SOUTH AFRICA

We have been training Close Protection Personnel in  RSA since 1988.

We also train police personnel, and in recent times our Combatives has been oficially accepted as the system for the SAPS as well as a Metro Agency. In 2007 we trained the Instructor Cadre of the police program.

[On operations with the Public Order Policing Service.This was a major heli-borne op involved the Commandos also -note army personnel in background]

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Some of the RSA CQB Instructors include:-

[Kobus & Hills, Internal Stability Unit]

[Rick, on a high-risk protection task]

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COMBATIVES GROUP INSTRUCTORS

Our Instructor Program is a long, arduous process. We guarantee that anyone who is certified by us is worthy of the qualification.

[Generation-one Combatives Instructors:

Standing Mark, John D, Den, Patrick, Steve

kneeling, Matt, Si, John P]

 

[Mark Gittins; Gen-1 Hard Skills Instructor, and Close-contact Weapons Instructor]

[Mika, an internationally certified Subject-matter-expert on WW-2 Combatives demonstartes a stick face-bar on Carlo, Combatives Hard Skills Instructor.

Mika is the man to contact for training in Sweden, while Carlo is our man in Italy ]

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Phil Matthews is our Subject-matter-expert in historical research

The next generation…

Generation-two instructors were certified at the end of 2005.

Standing James, Phil, Giles, Gavin, Dave

kneeling Tony, Mark, Den, Peter, Al ]

{note Mark was recieving his Weapons Instructor certificate}

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GENERATION THREE

The latest group of Instructors was certified in June 2007:

Shackleton, Brian, Larry, Dave and Ian with Den.

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GENERATION FOUR

[Denis McGee, Steve Simonds, Mark Ganaden, Den, Ben Barnard, Peter Wilson, Si Porter]

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RSA LAW ENFORCEMENT C.Q.B. INSTRUCTOR PROGRAM

We held this ground-breaking program in Spring 2007. Candidates came from various units of the South African Police, Ekurhuleni Metro Police and Jo’Burg Metro.

The program included arduous conditioning training and testing.

[The class after a conditioning test involving ten sets of Ton-ups]

Mika, our guy in Sweden, came down to Jo’Burg to help train the guys

[This program produced our first female CQB Instructor, Nonte, seen here with Den]

SWISS INSTRUCTOR PROGRAM

Following a training series culminating in 2008, the following were certified as instructors:

 [Matt , Simon Z, Fritz , Bruno

kneeling, Simon B and Den]

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