The Illinois Tactical Officers Association,
in Cooperation with ICAT, is pleased to invite you to the
Illinois SWAT Team Leaders Meeting
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Time: 10am – 12pm
Location: ICAT Training Center
3120 S. Business Route 51 in Decatur, IL 62521.
NOTE: Ensure the address you enter into your GPS device populates to “South” NOT North Rt 51
In our continuing efforts to foster Team relationships, training, information sharing, policy and procedure development, mutual-aid assistance, and general tactical team cooperation, the ITOA will be conducting a follow-up SWAT Team Leaders Meeting to move forward with the suggestions developed from the first meeting November 1st.
Specifically, this meeting will give those unable to attend the first meeting in November an opportunity to join the group and solidify working groups as we move into 2025.
Items on the agenda for the January 28, 2025 meeting include:
- Review of the 2024 ITOA Training Conference and discuss suggestions for 2025.
- Review the November 1, 2024 SWAT Team Leaders meeting and the direction decided upon.
- Discuss / Develop SWAT Working Groups.
- Discuss / Develop SWAT Training and Operational Events.
- Discuss Future Meeting Formats / Frequency / Internet Meeting Options
- Open Question / Answer / Discussion Session
As ITOA builds out these statewide training initiatives and tactical training committees, this will hopefully be a great way to reach out to all the teams and get subject matter expert input and collaboration on these important statewide training initiatives and collaboration with ILETSB.
REGISTER at itoa.org for the SWAT Team Leaders Meeting. There is no cost to attend. After completing a registration form, you will receive a registration confirmation email with specific meeting instructions.
If you have not yet submitted your team’s information to be included in the ITOA TACTICAL TEAM DIRECTORY PROJECT – please do so by following the simple direction below:
Please send the following basic contact information for your team to: admin@itoa.org
- Team Name – Please include your team’s full name and abbreviation, if applicable
- Area of Operation: City / County / Region
- Team Leader: Name / Rank / email / Phone Number
- Assistant Team Leader: Name / Rank / email / Phone Number
The directory will be available to all participating teams, to help gain situational awareness as to each team’s name, area of operation, leadership, contact information, team structure and capabilities.
I would also ask that you pass this letter on to any agency that you know who has a tactical team and might be interested in joining this group.
Once we get a baseline of team information, a much more comprehensive list of questions will be sent to each team to help us build out the Tactical Team data base. This data base will be password protected – available only to participating teams and state law enforcement executives. The list will not be available to the public and will not be shared / nor sold to any vendor or other organization. It will be a “living” document that can be edited as needed.
I thank you for your assistance and look forward to communicating and collaborating with all of you.
Best Regards – Ed
Edward F. Mohn
President ITOA
emohn@itoa.org
“Train Hard – For the Day Will Come”
Illinois Tactical Officers Association 
