October 31, 2011 / Legislation, Physical restraint, Prison Service, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / PBrereton
Changes to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 have come into force recently mean that any death whilst in custody comes within the remit of this act. This means that not only t
July 26, 2011 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Good Sense News, Legislation, News, NHS, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Violence / Darren Good
I’ve been reading a few blogs recently about Lion Steel Ltd.who are the second company to be charged under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 since its implementation. This i
July 20, 2011 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Door Supervisor Training, Good Sense News, Legislation, News, Personal Safety, Violence / Darren Good
I want to share with you a tragic and ongoing situation that raises a number of interesting points for me around physical intervention strategies when dealing with conflict. The situation concerns fou
June 27, 2011 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Good Sense News, News, Personal Safety, POLITE Model, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good
I was doing a fun run with my 14 year old son at the weekend and it reminded me how ever present the potential for conflict is. It started with the usual heated debate with my wife as we were rushing
June 7, 2010 / Body Language, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good
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
May 19, 2010 / Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good
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
May 5, 2010 / Prison Service, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good
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
April 21, 2010 / Legislation, Violence / Darren Good
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
April 19, 2010 / Conflict Management, Tips, Violence / Darren Good
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
April 12, 2010 / Body Language, News, Personal Safety, Tips, Violence / Darren Good
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