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Drill for Cops?

Dr. Drill

You can submit your questions to Dr. Drill via e-mail to : DrDrill@CadetStuff.org.

Dear Dr. Drill,

I just started in a program that allows me to be a young police officer. While I am in this program we also have to drill and I don't know all my commands. I just wanted to know if you could send me a list of the drill commands. Thank you for your time.

Kyairra Oldham

Dr. Drill responds:

Hi Kyairra!

I'm sorry, but I really can't help you. The problem, as I explained in this response to a question from a firefighter, there is no single codified set of standard drill for police or fire departments. What is normally used is what those who make the decisions at the department are most comfortable with. So, it all depends on them.

However, I can certainly recommend you take a look at NAVMC 2691, FM 3-21.5 or AFMAN 36-2203 (a quick Google search will find you PDFs for all of these). Any of these will teach you basic drill movements, which very, very similar from service to service.

If I had to come up with a short list based on what I've seen performed in ceremonies by police and fire fighters, I'd recommend studying the following:

Attention

Parade Rest (Hand position can vary!)

Right/Left Face

Present Arms

Forward March

Halt

Unless you're on some sort of detail - at which point they'll further train you - I think this is all you'll ever need to know.

Good luck!

Dr. Drill

Caution: Dr. Drill isn't always one hundred percent serious. Please activate your Joke Detectors. And don't call us when you find yourself explaining to a membership termination board why you used a staple gun to keep a cadet's hands at his sides during "To The Rear, March". All we're going to say on your behalf is "Duh!"

And if you find yourself on the bad end of a serious counseling because you decided to go toe-to-toe with your squadron commander over the position of the guide during a squadron-in-mass formation or something similarly trivial, well, we're just going to point, laugh and call you names!

Dr. Drill welcomes comments and corrections. Nothing herein is to be construed as official policy unless quoted from an up-to-date regulation or manual and Dr. Drill is not to be used as a blunt instrument to reshape the pointy heads of your superiors. Dr. Drill has made an extensive study of the drill and knows some people who know some things, but he's not the Final Authority on what happens at your unit. That Final Authority is? That's right, kids! Your UNIT COMMANDER.