29 New LOCKUP Instructors in MN and IA

Congratulations to the 29 officers who recently completed the L.O.C.K.U.P. ® Police Combat Arrest and Control Instructor Training. This intensive course held June 17 – 21, 2013 was hosted by the St Paul Professional Development Institute and Brooklyn Park MN Police Department.

As of the June 2013, 110 members of 48 different agencies such as the Federal Marshall Service out of  Arizona, Officers from Canada, Iowa, and North Dakota, have attended SPPD-PDI L.O.C.K.U.P. Instructor courses.  Brooklyn Park PD, Metro Transit PD, Hennepin County SO, Hennepin Medical Center, Duluth PD, MN State Patrol, Bloomington PD and others are using L.O.C.K.U.P. as a part of their DT system.  L.O.C.K.U.P. is the POST certified system for the entire states of Rhode Island and Connecticut.  In 2013, Lt Dillon will begin offering the 2^nd week of the Instructor course which covers handcuffing, weapon retention, edged weapon defense, and an extended curriculum.

What the attending students had to say.

Evaluation question. Please assess how this course met your expectation?

• “I have been a trainer for officer for use of force for nearly 18 years. This is the most comprehensive program I have ever experienced. I very much appreciate the thoughtfulness and work that has gone into this program.
• “Confidence and take downs and strikes.”
• “This excellent course went above and beyond my expectations.”
• “Learned a great deal of information that can be easily applied for the average streetcop.”
• “ This course explained everything very well.”
• “At first I was skeptical about stepping into hostile subjects, by weeks end I will not hesitate to take decisive force.”
•  “Much better than I expected.”
• “I came in a skeptic; I left a confident in the system.”
• “I was able to learn a great set of core techniques. It was very enjoyable.”
• “It was more comprehensive and physically demanding than I expected.”
• “I was apprehensive at first, being extensively trained in xxxx; however, after the first day I realized this is more than a combat system, but an entire approach to policing.”
• “Very good course, very informative and good techniques that can be brought back to our program.”
• “I was not excited to attend another 5 day DT course, but I was captivated the entire time.”
• “This course surpassed any expectation I had about an instructor course, the hands on and breakdown.”
• “Very happy with this course.”

Evaluation question. Please assess how the quality of this course met your expectation?

• “The course was well presented both in the classroom and in the practical exercises.”
• “Fantastic training material scenarios story references etc. “
• “There was no wasted time.”
• “Everything was carefully and well explained from foundations of movements and biological and physiological factors affecting officers.
• “Was a great balance of classroom in hands on.”
• “All materials and presentations were excellent. “
• “Excellent quality of professional throughout high quality.”
• “Absolutely everyone would take something away from it that would benefit them.”
• “Program is allowing me to bring back a bunch of new material, fresh material to officers.”
• “Enjoyed the practicality of the warm-ups.”
• “ Instructors broke down the skills, spoke clearly, plainly and insured they had full groups attention.”
• “All of the aspects of this program were enjoyable.”
• “The instructors were very helpful and knowledgeable of what they were training.”
• “All the instructors were great and very helpful.”
• “I like the atmosphere they created for the learning environment through their ability to teach lesson plan and keep high energy. Even on the back end of class, the stories were also great to hear to get perspective to what we were learning.”

 Please explain how this training will enable you to change or improvement your present assignment?”

• Bring a new more relevant program to our department.
• This will take out very outdated tactics training and provide officers with the new easy effective techniques will help me when I am running training we currently train lockup feel more comfortable going hands-on.
• The instructors didn’t excellent job of training how to teach.
• Tracking performance.
• I think it will help me in showing others how to act and react to different threats I hope it will give officers more confidence on the street. This will give me a fresh perspective to the job and how to help other officers and keep everyone safe thank you.
• This program will add additional techniques to our program in some technique replaced so we are currently using.
• More effective dynamic tools, specifically take downs.
• As the newest instructor in my department coming in with the new program which will enhance our overall presentation.
• Will help me improve officer safety as a trainer and I believe will help our troops come home not only alive but also in one piece and not injured.”
• “The instruction will be easy to bring back to the PD.”
  I have new tools for my job some of the techniques I learned are more effective than ones currently using.”
• We are completely switching to LOCKUP.”
• We needed this for a long time.”
• “In a long enforcement setting where I answer calls alone it will allow me to be better handling suspects.”
• “It will also allow me to go back to any department can teach what I’ve learned.”

The following agencies were represented:

• Brooklyn Park Police Department
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis MO
• Federal Reserve Police Minneapolis
• Hermantown MN PD
• Iowa Health – Des Moines Iowa
• MN-DNR Enforcement
• Mounds View Police Department
• MSP Airport PD
• Richfield Police Department
• Stillwater Police Department
• UST Public Safety
• South Lake Minnetonka PD
• Waseca Police Department
• West St Paul Police Department
• Wilkin County Sheriff’s Office