While we appreciate that the National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing have approved the national Personal Protection programme. It may also be that individual and or groups of police officers may wish to engage in supplemental training, that is both legally defensible and appropriate to their role(s).
Keisatsu Taiho-jutsu (Japanese; police - apprehend and restraint method) is a professional and proportionate system of officer safety training, which provides personal safety for both officers and police staff and enables the minimal force restraint of suspects.
It is approaches policing challenges from both a pragmatic and an ethical perspective.
Many of the complaints and political criticism leveled at police officers relate to the use of force while effecting arrests. Taiho-jutsu gives the officers the 'correct professional tools' to effect arrests, with a minimum of force. As such, this training will reduce compliants and criticism of police.
Donn Draeger in 'Modern Bujutsu and Budo' (1974), decribes the post-war development of Taiho-jutsu in Japan and as follows:
"Taiho Jutsu thus became an evolutionary method, complete and perfectly regularised, reflecting the influence of the values of Western culture.
....The purpose of applying the techniques was to cause as little damage as possible, avoid hurting offenders and criminals. The confrontation, the control in the reduction of violent individuals, would be carried out in a safe way, both for law enforcement officials and for criminals."
Taiho-jutsu personal defence and arresting techniques are practiced in a manner that encourages officers to exercise a calm, authoritive seld-disciplined persona. This enables officers to be seen as acting professionally, while protectecting the public, themselves and suspected offenders.
The Japanese Police 'Keisatsu Kyōkasho Taiho-jutsu-hen' (Police Textbook: Taiho-jutsu Techniques - Publ. 1950) states:
"When it comes to applying arrest techniques on the ground, one tends to forget the basic knowledge and techniques, and to use one's strength in a haphazard manner, or to hurt one's opponent unnecessarily due to momentary emotion. Therefore, one should always study and innovate, master the required techniques, and train to remain calm under all circumstances. In other words, one must be mentally prepared and prepared to apply the techniques to achieve the objective of the arrest to the minimum extent necessary, depending on the level of the opponent's attack."
Taiho-jutsu system is science and experience based sysyem. That it is underpinned by a deep understanding of body mechanics and also in the associated medical implications related to application of techniques. As such, it is legally defendable, while still affording officers and police staff the levels of protection that they justifiably deserve.
It should be noted that Japanese Police (Keisatsu) Taiho-jutsu (警察逮捕術) is not related to the U.K. Tomikli Aikido based system that adopted the term 'Taiho Jutsu' and was at one time taught to provincial police forces in the U.K..