Overview
This course is designed to emphasize an intuitive application of fundamental principles. These principles have evolved over centuries of tactical operations and form a body of “sound doctrine.” The module presents and outlines an insightful and compelling call for rethinking tactics of law enforcement.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Understand whether good tactics are an art or a science.
- Understand whether there are common elements in all situations requiring a tactical intervention.
- Identify those fundamental functions that must work in order for a plan to succeed.
- Review the bios of your instructors.
- Read your textbook as you go through the lectures.
- Download slides for each section as reference material.
- Review all lectures in all sections of the course and complete all associated discussion boards and assignments.
- Write your essay and upload it to the Academy as instructed.
- Take your comprehensive quiz.
Instructor: Commander Charles “Sid” Heal is a retired Commander from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department with nearly 33 years of service in law enforcement, nearly half of which has been spent in units charged with handling law enforcement special and emergency operations. At various times during his career he has served as an operations officer, watch commander, unit commander, incident commander, consultant and trainer in a myriad of law enforcement tactical operations, and is a court recognized expert in law enforcement special operations and emergency management. As a collateral assignment, Sid was in charge of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s internationally recognized technology exploration program. This program seeks to identify, develop, exploit and integrate new technologies for law enforcement. The focus of effort for this program is on intervening with nonlethal options. Sid has earned three college degrees and is a graduate of the California Peace Officer’s Standards and Training, Center for Leadership Development, Command College, and the FBI National Academy. He is the author of Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer, and An Illustrated Guide to Tactical Diagramming, as well as more than 120 articles on law enforcement issues and has appeared on numerous television newscasts and documentaries and been quoted in many periodicals and newspapers. Additionally, he has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences in Canada, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Israel, Brazil and Argentina, as well as throughout the United States. In addition to his career in law enforcement, Sid recently retired from the Marine Corps Reserve after 35 years, with service in more than 20 countries and four combat tours. As a result of both these careers, he has been personally present for the operations involving the 1992 coup d’état in Thailand, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, as well as the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in 2001 and a host of other disasters, natural and manmade. He is the author of Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer and Field Command, as well as more than 165 articles on law enforcement issues.
Heal, C. (2000). Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer. New York: Lantern Books.
Based on the material that you have reviewed in this course, write a one-page paper in APA format, answering this question:
Select a tactical operation or disaster response of which you are familiar enough to discuss in detail. Identify at least five doctrinal concepts in play during the operation and describe how they influenced the operation, either by contributing or exacerbating a successful outcome.
Please follow these instructions for completing your paper and uploading it to the portal:
Follow the APA writing guidelines.
Name your essay before uploading it: YourLastName_Sound_Doctrine_Essay
Save your file on your computer in .pdf or .doc format and then upload below.
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