Demi Barbito recently conducted training for the Department of Homeland Security. DHS sent tactics instructors from around the country for three days of defensive tactics training at the CSPT. The agencies represented were:

* US Customs and Border Protection Advanced Training Center - Harpers Ferry, WV.
* San Diego Sector Border Patrol Defensive Tactics Unit - San Diego, CA.
* Border Patrol Basic Academy -Artesia, NM.
* Customs and Border Protection Academy - Physical Techniques Division - Glynco, GA.

The training started with Counter Knife Training. This included long, medium and close range unarmed tactics for responding to a spontaneous knife attack. Also covered were tactics for a spontaneious knife attack at close range with a drawn firearm. The training also included Unarmed Counter Assault Tactics. The UCAT is a “best options - gross motor skill set” for reponding to an unarmed attack. After two days of learning tactics and moving through training methods the group did video taped scenario based modules which took them from a spontaneous unarmed attack into a spontaneous close range knife attack. The training ended on the third day with a video debreifing of the scenarios.