‘fight a guy in a red suit’ ?
Is that an armored opponent, or just a snazzy dresser?
Google “Red Man Training Suit”.
Under Siege 2. http://www.moviedeaths.com/under_siege_2/penn/
I guess I should have explained it.
“Snazzy”. There’s a word I haven’t heard for quite a while.
And I was thinking Santa must hate your house. 
Haven’t read all of this thread so forgive me if I repeat what someone else has said, I’m not a police officer but I do play one on TV.
In the UK armed police in England and Wales (and all police in Northern Ireland) have to pass the standard ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) shoot before being given their thunderstick and let loose on an unsuspecting public.
Elements may have changed over the years but I believe the standard is 35 out of 50 shots, with shots taking place at 7 meters out to 20 meters and are given three seconds to draw and shoot. On all elements at least 2 shots have to hit the target and the firearm itself is a Glock-17. The shoot includes practice at reloads during the shoots.
I’ve been searching the net for the ACPO manual but it seems to be unavailable.
One element you may consider for your story is that firing on the range and firing in real life are two different things, I have read that a persons firing accuracy can drop massively, as much as 80% when under the stress of a real incident.
I’ve read that too. Adrenaline, fear, fight or flight, etc. are going to affect dexterity and small muscle control. A real life shooting is nothing like practicing with a paper target.
Which is one reason why our department has gone away from standing on a line shooting at stationary targets when the whistle blows to using active scenarios and such.
On top of the live fire exercises that we have to score 100% on, we’ve been doing training with Simunitions to give officers the experience of shooting an actual human being instead of just a paper target. These courses are intense and about as close to an actual shooting you can get and still come out alive.
When I went through the police academy way back when, we had to shoot the FBI Practical Pistol Course. 50 rounds as follows:
30 rounds at 7 yards, including a timed fire of 10 rounds in 25 seconds.
10 rounds at 15 yards.
10 rounds at 25 yards.
The instructors had us shoot this course three times. The first two were no problem. The last time through, they made us do 50 jumping jacks and the timed fire round was the first one. That was a hoot. People were dropping ammo all over the place.
Heh. What was “way back when”? I went through in 1982, which shouldn’t be ancient history, but when you consider it was only 240 hours (as compared to the 1200+ hours it is now) and some of the things they taught us, it is. You wouldn’t believe the way they taught to draw and hold your revolver (revolvers were issued here until 1991). A one handed hold while you bent down at the knees. Like you were playing on a police TV show or something. Hilarious. The unarmed combat training was extremely different, too. More judo and less striking with legs, fists, knees, etc… I’m not surprised that more officers back then got killed and their asses kicked than today.