COURSES

Mental Preparation and Awareness

In this 4-hour lecture/developmental session, students will be able to:

Ground Defense Tactics

Studies have shown that the vast majority of empty-hand combat events typically end up with all participants on the ground. During this 8-hour session students will be introduced to the fundamentals of ground defense/restraint tactics. At the end of this session, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate safe positional transitions from standing to back-ground fighting positions.
  
• Demonstrate proper personal defense against various attacks (kicks, punches, edged weapons) while in the ground fighting position.
  
• Demonstrate escapes from various choke attempts while on the ground in back lying or front lying positions
  
• Escape from a mount position attack
  
• Escape from a guard position attack
  
• Obtain subject restraint while on the ground using safe and effective control tactics
  
• Demonstrate escape and disengagement techniques when securing time and distance is the preferred option
  

Spontaneous Attack Defense

Often, despite the fact that we attempt to predict subject behaviour based on threat cues presented, the fact remains that often an attack can occur extremely rapidly, seemingly without notice. Although the reality is that pre-attack indicators are almost always present, we often do not notice them for what they are except in hindsight. During this 8-hour session students will learn the fundamentals of spontaneous attack defense using the best tools with which nature equipped them; the hands and the brain. Following this session students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a proper stance when dealing with subjects that respects the time/distance relationship (personal danger zones)
  
• Demonstrate effective interception/blocking of the attackers weapons
  
• Describe the relationship between proximity and personal risk
  
• Demonstrate rapid and effective balance displacement techniques designed to put the attacker on the defensive
  
• Demonstrate proper and effective strikes and stuns to minimize the attacker's capacity to carry out further harmful action.
  
• Demonstrate effective disengagement techniques to obtain distance/time and other tactical options.

Multiple Assailant Defense

Every year the number of attacks involving multiple attackers increases. For those contact professionals exposed to a work environment where gangs are prevalent, the risk of a multiple assailant attack is even higher. The attacks are typically extremely fast, highly assaultive and often deadly for the individual.
At the end of this 4-hour session, students will be able to:

• Explain the risk management principles of multiple assailant attacks and the articuable proper responses
  
• Describe the psychology of the multiple assailant attack and where the ‘Achilles heel' lies.
  
• Demonstrate effective grip-releases
  
• Demonstrate the tactics of constant, unpredictable movement patterns.
  
• Demonstrate the technique of ‘cracking-stacking and redirecting'
  
• Demonstrate effective strikes designed to incapacitate the attackers
  
• When appropriate and possible, demonstrate effective disengagement

Vehicle - Violator Tactics

Virtually all contact professionals are tasked with duties that place them in situations where the safe and effective management of subjects in and around vehicles is required. Interacting with subjects in and around vehicles presents a higher risk than other events due to the reduced ability to perceive threat cues from occupants and the possibility of the vehicle itself being used as a weapon (intentionally or unintentionally)
This session is designed to address several tactical options and consideration to maximize personal safety. It incorporates classroom presentation, static vehicle training and scenario-based training.  At the end of this 4-hour session students will be able to:

• Explain the threat areas of vehicle approaches.
• Explain the various danger zones of different types of vehicles.
• Describe various methods of concealing contraband and weapons in vehicles.
• Demonstrate proper vehicle positioning.
• Demonstrate safe approach and management of vehicles with tinted windows or vehicles in darkness.
• Demonstrate various tactical approaches of vehicles with multiple occupants.
• Demonstrate effective contact/cover roles.
• Demonstrate safe and effective removal of occupants from vehicles.

Firearm Disarming Techniques

The vast majority of contact professionals are not armed with firearms and carry limited intermediate weapons. In today's age of violence and gang activity the risk of being confronted by a subject with a firearm is increasing.  This session is designed to teach simple yet extremely effective techniques of eliminating the threat presented by guns produced at close ranges.
At the end of this 4-hour session students will be able to:

• Explain the relationship between action and reaction time and how this works to their benefit.

• Demonstrate proper stance and positioning.
  
• Demonstrate the principle of rapid rotation to move the body of the line of the muzzle.
  
• Demonstrate effective control of the weapon / delivery system.
  
• Demonstrate effective counter strikes to incapacitate the subject.
  
• Demonstrate proper disengagement techniques to obtain distance, time and options.

Monadnock Baton User Course

Monadnock has been an industry leader in engineering and developing batons, baton-related equipment and training programs for years.  This 4-hour program, which will certify the user in the Monadnock baton program, is strongly recommended for law enforcement agencies, security personnel and close protection specialists.  Raptor instructors are certified by Monadnock to deliver this comprehensive, tactically sound and legally defensible program.  At the end of this 4-hours session students will be able to:

• Describe where the baton response fits within Canadian Use-Of-Force application.
• Demonstrate sound decision making in the application of the baton as an impact weapon.
• Demonstrate proper carry and draw.
• Demonstrate appropriate strikes to effective body areas.
• Utilize clear, professional verbal commands prior to, during and following the baton application.
• Articulate areas of the body to be avoided to avoid unintended severe injuries.

Verbal Judo© For Contact Professionals

Encounters that result in physical struggle or violent outcomes, always have a beginning, middle and an end. Safe and effective verbal skills can often result in voluntary compliance without the unfortunate conclusion of a physical struggle.

For the contact professional, career success often depends upon communication success.
This time-tested powerful communication program will teach the student how to respond (cognitive) instead of react (emotional) and in so doing take control and maintain control of difficult people.

Whether at home or at work, Verbal Judo will show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. You will learn how to listen more effectively, engage people through tactical empathy, how to avoid the most common conversational disasters and how to have a proven, easily remembered strategy that will successfully allow you to communicate your point of view and take the upper hand in most disputes.

Verbal Judo will allow the student to learn and remember a simple process or ‘template' for responding to the most difficult and abusive individuals while remaining calm, focused and in control.

Verbal Judo has saved lives, marriages and careers - and it will work for you to!

During this 8-hour session* students will learn how to:

• Look at conflict creatively
  
• Remain under emotional control during disagreements
  
• Find solutions to potentially difficult situation
  
• Maintain professionalism in any context
  
• Use words instead of actions to achieve goals
  
• Avoid using language that expresses personal feelings during conflicts
  
• Employ empathy to stay engaged with people while maintaining self control
  
• Use words that are on-target by first understanding the listeners point of view
  
• Ensure that you are understood
  
• Achieve cooperation and break through uncertainty, confusion, anger , mistrust and prejudice
  
• Communicate without shaming, blaming or manipulating
  
• Safely take action when words fail

* (an optional 8 hour day of scenario-based training is available to re-enforce the permanent learning of the Verbal Judo techniques).

This program is presented in cooperation with Verbal Judo Canada Inc, the ONLY authorized trainer of Verbal Judo in Canada - Be cautious of imitators!

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Lateral Vascular Neck Restraint (LVNR) User Certification and Instructor Certification

The LVNR is the most medically researched and supported neck restraint in the world.  In almost 30 years of use in the policing environment, there has not been one death or serious injury from the result of a properly applied LVNR.

The LVNR is taught at three levels of compression, allowing the violent subject the opportunity to become voluntarily compliant without being rendered unconscious. Should the subject continue to be assaultive, the operator can render the violent individual unconscious in as little as four seconds.

This technique does NOT rely upon pain compliance and is therefore typically effective on subjects under the influence of central nervous system stimulants such as Methamphetamine, Crack Cocaine, PCP, etc.

The LVNR does not rely upon size or strength. The operator, irrespective, of gender or size can obtain control of much larger, stronger subjects once the LVNR is properly applied.

• Are responsible for the control / restraint of individuals
  
• Work in penitentiaries or mental health institutions
  
• Work in isolated / remote areas where additional resources are limited or unavailable
  
• Frequently contact potentially violent individuals under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

Following completion of the LVNR User course (10 hours) or the LVNR Instructor course (16 hours), the successful student will receive qualification from the certifying body, the National Law Enforcement Training Centre (Kansas City, Mo).

Humane Patient Restraint Techniques (HPRT)

"There can be no medical treatment of a violent patient without restraint." - Dr. Lloyd Denmark, Chief Coroner - Calgary, 2004

Imagine a team of paramedics confronted with a violent patient who requires immediate medical intervention; even if first restrained and handcuffed by law enforcement officers, in order for appropriate medical treatment to be administered the cuffs must be removed - then what?

Imagine an aggressive or violent patient requiring urgent medical care delivered to a hospital emergency room, trauma centre or rural health care facility. What techniques are you confident that your personnel can use or apply to restrain the patient in the safest manner possible?
What policies and procedures are in place to aid medical care professionals in your organization to fully understand the moral and legal implications of patient restraint?

If your medical organization has firm policies, procedures, tactics and devices supported by training that is legally and medically defensible - good for you! Historically however, this emerging issue facing medical professionals is not commonly addressed. Typically, paramedics, ER nurses, ER doctors and hospital security personnel are often left up to their own devices to manage this issue. This usually results in non-standard techniques being used in an attempt to restrain a patient and a variety of ad-hoc restraint devices being invented ‘on the fly'. The risk inherent in this shortcoming is the likelihood of injuries to health care staff or further injury to the patient during the restraint process or from the use of improper restraint devices.

The Humane Patient Restraint Techniques program is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of front line medical health care professionals. With the rise in proliferation of mind altering drugs and other central nervous system stimulants and hallucinogens, frontline medical personnel are faced with patient restraint challenges like never before.

Based upon the philosophy that all medical intervention is predicated on the principle of ‘Do No Harm', the Humane Patient Restraint program provides tactics and techniques to restrain a violent or aggressive patient in a manner that minimizes the risk to the patient and medical personnel.

Utilizing a blend of physical control tactics and the BodyCuff© restraint system, the student will understand the implications of restraining a patient, how to approach and restrain, how to transition from law enforcement handcuffs to the restraint system, how to secure a restrained patient for safe transport in ground or air ambulance.

The basic HPRT course is four hours and consists of classroom and static practical application of the restraint techniques.

The advanced HPRT course is eight hours and consists of the basic HPRT components plus dynamic scenario-based training in the medical environment.

For more information on the HPRT course or the BodyCuff restraint device, please contact Raptor Protection and Safety Services.