BRT: Stay in the Know
Authored by: Andrew Humes, PCI #1515T-B, EMSCI #374T-B, College Station (TX) Police Department, IPMBA Board of Directors, Curriculum Development
In 2015, IPMBA created and released a revolutionary curriculum for crowd management and control: Bicycle Response Team. After a decade, everything needs a tune-up. Listening to instructor and student feedback, your association revamped and polished the curriculum to provide a smoother student and instructor experience. Appropriate for large and small teams, the curriculum implements the Tell, Show, Do, and animation helps students visualize and later duplicate each formation.
The original BRT course will sunset on March 31, 2027, and IPMBA will transition to the newly released update. All BRT instructors are required to purchase the new curriculum by this date to retain their 'B'.
Please discontinue using the 2015 version of the curriculum. Current BRT instructors can purchase the updated curriculum for $50. To remain an active BRT instructor, you must purchase it within six months of the original announcement. This correction does not restart the six-month purchase window.