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Gold Canyon, AZ - March 2023

2025 Dates TBD

The Tactical Training for Narcotics/Vice Units is a five-day (40 hours) training program focusing on the tactical enforcement side of undercover operations. This entry-level class is designed for narcotics officers, patrol officers and other law enforcement personnel who participate or assist in high-risk related operations. During this program, students will plan and execute a series of tactical operations to include: “buy bust” operations, “reverse” operations, undercover rescue and vehicle takedowns/assaults. The class will conclude in the planning and execution of a “multi-kilo drug bust” in which the students will be graded. This training will be especially useful to officers who routinely support their undercover officers in responding to help the undercover or to simply arrest the suspect. The training will also cover the various aspects of “take downs” utilized in Vice and Human Trafficking Operations. Students who are attending the class are asked to bring both there “tactical gear” and “undercover” clothing.

No Weapons or Live Ammo Permitted in the Class or Practical Exercises.

*RANGE DAY: REQUIRED EQUIPMENT : Serviceable Pistol, minimum 2 pistol magazines, 300 pistol rounds, eye & ear protection, serviceable holster.

Attendance is limited.  Register early to insure your attendance.

Topics

Officer Safety  -  Risk Management  -  Vehicle Assaults and Takedowns

Dynamic and Subtle Entries  -  Covert Operations  -  Common Sense/Policy Issues
Informant Issues  -  Tactical Planning  -  Looking for the Red Flags  -  Narcotics Arrests  Prescription Drug Arrests - Human Trafficking Arrests  -  Firearms Discipline
  Operational Security  -  Operational Plans  -  Risk vs. Reward  -  Psyche of Survival Public Safety Considerations  -  Undercover “Buy/Bust” Techniques
 Tactical Equipment  -  Medical Equipment  -  Undercover Officer Rescue

 Instructors

Sergeant Guy Daniels - Guy is a twenty-four-year veteran with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, with over sixteen years’ experience as a narcotics detective. Guy started his narcotics career with street-level tactical units where he participated in several hundred undercover operations over a sixteen-year narcotics career. During this time, he participated in several long-term undercover operations and was asked to join the DEA as a task force officer. Guy is a member of the Clandestine Laboratory Entrance Team as a certified site safety officer and is tasked with Meth related training for the department.
In 2007, Guy started S.W.A.N. Tactical Training as an organization specializing in narcotics based training for state and federal law enforcement. Since 2007, Guy has developed and instructed multiple classes related to narcotics and undercover techniques throughout the United States for State and Federal agencies to include: the U.S. Army, Drug Enforcement Administration, Nevada and Florida HITDA, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Florida Narcotics Officers Association and the Annual Covert Operations Training Conference (Las Vegas, NV).  Det. Daniels served with the 82nd Airborne Division and participated in combat operations in Iraq (Operations(s) Desert Shield and Desert Storm).

Sergeant Brad Echelberger- Brad is a twenty-five-year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office with ten years as a SWAT team member. During his tenure with the sheriff’s office he’s held the following positions: Patrolman, Gang Detective, Patrol Sergeant, and Gang Unit Sergeant. For the past ten years Brad has been assigned to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and has held several positions to include; assaulter, sniper and Sniper Team Leader. During that time, Brad has participated on numerous callouts, hundreds of high risk search warrants and countless other tactical operations. Brad has trained and worked with almost every federal law enforcement agency. Brad served in the US army with the 75thRanger Battalion.

Detective Sean Fallon - Detective Fallon has worked for the Cedar Park Police Department since 2018 and has worked in Narcotics since 2016 and is currently assigned to the Organized Crime Unit with the Cedar Park Police Department in Williamson County, Texas. Detective Fallon has been an active TFO (Task Force Officer) with the Austin DEA TDS (Tactical Diversion Squad) in response to the Fentanyl epidemic. He has extensive expertise in not only street narcotics but also pharmaceutical narcotics and overdose investigations. He regularly holds various trainings within the Organized Crime Unit updating them on current narcotic trends and case laws, State and Federal Prosecution procedures, undercover operation techniques, and Narcotic unit based tactical procedures and is an expert witness in Narcotics and regularly testifies in both State and Federal Court. He has received specialized training on the subject of narcotics trafficking and money laundering from the DEA and has been personally involved in investigations concerning the possession, manufacture, distribution, and importation of controlled substances, as well as methods used to finance drug transactions on the State and Federal level.

Training Site and Registration Information

he training will be held at the Chandler Public Safety Training Center, 3550 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler AZ. 85249. The registration fee for the five-day training program is $750.00 per person.

We accept cash, check or Visa/MasterCard/Amex. Group discounts are available.  Tuition cost includes the cost of the instruction, handout materials, copy of The Art of Undercover: Techniques and Survival, and certificate of completion.

All checks or purchase orders must be made payable to Undercover Officers Association and mailed to 631 Cloisterbane Drive, St. Johns, FL 32259. For information call Trish at 904-556-1586 (Trish@undercover.org).

Classes will be held daily from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.  Dress is casual. 
Lodging:  Out of town guests should make their own lodging arrangements.

No travel money?  Interested in hosting this training?  Contact us at:  Trish@Undercover.org