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Old January 30, 2000, 08:18 AM   #26
pluspinc
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Join Date: December 30, 1999
Location: Mpls, MN. US
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Hey SKTAC..notice my little jab brought out MORE good info? You got it right.
There are a lot of things we shoudn't do and many things my training didn't cover. When in the academy they kept talking about "TACTICAL handcuffing" whatever that is. They showed us how to handcuff someone and told us what WE would do.
I thought it over and asked the instructor an interesting question.
" You keep saying what we will do etc. Last Friday night I had a problem I could have used your advice on. I had a 300+ pound highly intoxicated and pissed off Indian woman on a water bed that needed handcuffing. In the processing one offer lost his balance and fell out a window and it took four of us or more to get the job done. How could be have done it better?"
We took a lunch break and I got a dirty look.
The picture on that water bed looked like something in a Laurel and Hardy movie.
Training mostly shows us what happens in only ideal circumstances. I'm sure you and others have a smile by now, but years ago I did an article in SWAT magazine called, "When Superman has to go to jail." I have seen little in training that addresses those types. We have to sort of resort to OJT. I have the scars from that type of training. You have any? Sounds like you do.

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