Fred Leland

Staying Oriented

Fred T. Leland, Jr. is the founder and principal trainer of LESC: Law Enforcement & Security Consulting. He retired as a police lieutenant with the Walpole (Mass.) Police Department in 2016. He previously worked as a deputy with the Charlotte County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Department and before that spent six years with the United States Marines, including as a squad leader in Beirut, Lebanon.

Leland is an accomplished trainer teaching law enforcement, military and security professionals. His programs of instruction include handling dynamic encounters, threat assessment, non-verbal communications, decision-making under pressure, evolving threats, violence prevention, firearms, use of force, officer-created jeopardy and adaptive leadership. He is also a 2004 graduate of the FBI National Academy Class 216, and a current instructor for the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee.

Full list of Fred Leland results

How shift debriefings can improve officer safety
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We should be doing more to harness the wisdom of street cops and what they learn from every shift
Watching Boston 'work together' made me proud to be a police officer
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After the Boston marathon bombings, parallel evolution allowed ALL to work together in an effective way — this is something we need to understand and leverage for the future
2012 in Review: 13 questions to answer in 2013
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What has 2012 taught you about officer safety and effectiveness?
The anatomy of victory (part two): Victory at minimal cost
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Winning on the street comes in many forms and means different things to different people
The anatomy of victory (part one): What does it take to win?
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Winning on the street comes in many forms and means different things to different people
Situational awareness, officer safety, and 'the explorer mentality'
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Part Two: The exploring officer takes responsibility for the strategic choices of routes and objectives on his journey into the unknown
Patterns of behavior, officer safety, and 'the rule of opposites'
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Part One: We recognize opposites — day as compared to night, happy compared to sad, failure versus success, peace as opposed to war, and safety counter to danger
Mental toughness and the power to adapt
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"Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system." — Napoleon Bonaparte
Train the brain: Using decision making critiques to leverage lessons learned
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“To learn as quickly as possible, we must be more deliberate, more disciplined, and more thorough in our approach in order to squeeze as much as possible from each experience, as with everything else about mental conditioning there is no magic here.” — Gary Klein
Train the brain: Using tactical decision games in training
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“Only those who have challenged themselves with countless tactical situations in peacetime, only those who have refined their ability to make decisions and communicate clearly with subordinates, are prepared to command in war.” — Gen. Paul K. Van Riper
Are you prepared to adapt and win on the street?
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“Adaptability is an effective change in response to an altered situation. Adaptability is not speed of reaction, but the slower, more deliberate processes associated with problem solving.”
— Don Vandergriff
'Red Teaming' the cop killer
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Getting “inside the mind” of those who wish to do police officers harm can be an extraordinary tool to help cops win the fight when a cop killer crosses our path
Street-level Red Teaming: Assessing the situation from the adversarial point of view
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Red Teaming is an approach to understanding our adversary and the methods they use. Red Teaming — playing the role of our adversaries — is an outstanding way to gain insights into not only the mind...