Background
Karli brings to Penn Tactical Solutions a working perspective that very few instructors carry simultaneously: active-duty police officer and active Emergency Medical Technician.
Karli has eleven years of EMT experience in pre-hospital emergency response, with eight of those years served concurrently as a 911 dispatcher. The dispatch role gave her a system-level view of how calls develop from the first phone ring through unit arrival, scene management, and patient handoff, the kind of operational awareness that shapes how she reads a scene as a field provider and as an officer.
She is currently in her first year as a sworn police officer, holding her EMT certification and continuing to operate in both capacities. That dual role is where Karli's value to PTS students comes into focus. She works the same incidents from two different sides of the public safety mission, and she teaches with the lens of someone who has had to manage tactical and medical priorities inside the same call.
In high-risk and evolving incidents, Karli evaluates both the tactical implications and the medical consequences of decisions made on scene. She brings to students an understanding of when de-escalation is the right tactical call, how to recognize medical emergencies that can be missed in chaotic scenes, and how integrated tactical and medical thinking produces better outcomes for officers, providers, and the people they are responding to.
For PTS courses serving law enforcement, school safety, congregation security, and civilian responders, Karli's perspective bridges the gap that often exists between tactical training and medical training. She teaches with the awareness of an officer who has run the call and an EMT who has worked alongside law enforcement in the field, and her instruction reflects both.
Specialties
Tactical and Medical Integration
Law Enforcement Medical Response
Pre-Hospital Emergency Care
911 Dispatch and Communications
Scene Assessment and De-Escalation
Civilian Responder Training
