AI Overview
NCIER is the training division of C3 Pathways that builds professional readiness for first responders and schools by delivering evidence-based courses on Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM), developed on the nationally endorsed ASIM Checklist framework. Since inception, NCIER has delivered over 1,160 classes, trained more than 32,123 responders, and delivered 342,599 training hours across law enforcement, fire, EMS, and school safety disciplines.
For more details on NCIER's mission, team, and approach, I'd recommend starting with the ASIM QuickStart course — a free 1-hour online introduction that gives you immediate, actionable knowledge on active shooter response.
About
About Us | NCIER
NCIER builds professional readiness for the future by showing responders how to be faster, work as one team, and save every life that can be saved.
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About | C3 Pathways
C3 Pathways builds professional readiness for the future, today by showing how to be Faster, work as One Team, and Save Every Life that can be Saved.
Podcast
Ep 69: Ep 69: What About Hospitals?
In a mass casualty event, your hospital may be overwhelmed. When they call for help are you going to make it better or worse? In today’s episode, we look at several issues you should anticipate and h...
Blog
About the ASIM Advanced Course
This video takes you inside a three-day, simulation-based active shooter training where police, fire, EMS, and dispatch all train together instead of in silos. Using a high-fidelity virtual environmen...
Reviews
Course Reviews | NCIER
Read course evaluations from emergency responders who completed ASIM training. See what first responders say about our active shooter courses.
Podcast
Ep 72: Ep 72: Top 5 Public Misconceptions
Why did they do that? What’s taking so long? In today’s episode, we break down the top 5 misconceptions the public has about our response to Active Shooter Events.
Podcast
Ep 59: Ep 59: Top 5 ASIM Misconceptions
When we talk about active shooter incident management, have you ever wondered what are the big misconceptions? That's today's topic -- the TOP 5 misconceptions of Active Shooter Incident Management.
Podcast
Ep 55: Ep 55: Lost in Translation
This week we talk about avoiding the temptation to over-complicate terminology and creating unnecessary confusion. Keep it simple!
Podcast
Ep 48: Ep 48: Interview with TEEX's Jesse Watkins
On this week's podcast we have our sponsor of the Active Shooter Incident Management Advanced and Intermediate courses, TEEX's Jesse Watkins. In this episode we talk about the courses and training ava...
Podcast
Ep 46: Ep 46: ASIM Basic and Counterstrike (Part 2)
We are picking up from last week's topic about ASIM Basic to talk about the Counterstrike training system. Bill and Adam give some tips and tricks that will enhance your training as you run scenarios.
Podcast
Ep 43: Ep 43: Comm Center Challenges Part 1
In Part 1 of this week's podcast, we talk about some of the challenges in the 911 dispatch center during an active shooter event. A few topics we cover are the best sense of location, radio traffic, a...
Podcast
Ep 36: Ep 36: Intelligence
A discussion about the Intelligence function in Active Shooter Incident Management (hint: it's not just a law enforcement issue).
Podcast
Ep 31: Ep 31: Zones
This episode is about Zones in Active Shooter Response and how they help us communicate the threat picture.
Podcast
Ep 29: Staying in Your Lane
Today's topic, we're going to talk about staying in your lane for active shooter events and what that means.
Podcast
Ep 26: Ep 26: Communications
This Active Shooter Incident Management episode is all about communications, including Dispatch, radios, face-to-face, chain of command, and more. Don't miss it!
Podcast
Ep 24: Ep 24: Rescue Task Force (RTF)
This show is all about Rescue Task Force (RTF), their role in an Active Shooter Event, key tasks the RTF needs to execute, and lessons learned.
Podcast
Ep 121: The Critical Role of Dispatch and 911
Bill Godfrey:
When you think about active shooter response, it's easy to focus on police and EMS. But there's another responder that all too often is overlooked, and that's today's topic. The...
Podcast
Ep 120: CCP vs AEP
- In an active shooter event, we talk about working in the warm zone, things like casualty collection point or ambulance exchange point. What does that mean though? Why do we need 'em, and how are we...
Podcast
Ep 119: College Shooting - A Student’s Story
...car. I always at the gym and then I would walk over to my building, which was about a 15, 20 minute walk. But yeah, it started out great. Have, I loved my class. At the time there was about 25...
Podcast
Ep 118: You Use This Everyday
...is the scientific term.
Bill Godfrey:
So today's topic, we're gonna talk about the opportunities to get good at active shooter incident management practices by practicing it in real life. And...
Podcast
Ep 117: Managing Uninjured Survivors
Bill Godfrey:
On our last podcast, we talked about the challenges of responding to an attack in large outdoor venues with large numbers of people, and almost immediately when we got done, we started...
Podcast
Ep 116: Incident Management vs. Tactics
...be here, bill.
Bill Godfrey:
All right, so today's topic, we're gonna talk about incident management training versus tactics training, and a little bit of the difference between the two. Both...
Podcast
Ep 115: Outside Threats
...know you don't really have cover. And especially from the things that we worry about, which are gunfire, the elements and things that we don't want to see us. So you've got to stay constantly...
Podcast
Ep 114: What is an Active Threat?
Bill Godfrey:
When we talk about an active shooter or an active threat, what do we mean by the word active? That's today's topic coming up now.
Welcome to the "Active Shooter Incident Management"...
Podcast
Ep 113: What Is Your Mission?
...event, what is your mission? What is the mission of your team? We're talking about that today. Stick around. Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. My name is Bill Godfrey,...