Iwakuni security officers get new basic training

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Marines with the Provost Marshal Office at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station train Japanese security guards with pepper spray Wednesday. The base enacted new handcuff and pepper spray training requirements for the foreign officers who guard base gates.


Iwakuni security officers get new basic training
By Travis J. Tritten, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, February 8, 2008

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — A misused handcuff can quickly become a serious problem, instructor Sgt. Hugh Sargent explained to a group of Japanese security personnel here Wednesday.

A security officer must ensure a suspect never breaks free with just one wrist clasped in a handcuff, said Sargent, a nonlethal-weapons trainer at the base provost marshal office.

“Right here is very dangerous. If ( a detainee ) breaks free, he has a weapon,” Sargent told the Japanese workers.

The instruction was among the new requirements for training in nonlethal law enforcement methods for Japanese security at the base — the same basic training now required of military police, according to the provost marshal office.

PMO officials said they hope the training will reduce the need for deadly force and provide safer, more effective security at the base gates.



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