CENTRAL ILLINOIS POLICE TRAINING CENTER
Brian Fengel, Director
Phone: (309) 690-7350
Fax: (309) 690-7359
Jean Swan: jswan@icc.edu
Heather Grove: hgrove@icc.edu
High Risk Vehicle Stops – Train the Trainer
Instructor: Ed Delmore
September 12-13, 2023
8am – 4pm
Class will meet: Peru PD, 2650 N. Peoria Street, Peru, IL 61354
Enrollment Deadline: September 5, 2023
Course Size: Minimum –15 Maximum – 20
What to bring: Bring you leather gear but handguns and rifles will not be used. Instructors will pass out blue guns during practical’s.
Course Objective
The goal of this course is to provide training to officers in High-Risk Vehicle Stops, so that they are able to provide training to other officers. This course uses lessons learned from other encounters and provides methods for safely performing high risk stops and communication techniques for officer s conducting these stops.
Course Content
Teaching The History and Evolution of High-Risk Vehicle Stops
Additional Field Failures – Examples
“THE V” 1970-2020
Discuss the history, evolution, tactical errors and lessons learned by examining past high-risk vehicle stop incidents including the review of written materials and video documentation. Students will have the ability to discuss and instruct the history and evolution.
Teaching The Anatomy of Contact/Cover
Define the overall role, responsibility and strategy of contact and cover. Identify standard operational safety procedures for all field contacts
Teaching Modern High-Risk Vehicle Stop Tactics: Centerfuge and Michigan State Police Model
Illustrate the dynamics of a modern, state of the art high risk stops including ballistics, vehicle positioning, officer positioning, verbal commands, equipment issues, rifle deployment, verbal commands, handcuffing and positioning of suspects, searching suspects, questioning and intelligence gathering, securing suspect(s) and vehicle clearing/clean-up.
Teaching Practical Exercises and Scenarios
Each Student Officer Will Perform the Role of:
- Officer In Position One – Including Verbal Commands and Coordination
- Officer In Position Two – Including Verbal Commands and Coordination
- Officer In Position Three – Including Verbal Commands and Coordination
- Officer In Position Four – Including Verbal Commands and Coordination
- Suspect In Vehicle, And:
- Will Demonstrate Proper Instruction Methods for Each of The Above.
OBJECTIVE: Student officers will be able to discuss, demonstrate and deliver practical instruction in teaching methods of conducting high risk vehicle stops to Illinois police student officers including the safety of instructors, role players, and student officers. OFFICERS WILL BE QUALIFIED TO DEMONSTRATE AND DELIVER PRACTICAL.
About the Instructor
Ed Delmore entered law enforcement in 1979 as a police dispatcher in a suburb of St. Louis. In 1982 he became a police officer in southwestern Illinois where he served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics investigator, major case squad investigator, patrol sergeant, watch commander, criminal interdiction unit commander, deputy chief of police, and chief of police.
In 2010 following a nation-wide recruitment Delmore began leading the Gulf Shores Police Department. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western Illinois University and a Master of Arts Degree from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a graduate of the Administrative Officer’s course at the University of Louisville’s Southern Police Institute (88th) and of the FBI National Academy (205). Delmore has instructed thousands of officers throughout the United States in High-Risk Vehicle Stops, Leadership, Interviewing Techniques, Body Language, Criminal Apprehension Techniques, and Officer Safety. He is a private pilot, certified scuba diver, rescue diver and public safety diver. He and his wife, Ann, have three grown children and one granddaughter. Ann is retired veteran police officer with more 22 years of service. Their daughter, Alyssa, is a Foley, Alabama Police Officer and their son, Ryan, is a Baldwin County, Alabama Deputy Sheriff.
