Welcome to the Mountain States Tactical Officers Association (MSTOA) official web page. The home of all things tactical in the Mountain States.

            Whether or not you are an officer assigned to a tactical team or other Law Enforcement visiting this website, welcome. We invite you to browse the newly constructed website designed to give you more up to date information and provide more frequent communication amongst tactical officers around the region.

            Last year’s MSTOA President, Brandon Kelly, did an exceptional job last year for MSTOA and it showed at the 2011 conference, which was just held May 2, to May 5, 2011.  At the conference, Brandon was elected to fill the new position of Training Officer.  Jon Runner, of the Great Falls PD, is currently the Vice President of MSTOA and strives to make MSTOA better. Amos Ridenour of Gallatin County S.O. was reelected as MSTOA’s Secretary and is also a go-getter for MSTOA.  David Merifield of Missoula County S.O. was also reelected and will continue to serve as our Treasurer.

            MSTOA is most fortunate to have outstanding trustees.  Last year they were Yellowstone County Undersheriff Kevin Evans, and Gallatin County Sgt. Paul Lewis. They truly put forth a lot of effort ensuring that MSTOA was a success.  Both were reelected this year.

            At this year’s conference, Deputy Brad Hickok of Gallatin County S.O. was elected as MSTOA second Vice President.  Also newly elected to the board, is Sgt. Neil Lawrence of the Billings Police Department.  Neil will be serving MSTOA as a trustee.  MSTOA welcomes Brad and Neil aboard as they both will be an asset to MSTOA.

            Throughout this next year, we will strive to make MSTOA even better. We truly want to see more officers and tactical teams at the 2012 MSTOA conference. Please contact us with suggestions or questions about MSTOA.  I would like to remind those not assigned to a team, that there will be training at MSTOA that can assist you in patrol and other fields of Law Enforcement as well.  We focus on tactical training, but any good Law Enforcement officer knows that tactical training can benefit you every day, on any type of call.

            Finally, I would like to thank those teams and officers who attended the conference this year. We hope you enjoyed your training and had a good time while you were there. We hope to see you at the 2012 conference. Thank you for what you do and please be safe out there.

Sincerely,

Tim McMahon

MSTOA President

 2011 Vendors

The 2012 Conference will again include 3 1/2 full days of training starting Monday morning and ending at noon on Thursday.  The team competition will be Thursday afternoon and will be followed by our annual MSTOA banquet, awards ceremony, and raffle.

Expect to see another banner year with great instructors, vendors, and attendees.