Tactical Anatomy, LLC

Peace officers in America are required by exigent circumstances to use their duty firearms against armed and aggressive criminals every day of the year. Although each individual officer hopes to never have to use his weapon in the line of duty, we train our personnel for just such an eventuality.   Unfortunately, statistics tell us that the effectiveness of police marksmanship in armed encounters is not as high as it could be, and as a result, good men and women are being injured or even killed in the line of duty. Armed criminals who have taken less than effective fire are not incapacitated and as a result are able to return fire on police officers, sometimes with disastrous results.

Tactical Anatomy Systems is a lethal force targeting method developed by an Emergency Physician with strong ties to the law enforcement community. Standard training targets used by most police forces for training and routine firearms qualification have little or no correlation to the vital structures of human anatomy.  As a result, police officers often have only a vague idea of where to aim when faced with an armed, aggressive felon.

Training police to shoot for “center of mass” translates, in most officers’ minds, to “shoot somewhere in the middle”.  This middle-muddle sets up the officer for failure—failure to hit vital structures, failure to neutralize the armed attacker, and by extension, failure to protect himself and the community from a dangerous criminal.

Tactical Anatomy Systems is not simply a new kind of target. Tactical Anatomy  uses simple but accurate representations of anatomy on humanoid models, both in the classroom and on the firing range. The system explains relevant anatomy in a manner that can be easily grasped by non-medical personnel. Use of the Tactical Anatomy system in the classroom setting, then in force-on-force or live fire range sessions, enhances the likelihood that shots fired by trained officers will strike anatomically effective areas of the subject.