About this episode

Gabe Rivera discusses building a healthy competition culture in law enforcement and the importance of effective training.

You know there is a gap between how your team trains and how your team performs. You've felt it. Gabe Rivera felt it too, and instead of talking about it, he built a system to close it. Full-time SWAT officer, Lead Faucet Tactical instructor, and founder of Mindset Tactical Solutions, Gabe sits down with Scott at the Texas Tactical Police Officers Association Conference in Round Rock, Texas to walk through eighteen years of hard lessons: how to vet instructors without getting burned by theory...

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Guest: Gabe Rivera

Topics covered

• law enforcement
• competition culture
• training
• instructor vetting
• SWAT
• tactical solutions

Keywords

• law enforcement
• competition
• training
• Gabe Rivera
• SWAT
• instructors
• tactical

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas Tactical Police Officers Association

Places: Round Rock, Texas

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