Vehicle Dynamics Workshop for Law Enforcement Driving Instructors
An intensive two-day instructor-level workshop specifically designed to provide both entry-level and experienced driving instructors with the knowledge, skill, and ability to:
- Design scenario-based exercises which closely replicate specific scenarios, operating environments, and driving hazards
- Use readily available tools and easily applied concepts to assess a driver’s capabilities and level of improvement, as well as objectively evaluate their ability to perform effectively in a wide variety of situations
Upon completion of the course, participants will have an in-depth understanding of how those tools and concepts can be applied to driver training as a means for:
- improving the effectiveness of existing training programs
- maximizing the effectiveness of available training time
- ensuring students gain sustainable skills
- developing objective performance standards for initial and in service driver training
Enhanced Law Enforcement Instructor Development Course
This rigorous five-day program is designed to provide law enforcement personnel with the knowledge, skill, and ability to provide efficient effective driver training that creates sustainable skills which directly apply to law enforcement operations, from patrol and traffic enforcement to vehicle pursuit. An emphasis is placed on providing both entry-level and experienced instructors an in-depth understanding of the impact Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), which are becoming more and more prevalent on patrol vehicles have on driver performance, vehicle capabilities, and approaches top driver training.
VDI’s innovative approach to training law enforcement instructors ensures that participants leave the program with the knowledge and ability needed to design, develop, and implement highly effective exercises that will improve the applicability and sustainability of initial and in-service courses which:
- Meet the specific needs of their department or agency
- Are fully compliant with existing training requirements
- Incorporate objective performance standards
- Mitigate liability issues associated with both driver training and real world driving
Lenco BearCat Mission Oriented Driving Skills (MODS) Instructor Course*
This program is presented in either a 5-day format for personnel that have not participated in either a VDI Vehicle Dynamics Workshop for Law Enforcement Instructors or VDI’s Enhanced Law Enforcement Driving Instructor Development course and in a 3-day format for graduates of either of those preparatory courses.
Developed specifically for the BearCat armored rescue vehicle platform at the request of the manufacturer, Lenco Armored Vehicles, Inc, this course provides either law enforcement driving instructors or tactical instructors the knowledge, skill, and ability to design, develop, and deliver, safe and effective training specific to their agency or department’s tactical unit’s mission profile and training objectives. The foundation upon which this knowledge, skill, and ability is built upon is VDI’s scientific approach to training drivers to recognize and operate within a given vehicle’s performance range, not in terms of speed, but in terms of cornering and braking capabilities, which are vastly different in armored tactical platforms than any other type of vehicle.
This course places a strong emphasis on:
- Understanding Vehicle Capabilities & Limitations
- Tactical Vehicle Training Parameters
- Tactical Driving Exercise Design Elements
- Unimproved Surface Driving Exercise Considerations
- Student Performance Evaluation Methodology & Process
Patrol Vehicle Ambush Survival Skills Train-the-Trainer Workshop*
A two-day workshop that provides qualified instructors (i.e. those who have attended a VDI Vehicle Dynamics Workshop for Law Enforcement Instructors or VDI’s Enhanced Law Enforcement Driving Instructor Development course) with the insights needed to deliver high impact training that bridges the gap between vehicle operations and tactical response to potentially lethal threats faced by officers, deputies, or agents.
This innovative workshop places an emphasis on providing instructors an understanding of the impacts – both positive and negative – that Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) may have on an officer placed under stress while confronting an armed adversary in an ambush or active shooter situation from in or around their patrol vehicle.
Focal points include:
- Training to Recognize and Compensate for System Activations and Engagements
- Building Situational Awareness and Reaction Time into Realistic Exercises
- Understanding and Instructing How to Use the Vehicle to Create Defensible Space
- Applied Vehicle Dynamics and Ambush Survival Choreography
- Case Studies and Lessons Learned
*Please Note: Courses marked with an asterisk require certain prerequisites be met.