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Police Use of Force & Force Avoidance

Equipping Officers for the Street and Courtroom

✎ Taught by: Don McCrea 🕒 Length of Training: 16 Hours

Premier Police Training, LLC has specifically designed this course to significantly improve an officer’s skill and ability to make the right force decision and then powerfully articulate in defense of that decision verbally and in written reports in a manner that will withstand legal scrutiny.

This course includes de-escalation and non-escalation of force, the consequences of unnecessary time compression, the 7 foundations for learning response to resistance, and much more.

This training will better equip an officer to meet the challenges they can expect to encounter before, during, and after a force event.

Course Highlights

  • Make the right decision involving the duty to intervene!
  • Avoid the causes of unreasonable force and reduce the threat of lawsuits, civil litigation, and lost careers.
  • Learn and apply the seven foundations surrounding police use of force training that can save a life or a career.
  • Articulate lawful force decisions verbally and in writing so they withstand tough legal scrutiny.
  • Apply the skills you learn in this training to determine the reasonableness of all levels of force events.

Police Use of Force & Force Avoidance:

Equipping Officers for the Street and Courtroom

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✎ Taught by: Don McCrea 🕒 Length of Training: 16 Hours

Premier Police Training, LLC has specifically designed this course to significantly improve an officer’s skill and ability to make the right force decision and then powerfully articulate in defense of that decision verbally and in written reports in a manner that will withstand legal scrutiny.

This course includes de-escalation and non-escalation of force, the consequences of unnecessary time compression, the 7 foundations for learning response to resistance, and much more.

This training will better equip an officer to meet the challenges they can expect to encounter before, during, and after a force event.

Course Highlights

  • Make the right decision involving the duty to intervene!
  • Avoid the causes of unreasonable force and reduce the threat of lawsuits, civil litigation, and lost careers.
  • Learn and apply the seven foundations surrounding police use of force training that can save a life or a career.
  • Articulate lawful force decisions verbally and in writing so they withstand tough legal scrutiny.
  • Apply the skills you learn in this training to determine the reasonableness of all levels of force events.
“I did not have time to think I just had time to react. …training I learned from you saved our lives.”
Officer Michael Morgan

Taught By Don McCrea

  • Search and Seizure & Use of Force Expert
  • 35+ Years in Law Enforcement
  • IADLEST Nationally Certified Instructor
  • IADLEST International Certified Instructor

Considered to be a leading expert in Search & Seizure and Use of Force, Don brings a level of experience, passion, and commitment to serving both law enforcement officers and citizens that is second-to-none.