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Why a 10 Day Course
Why Invest in
Training with Protective Safety Systems?
Course Description
Arranging for
the Control Tactics Instructor Course
Control
Tactics Instructor Recertification Courses
Testing and Certification
Course Fee
To Register
What Participants Need to Know
Why A 10 Day Course?
Use of force, , and related tactics constitute a wide ranging field and
sizable risks to the agency. Some risks are found in training and some
in its aftermath. Instructors and programs must truly benefit the
officer and protect the agency. Therefore, your choice of instructor
trainers is significant.
The most prudent option is to
have your instructors) trained completely and systematically so that:
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your instructors
conduct safe, meaningful training compatible with agency policy;
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they understand
what they are doing and why; trainees understand what they are doing
and tend to use their training.
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while shorter
instructor training courses are less expensive and time consuming,
they may not accomplish much.
Our training is highly
efficient (with no wasted time) and our 10 day course is set at minimal
length.
We specialize in training such
instructors, assisting program development, and court testimony.
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Since 1983, Protective Safety
Systems has specialized in developing and conducting prudent, practical,
and reasonable instructor training in the use of force and control
tactics; executive protection; simulation design; and skill-related
instructor development.
Our founders have been
responsible for developing and providing an integrated system of tactics
and training for the U.S. Secret Service and the Chicago Police
Department. Our experience and research have allowed us to develop an
original frontier in physical skills training.
About
the Founder - John C. Desmedt
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During the course,
participants will apply the training to their specific job situation and
be provided with consulting and review in establishing departmental
training. Participants consistently tell us that this course is both
demanding and rewarding. The objectives of the
integrated Control Tactics Instructor Course are to produce an
instructor who is able to:
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Perform all integrated methods
and procedures competently
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Serve as a model for trainees to
emulate
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Make legally correct use of force
and tactics related decisions adapting to given situational
contexts;
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selecting appropriate
responses
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when operating alone and as a
member of a team
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under variable conditions,
such as variable lighting, single, multiple and unusual
levels and surfaces, single and multiple subjects, in and around
vehicles, in and around structures and around obstacles
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Instruct via discussion,
presentation, basic practice, and simulation safely, in and
effectively
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Assess performance through the
following assessments:
Enabling objectives include:
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Principles of Control
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Justified Use of Force
in Decision Making
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Physics of Force and
Body Mechanics
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Psychology of
Confrontation
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Relationships Between
Timelines, Tactics, and Use of Force
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Assailant Control
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Stopping and Escaping
From Close Proximity Weaponless Attacks
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Ground (fighting)
tactics
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Use of OC
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Team Assailant Control
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Assailant Control
Simulations
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Resister Control
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Cooperative Subject Control
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"SPEEDCUFFING" (The
original handcuffing and cooperative subject control system by
its originators)
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Team Cooperative
Subject Control Operations
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Use of Verbal Control
Skills
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Weapon Control (Firearms, Knives
& Levers)
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Extendible, Straight, and
Side-Handle Baton Use and Tactics
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Extendible Baton
Tactics and Simulations
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Straight Baton Tactics
(for those whose agencies use them)
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Side-Handle Baton
Tactics (for those whose agencies use them)
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Control Instruments
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Holding Subjects
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Breaking Subject Holds
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Searching
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Tactical Simulation Training
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Team Movement and
Tactics & Area Clearing
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Decision Making and
Appropriate Use of All Learned Procedures
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Integration with
Firearms Training
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Integration of All
Methods Taught with Situational Requirements
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Providing Security and
Coordination During Use of Force Related Events
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Use of the Flashlight
During Use of Force Related Events
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Psychomotor Skill Instruction
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Vicarious Liability
and the Agency / Officer
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Psychomotor Skill
Instructional Methodology
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Coaching and Making
Corrections
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Injury Prevention
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Instructor Duties and
Safety
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Injury Evaluation and
Standards of Care
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Elementary Performance
& Situational Testing
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Simulation design and
development
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Evaluation job task
requirements
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Instructor and
equipment management
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Conducting Safe
Meaningful Situational Training
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Assessing simulation
performance
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The basic entry level
instructors course is ten (10) days in length, usually from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m., but times can be modified if necessary. Classes are conducted
on Monday through Friday for two weeks with the weekend off. This
arrangement usually benefits local trainees. We will, however, conduct
the course during ten consecutive days, if necessary.
We contract for training in
two ways.
OPEN COURSE
If you should elect to host a
regional course open to other enforcement, corrections, or probation /
parole agencies, we will allot one training slot for each ten (10)
trainees who pay the course fee. The size of the class will be limited
by the facilities available. We will supply the necessary number of
instructors.
Once an agency has hosted an
open course of any type, we guarantee to provide instructor
RECERTIFICATION at no charge to that agencies PSS certified instructors
for two years. Agencies that host open recertification courses pay
nothing for instructor recertification during the course.
CLOSED COURSE
PSS also contracts with
individual agencies to conduct closed agency courses for an
instructional fee plus expenses.
The course fee includes:
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All fees and necessary
permission for use of PSS material.
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Consultation, review,
critique, and approval of your instructional plans for in-service
and recruit training.
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A guarantee to provide two
yearly instructor recertification courses, one per year for the next
two years.
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Review and critique of
classes conducted by graduates of this course during the period in
which we conduct a recertification course.
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Manuals and other
instructional equipment for instructor candidates.
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Significant discounts on
"Redman" protective training equipment.
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Initial research and
consultation by Federal Court certified expert witnesses for all use
of force related actions brought against the agency that adopts our
training system.
In short, as with other
elements of total training design, appropriate, valid, and reliable
testing for open psychomotor skill testing was lacking, so we developed
it. As with the Use of Force Model, no other training concern that we
know of has these types of testing instruments, unless copied from those
which we developed.
In order to protect the
agency, trainers, and trainees, we have established prerequisites to
certification. Trainees must pass competency-based written, performance,
and situational examinations in each block of instruction, according to
the established terminal performance objectives. These testing
procedures have been validated by educational psychologists.
CONTROL TACTICS INSTRUCTOR RECERTIFICATION
To maintain instructor
certification, our policy requires that a new instructor
must complete an annual recertification course for the first two years after
initial certification, then recertify bi-annually thereafter.
Several conditions necessitate this
policy. The first is
the necessity to reduce "instructional
drift." Instructional drift is the tendency of new instructors to teach or
emphasize what they personally like, feel they understand, and are
comfortable with. New instructors also tend to de-emphasize or refrain from
teaching what they do not like or are not especially good at or feel
they do not understand well. Other
pressures work on new instructors which tend to modify and disorganize
their instruction (e.g., supervisors may favor some content or method
over another, facilities may not be available to conduct a component of
the training, etc.). For these and other reasons, instructors tend, at
first, to veer off track based on principles of control.
Additionally, the field of endeavor and
the instructional elements embedded in this training are composed of
relatively complex components from many fields of study. The
initial two-week instructor course provides competencies to safely
perform as an entry-level instructor. It does not, however, provide the expertise, information, or skills to function as a
supervisory, developmental, or specialized instructor. This is the
case for two reasons:
Although our instructional methods
probably produce the maximum level of outcome for the time spent; ten
days of instruction cannot produce expertise. Expertise begins
with training, but is developed with time spent practicing and
applying the mental and physical skills involved with the field of
endeavor. As instructors conduct training, they learn and
experience the difficulties of dealing with trainees and administration,
complying with organizational requirements, and facing the complexities
of dealing with both new and in-service trainees. Through
experience in teaching this system. Through application of the the
training methods, tactical methods, and safety practices, and their
integration with constitutional and organizational requirements, new
instructors develop an applied understanding of information provided,
but not experienced in real life, in the basic control tactics
instructor course. After experience in applying the information,
skills, and instructional paradigm provided in the basic instructor
course, new instructors:
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actually understand the implications
of information and procedures provided in the basic instructor
course, and
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are ready to assimilate more in-depth
information, which would not be appropriate for inclusion in the
basic instructor course due to time limitations, or the fact that
one must apply one level of information prior to being ready to
understand and apply deeper levels. Someone new to a
specific field or method of performance must have experience prior
to being ready to apply advanced methods for advanced functions,
such as analysis and development.
A two-week course cannot possibly include
all functions which the experienced instructor must apply.
Therefore, we have arranged Instructor Recertification Courses in
sequential levels, each level introducing more competencies for more
advanced application and function. A new instructor cannot be an
expert in this system.
The First Level Recertification Course
includes:
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Review of skills, information, and
instructional methods included in the Basic Instructor Course
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System developments
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Identification and evaluation of
instructional drift which has developed (to what degree instructors
have morphed principles and methods to their own frame of reference)
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Correction of the predictable drift
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Advanced training methods
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Specialized job applications
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Realistic Use of Force Paradigm
applications
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Upgraded performance in creating and
conducting realistic simulations
The Second Level Recertification Course
(Senior Instructor Level), includes and introduces:
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Review of skills, information,
instructional methods
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System developments
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The Simulation Assistant Training
Course (in which instructors are taught to train and certify
personnel to safely assist them in conducting high fidelity
simulations and assessments)
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Use of Force Transactional Analysis
Course (in which instructor are introduced to composing reliable
analyses of use of force incidents through a highly regulated
transactional analysis procedure). In this process,
instructors are taught to analyze actual situations, according to
constitutional standards, applying a practical and reasonable
assessment procedure to actual cases, in light of departmental
policy, state statute, and constitutional precedent.
Predictably, instructors cannot accomplish this function without
this training. Opinions they render, must include
identification of the "totality of (relevant) circumstances" in
sequence for each event.
Our experience has shown that, after two re-certifications and relatively continuous active teaching of the
system, annual recertification is not necessary. Thereafter,
recertification is required every two years to maintain current status,
to be authorized to use PSS training materials, and to participate in
the instructor development program.
We have found that establishing
more than one instructor at each agency is the ideal way of guarding
against the instruction drifting toward the preferences of the lone
instructor and to insure that all material taught is authorized by the
responsible authority.
SENIOR INSTRUCTOR
CLASSIFICATION
Those active instructors who
recertify twice and take an additional written examination are
registered as Senior Instructors. At this point the instructor is
actually a senior level instructor. Senior instructors almost always
inform us that each year they are personally pleased with the progress
they have made and the new realizations that come to them. Further
recertification is required every two years to maintain current status.
PARTIAL
INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATIONS
Although we specialize in all
areas of physical control, we disagree with certifying instructors in
only one aspect of training. Because use of force applications are
dynamic and quickly changing, practitioners must be able to change
degrees and methods of applying force in response, and, therefore, their
instructors must be able to integrate these changes into the training.
Instructors who have been trained in only one aspect of the application
of force are more apt to lack the vision and broad ranged understanding
of the needs of the working officer, who must actually perform the tasks
in real life. Instructor certification is granted after candidates
attend all modules contained in the Control Tactics Instructor Course,
although all modules need not be attended in one course.
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An Instructor Certificate is
awarded upon successful completion of this course. Candidates must pass
written, performance, instructional, and situational assessments that
determine competency for new instructors based on established
professional attributes and standards of responsibility. Graduates of
this course will know how to test those they train.
The fee for this Control
Tactics Instructor Course is $1685.00, payable by check or credit card.
Deposit of $200.00 required at the time of registration.
The fee for the Control
Tactics Instructor Recertification Course is $575, or $550 per
registrant for multiple registrations from the same agency.
Specific logistical
information and other information of interest will be faxed or emailed
to you. For other information, contact us at:
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Participants must currently be:
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Employed as a law
enforcement, probation / parole, corrections officer, or specialized
security officer
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Free of medical conditions
which would be aggravated by vigorous physical training involving
dynamic activity
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Safety and other equipment
their trainees normally wear on duty.
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Long sleeved shirts, long
trousers,
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Outdoor clothing,
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Shoes designed for
activity during training,
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Soft body armor (if used
on duty),
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BDUs are ideal, but not
necessary,
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Work gloves
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Can of inert OC of the
type used by the agency (generic will be provided)
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Elbow and knee pads (cloth
and foam type will work)
Instructor Manual and
training materials are provided.
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