Side Handle Baton

Includes training in the use of the standard police baton, the flashlight, the riot baton, and the various expandable batons currently available. This course is good for a Riot Team Leader, which focuses on tactics and baton/shield techniques.

Side Handle Baton course is designed to promote safe and efficacious use of the side handle baton.

The participant will learn and understand the situations that allow for the use of the side handle baton, the components of side handle baton use including psychomotor skills involved in side handle baton application, proper means of instruction and testing, and theoretical background in order to develop agency specific programs. Additionally the Participant will be aware of the probable medical implications associated with these techniques and review the physiology of a confrontation, biomechanical principles of side handle baton tactics and how they relate to instruction and force-systems implementation.

The areas specifically covered are:

Baton Nomenclature
Baton Physics
General Guidelines for use of side- handle baton
Side handle baton principles
Warm-up and strengthening exercises
Side handle baton Techniques
Expandable side handle baton techniques
Side handle baton riot techniques
Conduct of safe and effective training
Testing, Open and Closed side handle baton Skills

Side handle baton course designed to promote reasonable side handle baton tactics that effectively and efficiently deal with assaultive-level resistors.

Instructor Certification:
Cost: $400.00 Per Student
Duration: 16 Hours

User Certification:
Cost: $200.00 Per Student
Duration: 8 Hours

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