Law Enforcement Defensive Tactics Training

In the Prosectra Defensive Tactics program, the communication component of officer safety is a prominent subject. For many officers, the concept of combat verbalization may seem to be a contradiction in terms. How can verbalization co-exist with combat? In fact, combat and verbalization are inseparable. Officers must learn these psychomotor skills in combination with each other and not as a separate training program. Our program combines verbalization skills and physical alternatives in order for the officer to truly be effective in real world situations.

Level 1: Officer Presence & Dialog

Level 2: Verbal Direction & Officer Coordination

Level 3: High Stress Verbal Commands

Level 4: Surrender Rituals & Radio Communication

Level 5: Monitoring & Debriefing

In this module we address the unconscious aspect of the human mind and its inadvertent way of displaying cues that indicate a pending attack. This module will address specific nonverbal signals communicated by a subject that suggest criminal intent. The Prosectra Defensive Tactics program will train officer’s to recognize these signals (leaked from the unconscious part of the criminal’s mind and displayed via body language) in order to narrow the processing time between observation and action, preventing violent behaviour before it becomes physical or before the ambush.

Level 1: Conscious Recognition of Telegraphed Cues

Level 2: The Reactionary Gap

Level 3: A thousand Words…None Spoken

Level 4: Actions Lie Louder Than Words

Level 5: Seven Tactical Principles

The most dangerous attack for the officer is the ambush. There is no consent, there is no preparation. Only the criminal knows when and how they will attack. Any time that an officer is close enough to conduct a pat-down, or to exchange documents, they are close enough to be ambushed. The Prosectra Defensive Tactics program will train officer’s to recognize these signals (leaked from the unconscious part of the criminal’s mind and displayed via body language) in order to narrow the processing time between observation and action, preventing violent behaviour before it becomes physical or before the ambush.

Level 1: The Most Common Attack (The Punch)

Level 2: The Second Most Common Attack (The Tackle)

Level 3: The Third Most Common Attack (The Headlock)

Level 4: Advanced Common Attack Defense Strategies

Level 5: Tactical Takedowns

Ground fighting is just about the last thing an officer wants to do during an arrest. Too many things can go wrong. Once down the officer may find him or herself on the losing end of a fight with someone bigger, stronger or more skilled. Once body-to-body contact is made, the subject now has access to all of the officers’ weaponry. What about multiple attackers? What if the attacker has a hidden blade? For the most part, ground fighting is too dangerous and complex to be of use for the average officer. If, however, the fight goes to the ground against the officers’ will, they must know what to do. In the Prosectra Defensive Tactics program, we teach time-tested escape techniques that can be used to get the officer off the ground and back to their feet so that they can establish distance and utilize the appropriate force option to neutralize the threat.

Level 1: Escaping From The Bottom (Mount)

Level 2: Escaping From The Bottom (Guard)

Level 3: Controlling The Top Position

Level 4: Submission To Arrest (Top Position)

Level 5: Submission To Arrest (Bottom Position)

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. Most injuries to Law Enforcement and the vast majority of shootings result from arrest attempts that go sideways. Making contact with an 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 restraining, searching and arresting an individual is what training officers will receive from the Prosectra Defensive Tactics program.

Level 1: Joint Manipulation For Pain Compliance (Cooperating Suspect)

Level 2: Joint Manipulation For Pain Compliance (Aggressive Suspect)

Level 3: How To Safely & Securely Search The Suspect

Level 4: Arresting & Handcuffing

Level 5: Multiple Officer Arrest Strategies

“Weapon retention.” Nothing about this phrase provides even a glimpse of the terror and panic involved when officers suddenly realize what that vicious tugging at their side means. And nothing in that phrase hints at the grit and the heart that is needed to keep their weapon when a prepared offender, or even an opportunistic suspect, attempts to murder them with it. Weapon retention is not, and should not be about the type of holster you carry–although that’s important! Keeping the weapon secured and not letting it get taken away by an assailant is a high priority to every law enforcement officer. A high number of Law Enforcement/Security Officers who are killed in the line of duty are shot with their own weapon. The Prosectra Defensive Tactics program will teach officers a series of simple yet highly-effective weapon retention principles that will disable a suspects attempt to disarm them while standing and on the ground.

Level 1: Retaining Holstered & Drawn Sidearm (Frontal Attack)

Level 2: Retaining Your Holstered Sidearm (Rear Attack)

Level 3: Weapon Retention & Ground Survival (Mount)

Level 4: Weapon Retention & Ground Survival (Guard)

Level 5: Retaining Your Long Range Weapon

“Reactionary gaps” are defined as “the minimum amount of space needed to ensure that you can properly react to whatever threat may be presented by a suspect being questioned or detained.” The Reactionary Gap will change for officers depending on the weapon being used by the suspect. The Prosectra Defensive Tactics program teaches officers how to deal with deadly force situations (involving various weapons that could be used by the criminal) when the reactionary gap is insufficient to safely draw a weapon.

Level 1: Knife Defense & The 21 Foot Rule

Level 2: Edged Weapons In Close Quarters

Level 3: Tactical Gun Disarms

Level 4: Impact Weapon Defenses

Level 5: Weapon Disarms & Ground Survival