Task Force 70 provides advanced training specifically designed for patrol officers serving in small and rural departments.

Every course is built on Task Force 70's Big 5 foundational skills:

Constitutional Judgement – Officers learn how the US Constitution guides sound decisions through a Priority of Life framework, even in fast-moving emergencies.

Marksmanship – Training develops precise use of force ability under stress, ensuring constitutionally sound and effective decisions in chaotic situations.

Breaching – Officers learn proven entry methods to save lives, addressing historically identified failure points at the patrol level that have led to tragic outcomes.

Emergency Medical Skills – Building upon and reinforcing the recent national effort to build patrol officers medical skills in emergencies, TF70 also capacity builds patrol officers abilities to stabilize and protect victims under fire and move them safely to professional medical personnel.

Tactics – Officers learn simple, repeatable tactics that work across all patrol environments and jurisdictions, be easily taught to other officers in their area, and can be realistically sustained through the limited training time they have available.

TF70 Hillsdale Certification

Course Catalog

VTT

VTT

Virtual Training Team is designed to enable officers to attend live training remotely from their home agencies in topics related to the TF70 Big 5, focused on patrol training methodologies and leadership best suited to being both applicable and attainable by critically under-resourced agencies. Eight, one-hour sessions via live telecom meeting, delivered once per week for eight weeks. Sessions are recorded and sent to the class in case a participant cannot attend a particular week.

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MTT

MTT

The Task Force 70 Foundation Patrol Tactics Course MTT is a no-BS, three-day, thirty-hour grind that strives to turns good officers into tactically capable assets. The MTT starts with live-fire marksmanship that sticks, constitutional judgment you can actually use, and movement drills that keep you alive when the call goes sideways. Day two includes the shoothouse reality of angles of exposure, breach points, heuristic room clears that prioritize life and law. Day three reenforces the fundamentals and includes casualty care under fire, and multi-room flow drills that weld it all together. The goal of the course is to help you step out faster, smarter, and ready.
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CTT

CTT

The TF 70 Campus Training Team (CTT) integrates two, 5-day (50 hours each) courses:

Patrol Tactical Operations Course (PTOC) is TF70's foundational course, built for officers in small and rural departments who may be the first, or only immediately available, responders to sudden, violent emergencies. Grounded in the Big 5 skill areas (Constitutional Judgement, Marksmanship, Breaching, Emergency Medical Skills, and Tactics), the course develops the judgment, precision, and tactical ability officers need to act decisively when backup is limited or delayed.

Patrol Hostage Rescue Course (PHRC) builds directly on the skills acquired in the PTOC, focusing on one of the most dangerous and time-critical events an officer may face: a hostage situation requiring immediate intervention. Unlike planned tactical operations, these events often unfold without warning and demand action before specialized teams can arrive. The small agency and rural officers TF70 serves receive little to no training in this specialized problem, which has the greatest consequence to the communities they serve.

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