Enhance De-Escalation Training with Realistic, Dynamic Tools

COPS Safer Outcomes Grant initiative with MotoShot

De-Escalation and Crisis Intervention Training

The MotoShot Crisis Intervention Training System is designed to support law enforcement and tactical teams in practicing crisis intervention strategies through dynamic, realistic scenarios. This versatile system includes the Verbal Engagement Trainer, OC Spray Trainer, and Threat Management Trainer — each tailored to develop specific officer response skills in communication, control, and less-lethal tactics.

Officers engage with both moving and stationary 3D Humanistic Manikin while focusing on key skills such as de-escalation, tactical communication, and command presence — all essential components of effective performance in high-stress encounters.

➡️ Reinforce judgment under pressure
➡️ Improve threat vs. non-threat recognition
➡️ Build emotional control and response restraint

These features align with the COPS Office Safer Outcomes Grant objectives, offering agencies a way to enhance training realism while staying within the scope of grant-eligible activities.

Supporting Documents

COPS Pre-Award Fact Sheet

Strategic Funding Recommendations

Crisis Intervention Training System

➡️ Subjects who flee or suddenly change direction
➡️ Individuals who turn to reveal non-threatening behavior
➡️ Scenarios requiring split-second restraint, not force

Why It Works:

🔹 Enhances decision-making in ambiguous situations
🔹 Builds emotional regulation through stress inoculation
🔹 Strengthens verbal engagement skills over automatic responses

By practicing with realistic, motion-based cues, officers learn to pause, assess, and choose the least confrontational path forward — exactly what successful de-escalation requires.

This is not about shooting. It’s about thinking.

Train your team to respond with judgment, control, and confidence.