Principles of Stabilization and Control - Instructor

Become authorized to teach how to apply physical control, protect, and stop-the-threat alternatives

Type:                      Instructor

Format:                  Onsite Instructor-Led

Length:                  Five Days

Price:                     $3,997 Per Person

Audience:               Organizational Instructors

Prerequisite:           Non-Escalation, De-Escalation, and Crisis Management - Instructor

This program trains how to make a justifiable and desirable decision to physically engage in a situation and, once this decision is made, how to:

• Control subjects engaging in behaviors causing or likely to cause physical harm
• Protect oneself against aggression and violence
• Stop the threat in situations with risk of great bodily harm or death
• Follow-through (stabilize, restrain, monitor, debrief, search, escort, transport, turnover, release)
• Safely and effectively end the interaction

The prerequisite for this training is the Vistelar Non-Escalation, De-Escalation, and Crisis Management training program. Supplemental training programs include impact weapons (baton), chemical aerosols, and weapon control.

• Refusing to cooperate with a direction or a request that is necessary to keep self and others safe
• Unsafe behaviors that could cause harm to self or others
• Fleeing or escaping when it is unsafe to do so
• Hurting or threatening to hurt self or others
• Committing a crime or act of violence
• Exhibiting any other behaviors requiring physical intervention that is necessary to prevent death or serious bodily harm to self or others

• Develop a guardian mindset
• Perform effective risk and threat assessments
• Recognize when verbal methods have failed and it is necessary to take further action
• Make a justifiable and desirable decision to physically engage
• Safely, and effectively engage — individually or as a team — using control, protect, and stop the threat alternatives
• Implement appropriate follow-through considerations to end interactions with the best possible outcome
• Debrief, document, and report violent incidents
• Articulate the reasons for taking action