Training

EOD/IEDD Training

Our comprehensive explosive ordnance disposal/improvised explosive device disposal (EOD/IEDD) training programmes include threat analysis, incident management, terrorist weapons, vehicle bomb disposal, understanding of IEDs and their function, robotic vehicle deployment and use, and render-safe procedures (RSPs).

HMS IEDD courses enable personnel to competently undertake IEDD operations in low- or high-threat environments depending on clients' requirements. Students can start at a basic entry level with a progression to advanced standards in IEDD operations conduct.

HMS training courses can be off-the-shelf or bespoke and cover varying degrees of specific EOD/IEDD philosophy depending upon requirement. Programmes can accommodate students with no previous experience as well as those currently filling operational posts.

Examples of areas covered:

  • Render-safe procedures (RSPs)
  • Post-incident scene management and forensic search and analysis procedures
  • EOD/IEDD equipment use
  • Robotic vehicle deployment and use
  • Safety procedures
  • Robotic/manual deployment
  • Incident management
  • Command, control and communications
  • Weapon/disrupter deployment and use
  • Search in an IEDD role
  • Threat analysis
  • Planned operations
  • Vehicle bomb disablement
  • EOD/IEDD in hostile environments
  • Terrorist weapons
  • IEDD in hostage rescue operations
  • Terrorist methods of operations
  • IEDD in Special Forces roles
  • IED understanding and function
  • Improvised mortars, grenades and rockets

 

IEDD Equipment Training

Using the correct equipment is key to any render-safe procedure. Our instructors provide indispensable training in this area. Programmes include specialist equipment training, equipment solutions for EOD teams, requirements and recommendations for use, serviceability and suitability, and current equipment holding status.

C-IED Investigation Training

There is an increased necessity for expertise in the face of terrorist attacks. In our C-IED investigation courses HMS instructors (former weapons intelligence operators) train personnel to enable them to investigate the aftermath of an attack. The programme primes students to capably operate within a weapons intelligence team; identifying devices used, how they were made and their composition.

 

Assault IEDD Course

The Assault IEDD course is designed to train the experienced IED operator in the overt and covert techniques used in the rapid assessment and neutralization of access denial devices, so as to allow an assault team to reach its destination silently, safely and without compromise. The students will also be trained in the procedures carried out in order to stabilize and disable multi-switched complex IEDs, including hostage-type devices.

The course is designed to be progressive, using a combination of theoretical instruction and practical exercises including operator search, radiography, manual techniques and alarm disablement. The course will culminate in a realistic ongoing hostage-type scenario necessitating a number of covert and overt approaches in order to identify, access and render-safe various IEDs before an armed assault team can conduct a rescue operation.

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