One of the most important skills that officers can posses is the ability to communicate. This goes beyond language ability and moves into what to say and how. Unfortunately too often this essential skill is forgotten and left out of training programs. Additionally many officers don’t want to take the time to learn it because it’s not as “cool” as combatives programs. However, any agency that wants ...

I want to briefly go over the principles of contact-cover. I hope that everyone was taught this once upon a time.

While working the front line I see a lot of officers (sworn and non-sworn) interacting with subjects and suspects. Most of the time the officer is in some sort of interview stance (but not always). Sadly when more then one officer is present they stand next to each other or one wal ...

In my first post I recommended finding new training and conducting some training outside of work. Now I would like to briefly talk about some different methods of training that people may not have thought of.

To start with you must realise that not everyone will share your enthusiasm for training. I found this out for myself when I noticed other officers and supervisors attending training so th ...