PPDT Master Instructors
David A Standen
David A. Standen has been a police officer for twenty-nine years.
As a police officer with the Springfield (MA) Police Department he has worked patrol, as a DEA Task Force Agent and as the Senior Staff Instructor, primary Defensive Tactics and Physical Fitness Instructor for Springfield Recruit Police Academy. He has assisted in writing several policies for the Springfield Police Department and was an original member and trainer for the Tactical Response Unit.
For fifteen years, Standen worked as the Defensive Coordinator for the Municipal Police Training Committee, which is the State agency responsible for Police Training and Standards for all municipal Police Departments in Massachusetts.
In that position, he has written the State’s 12 Module Defensive Tactics Program and Use of Force Program. He has certified and re-certified hundreds of instructors in Defensive Tactics, OC, Baton and Use of Force.
Standen has been a Defensive Tactics Instructor for twenty-seven years and has trained thousands of Police, Corrections, Military and Civilian personnel in a number of areas; including all aspects of Defensive Tactics, Use of Force, Firearms, Patrol Procedures and Physical Fitness. He is certified in numerous disciplines relating to Defensive Tactics, Use of Force and Firearms and is a frequent presenter at ASLET, ILEETA and Monadnock Seminars.
He is also the founder and master instructor for COP Tactics Training Systems.
Officers that have attended COP Tactics classes say that they are the most realistic and “street” worthy courses that they have ever attended.
Standen has trained hundreds of instructor across the country in Defensive Tactics, Use of Force, Motor Vehicle Stops and Instructor Development.
He has co-author of two books entitled Vehicle Stops: Safety Strategies and Tactical Procedures and Terry Stops: Safety Strategies and Tactical Procedures. He became a Monadnock International Instructor in 1994 and was appointed to the Monadnock Training Council Advisory Board in 2005.
Officer Standen Qualifications
- Cop Tactics Master Instructor
- PPDT International Instructor
- Black Belt - Ishinryu Karate
- Monadnock International Instructor
- Lots of other Certifications
Russell Stutely
Russell Stutely has been acknowledged as Europe's No.1 Expert on Pressure Points.- Europe's No.1 Pressure Point Expert
- PPDT International Instructor
- Cop Tactics Master Instructor
- OCFM International Coach - The leading resource for
- Martial Arts / Self Protection Coaches
- BCA Senior Instructor - The UK's most prestigious Self
- Defense Organisation
- 6th Dan Karate Jutsu
- Fight Coach
- Dan Grades in Various Arts - About 5 now!