Training Courses

Critical Thinking on Active Incidents by Calibre Press

Date & Time:
  • November 3, 2026
Location:
Montgomeryville, PA

Critical Thinking on Active Incidents: You Arrive, You Decide

Course Overview

When critical situations unfold, each decision made by responding officers can have life-altering consequences. This training program equips law enforcement professionals with the cognitive and tactical tools necessary to maintain clarity, respond decisively, and adjust to rapidly changing conditions during active incidents and other high-stress scenarios.

Participants will engage with realistic situational exercises and facilitated discussions that examine actual incidents from the field. Through these case studies, officers will recognize pivotal moments where sound critical thinking altered outcomes, and they will practice applying structured decision-making frameworks that improve tactical and ethical performance under pressure.

The course emphasizes the ability to make informed judgments despite incomplete or conflicting information, recognize critical decision points in real time, apply logical reasoning processes, and execute appropriate tactical and ethical decisions when facing uncertainty. While particularly valuable for first-line supervisors arriving at incidents, this training serves any first-responding officer who must make potentially life-or-death decisions affecting themselves and others.

Topics Covered

  • Initial Response Framework: Containment, Point & React, and CPR procedures
  • Analysis of recent actual active shooter incidents
  • Critical examination of the Uvalde incident and lessons learned
  • Fundamentals and principles of critical thinking
  • Essential traits and behavioral patterns of effective critical thinkers
  • Critical thinking applications for first-line supervisors
  • Impact of stress on decision-making capability
  • Armed and barricaded subject management and perimeter establishment
  • Initial contact procedures with unknown or suspicious individuals
  • Proper staging protocols for high-risk calls
  • Recognizing and responding to ambush situations
  • Encounters with individuals experiencing mental health crises
  • First-responder protocols following officer-involved shooting incidents
  • Active threat and shooter response procedures and training standards

Course Details

Date: November 3, 2026

Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Location: Montgomery Township Community and Recreation Center, 1030 Horsham Road, Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania 18936

Hosted By: Montgomery Township Police Department

Cost: $219.00 USD per attendee

Provider: Calibre Press - Setting the standard in law enforcement training for over four decades