Archive for the Violence Category

June 7, 2010 / Body Language, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Attack rituals – We need to trust our instincts if we are to avoid being attacked

All killers go through an attack ritual before they start their attack – I have talked at length about these types of rituals before on the blog. In my previous post I talked about the three types o

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May 19, 2010 / Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Positional Asphyxia and how not to restrain someone?

There was a sad story in the media this week about a shoplifter who unfortunately died in police custody. These stories are always sad and I don’t know how the person in this particular case died bu

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May 5, 2010 / Prison Service, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Prison officers deserve regular good quality self defence training

The recent shocking and violent attack in Armley prison on a prison officer tells me that the officers are still very vulnerable in what is still a very dangerous job. He was reportedly looking after

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April 21, 2010 / Legislation, Violence / Darren Good

Why do police value a proven criminal’s statement the same as an innocent man?

I read an interesting story yesterday about a man, Mr Roberts from Nottingham, who protected his mother’s home by stabbing two burglars. The man had been charged with murder but he was acquitted thi

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April 19, 2010 / Conflict Management, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Telephone tips: Conflict resolution on the telephone?

I am writing this post to hopefully pass on some advice on how to deal with conflict on the telephone. I was giving a conflict resolution training course in London last week, so this is still very fre

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April 12, 2010 / Body Language, News, Personal Safety, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Why I believe the G20 officer got away with it!

I heard this story on the news the other day and to be honest it’s not that surprising this police officer was cleared of the charges. Even if it may be viewed by an outsider as being over zealous o

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March 22, 2010 / Personal Safety, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Seven top tips to help protect women against being attacked

Seven top tips to help protect women against being attacked

In the sad wake of the Claudia Lawrence anniversary I thought now would be a good time to highlight some personal safety tips for ladies that do a lot of networking or act as lone workers, basically p

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February 26, 2010 / Armed Forces, Martial Arts, Violence / Darren Good

The Royal Marines should improve their unarmed combat training

The Royal Marines should improve their unarmed combat training

This week I found this interesting article on our boys being trained by the US marines. There is a trend in the United States to seek out new the best martial arts systems and incorporate them into th

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February 15, 2010 / Martial Arts, Violence / Chris Norton

Shocking video examples of attacks on police officers

Here on the blog, Darren talks a lot about conflict resolution training and also about people working in the public sector being attacked by violent aggressors. He often looks at how these people can

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February 5, 2010 / Conflict Resolution, Violence / Darren Good

The NHS shouldn’t use Conflict Resolution Training as a tick box exercise.

I noticed a story this week that really saddened me to the core, the The Mirror’s article read: A charity was fined £30,000 yesterday for failing to protect a care worker stabbed to death by a

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