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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA |To equip social workers for dangerous confrontations, the state is giving them all judo training, "verbal judo" that is. The training has been used for years by police agencies since it was ...

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 ...

Dirty Harry won’t cut it in the 1990s. “This is modern America, not a Clint Eastwood movie. If you say to Americans in the ’90s, ‘Go ahead, make my day,’ they’ll do it,” barked cop trainer George ...

The Purdue Police Department is offering free online Verbal De-escalation (aka Verbal Judo) training in October via WebEx. Verbal De-escalation is a PowerPoint presentation lasting one and a half ...