I don't know much in the way of details but a friend joined our sheriff's department in his 40's just a few years ago. It sounded like their combatives was pretty vigorous, so much so it included full bore padded fighting and boxing. So much so he broke a bone in his hand hammering somebody. He's a solid dude. Nobody would want to fight that guy.
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In '91, not terribly long after an event involving a "motorist," I was at the LAPD academy for tactics class with a bit of shooting. Worked into that was a few hours of team swarming to take people down.
My office occasionally taught something like that over the years. When you have a few seconds to assign roles, it can work. Harder to pull off if people are arriving over time - unless someone clearly sees the opening.
We were taught to work in teams doing cell extractions, escorts riot control and some medical.
Force on force was an Everday occurrence.at a City Jail I started at.
I was lucky to have for the most part worked with good Brass who had your back if used combative skills that you knew from the Street on the job.
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