CENTRAL ILLINOIS POLICE TRAINING CENTER

Brian Fengel, Director

Phone: (309) 690-7355
Fax: (309) 690-7359
Heather Grove: hgrove@icc.edu

Diane Schrementi: ds018b@icc.edu

Robert Pyszka: rp717@icc.edu

Rescue Task Force Instructor Course

Instructor: Beacon Training Group

Presented by ITOA

February 20-21, 2027

 8am – 4pm

Class will meet at: Oglesby Fire Department, 500 South Columbia, Oglesby, IL

 Enrollment Deadline:  February 14, 2027

Course Size:  Minimum –15 Maximum – 25

Course Objective

This 16-hour course is designed to prepare law enforcement officers and firefighter personnel with the skills and abilities to instruct rescue task force concepts and techniques at the department level.  The course is a collaborative training program designed to bring law enforcement and fire service personnel together to provide nationally recognized best practices and strategies for managing, deploying, and utilizing rescue task force teams during active killer/mass casualty events.  

Course Content

The course will allow police and fire department trainers opportunities to work together and practice the operational skills required to manage active killer/mass casualty incidents.  The course will prepare prospective instructors with the tools necessary to use adult learning methods to create effective and productive lesson plans and proper learning environments essential to facilitate rescue task force training.  At the culmination of this course, students will be able to define roles, responsibilities, and operational procedures to support a rapid deployment rescue task force response training exercise and program. 

What to bring: All Officers are required to have either a training pistol or training rifle with approximately 50 rounds of training ammunition.  If the attending officers do not have access to training weapons, the MTU will provide the weapon.

Mobile In-Service Training Team#7 Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board

MTU 7 request for certification of this course has been approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board

Meets the following mandatory training criteria: Emergency medical response training 9 hours; Laws concerning stops, searches and the use of force .50 hours with .50 hours scenario based; Officers Safety techniques, including cover, concealment and time 3 hours with 2.50 hours scenario based.Continuing Ed: Active Threat Response 16 hours with 12 hours scenario base