40 POST Hours Approved!

Location: MLEA , 2260 Sierra Rd.E., Helena, MT

This integrated comprehensive course of instruction will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to deploy force legally and tactically as a means of defense or to affect an arrest.

• • Survival & Escape Strategies: The Montana Law Enforcement Academy Defensive Tactics Instructor curriculum trains students to use proven techniques to neutralize the initial barrage of strikes and escape from a subject to regain a position of advantage.
  • Weapon Retention Techniques:  weapon retention principles that will defeat an attacker’s attempt to disarm the officer from any position in the fight, standing or on the ground.
  • Tactical De-escalation: non-violent submission holds, with emphasize on strikes and de-escalation.
  • Arrest & Control Procedures:  highly effective handcuffing techniques that can be applied from any position in the fight and are effective in both solo and multi-officer arrest scenarios.
  • Use of Force: Instructors need to understand how to apply agency-specific use of force policies as well as the Graham Use of Force Calculus to all defensive tactics techniques.

Pre-requisites: This is a physically demanding course that is taught at the instructor level. A prospective instructor student should have at least an introductory background in a grappling or proven defensive tactics/combative program. This is not a “show up and you will pass” course.

Mandatory:

• Within 90 days of class start date, prospective instructor students must conduct an MPAT with a time of 5:00 or below.
• Review FLETC Use of Force Parts I-IX (https://www.fletc.gov/use-force-part-i). A multiple-choice exam on Use of Force will be administered Monday morning.

At least one of the following:

• Graduate of LEOB class #177 or later
• Graduate of CDOB class #177 or later
• Graduate of P&P basic class # 33 or later
• Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blue belt or higher
• Judo orange belt or higher
• High School wrestling varsity letter
• Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) gray belt or higher
• Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) level 1
• Gracie Survival Tactics Level 1 graduate
• Team Hardy Ground Tactics Basic Level 1 Coach’s Course certificate
• High School Wrestling varsity letter
• Code4Combat (C4C) Police Jiu Jitsu Level 1 certificate
• Krav Maga level 2 or higher
• Effective Force Combatives Instructor certification
• Shivworks Extreme Close Quarters Concepts graduate
• Other experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

CHANGE: Fee: $300 no lunch provided but can be purchased for $10.00. Breakfast $8.00, Lunch $10.00, Dinner $10.00 Full Meal Plan $28.00.

CHANGE: Lodging is $25.00 per night.

NOTE: You will be billed after completion of your training.

Registration: MLEAAcadis

Point of contact: Matt Smith 444-9958 [email protected]