Continuing Education Training Schedule

This is a MS BLEOST Approved Firearms Instructor Class taught by retired Police Chief Tom Long. 

At the time of his retirement, Tom was the longest serving Chief of Police in the state of Mississippi at 27 years. His law enforcement career spanned 38 years as he worked his way through the ranks to become Chief of Police. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, past President of the MS Tactical Officers Association and Memphis Metropolitan Association of Chiefs of Police. Tom is a recognized law enforcement expert in police firearms, pursuits, policy and procedures at the local, state, and federal court levels. 

Beginning in 1986, while still maintaining a full time career in law enforcement, Tom worked for several years as a firearm’s instructor at John Shaw’s Mid South Shooting Institute, where his eyes were open to a firearm’s training potential he never knew existed. 

As chairman of his state’s committee to investigate police officer fatalities, Tom gained vast knowledge that he applied practically to his firearm’s instruction, developing courses that better prepare officers for combat confrontations.

As part of an advanced teaching cadre or as an individual instructor, Tom has taught thousands of military Special Forces personnel and Federal, State and local law enforcement officers from around the world. He formed Tactical Officer Survival School in 1993 in an effort to bring the kind of training to local law enforcement that until then had only been available to an elite few.

Tom has an EXTENSIVE history training local, state and federal level law enforcement agencies from all over the country.

In this class the student will learn to teach shoulder weapons common to today’s law enforcement officer. Weapons covered will be Patrol Rifle, Sub guns and shotguns.  Students will graduate with the knowledge how to return to their agencies and teach basic and advanced combat tactics to their personnel. The class will cover both pump and semi auto shotguns, as well as semi auto and full auto patrol rifles and sub-guns. 

Equipment needed:

·         Shotgun:  100 rounds of birdshot-10 slugs-10 buckshot

·         Patrol Rifle:  500 rounds

·         Handgun:   150 rounds

·         Range gear: Eye Protection and Ear Protection

·         Handgun/holster & magazine pouch with extra magazines

·         Rain Gear

·         Body armor

Class starts at 0800 hours on Monday, March 30, 2020 at Southern Regional Public Safety Institute (SRPSI) located at Building 1481, 14th Street Camp Shelby, MS 39407. 

For additional information contact SGT Joe Green at 601.266.6680 or via email 

Click HERE to complete the registration form and submit via email

This class is taught by retired Police Chief Tom Long, founder of the Tactical Officer Survival School (TOSS).  At the time of his retirement, Tom was the longest serving Chief of Police in the state of Mississippi at 27 years.  Tom’s law enforcement career spanned 38 years as he worked his way through the ranks to become Chief of Police. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, past President of the MS Tactical Officers Association and Memphis Metropolitan Association of Chiefs of Police. Tom is a recognized law enforcement expert in police firearms, pursuits, policy and procedures at the local, state, and federal court levels. 

Tom is the author of the leadership book “Leading Warriors from the Backs of Giants”. 

This two day leadership seminar/training block is based on practical and common sense experiences and will benefit all departmental leaders from front line supervisors all the way through the ranks to the top leadership positions of any law enforcement agency.

Class will run 0830-1700 daily at Southern Regional Public Safety Institute (SRPSI), Bldg 1481, 14th Street Camp Shelby, MS 39407. 

For additional information contact SGT Joe Green at 601.266.6680 or via email

Click JULY CLASS or OCTOBER CLASS to complete the registration form and submit via email

This course is designed for Officers transitioning from a patrol assignment to an assignment in investigations.  It will demonstrate the importance of basic investigative techniques and reinforce the importance of such techniques.  It will give the student an understanding of the role the 5th Amendment plays in interviews and interrogations, providing the student the ability to navigate and obtain a court admissible statement.

The students will be able to apply sound investigative techniques in documenting a crime scene and learn to provide a voice to the physical evidence recovered during the investigation. The students will learn to apply the requirements set forth in the 4th Amendment in the recovery of evidence during the crime scene investigation.

Students will review case studies and are encouraged to interact with the instructor regarding investigative techniques.

Instructor for this course retired criminal investigator, George Chaix.  Chaix retired from a 27-year career in policing.  Serving as a criminal investigator since 1996 and later in a command position serving both the Gulfport and Biloxi Police Departments.  He also served in the Navy Reserve in the law enforcement career field serving as an instructor at the Military Police School and as an investigator serving as the Chief of Military Police Investigations for the Country of Kuwait.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a Minor in Forensic Science along with a Masters of Criminal Justice Administration. 

Mr. Chaix currently serves as an Instructor of Criminal Justice for William Carey University and is a past president of the Mississippi Division of the International Association of Identification.  He also serves on the Board of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Veterans Day Parade and an adjunct Instructor for the Southern Regional Public Safety Academy.

Class will run 0800-1700 daily at Southern Regional Public Safety Institute (SRPSI), Bldg 1481, 14th Street Camp Shelby, MS 39407.

Required Equipment:  Laptop with Microsoft Office ® suite, Dept issued Crime Scene Kit, and Camera

For additional information contact LT Jacqueline Moreno at 601.266.6680 or via email

Click here to complete the registration form and submit via email