Year after year, the National Rifle Association's Law Enforcement Activities Division (LEAD) trains thousands of our nation's law enforcement officers to become law enforcement firearm instructors. This training helps law enforcement agencies in the city, state, and federal sectors, as well as nuclear security forces, military units, and security contractors, do what is needed to keep our country safe.
For the sixth consecutive year, LEAD will have trained a record number of law enforcement firearm instructors in the tactical use of handguns, shotguns, patrol rifles, select-fire, and long-range rifles. Police instructors trained by NRA are offered classroom and dynamic range instruction in order to help them develop and conduct safe, effective, and reality-based firearm training for their own departments and agencies. This year the NRA will have trained 2,061 law enforcement instructors.
"Every year, the NRA is proud to say that we have helped keep the public safe by providing state-of-the-art training to law enforcement instructors," said Kayne Robinson, Executive Director of NRA's General Operations Division. "This instruction in firearm safety and police protection doesn't end with the NRA. After receiving NRA training, these law enforcement personnel are then able to go back and teach their fellow officers what they have learned. It's a continuous cycle that will help to keep criminals off the street."
As soldiers in overseas urban areas take on duties such as house-to-house searches, the NRA has also expanded its efforts with the military to train combat troops in law enforcement tactics. In addition, with the increased privatization of U.S. military security, NRA has continued to expand its role in the training of private contractors, as well as traditional military security forces.
Qualified officers who cannot personally attend NRA training classes may still purchase the highly regarded training manuals used in the courses, available in print and on CD-ROM. Other law enforcement training aids are also available. For more information, please visit the NRA Program Materials Center.
Since its inception in 1960, LEAD has trained more than 50,000 law enforcement instructors, and more than 12,000 NRA Certified Instructors are currently training police officers and military personnel at home and abroad. For more information on law enforcement firearm training, or to attend an NRA Law Enforcement Firearm Instructor Development School, contact the NRA Law Enforcement Activities Division at (703) 267-1640, send an e-mail to LEAD@nrahq.org, or visit the LEAD Web site at www.nrahq.org/law.