Nat'l Police Commissioner Lo Chang & Chief Instructor Chris Mar

1985 Nat'l Special Weapons & Tactics 1st Div Review

 

1.      The Combat Protocol must be exclusive to Special Tactics use. Its training and methodologies are classified and unavailable to the general public.

2.      The Selection and Approvals of the Training Systems and the Instructors must be free of any Conflict of Interest, Preferential Treatment or Influence Peddling.

3.     The Training Methodology must be non-contradictory to law enforcement purposes of interdiction. The training must tightly integrate close quarters extraction, combat marksmanship and assault team tactics. The combat system must pass real-time rigorous testing for effectiveness and accordingly comply with the highest international Codes and Standards for Law Enforcement.

 

The Selection

After months of testing and analyzing over 300 systems and instructors, the National Police Administration Special Training Division selects APA Tactical as the official Tactical CQC. APA’s simultaneous counter attack methodology centered on terror interdiction through high-speed extraction, tactical riot, close security and advanced formation deployment. In the following months Chief Instructor Chris Mar trains Team Leader Jerry Chen and 15 officers, forming the APA Instructors Demo Team.

APA is a process of reasoning. The methodology is based on the Root Common Denominators of human posture, motion and dynamics. APA is an integration protocol. APA is thresholds training and is always fundamental. The most important fundamental of APA is that it is a complete Simultaneous System. There is no division on the attack and protect phase. The protection cycle is either slip, duck or check and attack is before the preparation, during the battery or upon mutual equalities, by force, fraud or pace, to control, by escape, progressive indirect, Simultaneous Multiple Action Process and always through the transition.

In the first year

The first group of 300 National Police Instructors underwent 10 weeks of special tactics training which included 120 hours of APA, 80 hours of Combat Marksmanship and 100 hours of Assault Team Dynamics, inclusive of specialized structure clearing, dynamic entry, stress marksmanship, tactical rappel, and advanced high speed vehicle control. Immediately thereafter, exemplary officers from various departments became the First Division of Special Tactics Teams and successfully completed 8 weeks of 12 hours per day, 6 days per week intensive training.