DEFENSIVE TACTICS SAFETY SYSTEM

POLICY

The DEFENSIVE TACTICS SAFETY SYSTEM provides the law enforcement officer a complete defensive tactics system of strategies, tactics and skills for the effective, safe and legal application and use of force for officer protection and survival.

The SAFETY SYSTEM is a comprehensive system of defensive tactics developed on the principles of SAFETY and LIABILITY REDUCTION.

The SAFETY SYSTEM is formulated to accomplish three (3) objectives:

1. Save the officer’s life.
2. Protect the officer and department from legal liability.
3. Save the assailant’s life.

The SAFETY SYSTEM addresses the entire use of force continuum with tactics and techniques that effectively counter and neutralize edged weapons, impact weapons, and empty hand assaults with an emphasis on controlling, restraining, and arrest of suspects that limit the need for the use of firearms.

SYSTEMIZATION and PROCEDURES

The DEFENSIVE TACTICS SAFETY SYSTEM is comprised of six (6) strategic subsystems. Each subsystem provides a systematic progression of tactics, techniques and skills that compliment and build upon each other as instruction and training progresses.

The SAFETY SYSTEM is comprised of:

1. Safety Baton System
2. Edged Weapon Awareness/Strategic Knife Defense
3. Empty Hands Safety System
4. Safety Handcuffing
5. Firearms Disarming
6. Firearms Retention

Each subsystem begins with threat identification that provides the officer with a complete awareness of edged weapons, impact weapons and empty hand assaults and their characteristics, capabilities and methods of use against law enforcement officers. The SAFETY SYSTEM then provides a strategic understanding of the principles of offense and counter-offense that formulate realistic and technically effective Defensive Tactics.

The Defensive Tactics Safety System remains today the only true system that fully integrates law enforcement weaponry and tools (impact, chemical, restraint, etc.), empty hand control tactics, and firearms through the application of the same tactical techniques.

SAFETY SYSTEM strategy and tactics have three (3) principles and procedures of application:

1. Protection of the officer.
2. Neutralization of assailants’ weapon(s).
3. Control, restraint, and arrest.

SAFETY SYSTEM target identification addresses the anatomical weapon delivery tools of the human body and restricts the use of force to the primary target being the assailant’s hand(s). Secondary target areas include the nerve motor points of the arm and thigh.

Communication and verbalization principles, procedures and commands are instructed with the use of force for threat identification, alert, and effective suspect compliance.

SAFETY BATON SYSTEM

The Safety Baton System develops officer proficiency and confidence in the legal utilization of the straight Baton to effectively counter and neutralize edged weapons, impact weapons, and empty hand assaults for effective suspect control and apprehension.

EDGED WEAPON AWARENESS / STRATEGIC KNIFE DEFENSE

Edge Weapon Awareness / Strategic Knife Defense is a comprehensive two-part program that first provides the officer with a complete awareness of edged weaponry, its characteristics, capabilities, methods of use and its threat to law enforcement officers. Defensive tactical skills are then instructed based on combative knife fighting strategy that will protect the officer and increase survival in edged weapon encounters. Advanced training addresses tactics and techniques with the officer’s personal edged weapon utilized as a critical survival tool when facing deadly force threats.

The Safety Baton System and Strategic Knife Defense tactical skills directly transfer in application to:

EMPTY HANDS SAFETY SYSTEM
SAFETY HANDCUFFING
FIREARMS DISARMING
FIREARMS RETENTION

Through the advanced principles of parallel methodology and transferable technology, the DEFENSIVE TACTICS SAFETY SYSTEM provides a complete system of defensive tactics that encompass the entire use of force continuum for officer survival in the myriad of tactical situations and operational environments.