First-Tac

The international cooperation project under the Erasmus+ program once again brought together experts in police tactics and tactical medicine, this time in Police School in Slupsk. 

From 12 to 16 February 2024, experts from Police Academy – The First Croatian Police Officer, Lithuanian Police School, Agency for Education and Professional Training Mostar and Police School in Slupsk continued their work on the joint training program for first responding police officers on the use of force tactics and techniques and tactical medicine.

The goal of the FIRST-TAC project is to exchange experience and good practices of partner countries in the use of force and tactical medicine, as well as in approaches to training police officers in the aforementioned areas. Such exchange of experiences and harmonization can enable the optimization and standardization of methodology in the training of police officers, and consequently their actions in real situations of everyday work.

The focus of the third meeting is on the creation of learning material for learners of the future training and a manual for the instructors who will implement it. 

As part of the project, four pilot trainings based on the created program will be held, where instructors will be the experts who participated in the creation of the program, while learners will be the instructors from police administrations who conduct in-house trainings for first-responding police officers. This will give them a valuable and unique view of the training from the learners’ perspective and enable them to actively participate in the process of perfecting the program itself.

The choice of police instructors as training participants is not random. The intention of the organizers is not a one-time, but a cyclical transfer of knowledge – instructors who complete the training will be able to share their knowledge and skills with the next groups of police officers they will train.