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Program J (FFO)
Course Name
Field Force Operations (FFO)

Target Audience/Disciplines
FFO is designed for law enforcement officers and first line supervisors.

Course Description
Field Force Operations (FFO) is a three-day course providing state and local law enforcement personnel the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for and successfully mitigate threat incidents involving civil disorder. FFO combines classroom instruction with practical exercises that afford responders the opportunity to practice concepts and tactics in a controlled environment. Activities included in this course are mass arrest procedures, team tactics, demonstrator tactics, crowd dynamics and mob behavior, use of riot control agents and less lethal munitions, and the employment of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Below are some, but not all, the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Understand how the First, Fourth, Eight and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution relate to civil action/disorder;
• Express the considerations and processes for conducting mass arrests during civil action/disorder;
• Act as a member of an arrest team and remove an arrestee using both two- and four-officer carry techniques;
• Serve as a member of a mobile field force (MFF) team while conducting dismounted crowd control operations with and without personal protective equipment (PPE); and
• Select for use, based on the liabilities and limitations of each, the best riot control agents and less lethal munitions.

Additional Qualifications/Certifications
Students must have the ability to march 100 yards, lift 185 pounds with assistance, kneel on one knee, run 20 yards intermittently, stand for long periods of time (approximately 3 hours), shout commands, and don, properly seal, and doff an air purifying respirator.

Course Length
3.0 days

Course Code
PER-200

CEUs
International Association for Continuing Education and training (IACET): 2.4
Police Officer Standards and training (POST; approved per state): 24

Info Here:http://cdp.dhs.gov/schedules/program/j.html