A few years ago, I was able to get a group of police officers that I work with together to do some training about once to twice a week; getting officers to actually show up for any type physical training is'nt always the easiest of tasks. Here's one of the drills that I thought worked best...
At the end of our 2 hour sessions where I taught both stand and ground texchniqes, I would end things with a drill that I allowed them to go all out against one another; within reason of course. The main officer in this drill I'll call #1 & the rest are considered suspects or innocent citizens. I would pull a few officers to the side and give them the scenero that they were to act out. I would give them about 2 minutes to get into their heads what type action they would use against the main officer #1. Then, I would give out the call to the officer as if he was being dispatched. #1 would then jog downstairs to the starting point...
We were training in a 2 story training vacility owned by a college. It had 2 sets of stairs and a 200 yard cicular running track on the 2nd level.
#1 would start at the bottom of the stairs and then run up the stairs and around the track once, sometimes more if the scenero called for it. Then, the officer would enter the training room and the rest of the officers would act out the scenero we had discussed. Sometimes nothing happened except that officer #1 would have to handle the situation without a physical altercation taking place. Being too aggressive on the part of officer #1 would result in them having to run 5 laps and then, doing another scenero. But, most sceneros ended with officer #1 in a physical altercation with one or more suspects...mostly these suspects had no weapons, but every now and again we would slip someone a knife or gun. The officer could do whatever he had to, to get the upper hand on the situation. We even used inert OC spray henever possible. The suspects could open hand strike and go full out to resist the arrst of even attack. We worked alot on the suspects just resisting arrest, due to that being the most common of all physical altercations that officers run into; but we did do many outright attacks of the officer too. We also threw in back-up officers now and again. The officer #1 would have to handcuff the suspect or suspects for the scenro to end. This type training seemed to appeal to the officers. I think one of the most important thing that it taught these officers was that they could survive situations without having to have 5 & 6 officers there to handle what was going on. Back-up is great, but in our area, sometimes back-up officers could be several minutes away. Unfortunately I cannot find such a group of officers at my present department.
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