HTTG’s active threat programs are built around the High Threat system: reality-based, behavior-driven, and designed to develop performers who can act under pressure with aggressive tactics. Both courses are mobile and can be hosted at your agency.
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.
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.