Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
In evidence for the Sean Rigg enquiry, an ACPO expert on Self-Defence Control and Arrest procedures described his opinion of the stages involved in securing an adult-sized subject who is violent and resisting arrest. He talks about two phases of an altercation with a subtle distinction between them. Firstly the “control” phase, followed by the […]
Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
Near Miss: “An unplanned event or situation that could have resulted in injury, illness, damage or loss but did not do so due to chance, corrective action or timely intervention.” Overheard recently on a training course: “The client reached forward and grabbed the driver of the car, from the back seat, obscuring her vision and […]
Train to Become a Personal Safety Adviser this October?
Feedback on our trainer-qualification courses has been so strong that this year we are running another self-protection trainer certification in October. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they gained from working on our last instructor course. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they […]
Restraint Training: Claim for injury during realistic training failed
In September 2010, a prison officer attended a one-day control and restraint training course run by the Scottish Prison Service at its Fauldhouse facility in West Lothian. The exercise was a simulated prison riot — full riot gear, metal gates, mock prisoners barricading the doors. She carried a large shield and advanced with her team. […]