State police academies
Cadets learn on the federal and state cards from day one. In Washington, that's the Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC).
A PCL is a pocket checklist: the critical steps from a manual, organized by tab so you can find them under pressure. Pilots and aircrew have flown with them since the U.S. Navy launched NATOPS, its aviation standardization program, in 1961.
No crew chief reads the whole Black Hawk manual downrange to service the hydraulics. They open the PCL, flip to Maintenance, then tab 7, and the answer is on the page. We don't write new rules. We organize the ones you already have into one standard you can hold.
PolicePCL follows the order of the law itself: federal, then state, then agency. The section tabs across the top and the 15 tabs down each side are the same in every book, so use of force is in the same place for every officer in the country.
Every tab is a stack of color-coded cards. The gold card says what to do. The cards behind it say why. Federal cards never change. State cards follow your state's law. The green agency cards are yours.
Tap or hover a layer to see its card.
Every state trains civilian cadets into sworn officers and deputies at its police academy. The names differ from state to state. The mission is the same, and it's where every PolicePCL begins.
PCL Builder is the software behind every book. Agencies inherit the federal and state cards automatically, then add their own policy whichever way fits.
Drop in non-proprietary policy, manuals or law, even a massive document. The system pulls out the critical information and hands you a ready-made template.
Policy you can't upload? A questionnaire tailored to your agency walks you through writing each policy snippet yourself.
Something only your agency does? Write whatever your section needs, in your own words.
Every PCL is designed, printed and assembled in the United States by an American-owned company. It's made to ride in a cargo pocket for a career.
Printed on durable synthetic paper that holds up to rain, spills and years in a patrol car.
Tabs are cut across the top and down the side, in the same place in every book, so your hand finds them without looking.
Carabiner rings open in seconds. Swap a section, add a card or update one tab at a time.
Built and printed in the USA by a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
Cadets get their PolicePCL and train on the federal and state cards behind every gold action card.
They carry the same book, and the same muscle memory, to their first agency.
The agency opens the rings, swaps in its own section covers and adds its policy cards in green. Nothing is thrown away.
Every section cover carries a QR code. Scan it and the same book opens on a phone, tablet or laptop, with the same tabs in the same place and search on top.
The same 15 tabs as the book. Filter by agency, state or federal.
Type K-9 or canine and get every card that mentions it, across all four layers.
Field training officers write knowledge checks. Try this one: tap an answer on the screen.
Admins add their own users. Everyone gets the current book, wherever they are.
Trainers and FTOs write quizzes tied to the tabs officers already carry.
See how often and how long each tab is opened, plus knowledge-check scores by agency or officer.
One flat fee a year, sized to your sworn headcount.
Every state starts at its police academy. In Washington, that's the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC), where PolicePCL is in beta today. Once the academy edition is right, agencies statewide are invited in, and the next state begins.
Every state starts with its academy. Bring yours on board and we'll build your state's edition together.
Somewhere else? Tell us your state and we'll reach out to your academy for you.
Anywhere people need the right answer under pressure. The binding, the layers and the digital twin stay the same. The tabs change.
Patrol, investigations and equipment for academies and agencies.
Join betaDetention and custody operations.
Where it all began. Pocket checklists for fixed-wing and rotary-wing crews, maintainers and flight schools, built on the naval-aviation tradition.
Join waitlistIndustrial operations, lockout and line changeovers.
Emergency and clinical teams.
Fire, EMS and hazardous materials.
A PCL is a pocket checklist: a tabbed, ring-bound reference that condenses manuals, processes, policy and law into the steps that matter in the moment. The format comes from naval aviation, where aircrew have flown with pocket checklists since the Navy's NATOPS program began in 1961.
Three sections across the top (Patrol, Investigations and Equipment) and 15 numbered tabs down the side of each. Every tab layers Action, Agency, State and Federal cards.
Federal and state cards come with the book. Agencies write their own green policy cards by uploading policy, answering a guided survey or writing freely.
About four weeks from approved order to delivery.
Yes, as an opt-in service. Scan the QR code on any section cover to open the digital twin on a phone, tablet or laptop.
PCLs are built and printed in the USA by PCL Builder, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
PolicePCL is one flat fee a year, sized to your sworn headcount, with no per-seat pricing. Suggested list prices start at $3,500 a year for agencies with 1–50 sworn, $9,500 for 51–250 and $30,000 for 251 and up. Agencies over 1,000 sworn get a custom scope of work. Printed books are $219 each, shipping not included.
PolicePCL is in beta in Washington today, starting at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC). Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming are next, then all 50 states.
Yes. Corrections is planned for 2027. Aviation and aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, and fire and rescue follow from 2027 on. The binding, the layers and the digital twin stay the same. The tabs change.
Rescue swimmers, SWAT operators, Marines, instructors and engineers. The people behind PCL Builder learned the pocket-checklist discipline the hard way.
Navy CSAR crewman and SERE instructor. Patrol, FTO, major crimes, SWAT and DOJ senior police advisor. Former head of product at Alien Gear.
30+ years in law enforcement and SWAT command. U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Founder of Altitude Risk Mitigation.
Building internet infrastructure since 1999. Founder of Imaginary Trout. Honorary Commander, 56th Fighter Wing and 92nd Air Refueling Wing.
Full-stack developer with 25+ years in systems integration and automation.
Strategic advisor and angel investor.
Academies, agencies and everyone else: tell us who you are and we'll point you to the right next step. Together we're working to standardize policing in the United States.
A PCL is a pocket checklist: the critical steps from a manual, organized by tab so you can find them under pressure. Pilots and aircrew have flown with them since the U.S. Navy launched NATOPS, its aviation standardization program, in 1961.
No crew chief reads the whole Black Hawk manual downrange to service the hydraulics. They open the PCL, flip to Maintenance, then tab 7, and the answer is on the page. We don't write new rules. We organize the ones you already have into one standard you can hold.
PolicePCL follows the order of the law itself: federal, then state, then agency. The section tabs across the top and the 15 tabs down each side are the same in every book, so use of force is in the same place for every officer in the country.
Every tab is a stack of color-coded cards. The gold card says what to do. The cards behind it say why. Federal cards never change. State cards follow your state's law. The green agency cards are yours.
Tap or hover a layer to see its card.
Every state trains civilian cadets into sworn officers and deputies at its police academy. The names differ from state to state. The mission is the same, and it's where every PolicePCL begins.
PCL Builder is the software behind every book. Agencies inherit the federal and state cards automatically, then add their own policy whichever way fits.
Drop in non-proprietary policy, manuals or law, even a massive document. The system pulls out the critical information and hands you a ready-made template.
Policy you can't upload? A questionnaire tailored to your agency walks you through writing each policy snippet yourself.
Something only your agency does? Write whatever your section needs, in your own words.
Every PCL is designed, printed and assembled in the United States by an American-owned company. It's made to ride in a cargo pocket for a career.
Printed on durable synthetic paper that holds up to rain, spills and years in a patrol car.
Tabs are cut across the top and down the side, in the same place in every book, so your hand finds them without looking.
Carabiner rings open in seconds. Swap a section, add a card or update one tab at a time.
Built and printed in the USA by a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
Cadets get their PolicePCL and train on the federal and state cards behind every gold action card.
They carry the same book, and the same muscle memory, to their first agency.
The agency opens the rings, swaps in its own section covers and adds its policy cards in green. Nothing is thrown away.
Every section cover carries a QR code. Scan it and the same book opens on a phone, tablet or laptop, with the same tabs in the same place and search on top.
The same 15 tabs as the book. Filter by agency, state or federal.
Type K-9 or canine and get every card that mentions it, across all four layers.
Field training officers write knowledge checks. Try this one: tap an answer on the screen.
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Admins add their own users. Everyone gets the current book, wherever they are.
Trainers and FTOs write quizzes tied to the tabs officers already carry.
See how often and how long each tab is opened, plus knowledge-check scores by agency or officer.
One flat fee a year, sized to your sworn headcount.
Every state starts at its police academy. In Washington, that's the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC), where PolicePCL is in beta today. Once the academy edition is right, agencies statewide are invited in, and the next state begins.
Every state starts with its academy. Bring yours on board and we'll build your state's edition together.
Somewhere else? Tell us your state and we'll reach out to your academy for you.
Anywhere people need the right answer under pressure. The binding, the layers and the digital twin stay the same. The tabs change.
Patrol, investigations and equipment for academies and agencies.
Join betaDetention and custody operations.
Where it all began. Pocket checklists for fixed-wing and rotary-wing crews, maintainers and flight schools, built on the naval-aviation tradition.
Join waitlistIndustrial operations, lockout and line changeovers.
Emergency and clinical teams.
Fire, EMS and hazardous materials.
A PCL is a pocket checklist: a tabbed, ring-bound reference that condenses manuals, processes, policy and law into the steps that matter in the moment. The format comes from naval aviation, where aircrew have flown with pocket checklists since the Navy's NATOPS program began in 1961.
Three sections across the top (Patrol, Investigations and Equipment) and 15 numbered tabs down the side of each. Every tab layers Action, Agency, State and Federal cards.
Federal and state cards come with the book. Agencies write their own green policy cards by uploading policy, answering a guided survey or writing freely.
About four weeks from approved order to delivery.
Yes, as an opt-in service. Scan the QR code on any section cover to open the digital twin on a phone, tablet or laptop.
PCLs are built and printed in the USA by PCL Builder, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
PolicePCL is one flat fee a year, sized to your sworn headcount, with no per-seat pricing. Suggested list prices start at $3,500 a year for agencies with 1–50 sworn, $9,500 for 51–250 and $30,000 for 251 and up. Agencies over 1,000 sworn get a custom scope of work. Printed books are $219 each, shipping not included.
PolicePCL is in beta in Washington today, starting at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC). Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming are next, then all 50 states.
Yes. Corrections is planned for 2027. Aviation and aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, and fire and rescue follow from 2027 on. The binding, the layers and the digital twin stay the same. The tabs change.
Rescue swimmers, SWAT operators, Marines, instructors and engineers. The people behind PCL Builder learned the pocket-checklist discipline the hard way.
Navy CSAR crewman and SERE instructor. Patrol, FTO, major crimes, SWAT and DOJ senior police advisor. Former head of product at Alien Gear.
30+ years in law enforcement and SWAT command. U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Founder of Altitude Risk Mitigation.
Building internet infrastructure since 1999. Founder of Imaginary Trout. Honorary Commander, 56th Fighter Wing and 92nd Air Refueling Wing.
Full-stack developer with 25+ years in systems integration and automation.
Strategic advisor and angel investor.
Academies, agencies and everyone else: tell us who you are and we'll point you to the right next step. Together we're working to standardize policing in the United States.
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