HTTG offers two distinct active threat training programs for law enforcement. The Active Threat Interdiction (ATI) Instructor Course prepares patrol and tactical instructors to build active threat response capability within their agencies. The STAR Course, taught by HTTG and marketed through NASRO, provides school resource officers with response training designed specifically for school environments.
Both programs use reality-based, behavior-driven training to strengthen threat identification, decision-making under pressure, coordinated response, and incident stabilization. Each course can be delivered as mobile training. Compare the programs below to determine which option best fits your personnel and mission.
Most active threat training focuses on the initial contact team and the act of stopping the threat. While that capability is essential, ending the killing is only the first step.
HTTG trains officers to rapidly locate, identify, and neutralize the threat—but we don’t stop there. We prepare leaders and responding personnel for the critical actions that must occur immediately after contact is made and while the incident is still evolving.
Our programs emphasize the transition from threat interdiction to operational control, including establishing interior command leadership, creating immediate buffer zones and security corridors, assigning the closest Casualty Collection Point (CCP), accounting for wounded victims, deploying advanced reconnaissance teams, and coordinating the resources needed to stabilize the incident.
Whether responding to a school, public venue, or other complex environment, officers and leaders must be prepared to do more than stop the killing. They must rapidly organize the scene, protect responders and victims, and set the conditions for a successful rescue and recovery effort.
That’s the gap HTTG fills.
HTTG’s Active Threat Interdiction Instructor course is a 4-day program designed to equip law enforcement officers with the skills and strategies to effectively respond to active threat incidents in various environments — and teach the material back to their agency.
By training officers to respond effectively in crowded areas, open stadiums, parking lots, and structures, the course addresses the evolving nature of threats and the need for adaptability. Officers leave with a manual, lesson plans, drills, and a certificate of completion.
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The Active Threat Interdiction Instructor course is a 4-day program that begins with a brief lecture highlighting the distinctions between HTTG’s Active Threat Interdiction strategy and traditional training approaches. Following the lecture, the course emphasizes hands-on instruction to ensure the practical application of the tactics taught.
To enhance the realism of the training, the course incorporates multiple contact drills, force-on-force exercises in stadium and large venue environments, scenario simulations, post-engagement exercises, and live-fire range practice.
Officers who complete this course return to their agencies equipped to build active threat response capability in their colleagues — closing the gap between range qualification and real-world performance.
An Active Threat Interdiction Instructor course certifies law enforcement officers to train their agencies in active threat response. HTTG’s 4-day course covers patrol-level interdiction tactics, force-on-force scenario design and facilitation, teach backs, and live-fire range. Graduates receive a manual, lesson plans, drills, and a certificate of completion.
The HTTG Active Threat Interdiction Instructor course is 4 days, running 8AM to 5PM daily. The course begins with a brief lecture on HTTG’s approach versus traditional training, then emphasizes hands-on instruction including contact drills, force-on-force exercises, scenario simulations, post-engagement exercises, and live-fire range practice.
Topics include: detecting pre-attack indicators; weapons maneuver, avoiding friendly fire, and earning the shot; movement through crowds at large venues; use of cover and bounding/flanking movement; vehicle tactics, open air-venue and structure tactics; aggressive solo response and linkups; safe travel lanes and corridors; priority of life during active threat response; dealing with off-duty officers and legally armed citizens; teach backs and scenario development; how to set up safe training; and live-fire range.
Officers who successfully complete the HTTG Active Threat Interdiction Instructor course receive a manual, lesson plans, drills, and a certificate of completion. To complete the course, students must pass teach backs, pass practicals, and have no safety violations.
Yes. HTTG delivers the Active Threat Interdiction Instructor course at agency locations nationwide. Mobile delivery reduces travel costs and allows training to be conducted in your actual operational environment. Contact HTTG at contact@highthreattraining.com to discuss scheduling and requirements.
Active threat training prepares officers to respond to active shooter and active threat incidents — covering threat identification, decision-making under pressure, force-on-force scenarios, and multi-environment tactics. HTTG's programs focus on Phase 1 & 2: the individual officer's immediate actions before additional resources arrive, and immediate transition.
Active shooter training focuses on incidents involving an armed attacker using a firearm. While these events remain a significant concern, today’s threats are not limited to shooters alone. Active threat training prepares responders for a broader range of violent incidents, including attacks involving firearms, edged weapons, explosives, vehicles, multiple attackers, or other evolving threats. It emphasizes threat identification, rapid decision-making, threat interdiction, casualty management, and incident stabilization regardless of the weapon or tactic used. At HTTG, we use the term active threat because it reflects the realities facing law enforcement today. Our training teaches officers and leaders how to stop the killing, stop the dying, establish operational control, and manage the incident from initial contact through recovery—regardless of the specific threat they encounter. The mission remains the same: protect lives, neutralize the threat, and restore order as quickly as possible..
HTTG offers two programs: (1) Active Threat Interdiction Instructor — 4-day instructor certification for law enforcement; and (2) STAR (SRO Tactical Assailant Response) — 3-day course for School Resource Officers. STAR enrollment is managed through NASRO.
Yes. Both HTTG active threat programs are mobile and can be delivered at your agency's location. Contact us at contact@highthreattraining.com to discuss scheduling.
