Law Enforcement Tactics Club Corrections Training

The USMA Law Enforcement Tactics Club (LETC) conducted Corrections training with the Orange County Sheriff Department Special Operations Group (SOG) Deputies Daniel Greir and Chris DeSanta. The SOG at Orange County specializes in serving high risk warrants, VIP escorts, responding to barricaded suspects, and within the jail they conduct forced cell extractions. The seven cadets who attended training were the first outside entity to receive force cell extraction training from SOG. The training that the cadets received was an extension of months of use of force training that the cadets have learned and practiced. Within the corrections area of law enforcement, this training familiarized the cadets with specialized elite police units that work within corrections and high risk operations they execute. The training reinforced how the use of force applies in all spectrum of law enforcement and demonstrated the role of elite policing units who operate in corrections verses those who primarily operate in street policing environments. The training facility at Orange County jail provided the cadets with a mock cell to perform realistic and tempered execution of forced cell extraction scenarios. The high caliber instruction provided by SOG, accompanied with their real life experience, will have lasting impact on the members of LETC. This event with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department furthered West Point’s outreach to the local community and provided the cadets with world class policing training.