Todd Fletcher

Combative Firearms Training

Todd Fletcher is the owner and lead instructor for Combative Firearms Training, LLC providing training for law enforcement firearms instructors from coast to coast. He has over 25 years of training experience as a firearms and defensive tactics instructor. He retired after more than 25 years as a full-time police officer and over 31 years of law enforcement experience.

Todd is a member of the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) and the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA). He is a member of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA), and was selected as the 2022 ILEETA Trainer-of-the-Year. He is also a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI) and won the 2023 IALEFI Top Gun Award. He can be reached at Todd@CombativeFirearms.com.

Full list of Todd Fletcher results

Training with steel targets: What you don’t know can hurt you
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Unpredictable bullet spatter can be dangerous for everyone on the range
Use your brain: Adding decision-making to your live-fire drills
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Instead of focusing on short-term performance gains, firearm instructors should focus on long-term retention of skills
Why focused training on one-handed shooting drills is crucial to officer survival
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Don’t make a bad day worse by failing to practice the shooting skills that could help you prevail
What I learned at the 2023 ILEETA Conference & Expo
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From combating traumatic stress ahead of time to battling imposter syndrome, here are my biggest takeaways
Leading from the bottom up will improve the culture of your department
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As a profession, we need to begin having leadership expectations from day one of the police academy
Professional organizations help improve standards and training
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Regardless of your interest, there is an organization ready to help you succeed
Range drills for training on your own time
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If you commit to improvement, you can be a high-performance shooter
Training at the speed of a fight
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If we don’t train at speed and get our brains accustomed to making decisions at that speed, we are setting our people up for failure
Review: RPAMS A2 Buckler ballistic shield for patrol officers
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This lightweight, gimmick-free shield, is designed to protect an individual officer on the move from rifle rounds
Improve your handgun performance by improving your platform
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LE can take the techniques competitive shooters use to be fast, accurate and efficient and then apply those techniques to our operational environment
The FN 509 MRD-LE is worth a serious look
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The FN 509 MRD-LE is everything a duty handgun should be: reliable, accurate and easy to shoot well
Building searches: A resource and geometry problem
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We must provide patrol officers with the knowledge, techniques and tactics to make building searches as safe as possible
Ballistic shields can improve officer safety
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It’s unacceptable to make patrol officers wait for a supervisor or SWAT officer for a ballistic shield, so let's properly equip the first officers to arrive on scene
Why ILEETA is a must-attend event for police trainers
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With more than 150 sessions to pick from, the ILEETA conference will change the lives of the people you train
Take Police1’s 30 days to better firearms skills challenge
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Don't worry, this challenge isn’t a huge time commitment, but you will see big improvements in your skills and mindset
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