VALOR training, offered as a one- or two-day course, provides law enforcement with an introduction into some of the most important casualty care principles. To find a training near you, visit Training Events - VALOR for Blue.
If you have already attended a VALOR training, you are eligible to request a Casualty Care and Rescue Tactics four-hour supplemental training to be held on-site at your agency, open to any sworn law enforcement. This training involves hands-on training covering all the equipment and principles featured in the toolkit. To request this training, please visit our Contact Us page.
The Casualty Care Resource Clearinghouse is your one-stop-shop for all VALOR casualty care resources. All the resources available on the other pages can be found here as well as a multitude of others.
This summary of topics from the Officer Safety and Wellness Group is looking to enhance subject-related products, tools, resources, and services available to the field of officer safety and wellness.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is created by the U.S. Department of Defense Committee on TCCC (Co-TCCC) to teach evidence-based, lifesaving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. These best practices have been transitioned to save lives in the law...
This U.S. Department of Homeland Security report identifies specific goals in which efforts can achieve the greatest risk reduction across the breadth of the maritime domain. Its guiding principles are that solutions shall be risk-based; education and training are the key tools for enhancing...
This publication provides photos and instruction on how to use hemorrhage control medical supplies such as tourniquets, gauze, and bandages.
This article describes the violent confrontation in which the officer was hit by gunfire. The officer suffered wounds to his neck and shoulder area and to his leg. The officer successfully applied a tourniquet to his wounds, saving his own life.
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention with community, health care, and advocacy partnerships. The CIT Model was first developed in Memphis, Tennessee, and has spread throughout the country. It is known as the “Memphis Model.”...
This summary of topics from the Officer Safety and Wellness Group is looking to enhance subject-related products, tools, resources, and services available to the field of officer safety and wellness.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is created by the U.S. Department of Defense Committee on TCCC (Co-TCCC) to teach evidence-based, lifesaving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. These best practices have been transitioned to save lives in the law...
This U.S. Department of Homeland Security report identifies specific goals in which efforts can achieve the greatest risk reduction across the breadth of the maritime domain. Its guiding principles are that solutions shall be risk-based; education and training are the key tools for enhancing...
This publication provides photos and instruction on how to use hemorrhage control medical supplies such as tourniquets, gauze, and bandages.
This article describes the violent confrontation in which the officer was hit by gunfire. The officer suffered wounds to his neck and shoulder area and to his leg. The officer successfully applied a tourniquet to his wounds, saving his own life.
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention with community, health care, and advocacy partnerships. The CIT Model was first developed in Memphis, Tennessee, and has spread throughout the country. It is known as the “Memphis Model.”...
This podcast highlights the need for implementing casualty care and rescue tactics training programs at your agency, a lifesaving tool for both law enforcement officers and the public. VALOR Instructor David Flory explains how casualty care and rescue tactics training prepares officers to deal with...
This publication from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides a list of resources to help guide communities preparing for active shooter and complex attacks through an integrated community response.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This summary of topics from the Officer Safety and Wellness Group is looking to enhance subject-related products, tools, resources, and services available to the field of officer safety and wellness.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is created by the U.S. Department of Defense Committee on TCCC (Co-TCCC) to teach evidence-based, lifesaving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. These best practices have been transitioned to save lives in the law...
This U.S. Department of Homeland Security report identifies specific goals in which efforts can achieve the greatest risk reduction across the breadth of the maritime domain. Its guiding principles are that solutions shall be risk-based; education and training are the key tools for enhancing...
This publication provides photos and instruction on how to use hemorrhage control medical supplies such as tourniquets, gauze, and bandages.
This article describes the violent confrontation in which the officer was hit by gunfire. The officer suffered wounds to his neck and shoulder area and to his leg. The officer successfully applied a tourniquet to his wounds, saving his own life.
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention with community, health care, and advocacy partnerships. The CIT Model was first developed in Memphis, Tennessee, and has spread throughout the country. It is known as the “Memphis Model.”...
This podcast highlights the need for implementing casualty care and rescue tactics training programs at your agency, a lifesaving tool for both law enforcement officers and the public. VALOR Instructor David Flory explains how casualty care and rescue tactics training prepares officers to deal with...
This publication from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides a list of resources to help guide communities preparing for active shooter and complex attacks through an integrated community response.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This publication focuses on a meeting about building law enforcement officers resiliency to keep them safer. The impact of mass casualty events on officer resilience and building physical and emotional health were two of the main topics.
This document provides guidelines on goals, principles, and proper protocol to effectively deal with direct-threat and hot-zone care for law enforcement personnel.
This report on the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), was developed by five teams that participated in peer review covering internal personnel threats, force protection, emergency response and mass casualty, and support to DoD health-care...
This article celebrates law enforcement officer success stories. Each year, PoliceOne recognizes the "Knights Christmas" - cops who have given many people the ability to enjoy Christmas and the coming year because of their lifesaving actions.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This website provides resources for officers to aid in their safety and performances. The listed resources include publications on body armor, police roadside safety, equipment standards and testing, stress and fatigue, use of force, and less-lethal technologies.
Are you prepared for an active shooter situation? What equipment should you carry? And what needs to be in your active shooter/mass casualty go-bag? Download and print the visor card!
Web page provides resources, guidelines, research, and news updates for managing casualty care during high-threat operations.
This online training is designed to review the Tactical Combat Casualty Care-recommended tourniquets and demonstrate to officers how to apply each of these tourniquets on themselves and on others to prevent major blood loss.
This summary of topics from the Officer Safety and Wellness Group is looking to enhance subject-related products, tools, resources, and services available to the field of officer safety and wellness.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is created by the U.S. Department of Defense Committee on TCCC (Co-TCCC) to teach evidence-based, lifesaving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. These best practices have been transitioned to save lives in the law...
This U.S. Department of Homeland Security report identifies specific goals in which efforts can achieve the greatest risk reduction across the breadth of the maritime domain. Its guiding principles are that solutions shall be risk-based; education and training are the key tools for enhancing...
This publication provides photos and instruction on how to use hemorrhage control medical supplies such as tourniquets, gauze, and bandages.
This article describes the violent confrontation in which the officer was hit by gunfire. The officer suffered wounds to his neck and shoulder area and to his leg. The officer successfully applied a tourniquet to his wounds, saving his own life.
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention with community, health care, and advocacy partnerships. The CIT Model was first developed in Memphis, Tennessee, and has spread throughout the country. It is known as the “Memphis Model.”...
This podcast highlights the need for implementing casualty care and rescue tactics training programs at your agency, a lifesaving tool for both law enforcement officers and the public. VALOR Instructor David Flory explains how casualty care and rescue tactics training prepares officers to deal with...
This publication from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides a list of resources to help guide communities preparing for active shooter and complex attacks through an integrated community response.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This publication focuses on a meeting about building law enforcement officers resiliency to keep them safer. The impact of mass casualty events on officer resilience and building physical and emotional health were two of the main topics.
This document provides guidelines on goals, principles, and proper protocol to effectively deal with direct-threat and hot-zone care for law enforcement personnel.
This report on the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), was developed by five teams that participated in peer review covering internal personnel threats, force protection, emergency response and mass casualty, and support to DoD health-care...
This article celebrates law enforcement officer success stories. Each year, PoliceOne recognizes the "Knights Christmas" - cops who have given many people the ability to enjoy Christmas and the coming year because of their lifesaving actions.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This website provides resources for officers to aid in their safety and performances. The listed resources include publications on body armor, police roadside safety, equipment standards and testing, stress and fatigue, use of force, and less-lethal technologies.
Are you prepared for an active shooter situation? What equipment should you carry? And what needs to be in your active shooter/mass casualty go-bag? Download and print the visor card!
Web page provides resources, guidelines, research, and news updates for managing casualty care during high-threat operations.
This online training is designed to review the Tactical Combat Casualty Care-recommended tourniquets and demonstrate to officers how to apply each of these tourniquets on themselves and on others to prevent major blood loss.
This article tells the story of Lieutenant Mike Madden and his personal experience as the first officer on scene at the Inland Regional Center active shooter attack in San Bernardino, California. He describes how decisions he made before starting his shift affected his safety.
This webinar illustrates the importance of the mental health and wellness of law enforcement officers leading up to and following a critical incident. Speakers include former Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Sergeant Dic Donohue, who tells his incredible story of recovery after...
This publication outlines key takeaways from the "Officer Down: The Road Ahead" webinar that illustrates the importance of law enforcement officer mental health and wellness following a critical incident.
This case study examines the contributing factors that may account for the accidental discharge of an officer’s service pistol.
In this video, the essential casualty care equipment for a law enforcement officer's go-bag is reviewed.
This publication details evidence-based strategies for first responders to improve survivability of victims and keep other first responders safe. In addition, civilian best practices and lessons learned from similar incidents, both in the United States and abroad, are incorporated into this guide.
This bulletin promotes local, state, and national policies to improve survival in these uncommon but horrific active shooter events. The short essay describes methods to minimize loss of life in these terrible incidents.
This redacted after-action report details the events of the Aurora Century 16 Theater shooting and provides an analysis of emergency response successes and areas of improvement. This report further outlines lessons learned from the event and provides advice for future deterrence.
Fight, move, communicate.
This summary of topics from the Officer Safety and Wellness Group is looking to enhance subject-related products, tools, resources, and services available to the field of officer safety and wellness.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is created by the U.S. Department of Defense Committee on TCCC (Co-TCCC) to teach evidence-based, lifesaving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. These best practices have been transitioned to save lives in the law...
This U.S. Department of Homeland Security report identifies specific goals in which efforts can achieve the greatest risk reduction across the breadth of the maritime domain. Its guiding principles are that solutions shall be risk-based; education and training are the key tools for enhancing...
This publication provides photos and instruction on how to use hemorrhage control medical supplies such as tourniquets, gauze, and bandages.
This article describes the violent confrontation in which the officer was hit by gunfire. The officer suffered wounds to his neck and shoulder area and to his leg. The officer successfully applied a tourniquet to his wounds, saving his own life.
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention with community, health care, and advocacy partnerships. The CIT Model was first developed in Memphis, Tennessee, and has spread throughout the country. It is known as the “Memphis Model.”...
This podcast highlights the need for implementing casualty care and rescue tactics training programs at your agency, a lifesaving tool for both law enforcement officers and the public. VALOR Instructor David Flory explains how casualty care and rescue tactics training prepares officers to deal with...
This publication from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides a list of resources to help guide communities preparing for active shooter and complex attacks through an integrated community response.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This publication focuses on a meeting about building law enforcement officers resiliency to keep them safer. The impact of mass casualty events on officer resilience and building physical and emotional health were two of the main topics.
This document provides guidelines on goals, principles, and proper protocol to effectively deal with direct-threat and hot-zone care for law enforcement personnel.
This report on the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), was developed by five teams that participated in peer review covering internal personnel threats, force protection, emergency response and mass casualty, and support to DoD health-care...
This article celebrates law enforcement officer success stories. Each year, PoliceOne recognizes the "Knights Christmas" - cops who have given many people the ability to enjoy Christmas and the coming year because of their lifesaving actions.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This website provides resources for officers to aid in their safety and performances. The listed resources include publications on body armor, police roadside safety, equipment standards and testing, stress and fatigue, use of force, and less-lethal technologies.
Are you prepared for an active shooter situation? What equipment should you carry? And what needs to be in your active shooter/mass casualty go-bag? Download and print the visor card!
Web page provides resources, guidelines, research, and news updates for managing casualty care during high-threat operations.
This online training is designed to review the Tactical Combat Casualty Care-recommended tourniquets and demonstrate to officers how to apply each of these tourniquets on themselves and on others to prevent major blood loss.
This article tells the story of Lieutenant Mike Madden and his personal experience as the first officer on scene at the Inland Regional Center active shooter attack in San Bernardino, California. He describes how decisions he made before starting his shift affected his safety.
This webinar illustrates the importance of the mental health and wellness of law enforcement officers leading up to and following a critical incident. Speakers include former Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Sergeant Dic Donohue, who tells his incredible story of recovery after...
This publication outlines key takeaways from the "Officer Down: The Road Ahead" webinar that illustrates the importance of law enforcement officer mental health and wellness following a critical incident.
This case study examines the contributing factors that may account for the accidental discharge of an officer’s service pistol.
In this video, the essential casualty care equipment for a law enforcement officer's go-bag is reviewed.
This publication details evidence-based strategies for first responders to improve survivability of victims and keep other first responders safe. In addition, civilian best practices and lessons learned from similar incidents, both in the United States and abroad, are incorporated into this guide.
This bulletin promotes local, state, and national policies to improve survival in these uncommon but horrific active shooter events. The short essay describes methods to minimize loss of life in these terrible incidents.
This redacted after-action report details the events of the Aurora Century 16 Theater shooting and provides an analysis of emergency response successes and areas of improvement. This report further outlines lessons learned from the event and provides advice for future deterrence.
Fight, move, communicate.
This webinar introduces the self-aid/buddy-aid program and reviews instances of officer assault and injury for training purposes. The webinar further reviews medical aid equipment, such as tourniquets, gauze, and pressure bandages.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This roll-call training is designed to reduce officer injuries and deaths through discussion and demonstration of the types and placement of medical equipment that should be carried by law enforcement officers.
Flight paramedic and former law enforcement officer Brian Lankford shares his lessons learned rendering medical aid in the field, highlighting the need for casualty care in law enforcement, as well as how to implement effective casualty care procedures in agencies.
Critical incidents can happen anywhere, anytime. Are you trained and prepared to respond?
There are numerous benefits of pre-staging equipment for mass gatherings to increase responsiveness to potential critical incidents. In this episode, Chief Richard Beary (Retired) from the University of Central Florida joins VALOR Program instructor Floyd Wiley to share some lessons he has learned...
This poster features statistics on the benefits and necessity of being ready for duty.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
Proper placement can mean the difference between life and death. The life you save could be your own.
This report describes the development of an evidence-based guideline for external hemorrhage control in the prehospital setting. This project included a systematic review of the literature regarding the use of tourniquets and hemostatic agents for management of life-threatening extremity and...
This report provides a summary of a study on officer injuries and offers recommendations to reduce these injuries, based on its findings.
This poster reminds officers to always carry a tourniquet.
This bulletin directs that all responders have the education and necessary equipment for hemorrhage control and strongly endorses civilian bystanders as immediate responders.
Description: Videos teaching proper tourniquet application
This publication documents the events of the Las Vegas, Nevada, mass shooting and contains good insights and recommendations that go well beyond the operational police response, to include emergency management, internal communications, and dispatching and external communications.
During your career as a law enforcement officer, you have or will make critical decisions that could mean the difference between life and death. This online training module is designed to increase the capacity of law enforcement personnel to get off the X and implement mitigation techniques to...
This toolkit was curated by the Public Safety Partnerships team to provide a suite of timely resources dedicated to assisting our law enforcement partners with best practices for building community trust, strengthening relationships, and increasing cultural understanding with diverse communities....
This issue brief presents background on communications within the National Incident Management System and its incident command system. It examines the role of communications within these constructs, as well as in the context of multi agency response to disasters and emergencies. It concludes with...
This bulletin is a call to action to enhance survival from active shooter or intentional mass-casualty events.
This article talks about how commonly back, shoulder, and joint pain affects officers and explains why these kinds of injuries emerge. The author details how to prevent these injuries and how to properly treat them. The article then explains helpful rehabilitation techniques and alternatives to...
This publication discusses the role of law enforcement leaders in ensuring that officers return home safely at the end of their shifts. It also discusses internal and external considerations—from policies, procedures, and training to interactions with the public, offenders, and community partners....
This article discusses how law enforcement officers can better protect themselves against dangerous drugs, such as fentanyl. The author describes how to create a risk assessment before beginning a drug investigation. The article also mentions how to spot indicators of drug use on "man down" calls.
This resolution by the International Association of Chiefs of Police recommends that every law enforcement officer receive tactical emergency medical training, including critical core skills for early, life-threatening hemorrhage control and rapid evacuation of mass-casualty victims to a casualty...
These documents present tactical-medicine material that may conflict with conventional civilian emergency medical services (EMS) practices. The documents are specially designed for law enforcement officers who will be first responders to situations that require balancing both tactical and medical...
This webinar reviews the process of obtaining funding to purchase vests for a department by Mr. Joseph Husted of the Office of Justice Programs, Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program. In addition, Lieutenant Vann Streety, from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, discusses...
This publication examines Self-Aid/Buddy-Aid (SABA) as a way to save lives with immediate traumatic wound treatment.
The National Institute of Justice has developed the Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Justice System Strategic Research Plan to describe the current and projected efforts of NIJ to promote the safety, health, and wellness of individuals affected by, or employed within, the criminal...
Yes! We encourage you to share the toolkit and all its content with any and all sworn law enforcement officers.
Many of the toolkit’s materials are perfect to use for roll call. We have drill sheets as well as concise training videos that could serve as an important daily reminder before a shift. If your agency does not do roll call before every shift, make sure to touch up on these principles on your own before your shift and make sure to also utilize our printable resources section. Print out some posters and place them around your agency.
The VALOR Program offers in-person training on this topic. If you have attended a VALOR training, you are eligible to request a Casualty Care and Rescue Tactics four-hour supplemental training to be delivered on-site at your agency. This training involves hands-on training in all the equipment and principles featured in the toolkit. To request this training, please visit our Contact Us page. If your agency has already received all the VALOR training on casualty care, you can visit https://www.naemt.org/education/naemt-tccc. The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians offers a wide array of in-depth trainings and certifications for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC).
The VALOR Program’s casualty care curriculum and resources are based off the TCCC model. TCCC approves certain brands in the market based on rigorous research and testing on the products, ensuring that they are only endorsing products that will be reliable and effective in the field. Therefore, though there are other products on the market, VALOR features only TCCC-approved products in the toolkit.