CENTRAL ILLINOIS POLICE TRAINING CENTER
Brian Fengel, Director
Phone: (309) 690-7355
Fax: (309) 690-7359
Heather Grove: hgrove@icc.edu
Jean Swan: jswan@icc.edu
Robert Pyszka: rp717@icc.edu
ITOA – High Risk Traffic Stops Instructor
Instructor: S.T.K. Training
www.stktraining.com
Instructor:
(Dan Glover, Jon Quast, Kyle Veech, Kevin Keen, Mike Taylor, Kyle Durst)
August 10-11, 2025
8am-4pm
Class will meet at: Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office Range, 21302 Illinois Route 9, Tremont, IL
Enrollment Deadline: August 3, 2025
Maximum – 18 students
Course Objective:
This two-day, 16-hour course is designed to provide officers with the knowledge, specialized tactical skills, associated presentations, and materials they will need to develop, implement, and teach High Risk Patrol Traffic Stops to their officers.
The focus of this program is to certify your department instructors to teach high risk traffic stops. This course is designed to incorporate basic tactical knowledge, awareness, and skill sets, when performing and teaching this high-risk patrol operation.
Course Content:
To provide students with an opportunity to:
- Understand the need to integrate high risk traffic stops skill sets into patrol operations.
- Identify and discuss high risk traffic stop case law; legal justification; IVC utilization; safety priorities; use-of-force and the established safety priorities.
- Assist participants in demonstrating practical knowledge and performance ability while conducting high-risk traffic stop operations, to include: Probable cause; vehicle positioning; verbal commands; suspect custody; vehicle clearing techniques; firearms handling/deployment skills.
- Allow students the opportunity to participate in and conduct realistic scenario-based training.
- Allow the students the opportunity to conduct platform, performance and scenario-based training, preparing them to teach High Risk Traffic Stop Tactics and Techniques.
Who Should Attend: COURSE PREREQUISITES:
- This course IS NOT a beginner’s course. It is designed for those who have a basic understanding and practiced knowledge of High-Risk Traffic Stops. Attendees should be established department instructors / FTO’s / Range Instructors and those responsible for use-of-force / tactical training.
- Course participants should be physically capable of operating in physical situations, and may be required to sprint, kneel, and perform police tactical skills. If an officer is physically incapable of performing these physical tasks, please do not register to them to attend.
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: Constitutional Use of Law Enforcement Authority 4 hours with 2 hours scenario based, 15 hours of De-Escalation with 2 hours scenario based, Officer Safety Techniques including cover, concealment and time 2 hours with 2 hours scenario based
