Joe Ferrera DT Instructor Trainer, Site Researcher and Technical Consultant.

(affectionately known as “Little Joe”) began his teaching career in 1974    teaching martial arts to civilians.  His law  enforcement career began in 1977 as a Protection Officer with the Federal Reserve Bank in Detroit, Michigan.   He has since served in the following capacities:
Deputy Sheriff: Corrections Division of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department  (6 Years)
Police Officer: Municipal police agency bordering Detroit. Currently on shift patrol as a member of this 160 officer department (since 1985).  He has experience as:

Patrol Officer, FTO, Directed Patrol Unit Member, Department Training Officer, SERT Team, Leader/Operator, Detective (Narcotics/Vice/Surveillance), Background Investigator, Lead
Instructor in Subject Control and Use of Force Training  (including firearms) Researcher with the Training Unit developing officer training and evaluating equipment Certified Instructor in several
use of force disciplines from verbal skills to firearms. Staff Instructor: Oakland County Community College Police Academy and Reserve Academy in  Auburn Hills, Michigan. Technical Consultant/On Air Talent:  Law Enforcement Training Network and Caliber Press, the Professional Security Training Network as well as the Police Corp.  Subject Matter Expert/Instructor Trainer  for the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (M.C.O.L.E.S.) and member of commission’s team that was tasked to rework the State’s police academy standards for  Defensive Tactics. Presenter: ASLET, IALEFI, PPCT, and the Advanced Law Enforcement Training Camp in Provo Utah. 

National and International Instructor: United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, training local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel in various aspects of  Use of Force and Subject Control.  Traveled to Tokyo Japan (1989) with a group of Defensive Tactics Instructors from the United States, and trained in various locations in the Metropolitan
Tokyo area with Japanese law enforcement agencies. Expert Witness:  Currently serving as
court approved witness for departments/municipalities involved in litigation regarding use of force cases (Officer Ferrera may be contacted for more details/information).

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Lawrence (Larry) Jackson has spent the greater part of his career teaching difficult subjects to difficult audiences.  Whether it was teaching new police recruits, or seasoned law enforcement veterans, Larry has been called upon to deal with issues and topics that most of us would choose not to acknowledge; survival in life and death situations.

Over the last 20 years, Larry has taught such topics as Arrest and Control Tactics, Violent Patient Management, Firearms, and Sexual Assault Prevention programs.  His enthusiastic and high energy presentation style complements the serious material of his basic and instructor programs in PPCT Defensive Tactics, Violent Patient Management, and Women’s Self Defense,

In addition to being a law enforcement use of force instructor, Larry works extensively with security and non law enforcement personnel to bring them safety strategies and skills.

His newest training program has met with enthusiastic reviews.  Specially designed for human service workers who must go into homes and residences, the Visitors NOT Victims program teaches students to recognize environmental, verbal, and physical signs of impending physical violence.  The program teaches participants simple and effective techniques to de-escalate or deal with the violence before it gets to a critical point. 

A 23 year police veteran, Larry holds a black belt in Aikido and Masters degree from Michigan State University.  Larry also holds the title of Certified Protection Professional (CPP) awarded to him by the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) the international professional security organization as well as being a Certified Law Enforcement Trainer(CLET). He is currently a full-time Faculty member with responsibility for teaching law enforcement skills at a community college in Michigan

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Over 12 years ago Steve got his passion for training when he started his career as a police cadet and assistant to the training officer of a state universities police department.  Since then Steve has served in many capacities, both in the public and private sectors.  Including serving on a Metro Detroit Police Department, and working in retail, medical, - corporate security settings.

Steve specializes in training in the private sector, brining with him a vast knowledge of private sector security and the many dynamics training, especially use of force training brings.  Steve has consulted several corporations on their training programs - policies concerning training and use of force. 

Recently, Steve served as a Shift Sergeant and Use of Force instructor for a major health care provider’s Private Police Department, certified under Michigan P.A. 330.  Currently Steve is the Operations Supervisor - Training Coordinator for a national insurance provider’s Corporate Security Department.  For the last several years Steve has taught First Aid, CPR - AED at a local community college.  Steve is also on staff at a local police academy teaching at the regular and reserve officer academies.  

Steve is an instructor in the following disciplines: Pressure Point Controls, Defensive Tactics, Spontaneous Knife Defense, Handcuffing, Handgun Retention, Baton techniques, Subject Control, Sexual Harassment Assault and Rape Prevention (SHARP), Chemical Aerosol Spray Restraint, Weapon Disarming, Shotgun, First Aid, CPR - AED.  

Steve is currently a member of American Society for Industrial Security International, American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, International Law Enforcement Educator’s and Trainer’s Association, International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, The American Women’s Self Defense Association, Crime Prevention Association of Michigan, and The Metro Detroit Police Emerald Society. 

“Let No Man’s Ghost Say That My Training Failed Him”