Extraction Tactics/ Car, Cell and Street (Part-2)

“Vehicle Extractions / Unarmed Tactics ”

Author: Odhinn Kohout

Space is restrictive when dealing with removing a person from a vehicle and because of this it is very difficult to get much leverage. Due to the fact that you are leaning in with your hips back, the Officer also risks injury to his lower back if he is trying to use only brute strength to pull the occupant towards him. Think of it as trying to do a dead lift with the barbell a foot or more away from your shins.

Suspect hand positions:

The far hand may be hidden from view either down by the suspects side or grabbing the back of the seat. As you enter past the door frame to secure the person under arrest anticipate a sucker punch attack or sudden appearance of a weapon from this hidden hand.

Seat Belts:

It may seem obvious but…under stress with an elevated heart-rate causing tunnel vision you may not see that the criminal is wearing a seatbelt. It will be impossible to extract the bad guy unless it has been removed. 

Extraction Technique 1/ Head & Arm Triangle:

Once the seat belt has been removed a very secure way to maintain control over the person to be extracted is to use a gable grip with a head/arm triangle. This will give you control over the head and near arm as a secure “handle” to pull the occupant towards you. Concentrating on the arm alone is not enough as the drive will instinctively pull his body weight away to the passenger side.

   

 

Extraction Technique 1/ Cross Face:

From the same entry we can use our left hand to “cross-face” the driver under his left side “malar bone” (cheek) affecting the nerve and going behind the neck with the right hand securing a gable grip. As we have noted in previous training blogs the reflexive response of the person being cross-faced is to reach up and grab the hands to release the pain. This will maintain the subject’s hands in plain view so that you can clearly see them at all times during the extraction.

These two techniques present minimal risk of any injury and are pain compliance in nature. They are easy to teach and can be performed under stress due to being gross motor skill based. We will look at additional extraction methods from vehicles in future articles.

 

     

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