Law Enforcement First Response (LEFR)
May 8, 2020

The Law Enforcement First Response Tactical Casualty Care (LEFR), is continuing education Tactical Emergency First Aid course offered through NAEMT’s PHTLS program. This course was initially developed in collaboration with the Denver EMS, Denver SWAT, and NAEMT’s Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Committee. LEFR teaches public safety first responders (police, law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders) the basic medical care interventions that can help save injured responder’s or victim’s lives until they can be assisted by conventional EMS. In addition to the patrol officer, this course is ideally suited to:

• Non-medical first responders
• Medical first responders for whom tactical operations are not in their primary responsibilities
• Fire service personnel
• Allied professionals

Upon successful completion of the course participants will:

• Understand the rationale for immediate steps of hemorrhage control (including external hemorrhage control, direct pressure and wound packing, early use of tourniquet for severe hemorrhage, internal hemorrhage control by rapid evacuation, and transportation to major hospital/trauma center).
• Demonstrate the competent application of a tourniquet to the arm and leg (typically in less than 20 seconds by course conclusion).
• Demonstrate the correct application of a topical haemostatic dressing (combat gauze).
• Describe the progressive strategy for controlling catastrophic hemorrhage.
• Describe appropriate airway control techniques and basic adjunct devices.
• Recognize the tactically relevant indicators of shock.
• Receive a nationally recognized LEFR Certification, accredited by the NAEMT and F1 continuing medical education (CME) credits by the Commission on Accreditation on Prehospital Continuing Education and administered by Southwestern College.

For students travelling from out of town, ask about our very reasonable onsite berthing (barracks) facility. It is secure, with 24hr guard, parking with a restaurant on site.

NOTE: Without pre-payment to reserve your seat, there is no guarantee of availability.

No refunds less than thirty (30) business days from the start of class; however, tuition may be applied to another eligible student.

For further details, please contact:
Medical Education
[email protected]
Office: 858-715-5265
Mobile: 619-843-8449

CALIFORNIA TACTICAL EMERGENCY FIRST AID/TRAUMA CARE - Law Enforcement First Response Tactical Casualty Care (LEFR)

The Law Enforcement First Response Tactical Casualty Care (LEFR and sometimes pronounced “Leefer”) is a State of California Approved and UASI reimbursable California Tactical Emergency First Aid/Trauma Care course and exceeds all requirements for the State of California Commission on Peace Officer Standardization and Training (POST) for patrol officers (POST Plan-IV 1102-21772) and is approved by the California EMS Authority.

This course teaches first responders and allied professionals the basic medical care interventions, which can save an injured person’s life until they can be assisted by conventional EMS. It uses the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), and meets the recommendations of the Hartford Consensus documents and the Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC) guidelines.

Tactical Casualty Care model courses presented by STOPS are supervised by National TCCC/TECC Affiliate Faculty and LEFR-TCC (Tactical Emergency First Aid/Trauma Care) delivered by Strategic Operations contains additional content, making the program compliant with certain provisions of the 2015 amendments to the California Code of Regulations under Title 22 and training standards set forth in various statutes as amended under AB 1598 (2014).

This course is 10 hours and delivered in 1-day.

[Homeland Security UASI Federal Course numbers may be found with your local UASI coordinators]
[California POST Plan-IV Course ID: 1102-71772]

Custom (agency) courses are available for as few as 14 students with a discounted rate over open enrolled students and options for take-away medical kits – Contact us for details!