Police Training Gear News & Articles

Even as the capabilities of silicon-based simulators increase, our carbon-based simulators (a.k.a. trainers and role players), still need traditional 'inert' training tools. ...

I’ve owned and/or tested a fairly significant number of boots in the past few years, and while I’ve seen great benefits to offerings from a wide variety of other vendors, I choose to spend ...

By PoliceOne Staff WALNUT, Calif. — A pioneer of scenario-based police training products died before the holidays, PoliceOne learned Monday.The long life of Trenton, N.J., native Guido J. Tanzini ...

I don't want to paint a bleak picture, but agencies from coast to coast do not have their emphasis on training. Their emphasis is trying to maintain staffing levels in a shaky economy. The good news is ...

PoliceOne is focusing on news and information about Police Training Products throughout the month of April 2010. Check out some of the latest products available today. IES Interactive ...

Injury prevention during defensive tactics simulation training — always one of the goals of DT instructors — often conflicts with the need to provide high level, dynamic, high intensity simulation training. The key is to minimize training injuries, and Larry Nadeau's "Force Relation to Target" concept can help. ...

Reality-based training is a concept that provides simulations that approximate various situations that officers might encounter in the real world. RBT runs the gamut between guided use of the imagination ...

Training conducted only in the gym under controlled, non-stressful situations causes the officer to be trained to think (and make decisions) only in these controlled and safe environments. When I conduct training, I want to be able to do dynamic and stressful exercises that place the officers into the actual environments they’re likely to experience on the street. This includes escalating the intensity without compromising students’ safety. ...

Back in the 1980s, officers were introduced to the S.P.E.A.R. system, a combative innovation by Tony Blauer that capitalizes on what a person does when reacting to a threat. As the combative system evolved, Blauer Tactical Systems developed the High Gear suit. The design goal was to produce an effective training suit which allows natural movement and does not impede the peripheral senses. ...

By Tim DeesThere are thousands of books, DVDs, posters and every other kind of instructional aid produced for the law enforcement market. Most of them aren’t very good. How do you cull out the losers ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne.com Product EditorWhile many products in the police training market can simulate many situations an officer may face on the streets, it's difficult to find a product that can ...

Mid-way through my attendance at the IACP session on domestic and international terrorism on Sunday morning, I received a text message from my friend and colleague Hannah Simon: “TASER has an AXON ...

Each year, training gear becomes more and more of a liability to departments, trainers, and the officers in training. There are an assortment of training suits and duty gear from many different companies ...

Creating training with realism is the primary factor that will help build better cognitive thinking skills so when SWAT cops are subjected to actual combat they will feel that they’ve already been there and been exposed to that environment. There are several techniques you can use when training SWAT cops to achieve this, but introducing stress into all of your training is paramount. ...

What do a swimming pool, a dark room, and interrupted simulator scenarios have in common? All can be instrumental parts of innovative training that can help officers win against armed assailants, according to Chris Ghannam, president of Sark Securities Inc., an independent advanced-training organization based in Tampa, Fla., that is making its mark with unique hands-on and classroom programs for law enforcement and the military throughout the U.S. and Canada. ...

In RedMan training gear, an officer can strike, grab, kick, wrestle, and hold a weapon. Both users are protected from common striking surfaces like knuckles, ridge of the hand, knee, and elbow. (PoliceOne ...

PoliceOne is focusing on news and information about Training Products throughout the month of April 2009. Check out some of the latest products available today. IES Interactive Training ...