Active threat training designed around your space, people, and location
Who this active threat training course is for
Vantage Point Consulting trains front-line staff who regularly interact with the public, including employees at churches, schools, hospitals, healthcare facilities, and commercial businesses. Programs are customized for each industry and location’s specific risks and layout.
Decades of experience assessing physical spaces and risks
Vantage Point Consulting is a law enforcement–led emergency management and security training company based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
VPC provides virtual and on-site nationwide active threat awareness training, active shooter drills, workplace violence de-escalation training, physical security risk assessments, and cybersecurity tabletop exercises to schools, hospitals, healthcare systems, and businesses across the United States.
What you’ll learn in this active threat awareness and threat training
Active threat training prepares staff and security teams to recognize warning signs, de-escalate volatile situations, and respond effectively to an active shooter or other violent incident.
Vantage Point Consulting’s active threat programs include three components:
- Awareness training (classroom-style instruction on recognizing risk factors and response options),
- Live drills (scenario-based exercises that test a team’s plan in a realistic setting), and
- Written Active Threat Emergency Plans and Policies developed for the client’s specific facility.
Course content focuses on recognizing risk factors, learning de-escalation skills, implementing emergency planning, learning response techniques and improving security precautions, including:
- Provide ability to prepare and Active Threat Emergency Plan and Policy.
- Provide a safe work environment.
Thousands of people across the U.S. have been trained by VPC’s experienced law enforcement trainers
Vantage Point Consulting was founded in 2015 and is staffed by trainers with a minimum of ten years of law enforcement or first-responder experience and more than 2,000 conducted exercises. We’ve trained hospital staff, emergency responders, law enforcement, schools, and private businesses throughout Indiana, the Midwest, and nationally.
“That was the best training I’ve seen out of Vantage Point! You have put together a really amazing team. The team understood the church setting and could really make the presentation relate to the needs.”
—Lori M., attendee at a church-based active shooter threat training
“In addition to the security risk assessment, OrthoIndy engaged VPC to conduct a controlled Active Shooter Drill that involved both OrthoIndy’s Northwest Clinic and the OrthoIndy Hospital. VPC drew on their findings from the security risk assessment for the Northwest Site campus to help educate our leadership and front line staff on potential areas of exposure as well as identifying Shelter in Place options.“
— Suzanne Smith, Risk Manager at OrthoIndy
Active threat incidents are headline stories and human tragedies—seemingly random, seemingly unpreventable. But often there are warning signs and proactive steps to be taken to try to help prevent such a horrible event from occurring in the first place.
The emergency preparedness experts at Vantage Point Consulting design customized training and exercise programs that help prepare your staff to:
- Recognize risk factors
- Learn de-escalation skills
- Implement emergency planning
- Learn response techniques
- Improve security precautions
We can all recognize and remember cases involving business offices, malls, theaters, schools, restaurants, hospitals, and more. Threats may arise from, but are not limited to, any of the following:
- Risk from employee/supervisor disputes
- Risk from mentally unbalanced workers, their family members, or both
- Risk from radical members of the community
- Risk from employees using or seeking drugs
- Dysfunctional employee relationships and domestic disputes
- High-stress work environments
Active threat incidents trouble us all, but companies need to have an Active Threat Emergency Plan and Policy in place. Make sure your staff gets the training they need to enhance survival skills and preparedness abilities.
FAQs about Active Threat Training
Active threat training teaches employees how to recognize warning signs of violence, de-escalate tense situations, and respond safely if an attacker enters their workplace, going beyond basic “Run, Hide, Fight” guidance to include organization-specific planning.
Vantage Point Consulting, a law enforcement–led training firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, provides active threat awareness training, drills, and security risk assessments to hospitals, schools, and businesses across the United States.
Yes. Vantage Point Consulting conducts cybersecurity tabletop exercises for general businesses and specialized cybersecurity exercises for healthcare organizations, in addition to its physical/security risk assessments.
Vantage Point Consulting trains hospitals and healthcare systems, schools, churches, law enforcement agencies, and private businesses throughout Indiana, the Midwest, and nationally.
Vantage Point Consulting’s instructors have a minimum of ten years of law enforcement or first-responder experience and have conducted more than 2,000 training exercises.
Awareness training is classroom-based instruction covering risk recognition and response options. A drill is a live, scenario-based exercise where a team practices its emergency plan in a realistic setting.
Get started with active threat training
Sessions are led by Dwight Frost, VPC Security Branch Director.
- Led by qualified, experienced law enforcement professionals
- On-site or virtual options available
- On-site options provide real insight in your physical space
- Sessions can include real-world drills and exercises
Request more information here or call or email VPC.
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