Tactical Avenues SWAT Training with over 150 years of full-time SWAT Team experience

What sets our SWAT Training apart:

Tactical Avenues provides SWAT courses led by experienced SWAT Team Leaders from Los Angeles. Each instructor brings firsthand knowledge and operational experience, employing the tactics and methods used in our curriculum in real-world SWAT operations.

Barricaded Subjects/Stealth Entry Tactics

Law Enforcement/Military Only

This program will teach movement techniques used by SWAT teams in common situations and environments. This is an excellent opportunity for entire SWAT teams to learn and practice as a unit, and to develop organizational SOPs.

High-Risk Warrant Service

Elevate your team’s expertise with this hands-on, intensive course designed for SWAT personnel. Learn essential skills in warrant planning, intelligence gathering, breaching techniques, and execution methods like breach and hold, limited penetration, and contain and call out. Equip your team to handle high-stakes situations with precision and confidence.

Hostage Rescue Tactics

Law Enforcement/Military Only

Focus: Develop operational skills for deliberate crisis entry in hostage rescue scenarios, including mission planning, team coordination, breaching, and sniper/crisis negotiation integration.

  • Stronghold assaults, vehicle interventions, and long rifle applications
hostage rescue

Explosive Breaching​

This course will teach Law Enforcement Officers the principals of safe explosive handling and explosive breaching. Law Enforcement/Military Only.

The course will be a combination of classroom and range time, and will include approx. 8-hours of day and night exercises incorporating explosive breaching techniques learned in the course in a realistic training environment.

Tactical Breaching

Law Enforcement/Military Only
Capability to effectively breach hardened-targets with different methods involving manual, mechanical, ballistic, thermal, and/or explosive methods

SWAT Sniper/Observer

Law Enforcement/Military Only

Designed to provide the necessary foundation for rifle and tactical skills for the Sniper/Observer to function in support of high-risk law enforcement operations.

Airborne Operations

Law Enforcement/Military Only

Involving tactical Helo insertion/extraction, fast rope, tactical repel, surveillance/intelligence gathering and tactical Helo firearms applications.

Maritime Hostage Rescue

Contemporary skills involving deliberate crisis boarding/entry tactics in a maritime hostage rescue. Involves mission planning, team operations, breaching, integrations of sniper, crisis negotiations, and amphibious insertion.

Team Leader Development

Law Enforcement/Military Only

Course will cover skills necessary to perform and enhance those of a SWAT Team Leader. Lessons will cover and explain Team Leader responsibilities involved in all SWAT disciplines (Stealth, HRT, Warrant Service, and Training).

SWAT team leader development

Mobile Assaults

Law Enforcement/Military Only

Concentrates on tactical considerations and procedures for mobile assaults during Hostage Rescue Tactics (Vehicle, Van, Bus, etc.). Course covers proper personnel deployment, NFD (Flashbang) deployment, shooting & firearm considerations.

Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT)

Law Enforcement/Military Only

Procedures for the integration of crisis negotiations team operations deployed to resolve a critical incident. Manipulative communications intended to bring about specific behavior of the hostage takers and/or hostages.

Urban Climbing/Tactical Rappel

Law Enforcement/Military Only

Procedures for proper rappel & light-rope techniques utilized during tactical incidents. These procedures would include safety guidelines for all techniques taught (Rappel, Fast-Rope, and Climbing etc)