Workshops are held at the North Woodside Community Centre at 230 Pleasant Street in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

You will be given 16 hours of demonstration of nerve impact techniques, simulations, use of weapons, telescopic baton, handcuffs and Yawara stick.

Class curriculum

• Friday Night:  Class safety, rules, course objectives, Friday night you will learn handgun defense, theories of pressure point usage, nerve impact control tactics, pressure points.

• Saturday: More pressure points, laws pertaining to use of force, levels of awareness, Increasing awareness, six forms of resistance, five levels of control, tactical force response options, force continuum scale, handcuffing, handcuffing positions and releases, reactionary gap, knife defense, empty hand skills.

• Sunday: More pressure points, situational factors, officer impact factors, six step reality plan, officer tactical errors, tactical communication, body language, danger signals, the art of listening, survival stress, controlling resistance, escorting, baton, grounding, yawara stick, searching.

You will learn:

• Pressure points, locations and applications
• Escort and control procedure
• Release and escape techniques
• Defiant attitude adjustment
• Behavioral modification tools
• Handgun and knife defense
• Empty hand self-defense
• Yawara Stick
• Proper stances and movements.
• Safe and effective handcuffing and search techniques.
• Effective grounding and control methods.
• Effective arm and leg strikes to nerve points.
• Confidence with empty hand deflections.
• Effective impact weapon strikes and retention.
• Confidence in the removal of subjects from a licensed premise, motor vehicle, etc.
• Awareness of the impact factors attributed to excited delirium and positional asphyxia and how to respond accordingly.
• Awareness of edged weapons and defend against a spontaneous knife assault on four basic lines of attack.
• Proficiency in tactical ground fighting skills.
• Ability to both reassess a situation and select a more appropriate force response options.
• Judgment, restraint, confidence, competence and safety in the selection of effective and appropriate force response.

You can optionally write the exam to be fully certified:

• You must achieve 75% in a closed book final exam.
• You must know important sections of the criminal code of Canada.