The Situational Training Facility was conceived to give local law enforcement agencies the enhanced abilities needed to deal with all kinds of emergency events:
- Real Life Simulations
- Text Book Simulations
- Reactions
- Team Training
- Crime Scene Techniques
Situational Training Facility - History
On September 29th, 2002, ground breaking took place at the site of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Situational Training Facility. Events like Columbine have highlighted the need for such a facility where continued specialized training in the concepts and skills of rapid emergency deployment by our law enforcement agencies can be taught.
Situational Training Facility - The Future
The Situational Training Facility (STF) is a realistic, urban, problem training area that will be the focus of the Sheriff's Advisory Board. The facility will manage and schedule all training events while administering practical problem exercises to law enforcement personnel. Other trainees will include businesses and institutions that are at a higher-than-normal risk for criminal events such as bands, schools and high tech firms.
The STF will provide safety and survival training to enforcement agencies throughout Santa Clara County. In addition, this facility will provide tactical training to law enforcement officers throughout the state. The program will instruct new personnel in the areas of realistic defensive tactics under a variety of conditions and environments allowing them to hone their skills to serve our communities more efficiently.
Police officers will be taught surveillance, arrest procedures and tactical street techniques. Officers will be taken through life-like training exercises such as a band robbery, a day and night surveillance, a kidnapping and an assault by terrorist. Officers will also be exposed to complaint and armed and dangerous arrest scenarios.
The STF will enhance the ability of everyone involved to save lives and make our communities safer against any emergency event, threat or crisis.
The first moments of any emergency must be responded to with disciplined skill. The right response must be developed prior to an incident. STF training will save lives and foster the skills needed to develop a safer community by supporting these first responders. It will over time, increase the one chance they have to get it right.
