Plus was developed for the law enforcement community including adult jails, prisons and some juvenile correctional environments that operate at a higher level of security. Plus includes the optional Self-Defense System, the “A Frame” Takedown methods and the Plus Team Restraint components; all adapted to specifics of your environment and the types physical threats and duties that your line officers and CERT teams face.  The Plus System contains techniques and methods that are higher on the use of force continuum than those found in the Handle With Care System.

Background

Handle With Care has been providing behavior management and restraint training to Juvenile Justice, Security and Law Enforcement for over 30 years.

In response to requests for additional training for those instances where the threat or behavior is so severe that it requires a higher degree of use-of-force, Bruce Chapman, founded the PLUS program.  Plus is a completely separate system that was developed primarily for corrections and law enforcement agencies that require a higher level of force response capability, because of the types of threats they face.

An Officer’s [Person’s] Right to Self-Defense is Legally Guaranteed

There is arguably no right more basic than a person’s right to defend herself, her property and others.   Plus self defense and intervention techniques apply far less force than what the laws in all 50 states allows.  The techniques in PLUS are all non-lethal interventions designed to keep serious injury to both staff and institutional predators and criminals at a minimum in worse case self defense situations.  It is not a method of corporal punishment, it is a self-defense system for staff and officers to use when other less restrictive interventions have either failed or been deemed insufficient in bodily harm, life threatening and serious bodily harm situations.

The PLUS program when used in the reasonable defense of self and others is in compliance with our Constitution and the laws of all 50 States.

Self-defense is an unwaivable right that cannot be surrendered.  The Supreme Court has held A person does not surrender their right to self-defense, as guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of all 50 States just because they are at work.