Course Location

Mason County Detention Center

702 US 68

Masonville, KY 41056

Course Dates

December 8th-12th, 2025
0800-1700

Course Profile

A specialized five-day, extensive and comprehensive Advanced C.E.R.T  Instructor Certification Course. Participants will be fully capable and certified to properly instruct/train/certify other personnel for CERT, Disturbance/Riot Control, Less Lethal Shotgun and High-Risk Inmate Movement and tactical planning.

• Updating/establishing a lawful operational CERT team to federal standards.
• Use of force parameters in numerous correctional emergency response team operations including cell extractions, movement/transportation of inmates.
• Correctional based control & restraint techniques, Emergency Response Belt (ERB) techniques & tactics & Correctional OC Instructor certification.
• Disturbance and Riot Control Team training and tactics including Shield/Spray (S&S) formations, movements, and entries; Correctional Less Lethal Shotgun Specialist training with shotgun flash-bang rounds, flexible and non-flexible munitions.
• Edged Weapons and Spontaneous Defense.
• Royal Arms FBG-Mk4 Impacted Initiated Flashbang Certification
• Training responsibilities for Team/Squad Leaders for operator/team training actions and considerations.
• Facility environmental planning logistics.
• Hands-on exercises and scenarios will be conducted in all phases of the training.
• Written and practical examinations.

TUITION

$1100.00
Includes respective instructor manuals, training PowerPoints on USB drives, ERB, OC live & inert units and 3-year instructor certification. [Attendees must bring 5-12 GA bean bag rounds to the course]

HOST AGENCY

Chief Deputy James Linville

Phone:(606)564-3621 extension. 154

Email: linville@maysvilleky.net

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Certification & Instructor

All TJA Use of Force Training, LLC courses are fully certified and recognized throughout the United States. Since 1990, TJA Use of Force Training has been responsible for the training and certification of 100’s of county CERT teams and more than 6,000 CERT instructors. TJA Use of Force Training is regarded as one of the leading use of force trainings in the country. The Company “backs in court”  all training programs and certified instructors in the unlikely event of litigation.