Mark Knight

About Mark Knight

I have 30 years of law enforcement experience with the Travis County Sheriff\'s Office in Austin, Texas. I am currently a training academy instructor and captain of the Travis County Sheriff\'s Office Marksmanship Team. I am in charge of Law Enforcement In Service, Active Shooter LE Response, and Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event. I wrote our department\'s Active Shooter SOP. I was a member of the School Resource Officer team from 2016 until 2020. I brought Stop the Bleed and Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event training to several Travis County School Districts. I have taught over people Stop the Bleed, including 287 high school and middle school students. I developed and teach three other presentations: The Psychological and Physiological Response to Fear and Extreme Stress, Emergency Movement of Injured People, and Patrol Officer Response to School Campuses. I taught the Patrol Officer Response class to 100 Texas DPS Troopers for TCOLE credit. I doubled up as a high school teacher, during the 20••••18 school year, teaching Law Enforcement 1. I taught CPR and basic life support to all my students. I am currently assigned to the Travis County Standard Response Protocol for schools workgroup. I was a member of our full time SWAT team for over 13 1/2 years. I was a sniper for 13 years. I was also a breacher for 13 1/2 years and have breached almost 80 doors in live operations. I founded the Travis County Sheriff\'s Office Marksmanship Team in 2012 and am currently the team captain. The team has over 230 wins at local, regional, and state matches. I developed the SWAT team\'s vehicle assault S.O.P. and I was the vehicle assault instructor. I also teach firearms techniques, active shooter, building clearing, basic breaching, and rappelling. I participated in Alameda County, California\'s Urban Shield SWAT Competition in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The team came in in second place in 2014.

Experience

1. Deputy Sheriff Training Academy Instructor

   Travis County

   Jul 1994 — Present

   SWAT sniper, TCOLE and NRA firearms instructor, Civilian Response to Active Shooter Instructor, Stop the Bleed Instructor, Basic Life Support / CPR Instructor, Master Peace Officer, founder and team captain for the Travis County Sheriff\'s Office Marksmanship Team. School Resource Officer from 2016 to 2020.

Education

• Austin Community College

  Physical Therapy Technician/Assistant

  1996 — 1997