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Focus: Any peace officer serving as agency trainer.
Length: 24 hours--3
days
(Instructor
Examinations Required)
Recertification information
below
Practical...Tactical...Realistic...Defensible "Trainer" Training!
Our 24-hour Tactical Arrest & Control (T.A.C.) Instructor:
TRAIN-THE-TRAINER course is unique in all of law enforcement
training: we provide world-class arrest & control training combined
with tactical training to create a comprehensively trained Tactical Arrest & Control
instructor.
Think
about the reality of an officer's duties in contacting, detaining,
searching, and arresting an individual. The officer almost never
knows whether the person will be resistive or not, what that person's
intentions are, and if that person is armed or not. Most
injuries to police, and the vast majority of shootings result from
arrest attempts that go sideways. Contacting any individual is
perhaps one of the most dangerous activities an officer is required to
perform in the course of his or her duties.
The
act of safely searching an individual (whether through consent or
Terry) and/or handcuffing him is not all there is to taking this
person into custody in a safe and professional--it is simply the
end product of a series of actions that began well before the officer
contacted the subject. There is much more to it, and your
agency trainer must be well-versed in each of the many disciplines
that officers require to safely and tactically resolved through
detention and arrest.
Course Content
The following topics are the minimum in course content covered during
this unique and revolutionary instructor training course:
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Methods of Safer Real-World Arrest & Control. Participants
will be trained in methods of search and arrest that are easy to
perform, non-technical in nature, and are consistent from Terry
frisks through Standing Non-Resistive Handcuffing through Known-Risk
Felony Prone Handcuffing. We avoid the "multi-move, high
skill" cuffing methods that are so complicated they only work on
other cops in training and on willing arrestees. Our
handcuffing methods have been proven over time in the field from
coast to coast to be the simplest yet most safe and effective method
of searching and cuffing there is.
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Present Safety Issues Involving Commonly Trained
Arrest & Control.
Instructor-candidates
must understand the dynamics of all presently trained arrest and
control systems in order to make a decision regarding the system in
which they will train their own agency's officers. In in a
6-week period, three separate incidents in two states saw officers
murdered during the handcuffing of apparently compliant subjects--in
each case, the officer had one handcuff attached to the
subject, the subject shot the officer in the head, and each officer
was using a nationally taught handcuffing method (sadly, it is still
being taught with no modification). It is vital to know
what you are teaching and how it will be used against you.
Every current arrest & control method will be examined, including
the system suggested by Cutting Edge Training, for its strengths,
weaknesses, and liabilities (both safety and civil).
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M.A.P.S. Pre-Assault Indicators.
Knowledge
of simple threat cues can mean the difference between a no-incident
arrest, an arrest by force, or injuries or death to the officer.
The M.A.P.S. system of pre-assault indicators has shown itself to be
extremely valuable for rookies and veterans alike. It assists
in understanding subtle and not-so-subtle tendencies and how to read
them to enhance officer safety during an arrest.
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The "6-S's" of Safe Tactical Doctrine.
Every
arrest is a tactical exercise that can be done well or poorly.
Even though most of the time, officers handling an arrest are not
forced to pay the consequences for tactical lapses, we see officer
injuries and death resulting from poor tactical arrests every year.
It is vital that all Arrest & Control instructors be well-grounded
in Safe Tactical Doctrine. The "6-S's" are a simple yet vital
addition to any officer's tactical toolbox, and will make for a
safer arrest.
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Reaction-Response Realities.
Built into
any arrest system must be an acute awareness of and appreciation for
the human reality of reaction-response time. The cliché,
"Action is faster than reaction" is a cliché only because it is
true. Too many arrest & control methods assume an "instant"
response to any assaultive behavior. This leads to officer
injury and death. We know that, during arrest and search
activities, that officers are goal directed and target focused.
The instructor must have a working knowledge of the OODA loop and
the practical realities of officers attempting to reasonably,
safely, and tactically take a subject into custody.
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Constitutional Limits to Detention, Arrest, Search, and Force.
The
T.A.C. Instructor must be able to articulate and comfortably
teach the laws and limits that officers are bound to during any
arrest. This course provides the trainer with that ability and
the material with which to meet that requirement.
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Articulation and Reasonableness Issues During Arrest.
There are
instances in arrests where the officer's ability to articulate his
or her actions can mitigate and even eliminate civil liability--if
it is documented early. Knowing what to write and what not
to write is important in convincing any jury of the officer's proper
conduct.
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Takedowns for Real Officers in the Real World.
Officers require
realistic, simple, "universal" takedowns that are practical and
tactical. Cutting Edge Training teaches only two types of
takedowns: The "Universal Head Takedown," and the "Universal
Elbow Takedown." With these takedowns that any officer of any
size can perform, the officer is more likely to safely respond to
any attempt at assault during an arrest.
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Multiple Officer Takedowns and Arrest.
Multiple
officer arrest methods commonly require five or more officers to
perform. This is unrealistic for the vast majority of officers
in this country who rarely see more than three officers at any call
to which they respond. Therefore, we teach two- and
three-officer takedowns. Again, simple, tactical, practical,
and realistic--for real-world officers solving real-world problems!
This course brings outstanding
instructional skill to subject control and arrest in a simple format that is constitutionally-based,
tactically sound, effective, and easy to
apply for every officer in your agency.
Instructor Examination
Process:
Successful candidates pass two separate examinations.
- Written
Examination: A
written examination covering legal, tactical, and system
requirements in a tactical arrest is required. Candidates must
pass this listing/short answer examination at 100% mastery.
This reflects every officer’s need to be right every time when
contacting a subject, as well as in every force response during
arrest.
- Training Skills
Examination: A
day-long training skills examination as an instructor must be passed
to be certified.
This is the Highest Evolution
of Law Enforcement Instructor/
TRAIN-THE-TRAINER Training!
CUTTING
EDGE TRAINING, LLC,
provides
the highest evolution of instructor training yet to be devised.
We can say this boldly because we have devoted years to the evolution
of how we train the trainers of law enforcement. We were
perplexed that all instructor classes seem to be simply advanced user
classes where the participant was expected to fully master the
material, teach for five to fifteen minutes, and then receive an
instructor certificate. We have worked and changed and
fine-tuned our train-the-trainer process until we have what is now the
finest method of teaching your trainers to be coaches and leaders in
the classroom, mat room, and live-fire range.
This completely different
process of bringing ordinary officers into the category of "competent
police trainer" is something you'd expect from
CUTTING
EDGE TRAINING.
We are the original, and, so far, the only police trainers to
bring you training that is:
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Outcome-based:
There are no techniques trained in our system...only "Effective
Combatives Problem-Solving"©
featuring the "Universal Rules and Principles of Defense."©
The only determination of whether the officer's method of defense and
control was "correct" is that the officer was not injured and
survived, and his/her force response was legally reasonable and within
policy.
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Gross-motor skills
dependent: We are the only system that depends solely upon
gross-motor skills in our combatives problem-solving efforts.
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Non-Technical:
"Techniques" are fine-motor skills that routinely fail in the street.
We teach no techniques because techniques only work against willing
police officers on the mat and small children. Instead, we teach
you to solve your combatives problems using naturally hard-wired
solutions that are easy for every officer, regardless of level of
ability.
This Train-The-Trainer course is the
premier "instructor-certification" program for your agency trainers to learn how to
train your officers in the reasonable and effective
force response and
suspect control.
Recertification Program for
Instructors If any individual who has been
certified as an instructor wishes to attend the course again to become
aware of the many changes and updates to the Universal Defense Systems
program, we offer a significant tuition discount. Contact us for
the current discount rate. We look forward to seeing you again!
NOTE: There are NO recertification
requirements by
CUTTING EDGE TRAINING for instructors.
We believe required recertification in order to
"remain a certified instructor" are simply an income-generating schemes designed to
separate officers and their agencies from their training dollars.
"Recertification" is and should be a voluntary training activity by
those who seek to deepen their understanding of the course material
offered. Cutting Edge Training, LLC, offers its past
instructors significant discounts on any instructor/Train-the-Trainer
course they wish to attend in order to refresh or deepen their
understanding of "Effective Combatives Problem-Solving" through the
Universal Laws and Principles of Defense.© |
