Control Tactics and Survival Skills (CTSS)

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.

Physical Control Component	CTSS	PPCT	Verbal Control Component	SD	Verbal Judo
Situational awareness	yes	no	Human physiology under stress	yes	no
Tactical communication	yes	no	Use of force model and application	yes	yes
Cooperative handcuffing - standing	yes	yes	Legal rights and responsibilities	yes	yes
Cooperative handcuffing - prone	yes	yes	Documenting an incident	yes	no
Handcuffing - overcoming moderate resistance	yes	yes	Personal safety considerations and tactics	yes	partial
Handcuffing uncooperative/combative subjects	yes	no	Baselining the environment and individuals therein	yes	no
Blocking single strikes	yes	yes	Assessing and predicting subject actions	yes	yes
Blocking multiple strikes	yes	no	Cognitive psychology	yes	no
Hand verses knife defense	yes	no	Assessing different mental states	yes	no
Baton verses knife defense	yes	no	Professional expections and strategies	yes	yes
Closed baton techniques	yes	yes	Communicating with subjects thinking rationally	yes	yes
Pain compliance control with closed baton	yes	no	Communicating with subjects with contaminated thinking	yes	no
Joint locks	yes	yes	Interviewing strategies	yes	yes
Pressure points	yes	yes
Weapon retention	yes	yes
Striking techniques	yes	yes
Ground fighting	yes	no

Taught a Predator Mindset

How to win a confrontation whether it be by using verbal or physical tactics. Winning hostile confrontations by attacking first and knowing how to initial Control Tactics Survival Skills.

Law Enforcement Tools & Tactics

Taught when and how to use your law enforcement tools and techniques to safely and effectively control a subjects behavior, within the specified Use Of Force Models.

Combat Fitness Skills

Real world confrontations are typically high intensity and low duration events. Combat Fitness trains the body to be prepared for the explosive speed and power requirements needed to prevail.

Developed Confidence with Training

Our reality based techniques are extremely effective and easy to learn, which produce graduates that are highly capable and extremely confident with their skills.

The Courses

Reality Based Personal Defense Training Solutions for your Business/Agency

Alberta Solicitor General Certified

CTSS Training

The verbal Control Tactics program are a modern, comprehensive suite of courses that encompass all aspects of communication in difficult situations. These courses are based on the latest in cognitive behavioral research and their application by expert frontline communicators.

The physical Control Tactics program are a compilation of techniques and skills learned and optimized in 30+ years of martial arts training and employment in law enforcement and as a Alberta Justice instructor. These techniques were learned from master-instructors around the world.

These verbal and physical control tactics will produce highly trained security professionals.

CTSS Instructor

Do you have the desire to teach control tactics?

Do you want to earn money teaching and certifying Peace Officers and Security Professionals in use of force?

There are separate instructor courses for verbal control tactics and physical control tactics, because the skill set is very different. The first step in becoming an instructor is completion of the complete verbal control and/or physical control tactics course(s).

Full Courses

• Strategic De-escalation (16 hrs)

• CTSS Level 2 (40 hrs)

Other CTSS courses

• Alberta Basic Security Training

• Tactical Communication (8 hrs)

• CTSS Level 1 - cooperative subjects (16 hrs)

• Protection Awareness for Women (4-6 hrs)

• Reality Based Knife Defense (4-6 hrs)

• Oleoresin Capsicum Spray Training

• Ground Fighting

• Basic Self Defense (4-6 hrs)

• Customized Training is available

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.

The Founder

Shawn Baker

is a 6th degree black belt in Ketto Ryu Ju-Jutsu and has been studying

martial arts for 25 years. Shawn is a control tactics instructor for

Alberta Justice and is a certified instructor in police defensive

tactics, officer safety, ground fighting, and knife defense.

Shawn is one of a few people in Canada to be certified as a Close

Quarter Combat Instructor by Gunnery Sergeant Hans Marrero (USMC,

Ret.), the former Chief hand to hand combat instructor of the United

States Marine Corps. Shawn is a member of I.L.E.E.T.A-International

Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association and served as a Law

Enforcement Officer for over 25 years.

Shawn is certified Use of Force Analyst through the Force Science

Institute and also a certified hypnotist through Omni Hypnosis Center

in Florida. He uses his knowledge to help people harness the power of

the human mind to enhance the physical and mental capabilities of the

people he trains.

With his experience and knowledge, Shawn identified deficiencies in

existing training programs. He has advocated tirelessly for revisions

to training programs so that officers are taught effective techniques.

The CTSS program brings those techniques to security professionals and

anyone working in a security-related field.

I truly believe my motto,

“There is no such thing as tough –

only trained and untrained.”

Shawn Baker

Founder / Instructor

Certified CTSS

Instructors

Name

Andrew Darragh

Bill Poon

Calen Paine

Chris Gessner

Courtenay Boyda

Craig Thiessen

Derek Sadler

Joe Casciaro

Kyle Needham

Maclean Kew

Marc Roy

Roselinda Partridge

Roy Jensen

Scott Power

Stephen Poburan

Victor Tam

William Norton

Contact #

780-667-3143

780-298-8320

780-667-9911

780-554-2973

780-716-6406

780-905-8993

780-983-5424

780-885-6404

587-357-9223

780-918-1593

780-297-6687

587-999-1173

780-224-4241

780-720-0128

403-348-3957

403-588-0629

780-206-5046

darragh.andrewm@gmail.com

billpooncma@gmail.com

calenpaine@gmail.com

chris@attactraining.com

courtenay.boyda@gmail.com

craig.thiessen@bpsk9.com

derektkd@gmail.com

joecasciaro@gmail.com

ctsswarrior@gmail.com

balances@shaw.ca

marcmjroy@gmail.com

rmdp@pyrescent.com

r.jensen@consol.ca

scott.power@gmail.com

spoburan@rdcounty.ca

vtam@townofpenhold.ca

wnorton@morinville.ca

CTSS Instructor Trainers

David VandenBrink

Pierrette Sharkey

780-5990122

780-554-2321

dgvandenbrink@hotmail.com

pierrette.sharkey@bpsk9.com

David G. Vanden Brink

Retired after 35 years of Law Enforcement including Corrections Canada (Institutional Emergency Response Team), RCMP (Tactical Team, Obstruction Removal Team and Containment Team) and Peace Officer (Team Player). Has experience in Judo holding 1st degree black belt.

Calen Paine

As founder and director of the Wise Warrior Gym for the last 18 years, Calen has more than 20 years of experience in personal protection and self-defense training. He has studied and become proficient in many combative disciplines, including Tacical Combat Systems, I.S.R. Matrix, Blauer Tactical Systems, Boxing, Kickboxing, Brazilian Ju Jitsu, Filipino Martial Arts, Kung Fu and others.

Calen has taken information from a wide variety of sources and organized it into the most effective, progressive, learning and training system to be found anywhere. A training system based on REAL life, REAL martial art, and REAL self defense.

The Wise Warrior Gym offers qualified, professional instruction, in an environment that promotes personal development and physical fitness.

WEBSITE

Derek Sadler

Master Derek Sadler, ChPC, PFT, NCCP

Certified 7th Dan Black Belt

CEO / Master Instructor - Precision Martial Arts Academy (PMAA)

Vice President - Alberta Taekwondo Association (ATA)

• Certified 7th Dan Black Belt (WTF)

• Certified 5th Dan Black Belt (Chang Moo Kwan)

• Certified - Control Tactics and Survival Skills (CTSS)

• Certified - Alberta Basic Security Training (ABST)

• Alberta & BC Security License

• Certified - Personal Fitness Trainer & Sports Performance Specialist

• Coaches of Canada Chartered Professional Coach (ChPC)

• Dynamic Fitness Professional for over 20 years

• NCCP Multi-sport A / B / HP Modules

• Taekwondo Canada (TC) Certified Assistant Instructor (AI)

• TC Certified Dojang Coach (DC)

• TC Certified AI & DC Learning Facilitator (LF)

• TC Certifed AI & DC Evaluator

• TC Certified National Poomsae Coach

• TC Certified N1 Kyorugi Referee

• TC Certified N2 Poomsae Judge

• 34 years of Martial Arts Training & Education

• 26 years of Taekwondo Training & Education

• Creator/Founder & Provincially recognized Instructor of Core Kick-boxing™

Proud Father of 2 beautiful daughters, Kassandra & Taylor

Maclean Kew

Certified under the Alberta solicitor general as a Trainer under s.14(2) of the SSIA ministerial regulation for:

* accredited basic security training course,

* accredited Baton/use of force course,

* Alberta basic security training course.

Certified as a security professional in Alberta under the Security

Services and Investigators act.

Training:

* International Taekwondo Federation, 1st degree black belt, since 1995

* Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, 2016/2017

* International Krav Maga Federation, since 2015

Level 1 swim coach, National coaching certification program of Canada (NCCP) and Swim Canada/Swim Alberta.

Active Swim instructor status with the Canadian Red Cross, since 2006.

Active Instructor status with the Lifesaving Society of Alberta,

Lifesaving Instructor, National Lifeguard Instructor since 2015/2016.

First responder with St. John Ambulance.

Other Interests include swimming, cycling, running, gymnastics, spring board diving. I am also an active Law student at MacEwan University In Edmonton Alberta, since 2016.

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