Law Enforcement Training and Security Solutions
The Tactical Mindset LLC was founded by Warren Breckenridge in 2009. We are based out of Gulfport Mississippi.
Our goal is to provide quality training programs and security solutions with the latest progressions in training to effectively meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. By continuously researching training methods and studying the latest in training needs we are able to stay up to date with the current issues that agencies are facing in today's world.
By having a broad base of instructors specializing in various fields we are able to provide a broad range of training for police agencies to the individual, our programs range from firearms training to corporate policy.
Warren Breckenridge-Chief Instructor
A Mississippi POST certified law enforcement officer, Warren is a 15 year veteran police officer. He has served in both Municipal and County departments in areas of: street patrol, training, K9 interdiction, and supervision. For the last 8 years he has served as a Security Consultant and trainer for one of the Nation's Top Federal Contractors providing officers for the Department of Homeland Security. Within this scope he has traveled throughout the country training hundreds of officers assigned to the physical security of U.S. Federal Government Buildings.
As an instructor, Warren has 26 years martial arts experience and has trained Law Enforcement Officers since 1997. He holds a variety of instructor certifications including; NRA Law Enforcement Firearms, PPCT Defensive Tactics, Certified Use of Force Specialist, Police Subject Control Baton, American Red Cross Health and Safety, SWAT ERT/SERT, Vehicle Assault/Hostage Rescue, Ballistic Shield and Drug Raid/Warrant.
Warren has numerous articles published online in the areas of self defense for such sites as Fightimes.com, Boxingnewslive.com, riposte.org, Warrior Traditions, to name a few.
Warren has a firm belief that to be an effective instructor you must continue to be a student, to continuously train and seek external knowledge through other agencies. It is this belief that drives him to research the newest innovations in training and physical security, to never be satisfied with the level at which he teaches, and the mindset that he can alway improve.
Below is a list of other areas in which he instructs:
- Controlling Access and Egress
- Intrusion Detection, Assessment and Response
- Records and Reports
- Combating Terrorism
- Workplace Violence
- Civil Disturbances
- Bomb Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Sabotage
- Crime Scene/Evidence Protection
- Sexual Harassment
Christopher Eger-Instructor
Christopher comes to The Tactical Mindset from a long and varied background in both corporate and public training. Formerly holding the role of Corporate Trainer with a fortune 100 company for several years, having previously worked for one of the top ten defense contractors in the country as well as being a onetime law enforcement officer and military man, he deeply appreciates the intricacies that interlink Global business and economic perspectives to any organization.
Christopher has performed and supervised incumbent new hires as well as current employees in the training and delivery of safety, workplace violence, sexual harassment, circular interviewing, leadership skills, legal and liability issues, coaching for success, labor relations with and without collective bargaining, the art of customer service, workplace ergonomics, small team leadership, detailed mission planning, cultural awareness, advanced communications, preventive and corrective maintenance programs, information operations, workplace Counter-Drug operations. He has extensively handled employee training and implementation of hazardous materials handling, fire prevention/emergency evacuation plans, safety awareness, life safety, facility safety inspections, accident investigations and air quality plans. He is a certified OC delivery trainer, scholar of Bartitsu and a former NRA Patrol Rifle Instructor.
While a corporate trainer his Learning Services team was recognized as a Top 100 training organization by Training Magazine over the course of three consecutive years. They were recognized in 2005 CLO magazine as a "Practice Gold Award" winner for "Achieving Impact & Leading Business Change" - He also wrote and collaborated with the Learning Services group to provide training presentations and materials. With his background in customized training initiatives he is uniquely qualified to design and produce training materials and standardized best practices for your organization.
Christopher is a modern hoplologist, which is a scholar of weapons and weapon systems. He has completed numerous military and factory Armorer's courses to qualify him in the complete repair and upgrade of all light weapons in the US military inventory to include pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles and machine guns. He has researched and extensively written on the subject of both lethal and non-lethal weapons from the ancient to the modern world.
His more than 300 articles and essays appear online and in print format with the Burda Media Group where he is under contract as the Military History Feature Writer. Christopher is also the head of military history writing at the Dark Paladin Bookseller, an associate writer for History Times, the newsletter Combat Forums and the online magazine Helium. Pacific Radio News featured Christopher on air discussing subject of weapons systems and military history. A German language documentary on U-352 called him in to assistance with research for their program. The journal Strike First, Strike Fast serialized his previous work.
On his day job he is a supervisor in the Protective Forces industry field to a contractor that serves as a security consultant to the US federal government.