Atoa’s mission:
To be a network for police, tactical, and medical organizations and personnel throughout the state of Alabama.
To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, information, training, research, and development of methods used to enhance successful executions of missions in the tactical environment.
To develop a database of information regarding police tactics that can be used for the betterment of an existing team or aid in the development of a new team.
History of ATOA
The Alabama Tactical Officers’ Association was founded in 2000 by Curt Carpenter as an organization that would be a clearing house for ttp's, knowledge, and data from prevalent tactical units within the state of Alabama so that those same ttp's, knowledge, and data could be shared to smaller teams and/ or teams in areas with less resources and access to training. As time moved on, the ATOA shifted focus towards the perspective that "every officer is a tactical officer" and began focusing more so on individual training needs for officers and less so on team training.