Conflict Training to reduce complaints
Conflict Management Training Enhances Officer Safety and Reduces Incidents and Complaints of Using Force “Hi, my name is Tom Poellot. I’m the Chief of Police in the Cudahy Police Department in Wisconsin. We chose Vistelar at the Cudahy Police Department because we wanted to give officers and all staff more tools to successfully resolve conflict, […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3
There are better and less-better Restraint Techniques The image accompanying this post was apparently taken in 1907 of the City of London Police learning or demonstrating restraint techniques. They are clearly wearing jackets which suggest that there may have been input from some Japanese martial arts into the restraint techniques they were learning at the […]
Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
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Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
Floor Based Restraint Controversy In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which have occurred proximal to restraint in a way that […]
Nightclub death linked to Neck Restraint
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Punch Drunk Restraint Training Design
One of the key questions we have asked our colleagues in the field of training, as we have visited with them to share our approach is: “What stimulus are you preparing your staff to respond to?” The question is somewhat oblique, but it focusses on the heart of the matter – what do we […]
Peace Story: Upholding the Social Contract
Listen to this incredible story from Joel Lashley about the importance of the social contract in creating standards for behaviour. If Social Contracts can be set early we will have much better end results. INTERESTED IN BECOMING A VDI INSTRUCTOR? You will have your chance at the first-ever VDI Instructor Certification in the UK to […]
Retail Security Risks and Training in Personal Safety
I read with interest this appalling (but familiar) story about a female security guard being stabbed with a syringe in a Sainsbury’s in Kent. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/security-guard-stabbed-in-sainsburys-59658/ It seems that the security guard confronted the drug-taking subject as he attempted to steal a bottle of whiskey from the supermarket shelves and make off with it outside the […]
Restraint Training: The Biggest Mistake in Control Tactics
Coach Tony Torres says that the biggest problem in Control Tactics is that people try to exert Control too soon in the confrontation timeline. In our 9 attitudes methodology from Functional Edge System, we understand that the key phases of any physical confrontation are: 1) Survival (staying conscious, upright and ‘with it’) 2) Reversal (slowing or stopping […]
Restraint Training: Complex Motor Skills in Control scenarios are just a Pain!
During our 2015 Advanced Control Tactics instructor-level training certification, Coach Tony Torres explained some of his experience and functional, pragmatic ideas in relation to why pain-compliance holds should not be used during the ‘Control’ phase of an incident. We define the ‘Control Phase’ as the early-stage and often rapidly-unfolding physical interaction between subject and intervening staff. It […]