10-33 means clear the air. Emergency traffic only. For twelve hours, that traffic is yours.
Richardson 10-33 is an overnight competition built on current law enforcement training standards. Ten scenarios, staged across the city, scored live by working officers, back to back from 6 PM to 6 AM. It's the most stacked night on the cadet and explorer calendar, and the teams that skip it spend the next year hearing about it.
Your team will compete in 10 scenarios drawn from the topics below, though the lineup isn't limited to those shown.
A routine stop, until it isn't. Approach, contact, and control.
High-risk stop. Contact and cover, verbal commands, positioning.
Read the scene, build the contact, and make the right call.
Work it out. Plates, occupants, and everything that doesn't add up.
De-escalation and crisis response.
Scene control and de-escalation under family violence response.
Respond, contain, search, and protect the scene.
Fast-moving call. Witnesses, suspect info, and the right response.
Detection, standardized field sobriety testing, and the arrest decision.
Rapid deployment under live, dynamic pressure.
Fight, party, or unruly crowd. Separate the parties and take control.
Suspect still on scene. Contact, detain, and sort the story.
Alarm tripped, cause unknown. Approach, check, and clear.
Systematic clearing as a team. Communicate and apprehend.
Downed officer. Casualty care and recovery under pressure.
Shots fired. Close on the threat and stop it fast.
Check on someone, scene unknown. Could be nothing, could be everything.
Safety Notice — Simunition Use. Select scenarios use Simunition marking rounds. Because of this, no live weapons are permitted inside any scenario zone that uses Simunitions, including those carried by advisors. Before entering a Simunition scenario zone, advisors must either stand by outside the zone or secure their firearm in their vehicle glovebox. No exceptions.
A timed physical fitness course. Compete solo for top honors.
A judgment drill. Read the threat and make the right call under pressure.
Ten scenarios are scattered across Richardson, and your advisor is driving you call to call all night. The drive between isn't downtime. It's the hunt. BOLOs are out there: a subject, a vehicle, a plate matching what just came over the radio. Roll up on one, call it in clean, and you unlock a side mission no other team gets. No map markers. No warning. No second chances.
Eyes on the street. A BOLO matches the traffic that just came over the air.
Report it clean. Location, description, the works. Just like the real thing.
You unlock a side mission no other team gets a shot at. Bank it before sunrise.
Roll into Richardson PD. Registration, waivers verified, advisor briefing.
Welcomes and rules of engagement at HQ.
Teams roll out. Scenarios are staged across Richardson, and the BOLOs are live.
Posts can pick a local spot to eat, refuel, regroup, and reset for the next half of the night.
Remaining scenarios, more BOLOs, and a chance to finish the individual courses if you haven't.
Last unit in. Scores tallied, awards staged.
Scenario placements, the overall trophy, and individual honors.
Times are tentative and finalized closer to the event date.
Richardson 10-33 is hosted by the Richardson Police Public Safety Cadets, a youth program building the next generation of public safety professionals through real training, mentorship, and competition. Richardson PD is home base. Check-in, opening, and awards all run from HQ, and the scenarios deploy across the city from there. The field is open to cadet and explorer posts across the United States.
When it's 10-33, everyone else clears the channel.
