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"Preserving the Past...
Unifying the Present...
Strengthening the Future."

Training Classes in:

Armed and Unarmed Self Defense

Side Handle Baton  (PR-24)

 Controller (Kubaton)  

Night Stick § Take-down Techniques §  Handcuffing  § Quick Cuffing  

Come Along Techniques  §  Pressure Point Control Tactics  § Ground Fighting

Knife Control and Retention § Gun Control  §  Gun Retention  §  ASP Baton

Firearms Training & Re-certification  §  Specialized Training - Women Officers

The USPDTA has three (3) special divisions within the organization whose sole purpose is to address the special needs and training requirements:

1) For the female law enforcement officer, instructor and/or martial artist.

2) Mounted Bike Police Patrol Officers

3) Civilian Assistance Patrol and Civilian Operations Management


United States
National Training Officers

East Coast – Ric Black & Robert Hedden

West Coast – Ray Barrera & Pete Horcasitas

Region 1 – Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina & Tennessee

Region 2 – Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware

Region 3 – Washington DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan

Region 4 – South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois

Region 5 – Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri

Region 6  Texas ,California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico

Region 8 – Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming

Region 9 – Alaska

Region 10 - Hawaii


Civilian Programs

Control of Occupational Violence (COV)

The COV program deals with instances when a person feels intimidated by verbal assault dealing with a spoken threat or is physically threatened by an individual meaning to do them harm. It gives the participant an understanding of why they may be perceived as a victim, the means and the confidence to physically deal one-on-one against an assailant in non-life threatening situations and evade or escape injury.

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $19.95


Traveler’s Survival Skills (TSS)

The TSS program teaches frequent travelers skills using items at hand to control, subdue and defeat an assailant in hotels, on the street, in an airport or on board an aircraft using non-lethal methods of personal protection.

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $19.95

Civilian Assistance Patrol and Civilian Operational Management (CAPCOM)

The CAPCOM program is designed specifically to assist unarmed civilian volunteer officers with the rules of managing and dealing with physical engagements.  To sufficiently address the situation, gain control until a certified officer arrives and assist in the arrest process as a witness against their assailant. This training methodology deals with Level 1-3 Response. (8-hours of classroom and practical application) A CAPCOM trained person better understands and is [prepared to deal with verbal resistance, low level physical confrontation and resistance, and to assist a certified officer in whatever areas may be required.


POLICE & SECURITY PROGRAMS

Use of Force & Levels of Resistance Matrix

It is the tactical goal of the USPDTA to provide all student officers, officers, military and security personnel with explicit guidance and help toward the decision making process in the use of force. Whether the use of force is verbal or lethal when engaging or disengaging a subject. Or when there is an escalation or de-escalation of a confrontation leading to a lawful and defensible action by the officer.

Manual Available - $9.95

Military Assault and Tactical Action (MATA)

The MATA program is designed to train military Special Operation teams for assault and tactical operations for urban warfare. This training is geared to active military personal serving in international Tactical Response teams. The training consists of armed and unarmed combat training to neutralize opposition forces using empty hand methods, combat knife applications and specialized weaponry for terminal applications. 

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $14.95

Police Unarmed Defense School (PUDS)

The PUDS training has been designed through implementation of Force/Levels of Resistance Matrix using passive and active physical handling measures handling an unarmed assailant. The officer will be trained to recognize voice changes, body language, and physical changes that may affect changing her/his level of tactics when dealing with the suspect. These applications are levels 1 – 3 response.  (8 hours of classroom and practical application) Officer Certification is awarded upon completion.

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $14.95

Police Tactical Assailant Control (PTAC)

The PTAC training is designed for assailant control through physical leverage, joint control and manipulation, nerve center controls and through locking and pressure control techniques to bring the assailant into a position where she/he can be handcuffed without physical harm to the arresting officer. These applications are levels 4 – 6 response.  (8 hours of classroom and practical application) Officer Certification is awarded upon completion.

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $14.95

Police Unarmed Tactical Team School (PUTTS)

The PUTTS training is to teach officers how to work in pairs to control singular or multiple assailants through physical leverage, joint control and manipulation, nerve center controls and through locking and pressure control techniques without weapons or Oleoresin Capsicum use. These applications are levels 4 – 6 response. (8 hours of classroom and practical application) Officer Certification is awarded upon completion.

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $14.95

Unarmed Force Education Deployment (UFED)

The UFED program is designed to teach officers areas of field personnel deployment and positioning to handle an unarmed adversary. The officer uses physical leverage, joint control and manipulation, nerve center controls and through locking and pressure control techniques without weapons or Oleoresin Capsicum use.  The officers response here is more aggressive in nature and may lead to use of lethal force. These applications are levels 4 – 6 response. (4 hours of classroom and practical application) Officer Certification is awarded upon completion.

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $29.95

Armed Force Education Deployment (AFED)

The AFED program is the most useful field and classroom area of officer training and can make the difference in life and death situation for the officer in defense of her/his life. The use of deflection, redirection, grappling, twisting breaks, locks, removal and maiming applications are a Level 4-6 response.  (20 hours of classroom and practical application) Officer Certification is awarded upon completion.


MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING

Advanced Combative Training (ACT)

The ACT program is a continuing education program designed for intermediate and advanced physical unarmed and armed combative training against adversaries using only empty handed techniques such as strikes, blocks, kicks, takedowns and throws to render the opponent unable to respond.

The armed tactical training teaches an officer not only defensive tactics against a variety of weapons – bludgeons, edged weapons, guns and knives. The officer will be taught to deflect, re-direct and deploy methods of unarmed combat and use of said weapons in defense of her/his life. The techniques are also taught to teach the officer how to retain and remove the adversary’s weapons. This course is on going and consists of six (6) 3-hour evening segments in six-week groups.

Intermediate ACT Training  (3 programs of 18-hours duration over a 6-week period. Officer Certification is awarded upon completion.

Advanced ACT Training (3 programs of 18-hours duration over a 6-week period). Officer Certification is awarded upon completion.

The officer will be qualified as a Tactical Arms and Combatives Trainer with the completion of the ACT advanced courses.


Cyclists Defense Systems (CDS)

For the civilian and police cyclist we offer a specialized program using the bicycle and the long shackle bicycle lock in a highly specialized program of property and personal defen

Defensive Riding30-minutes of step-by-step methods of riding defensively

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $29.95

Use of the Long Shackle Bicycle Long for Personal & Property Protection – A comprehensive program using a long shackle bicycle lock to secure your property and to protect the individual.

Videocassette and/or Video CD available - $29.95

72-page Official Training Manual to Accompany Video’s - $19.95