Training & Education

This is the follow up certification for 6240 Control/Defensive Tactics (C/DT) and Use of Force (UOF) for Law Enforcement Officers. WSCJTC recognizes no students are proficient in all skills and knowledge in just one week of training. To ensure skills and knowledge are proficient the 6241-LEAD Instructor Course is Mandatory if being a lead or regional instructor is your goal. This 40-hour course includes a review for all the skill instruction, use of force, acute behavioral disorders and report writing.

The Advanced Clinch, Pummel, and Wall Pin course builds on the principles that were introduced during the 6240 basic Use of Force and Control Defensive Tactics Instructor’s Course (UOF/CDT). Understanding the concepts of angles, controlling a subject’s posture, base, and structure play a vital role in being able to safely control that resistive or combative subject and take them into custody. By better understanding how to utilize human biomechanics during an arrest, while also incorporating their department issued uniform and utility belts, officers will be better equipped to modulate their force and bring about a safer resolution for all involved parties.

UOF/CDT Advanced Control Tactics Instructor Course will incorporate Lock Flows, Team Tactics and Flow Drills.  Standing Wrist, Elbow, Shoulder and Head Lock Flows will teach the student to a desired control hold when presented with a level of resistance.  Flow drills from various systems will teach the student to use muscle memory, tactile touch and dynamic movement to apply a technique without thinking before applying.  All lock flows and dynamic flow drills will end with controlled takedowns and arrest.

Team Tactics were developed to maximize control during physical interactions of suspects/subjects while enhancing safety for officers and suspects/subjects with establishing predetermined roles. By utilizing clear communication and coordinated movements, the suspect/subject is psychologically and physiologically overwhelmed during an encounter. Team Tactics are utilized during compliant and non-compliant engagements. Based on the suspect/subject’s actions, aggressive or eggressive (resistive), police officers will respond with a variety of options acting as a team to rapidly control the situation with the goal of making the encounter safer for all parties potentially involved.

The Advanced Counter-Striking 24-hour block builds on course 6240 of instruction and gives the trainer/practitioner a more comprehensive curriculum. The course aims to improve awareness, technical skill, and teaching ability for a higher level of understanding and functionality for the correct use and defense of an individual's counter striking tools.

The course progressions will build in layers of complexity to integrate all ranges of un-armed striking with an emphasis on reducing officer/suspect injuries, and safe training methods.

The curriculum will incorporate techniques and training practices from various disciplines brought together to effectively develop a cohesive understanding of efficient and practical skills which can be transmitted in a law enforcement capacity. Instruction includes the development of personal performance and skill, as well as coaching ability and a Train-The-Trainer component. Instruction blocks will include:

• Advanced understanding of unarmed ranges of striking and how to manage and use distance efficiently, safely, and appropriately for the application of intermediate force.
• The use of positional advantage for barriers, zoning and shielding.
• How to develop proper body mechanics to maximize leverage and effectiveness with all body generated striking tools.
• Proper form and safe execution of a full array of striking tools, including hands (open and closed), feet, elbows, knees, and forearms with the ability to modulate force according to individual situations, and/or officer/ suspect performance disparities.
• Drills and exercises to develop timing, proper reaction, balance, strength, stamina, situational awareness and officer confidence.

The Advanced Ground Control and Survival program is designed to build on the 6240 Control Defensive Tactics Instructor course utilizing advanced control management, angles and more advanced techniques. The advanced course will introduce more drilling that will assist the student in understanding and implementing transitions from one skill to the other.  This will assist the student to keep several steps ahead of the subject if one technique fails. Controlling the subject to make an arrest by utilizing proper tactics is paramount for the safety of all parties involved.

The purpose of the Advanced Impact/Edged Weapons Training 24-hour block is to build on C/DT 6240 and give the trainer/practitioner a more in-depth curriculum to improve awareness, technical skill, and teaching ability for a higher level of understanding and functionality for the use and defense of impact, edged and improvised weapons. The Advanced Impact Training Block curriculum incorporates progressions and drills for:

• Identifying and applying common angles of attack.
• Identifying the different weapon ranges for long, middle and close techniques.
• Understanding the primary concepts of baton with supplemental tools (shield, flashlight).
• Intermediate and advanced level defensive structure for the specific ranges for both impact and edged weapons.
• Zoning and angling theory to safely apply and defend against impact and edged weapons.
• Integration of primary personal striking skills with impact tools (baton, flashlight).
• Integration of primary control techniques with an impact weapon.
• Transition and Flow drills to modulate force and apply lower or higher force, safely, securely and efficiently while integrating dynamic movement of angles, deflections, control holds, locks and strips.

The Advanced Police Judo Course will build on the principles introduced in the Use of Force Control and Defensive Tactics Course (6240 UOF/CDT). With an understanding of the concepts introduced in 6240, this advanced course will broaden the instructor’s knowledge and ability related to the disruption of a suspect’s posture, base, and structure to leverage that subject, and gain a position of advantage over them using the least amount of force necessary to affect an arrest. With the safety of all involved parties in mind, instructors will be exposed to various entry techniques, trips, and reaping skills designed to limit the amount of force necessary to effectively take an individual into custody. Advanced Police Judo topics will include:

• Additional entries and opportunities for the underhook series.
• Countering and hand fighting against underhooks, bear hugs and leg grabs.
• Additional trip and reap techniques.
• Introduction to leg grabs and headlock techniques.
• Teach backs and student demonstrations.

This is an intensive 24-hour course that will cover weapon retention, gun disarming, and jamming. This Force Option’s Class will include low level contacts where a subject draws a concealed weapon. Team tactics will be stressed and well as single officer tactics. Retention/Disarms tactics include handgun, rifle and taser/less lethal tools.

Gulla’s Weapon Retention and Positional Shooting, better known as G – W.R.A.P.S., is so effective it has been adopted by Rener Gracie’s GST System. This course teaches you how to maintain control of your firearm in your holster, in your hand, on the ground, and from other such difficult positions.

This course will use concepts and principles to protect your firearm that can be employed and practiced against someone who is really trying to take your gun. You will learn how to shoot within grappling range and keep the suspect from controlling your weapon.  These techniques have been tested both in training and proven on the street in life and death situations. The student will use NLT SIRT Training Weapons and Simunition/UTM Training Rounds.

The course is the foundation for Control/Defensive Tactics (C/DT) and Use of Force (UOF) for Law Enforcement Officers. This course includes the basics of motor learning, practice structure, class structure, and skill instruction. This comprehensive and practical course will help each new instructor develop the skills and confidence to assist in all the essential C/DT and UOF classes taught at the Basic Law Enforcement Academy (BLEA) and in-service training incorporating current Job Task Analysis (JTA) findings and recommendations.