicker um but also [0:33] safer and and more of a uh an [0:36] orchestrated u manner. [0:38] It's very important with the ambushes um [0:41] on police officers these days. So, what [0:44] we're teaching uh these guys out here, [0:46] gals, is that when you are entering a a [0:51] threshold or a hallway or a room that [0:55] with your angles that you're using, um [0:58] we use what's called a 45 90 45 [1:01] technique that allows you to see and [1:03] engage the target before they engage [1:06] you. [1:06] Um also too, staying sharp on our team [1:09] movements um and kind of how we move as [1:12] a group, move as a team. so we can get [1:13] into wherever we need to get to a lot [1:15] faster and a lot safer. [1:16] So, some of the extra training we kind [1:18] of added to it is our HRT or hostage [1:21] rescue training. Um, that's to kind of [1:24] get the PL blood pressure a little bit [1:26] higher, put some stress on the officers [1:28] to um engage a target, but yet take [1:32] their time and get that shot off. Kind [1:35] of get them get them riled up and then [1:38] calm them down. This type of training we [1:41] do probably every 3 to four months. [1:43] We've learned this stuff. It's really [1:45] good to refresh on some of the things [1:46] that I may have forgotten um in terms [1:49] of, you know, the movements and stuff [1:51] that that we had learned that maybe we [1:52] hadn't brushed up on in a long time. Um [1:54] and how quickly it came back to us u [1:57] when we started doing the movements and [1:58] the drills and the training. Well, you [2:00] got to stay sharp on your skills. Um [2:03] it's it's something that we could go to [2:06] on any given day. We never know when it [2:07] would be. Um, so we want to make sure [2:09] that we're sharp should we ever have to [2:10] respond to a situation that might entail [2:13] um, active shooter in a school or a [2:15] building or a bank or anything like [2:16] that. You know, god forbid we ever have [2:18] a situation, but we see in the news, we [2:20] see in the media, it can happen [2:21] anywhere. It allows us to respond [2:22] quicker to an active threat.