DAY FOUR | Monday, December 8

Day four started with some quick announcements and then a presentation by Greg Kolhoff and David Saad on Cops and Doughnuts. Cops and Doughnuts is a community-focused doughnut shop and bakery in Clare, Michigan owned and operated by the nine members of the local Police Department.

Following this presentation, Kevin Rittenhouse conducted the one and only lecture course of the week on Response to an Explosive Situation. This course was designed to provide the front line officer with an awareness level understanding of identifiers for possible explosive devices and potential terrorist activity. Students finished out the morning by breaking into their four Master Instructor led groups for Level 2 instructor development.

Instructor development resumed after lunch. At 2:00 all attendees and instructors squeezed together for group pictures. After a handful of photos were snapped off, the students ran through a final review and then took their written tests for Level 1 and Level 2 Departmental Instructor certification or F.O.R.C.E. Critical Incident / Active Shooter Response certification.

As students were completing their tests, officers rotated through the final rounds of the Tactical Competition. The first competition started with an officer shooting from the Perfect-10 Training Barricade with the IRTactical system. From there, the officer ran to the next station to low crawl through a barricade corridor and hit targets through small openings. The final round was a force on force competition that concluded with an every-man-for-himself 4-corners shootout.
 
Tactical Competition winners were recognized later in the evening at the Recognition and Awards Social. The social ended the conference on a note of camaraderie and gave everyone a chance to put the experience in perspective and look forward to bringing what they had learned back to their respective agencies.