The Firearms Training Unit is a component of the Professional Standard Division, Administrative Bureau.

The Firearms Training Unit consists of a Sergeant and two firearms instructors working at the Department's ten (10) acre outdoor range. This facility was constructed in 1992 and has many state-of-the-art dynamic target systems, including a wide variety of moving targets, automated steel "knock-down" targets, and computerized reactive steel "bobbers". The range also has a ballistically safe shoothouse in which officers practice live-fire close quarter tactics with duty ammunition. This live-fire shoothouse adds the realism that is critical in conditioning officers to prevail quickly and correctly in life threatening confrontations.

Range exercises include problems of target identifications, threat level recognition, decision making, dealing with multiple opponents, movement while firing, use of cover, learning to operate with other officers, dim light training, and shooting in inclement weather. All of the Department's firearms programs include classroom training on our firearms policies, principles of justification for the use of lethal force and the relative place of lethal force in the entire use of force continuum, firearms safety, and timely liability and officer survival issues.

The ultimate goal of the Firearms Training Unit is to provide incomparable firearms-related training to improve both officer and public safety.