PPCT Management Systems, Inc. Training Courses
PPCT Pressure Point Control Tactics Instructor School
The PPCT Pressure Point Control Tactics course was the first subject control system designed based on tactical, legal and medical research. It was originally developed as a supplement to existing defensive tactics or impact weapon systems. The course focuses on two primary areas: controlling low-level resistance with finger tip touch pressure to nerve pressure points and controlling high-level resistance with defensive counter strikes and the baton, which produce motor dysfunctions and controlled stuns.
PPCT Defensive Tactics Instructor School
The PPCT Defensive Tactics System is the first subject control system developed through tactical, legal and medical research. Tactically, the system addresses the most common types of resistance officers encounter, allowing the instructor to maximize training on job related techniques. Legally, the PPCT System teaches a simple use of force continuum that clarifies the appropriate force level for every level of resistance. Medical research was conducted on every PPCT technique to refine technique efficiency and to ensure the medical implications were proportional to the level of resistance.
Disruptive Student Management Instructor Course
The PPCT Disruptive Student Management Course is designed to control the physical actions of student violence. This course does not explore the psychology of violence or the socioeconomic or family issues that lead to violence. Instead, the course focuses on controlling actions of physical violence directed at another student, a teacher, or another staff member. The techniques are very specific to actions of physical violence that teachers commonly encounter. They are not based on a general premise of self-defense that simply utilizes martial arts techniques; rather they are based on principles of control and/or evasion.
PPCT Dynamic Simulation Instructor School
This 40-hour course is designed to teach students to teach others how to create and facilitate court-defensible practical learning simulations that closely replicate the environments and stress levels officers face in real-life street situations, to allow students to experience such events in a safe learning environment where they can make mistakes and learn from them without risk to their personal safety. The basic principles and procedures covered in this program can be applied to firearms, defensive tactics, aerosol weapons, batons, or virtually any other type of physical skill training applicable to the criminal justice field. This course prepares students to instruct the PPCT Dynamic Simulation basic course; refines the students knowledge base; and presents instructional methods for teaching survival skills.
PPCT Escape and Evasion Instructor School
The PPCT Escape and Evasion Instructor Course provides insight into the principles of avoidance, escape, and evasion. It reviews the sympathetic nervous systems impact on survival; reviews techniques for avoiding pending aggression by becoming aware of certain threat cues; reviews techniques for countering and escaping from escalating levels of physical threats; refines the students physical technique; and presents instructional methods for teaching survival skills.
PPCT Inmate Control Instructor School
The PPCT Inmate Control System is the first subject control system developed through tactical, legal and medical research. Tactically, the system addresses the most common types of resistance officers encounter, allowing the instructor to maximize training on job related techniques. Legally, the PPCT Inmate Control System teaches a simple use of force continuum that clarifies the appropriate force level for every level of resistance. Medical research was conducted on every PPCT technique to refine technique efficiency and to ensure the medical implications were proportional to the level of resistance.
PPCT (GAGE) Ground Avoidance Ground Escape Instructor School
The PPCT Ground Avoidance Ground Escape Course is designed to teach students how to avoid being taken to the ground and how to effectively escape if they do find themselves there. It reviews tactics for both open and narrow environments; reviews the four most common ground positions and escapes. refines the students physical technique; and presents instructional methods for teaching survival skills.
PPCT Weapon Retention and Disarming Instructor School
The PPCT Weapon Retention and Disarming System is a simple system based on gross motor skills. Based on tactical, legal and medical research, the course examines the issues a student needs to consider in preparing mentally and physically to disarm an assailant and presents the basic steps in both the PPCT weapon retention and weapon disarming systems.
PPCT Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention (SHARP) Instructor School
The PPCT Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention (SHARP) course has been specifically designed to meet the needs of women when control methods and assault prevention methods are required. Principles and strategies for effectively reducing the likelihood of assault through actual techniques of countering an attack are stressed in this program. Utilizing efficient and effective methods of subject control that do not rely on size and strength, PPCT has developed a training system that can be used by just about everyone who is interested in personal safety.
PPCT Spontaneous Knife Defense Instructor School
The PPCT Spontaneous Knife Defense System is designed to meet the needs of students who are confronted by a spontaneous knife assault and unable to retrieve a weapon. It is based upon a realistic, yet highly aggressive, check-and-stun philosophy that employs gross motor skills that are compatible with the affects of survival stress. It reviews the fundamentals of basic knife systems; reviews the common grips, types of strokes, and lines of attack; and reviews defense strategies for both stalking assaults and spontaneous assaults inside the reactionary gap.
PPCT Tactical Team Close-Quarter-Countermeasures Instructor School
The PPCT Tactical Team Close-Quarter-Countermeasures Course is designed to provide tactical team operators with non-lethal force options. The course prepares operators to use a simple and systematic CQC system designed for apprehending subjects during dynamic entries, hostage rescue or to control a surrendering subject.
PPCT Violent Patient Management Instructor Course
Health care facilities and services are constantly faced with the increased violence toward their staff. The PPCT Violent Patient Management System is specifically designed to control patient violence using medically approved techniques that meet the control needs of staff, while meeting the liability concerns of administrators. It was developed from the medically researched PPCT subject control systems, designed over twenty years ago for the criminal justice community. The techniques are designed to assist staff personnel in controlling patients for medical treatment or in defending themselves in the case of an unexpected assault. All of the techniques have been medically researched and approved by four different medical studies (available upon request). These techniques meet the control needs of staff, while meeting the liability concerns of administrators.
PPCT
Escape
SHARP
DSM
SKD
GAGE
Dynamic Sim
Inmate Control
VPM
Weapon Retention
CQC
DT
Mr. Siddle is internationally recognized as an expert in the study of combat human factors, survival human factors and use of force training. Mr. Siddle is often credited as the pioneer who initiated the study of survival stress and how it impacts performance. His pivotal research into the influence of the Sympathetic Nervous System on perceptual processing, cognitive processing, motor performance and memory, is now widely incorporated in all facets of use of force and survival skills training. Mr. Siddle is the author of 29 articles and abstracts on varying aspects of survival stress and performance, and has funded and coordinated 38 research projects.
He has been a consultant for the U.S. Dept. of Navy’s Redcell, U.S. Dept. of Army’s Delta Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Dept. of State’s Mobile Security Unit, U.S. Dept. of Defense, U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, the U. S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team and Firearms Training Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Hostage Rescue Unit, Federal Aviation Administration Air Marshals, and various military special operation/warfare units since 1986. He has provided five training contracts to the Hong Kong government since 1988. Between 1994 and 1996, he completed four training contracts for United Kingdom police and prison agencies, and a close-in-protection contract for the Queen of England’s personal protection unit (Royal Protection Group). Mr. Siddle was also a contract instructor for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1988 to the spring of 2000.
Mr. Siddle’s passion is researching and writing. He is the author of Sharpening the Warrior’s Edge, the first text to provide a scientific explanation into survival stress responses, such as visual narrowing, auditory exclusion, hypervigilence and why survival performance often deteriorates. His newest publication Warrior Science, the Study of Combat Human Factors will be released in 2011. He is now writing a third text, Combat Human Factors, with the assistance of his two sons Jonathan and Kevin, which encapsulates a two-year research project on stress and firearms performance.
This section contains all of the forms necessary to initiate and follow up a class with PPCT. You may download the forms below and follow their instructions for submission or you may complete them using the links posted to the right. If you have any questions concerning these forms, please contact Tracy or Annette here in the office at 618-476-3200 during regular office hours.
We are also developing these same forms online, if you do not wish to use the forms we have traditionally used in the past. These are close to being completed and interested parties will find them in this section once they are completed and ready.
TCR Form
CA Form
TIR Form
All of the courses that are registered with PPCT are included on the calendar to the right. If you have any questions about the calendar or any courses on the calendar, please go to the contact page and call the office.
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Contact Us
Tel: 618-476-3200
Fax: 618-476-3221
609 S. Breese
Millstadt, IL 62260
