• Registration

  • Opens at 9am

  • Closes at 2pm. All posts must be registered by this time.

• Opening Ceremony

• POWER Test

  • Competing explorers must arrive by 12pm

• Rapid Deployment Training to be held at night

• Competitions

  • 8am-6pm

• Group entertainment

• Competitions

  • 8am-6pm

• Formal Brunch / Closing Ceremonies (late morning)

Response Teams will respond to an “Officer Down” call. The team will be evaluated on observable behaviors in relevant performance dimensions, including how quickly and efficiently they can evacuate the injured officer, deal with threats, possibly other victims, and provide the appropriate life-saving measures given the wound type and location. Competitors will need to be familiar with working as a team to: quickly facilitate a rescue, provide wound treatment to include tourniquet application, wound packing, and chest seals, if needed. Medical equipment will be available for teams to choose from. The equipment includes chest seals, tourniquets, packing wound materials and items commonly found in an advanced police medical kit. Medical-Kit will be provided and teams may use their own equipment.

Team will be dispatched to a burglar alarm of a business. Upon arrival, team members are faced with a situation with various potential dangers. They will have to find a way to make the scene totally safe. The team will be evaluated on observable behaviors in relevant performance dimensions, to include actions related to addressing safety issues, securing the scene and conducting any follow-up investigation, as appropriate. Follow up and minor crime scene processing for advanced teams.

Full team will be dispatched to a despondent subject who is going to require Crisis intervention. De-Escalation techniques, Crisis Intervention techniques, possible medical response, and knowledge of Involuntary petitions and rights of patients.

Full team will execute a search warrant and an arrest warrant at a location occupied by a suspected narcotics trafficker. Inert weapons and handcuffs

will be provided. Teams will be evaluated on an effective and safe entry, situation control, arrest procedures, search effectiveness, evidence identification and seizure.

Advanced teams will need to know constitutional laws and correct warrant dispositions procedures.

Two patrol officers have been assigned to respond to an unknown domestic disturbance. Another patrol car is available as a backup. Upon arrival, the first two Explorers are faced with a classic domestic confrontation. Scoring will be based on how well Explorers handle this potentially dangerous situation.

The senior team member will be advised that two members of his or her team will be placed in a patrol vehicle and simulate patrol functions when they encounter a vehicle. The remaining two will comprise the backup unit. Teams will be scored on their ability to deal with a potentially dangerous situation while conducting a felony traffic stop.