Key Associates

We can analyze methodology and training in special weapons and tactics situations for both police agencies and corporations. We will design training programs, organizational structure, testing and performance standards, and create appropriate regulatory memoranda specific to the needs of a client. Special weapons and tactics situations include, but are not limited to: high risk entries; hostage, barricade, and sniper incidents; crowd control; terrorism threat assessment; dignitary protection; canine intervention and narcotics detection; and high speed and pursuit driving skills. Training in these areas is also offered.

Experts Available to Consult in Matters Related to Police Tactics

Charles L. Bryant

Twenty-five years experience in the Memphis Police Department, rising to the rank of Major. During his career he served as a member of the special weapons and tactics team and provided training to other agencies in SWAT tactics. He also developed high-risk entry and officer survival training within the Memphis Police Department. He is a certified National Rifle Association Police Firearms Instructor and a state of Tennessee handgun instructor for corporate security.

Charles L. Coleman

Officer Coleman is currently the canine officer for the Millington, Tennessee Police Department. He has nine years of canine handling experience, which has included over one hundred arrests for narcotic related incidents and over fifty arrests for robberies, burglaries, etc. with his dog. He has attended in excess of one thousand hours in canine handling training. Officer Coleman is currently certified by the National Narcotic Dog Detector Association and the Mid-South Police K-9 Association in basic patrol work, narcotics detection, and tracking. He and his dog placed second in the national competition for the year 2000 National Narcotic Dog Detector Association and took the Top Gun Award. He is vice-president for the state of Tennessee of the Mid-South Police K-9 Association.

Charles J. Key

Nearly twenty-six years experience with the Baltimore Police Department, ascending to the rank of Lieutenant. During his career, he served as a squad sergeant and Training Coordinator for the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit. In his last ten years, he served as the Commanding Officer of the Firearms Training Unit. In that capacity he analyzed over five hundred police involved shootings and responded to the scene of more than a hundred. He wrote the department's policy on use of lethal force and the resolution of sniper, barricade, and hostage situations. He also authored numerous officer survival tactics lesson plans and trained thousands of officers street survival tactics. Mr. Key worked in the field for sixteen years and was responsible, as on scene supervisor, for resolving hundreds of critical/emergency incidents. He was awarded the Baltimore Police Department's second highest award for bravery in one such incident. He has consulted in hundreds of use of force cases and has been qualified numerous times in federal and state courts as an expert in police procedures and tactics.

Edwin W. Schillo

Lieutenant Schillo has twenty-six years with the Baltimore Police Department. During that time, he served twelve years with the special weapons and tactics unit, including two years as its supervisor and training coordinator. He also was assigned to the Education and Training Division for eight years as the Supervisor of the Skills section. During that time, he was qualified as a firearms instructor and taught officer survival tactics and self-defense to officers. Additionally, he has had extensive training in emergency driving skills and has taught thousands of officers how to operate emergency vehicles safely.

Key Associates
1628 Zinks Mill School Road
Vesuvius, VA 24483

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