“That’s the only thing that was kind of going through my head. “Don’t stand still, because if you stand still, you’re done,” he said afterward. Recruit Nich Flynn says he tried to keep his mind focused on the basics during his one-minute fight. The striking, I think, is the hardest part for me.” I wrestled throughout middle school and high school, so I went kinda towards that. “Ultimately I went to what I was used to, which is ground movement. “My assailant is an amazing fighter,” Corrales said with a chuckle. You don’t know if they’re going to say, ‘OK, yes, I’ll put my hands behind my back.’ You go in completely blind.” You don’t know if they’re going to attack you. “That’s all the information you have to go in. Try to get them arrested because they did have an assault,” said recruit Arlene Olguin. “ were saying that an individual pushed over the clerk at the Circle K and we had to go and address it. Recruits were told a generic scenario before donning head gear and fighting gloves, then meeting their assailant in a padded room. “You gotta really get yourself under control before you go into the situation.” “First thing I think of is to breathe, because that’s what they teach us to do is just breathe,” said recruit Alexandra Corrales. It’s part of the academy’s training to subdue someone posing a threat. The class involves TPD officers volunteering to play the role of a noncompliant suspect violently resisting arrest for one minute. Week Seven of their 24-week training brought their first ‘Padded Assailant Training.’

Since then, they have really turned it up a notch. When we last saw these recruits, they had just started their physical training. Protect and Swerve: TPD recruits get tested behind the wheel (KGUN) - We are following recruits on their journeys to become Tucson police officers, diving into what they see and feel along the way.īehind the Badge: TPD Recruits take on intense trainingīehind the Badge: Recruits' training stresses teamwork, accountabilityīehind the Badge: How TPD recruits train for suspects violently resisting arrest

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