A TWO-DAY SYSTEM FOR EARLIER RECOGNITION AND PERFORMANCE UNDER COMPRESSION
The rally point decision performance system (RPDPS)
RPDPS is a two-day classroom decision-performance system for law enforcement. It connects earlier recognition with officer performance as available time, clarity, and options narrow.
RPDPS is built around two distinct, connected layers:
10 Seconds Before Violence™ (10SBV)
The Recognition Layer
Officers learn to identify meaningful behavioral change earlier and ask: What changed?
When Time Runs Out™ (WTRO)
The Performance Layer
Officers examine what happens to attention, meaning, response selection, timing, consistency, and articulation when time is short—and how training can influence performance.
TWO DISTINCT LAYERS. ONE CONNECTED SYSTEM.
Earlier recognition can create time. When time becomes short, performance depends on what the officer can perceive, understand, select, and do inside that narrowing window.
RPDPS trains both sides of that connected performance problem.
RECOGNIZE EARLIER
10SBV helps officers identify meaningful behavioral change before the threat becomes obvious - creating time, options, and control when possible.
PERFORM WHEN TIME IS SHORT
WTRO examines officer-side performance as time narrows and connects each limitation to a realistic training answer.
TRAIN THE CONNECTION
The complete RPDPS brings both layers together so officers can recognize earlier, decide under pressure, and perform when the moment demands it.
10 seconds before violence™ (10SBV)
THE RECOGNITION LAYER
10SBV teaches officers to recognize when the original read of a situation no longer fits.
Using the Baseline → Pattern Break → Shift → Decision Compression model, officers learn to identify meaningful behavioral change before overt negative action and understand how suspect behavior can begin narrowing the officer’s time and options.
Through video analysis, discussion, and decision exposure, officers practice one recurring question:
What changed?
The goal is not prediction, profiling, or certainty. Earlier recognition can create time, distance, options, and control before the situation compresses.
10SBV is designed to change how officers look at developing situations.
THE 10SBV MODEL
Baseline
Pattern Break
Shift
Decision Compression
10SBV improves what officers recognize before action forces the outcome.
WHEN TIME RUNS OUT™ (WTRO)
Training Takes Over
THE PERFORMANCE LAYER
WTRO begins where available time becomes short. It examines officer-side performance as time, clarity, and practical options narrow.
Officers experience how different choices and response times emerge inside short decision windows, then examine what affects attention, meaning, response selection, latency, consistency, and immediate articulation.
WTRO does not teach that pressure makes effective performance impossible. It separates what training can improve, what training can mitigate, and what officers must understand and account for.
When there is not enough time to build a response from scratch, performance is shaped by what training made ready.
WTRO EXAMINES
Attention
Meaning
Response Selection
Latency
Consistency
Immediate Articulation
WTRO is designed to change how officers look at training - because performance when time runs out is being built before it is needed.
THE COMPLETE RPDPS EXPERIENCE
TWO DAYS. TWO DISTINCT LAYERS. ONE CONNECTED PERFORMANCE PROBLEM.
Day 1 helps officers recognize meaningful change early enough to create time.
Day 2 examines how officers perform when very little time remains.
Delivered together, the two courses connect what officers recognize with what they understand, select, do, and explain next.
The preferred RPDPS delivery is the complete two-day system. 10SBV and WTRO are also available as standalone eight-hour courses.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers about RPDPS, 10SBV, WTRO, and available delivery formats.
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RPDPS is a two-day classroom decision-performance system for law enforcement. Day 1 develops earlier recognition. Day 2 examines officer performance when time is short. Together, they connect what officers recognize with how they understand, decide, act, and explain.
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WTRO is the Performance Layer of RPDPS. It examines what happens to attention, meaning, response selection, timing, consistency, and articulation as time narrows—and what training can improve, mitigate, or help officers account for.
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0SBV is the Recognition Layer of RPDPS. Officers learn to identify meaningful behavioral change using Baseline, Pattern Break, Shift, and Decision Compression—and practice asking: What changed?
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Yes. 10SBV and WTRO are available as standalone eight-hour courses. The preferred delivery is the complete two-day RPDPS because it connects earlier recognition with performance under compression.
FIND THE RIGHT TRAINING FORMAT
Review the complete two-day RPDPS, standalone 10SBV and WTRO courses, and available agency or open-enrollment options.