What is striking is the proposed response to incidents where there is an “immediate threat to life”. In essence, it recommends (and the government agrees) that in such circumstances you can only pull their thumb back, twist their wrist or put a finger behind their ear. Remember, this is at a time when someone is potentially dying due to violence.
It has now been announced that techniques including painful restraint will be taken out of the main syllabus and placed into “personal protection” training. Within the restraint system for the adult estate, the personal protection training was simplified mainly to punches and kicks as specialised techniques were deemed too complicated when under significant duress.
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