Authorised Firearms Officers

Joining AFO will by no means be an easy task, all officers undergo heavy amounts of training familiarising themselves with their weapons, equipment and vehicles. AFO are trained to a very high standard with tactics taught in our very own Kill House (training buildings designed to practise room clearance, along with ARV TPAC training taught in a live environment). AFO are accountable for all of their actions whilst deployed.

In training you are taught about Dynamic Risk Assessments (DRA) alongside the National Decision Model (NDM) to develop an understanding of the level of force and how to adapt to ever changing scenarios, along with that comes the responsibility of carrying a loaded firearm and making a split second decision whether to discharge said firearm at a moment's notice should they need to do so.