Police Training

[jedimc]

Jiu jitsu is a great art for law inforcement but what you said is very true, Jiu jitsu is a brutal art and mistakes can happen. Jiu Jitsu relies on brute force to keep the opponet down.

[Sam]

I think Venrix hit the nail on the head - you have completely different aims and limitations when defending your self as a citizen and when trying to apprehend / arrest someone - so of course the approach and moves are goign to be completely different. To that end most MA would have ot be adapted any way - also [in UK at least] you tend to send 2+ [up to 6 or 8] sorting out fights, rather than just the one, so i guess in that situation at least you always have another guy.

[man thing]

Thanks for everyone's replies, especially to those in law enforcement. I'm open-minded to every training method; I want to find what works best for me. I have recently talked to a couple different groups here in my area, and I'll try them out.

[BJJ is 1]

At my school today there was a police captain training with us (which was awsome because I want to be a police officer) he is a Black Belt in JKD concepts and Kali an also a Blue Belt in BJJ and he told me that he thought the 2 put together were perfect for Police officers

[ItalianMuayThai]

i think Ju jitsu would be great for law

enforcement

[CagedWarrior]

BJJ would be great just because of the grappling experience. You may not arm bar the guy you're arresting, but knowing how to start from a standing position to getting to a position and then getting off the move, you're going to be more familiar with the entire aspect of grappling and be better at it. Also, if it hits the fan, and you're on the ground in life threatening danger, BJJ is what you want to know.

Also, plain and simple boxing. I've heard of a group of bounty hunters (good ones) who require all their members box, because it's fist fighting! Ideally you'll never have to use it, but if it's throw down time with some suspect, knowledge of punching (defense and offense) would surely be useful if not necessary.

Keep in mind the police will teach you the basics of what you need to know, and I would expect a lot of it is based on having a gun on someone if you really need it. Just about anything you can learn from, say, Aikido, that would actually work for you (and I seriously doubt most of it would), will probably be gone over at least to some extent in your training. I'm imagining what skills an officer would need in serious trouble- and those two I listed, seems to me, are what you'd want the most. After all, as a police officer, I wouldn't expect you to study martial arts to apprehend someone in a standard case, I'd want the knowledge for the situations you hope will never happen to begin with.