SDTMA FW: POST - CAROTID RESTRAINT DISCONTINUED

[Amash, Brooke]

Good Afternoon SDTMA!

Please see below from POST regarding the Carotid Restraint.

Brooke Amash
Training Coordinator
San Diego County Probation
10111 Carroll Canyon Rd.
San Diego, CA 92131
(858) 267-5919
Brooke.Amash at sdcounty.ca.gov<mailto:Brooke.Amash at sdcounty.ca.gov>
Mailstop: P-83

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Good afternoon fellow training managers,


POST will no longer certify training of the Carotid Control hold, effective immediately.



This afternoon, Governor Newsom ordered that POST immediately discontinue all Carotid Control Hold training. The only area of POST training where it is required by regulation is in the Basic Academy, so we are quickly working on an Agenda Item for the Commission to formally review on June 18.



The remaining courses in the POST catalog that teach the Carotid Control Hold are not mandated by regulation.  Therefore we have the exclusive authority to either allow or prohibit the Carotid to be taught in any certified course.  I conducted a cursory search of the catalog and found that some Arrest and Control and related courses contain Carotid curriculum.  It is not required by POST in PSP, but some courses may voluntarily teach it.



Should an agency wish to provide Carotid Control Hold training, they will need to do it outside of a POST-certified course.

PLEASE REVIEW YOUR COURSES WHICH CONTAIN CAROTID RESTRAINT TRAINING.  PLACE YOUR COURSE INTO MODIFICATION AND REMOVE ANY REFERENCE TO CAROTID RESTRAINT TRAINING AND SUBMIT TO ME FOR APPROVAL.


Thank you
Dan Schmitt
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