Law enforcement officers across Maryland are learning or honing skills in tactical communication – that is, remaining calm and in control in stressful situations – at the police and correctional ...

I was speaking with a friend of mine who’s a short-timer working patrol in the Southeastern United States recently. He’d just returned from defensive tactics training and lamented the fact that the ...

ARCHBOLD — First responders from a variety of agencies are gathering at Northwest State Community College (NSCC) here today and tomorrow for a type of training aimed at de-escalation practices. The ...

As usual the topic of my Officer.com article started as a debate between the Editor and myself. I wanted to write a gloriously detailed article about the adventures of using a female urine funnel so I ...

The lawyer’s art is often likened to a fencing match, a chess game, a battle of wits or a battle of wills. But in W. Lee Fjelstad’s view, the better comparison is to judo. Fjelstad will present ...

The Purdue Police Department is offering free online Verbal De-escalation (aka Verbal Judo) training in May via WebEx. Verbal De-escalation is a two-hour PowerPoint presentation. The objective is to ...

Intended Audiences for This Course •Anyone in the Field of Public Safety: Police, Probation (Juvenile or Adult), Corrections, Fire, USFS, BLM, Dispatchers, Campus Safety, Investigators •Government ...

Today's post is dedicated to those who expressed a desire for more information about how verbal judo works, based on my previous post. Verbal judo is best defined as a gentle yet powerful way of ...

The Purdue Police Department is offering free online Verbal De-escalation (aka Verbal Judo) training in April via WebEx. Verbal De-escalation is a two-hour PowerPoint presentation. The objective is to ...

Today's post is dedicated to those who expressed a desire for more information about how verbal judo works, based on my previous post. Verbal judo is best defined as a gentle yet powerful way of ...