Field Force Operations (FFO) is a three-day course providing state and local law
enforcement personnel the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for and
successfully mitigate threat incidents involving civil disorder. FFO combines classroom
instruction with practical exercises that afford responders the opportunity to practice
concepts and tactics in a controlled environment. Activities included in this course are
mass arrest procedures, team tactics, demonstrator tactics, crowd dynamics and mob
behavior, use of riot control agents and less lethal munitions, and the employment of
personal protective equipment (PPE).
Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets
learned during this training program:

•Understand how the First, Fourth, Eight and
Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
relate to civil action/disorder.
•Express the considerations and processes for
conducting mass arrests during civil action/disorder.
•Act as a member of an arrest team and remove an
arrestee using both two- and four-officer carry
techniques.
•Serve as a member of a mobile field force (MFF)
team while conducting dismounted crowd control
operations with and without personal protective
equipment (PPE).

“On behalf of the Orlando Police
Department and the Emergency
Response Team, thank you so
much for the outstanding
training you and your team
provided the past two weeks.
We are grateful for the expertise
and professionalism exhibited
by you and your group of
instructors.”
-Carl Metzger; Captain; Orlando
Police Department; Florida