Wellston, MO – Integrated Team Control: Responding to Individuals in Extreme Agitation

Description

St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy Integrated Team Control:
Responding to Individuals in Extreme Agitation
3 Day Instructor Training Dec 8 – 10, 2026

A coordinated team response model for safely managing highly agitated individuals while reducing injuries, exertion, and liability
This specialized training program prepares officers to safely manage high-risk encounters involving individuals experiencing extreme behavioral or medical crisis. The course integrates lecture, demonstration, and scenario-based training to develop instructors in Team Coordinated Control Tactics that enhance safety, reduce risk, and improve operational effectiveness. Poorly coordinated responses to highly agitated individuals can increase medical distress, physical exertion, and exposure to civil liability or public scrutiny. This program provides structured, team-based strategies that support controlled restraint, efficient stabilization, and measured decision-making during critical incidents.
Instruction emphasizes coordinated movement, communication protocols, positional awareness, integrated medical response and controlled transitions that prioritize both officer safety and subject welfare.

Measurable Operational Outcomes
• Reduced duration of physical struggles and restraint events
• Decreased officer and subject injury rates
• Lower levels of excessive physical exertion during team engagements
• Improved documentation and articulation of coordinated actions
• Increased consistency in team response protocols
• Reduced civil liability related to restraint and medical transition
• Improved EMS–law enforcement coordination
• Safer transfer of subjects into medical care

LOCATION of TRAINING:
St. Louis County & Municipal Police Academy
1266 Sutter Avenue • Wellston • MO 63133
Contact – Sgt. Chris Thomson cthomson@stlouiscountymo.gov Office (314) 889-8606