The Mission

To provide peace officers and security personnel with reality based verbal and physical control tactics that work as well on the street as they do in the classroom.

Control Tactics and Survival Skills (CTSS) Canada offers two broad classes of instruction:

• Verbal control tactics

• Physical control tactics

The purpose of these programs is to ensure that officer skills comply with the accepted Use of Force model and provide street-usable techniques that allow the officer to perform in such a manner that the officers, subjects, and bystanders safety is maintained.

Security agencies recognize that Control Tactics training is a perishable skill, and thus requires ongoing training.

The Training

CTSS Training is certified by the Alberta Solicitor General.

CTSS Training is required for any security personnel to carry handcuffs and a baton.

The following tables compare the verbal control (Strategic De-escalation) and physical control (CTSS) courses with other available courses.

Control Tactics and Survival Skills (CTSS)

In 1986 I started my martial arts training and I received my 1st Degree Black Belt in 1992. Also in 1992 I got my first Law Enforcement job as a Peace Officer for the Summer Village of Seba Beach.

As part of the training I attended the training program at the Solicitor General Staff College which 1 week was for control tactics and self- defense. I remember being very disappointed in the control tactics I learned. The techniques taught were very basic and if any level of resistance were applied they were useless. The instructor would cover up this lack of control by saying “Things go down differently in the street. If something doesn’t work you just do what you have to do to survive.”

I knew that I knew a lot more than the instructor so I approached the department head of the training department and showed him the skills and reality based techniques I learned. I eventually became the Control Tactics Instructor at the Solicitor General Staff College and began teaching the skills and techniques I knew worked well even if the bad guy offered a lot of resistance. To this day I still train and certify Peace Officers in reality based self- defense control tactics and officer safety.

When the Government of Alberta started to regulate the security industry with respect to training, I saw this as an opportunity to train security officers . The general public and even unfortunately some law enforcement officers see security officers as untrained and uneducated. This attitude causes people to challenge a security officers authority more that if they were dealing with a police officer. I have trained security officers who do more physical arrests in a month than a police officer does in a year. I know security officers are more likely to be attacked by weapons than a police officer would.

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