LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINERS UNITE AT 2012 INSTRUCTORS ACADEMY
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Posted: 23 April 2012
U.S.N.S.T.A. Presents 13th Annual Training Seminar with Biloxi PD
United States National Standards of Training Association (U.S.N.S.T.A.) announces its 13th Annual Training Seminar that provides contemporary instruction in a variety of use of force topics. The event, titled 2012 Instructors Academy, will train departmental instructors, trainers, and training coordinators how to optimize their current training programs to maximize their agency’s return on investment.
Presented with Biloxi Police Department, the 2012 Instructors Academy will be held at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Trainers from across the country will come together on December 10-13, 2012 to contribute their knowledge and experience to solving critical issues faced by our nation’s first responders.
U.S.N.S.T.A. invites all law enforcement, corrections, military, and security personnel and administrators to attend this training seminar.
About the 2012 Instructors Academy
This instructor development training seminar is designed to help trainers put all their training programs into an integrated system of use of force training. Departments have already invested time and resources into budget line items for an array of less-lethal subjects such as baton training, handcuff training, defensive tactics training, ground defense training, weapon retention training, OC training, Taser training, and high risk arrest training. This conference will provide tools to maximize these training investments.
In developing the training seminar, U.S.N.S.T.A. training staff started by asking the question, as an instructor, what are you trying to teach your students. Are you trying to get your students to memorize course material and pass a test, or are you trying to develop their skills to stay safe and effective in the operating environment?
The 2012 Instructors Academy sets out to assist the instructor in learning how to better be able to work within time and budget restrictions, increase student proficiency and retention, train students that are resistant to being trained, address different learning styles, and organize and deliver multi-discipline lesson plans.
Why Attend This Training Seminar?
As an instructor, you most likely have been exposed to a wide variety of programs that are often taught as separate subjects. There is no way you can transfer all of this content to your students in the limited timeframes you are allotted for training. Your job is to synthesize all of this material and package it in a way that allows you to get as much useful information to your students as possible. The 2012 Instructors Academy is designed to help you better be able to package this information and deliver it in a way that maximizes the student’s proficiency and retention.
We will seek to provide answers to such questions as:
I am a new instructor, where do I begin to develop my skills for transferring less-lethal training content?
How can I get creative in budgeting, lesson planning, and time management to meet the training demands of my department?
How do I address motivational issues with students? How do I train people that don’t want to be trained, and how do I teach something new to veteran officers that have been doing things the same way for years?
How do I sharpen my instructor instincts to better know what my students lack and instruct them in the skills they need to survive and succeed?
The instructors that will be presenting bring a wealth of experience. This is an excellent opportunity to learn how to avoid the mistakes that we have already made, and pick up tricks of the trade for conducting use of force training.
Defensive Tactics Training Systems
Thirteen years ago, defensive tactics instructors in a variety of systems and disciplines joined together at the initial U.S.N.S.T.A. conference. This conference was spearheaded by the Controlled F.O.R.C.E. team in an effort to bring the nation’s best DT instructors into one room and see if it were possible to decide on a common standard of training. What these instructors unanimously agreed upon was that while every system had its place in the use of force continuum, the Controlled F.O.R.C.E. system of Mechanical Advantage Control Holds™ (M.A.C.H.) provided a user-friendly base level of response to resistance that any other system could build on. Thus a national standard of defensive tactics training was established, and has continued to evolve to meet the changing demands of law enforcement.
Most long-time Controlled F.O.R.C.E. certified instructors understand how well the M.A.C.H. system integrates with other training systems. Whether they utilize a pressure point based system, a rapid assault based system, or a ground fighting based system, these instructors know that the M.A.C.H. system can fill the gaps between these programs and improve their effectiveness. Because Controlled F.O.R.C.E. training emphasizes body movement, transitions, and response to failure, it provides the law enforcement officer with an accessible vehicle to transition between systems as a non-compliant situation may dictate.
Controlled F.O.R.C.E. has always emphasized the importance of maintaining the tools and skills you already possess. Instead of trying to replace those tools and skills, the program enhances them, and provides a format for packaging them into a comprehensive response to resistance capability. The 2012 Instructors Academy aims to show the departmental instructor how to build on the subject control foundation that Controlled F.O.R.C.E. provides and package whatever training they already use into practical programs that meet their agency’s training requirements.
LEO Training Concepts for Department of Defense
U.S.N.S.T.A. has assisted with the development of training that provides a key component to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) need to adopt more Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) based non-lethal weapons and tactics training concepts to meet the evolving demands of contemporary operating environments.
Many military training units have participated in U.S.N.S.T.A. training seminars to contribute to the development of a M.A.C.H. based national standard of Close Range Subject Control (CRSC) programs, including: INIWIC (Interservice Nonlethal Individual Weapons Instructor Course), U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Training Group (SOTG), U.S. Air Force Security Forces Squadron, U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps Military Police (MPs), and U.S. Army Special Forces.
The 2012 Instructors Academy is an excellent opportunity to continue your development within a “law enforcement friendly” system of less-lethal combatives training that is recognized by thousands of civilian and military LEO agencies nationwide.
We have After Action Reports (AARs) from a variety of Military Instructors that have attended U.S.N.S.T.A. training seminars available upon request. To request AARs or any other supplemental information, please call Sarah Dunlop at 630-365-1400 or email sarah@usnsta.com.
How Do I Register?
Registration and tuition info can be found online at www.usnsta.com/conference-registration.html.
There are three (3) training options this year:
U.S.N.S.T.A. Conference Training. Includes participation in all instructor development training. Comes with U.S.N.S.T.A. Departmental Instructor Certification upon completion.
U.S.N.S.T.A. Conference Training with Controlled F.O.R.C.E. Level 1 Instructor Certification. Includes participation in all instructor development training, including Controlled F.O.R.C.E. Level 1: Mechanical Advantage Subject Control. Comes with U.S.N.S.T.A. Departmental Instructor Certification and Controlled F.O.R.C.E. Level 1 Departmental Instructor Certification upon completion.
U.S.N.S.T.A. Conference Training with Controlled F.O.R.C.E. Level 1 & 2 Instructor Re-Certification. Includes participation in all instructor development training, including re-certification training in Controlled F.O.R.C.E. Level 1: Mechanical Advantage Subject Control and Level 2: Survival Force Reactionary Defense. Must be current in Level 1 & 2 Instructor Certification. Comes with U.S.N.S.T.A. Departmental Instructor Certification and Controlled F.O.R.C.E. Level 1 & 2 Departmental Instructor Certification upon completion.
POST Officials, Academy Directors, Chiefs, and Sheriffs are all invited to attend at no charge to observe and review the training.
Hotel rooms are available at the Beau Rivage for the discount rate of $79 per room per night, plus tax.
To book your room online, go to www.usnsta.com/conference-hotel.html and click on the BOOK ONLINE link. Must enter the Offer Code, FORCE12, when prompted.
To book your room by phone, call the Beau Rivage at 1-888-567-6667 and reference Controlled F.O.R.C.E. or U.S.N.S.T.A.
LEO Product Vendors
One of the biggest challenges that training coordinators and commanders face is budgetary limitations. U.S.N.S.T.A. would not be able to provide this training opportunity without the involvement of all the exhibitors, presenters, and sponsors that contribute in many ways to help offset the costs for attendees.
U.S.N.S.T.A. strives to bring in relevant product vendors that offer viable solutions for the law enforcement operator. We offer all vendors an opportunity to address our full attendance and demo their products if feasible. We do our best to integrate products into our training programs where applicable so that our attendees can test and evaluate what you have to offer.
If you are interested in getting your product into the hands of law enforcement trainers, please call Liz Ladford at 630-365-1400 or email liz@usnsta.com.
Contact U.S.N.S.T.A.
To be a great law enforcement instructor, you have train harder, demand more of yourself, and take whatever steps necessary to develop your skills. Make the 2012 Instructors Academy one of these steps toward your training future.
Unleash the trainer in you. Contact U.S.N.S.T.A. for more information.
Phone: 630-365-1700
Email: info@usnsta.com
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