"Unpredictable Situations"-"Predictable Results"
Welcome to Integrated Survival Concepts (ISC)
Ground Control & de-escalation strategies
"Managing People in Crisis on the Ground"
Integrated Survival Concepts teaches
Ground Control & De-escalation strategies to safely and effectively gain volunteered compliance from an unwilling person. These integrated strategies are consistent with department policies and Peace Officer Standardize Training throughout the United States.
Professional Training - Professional Results
Bringing forth, and solidifying professionally trained legal techniques, and standards of excellence within the Department of Corrections and the Law Enforcement profession as it relates to a reasonable, dependable, and defensible Ground Control Curriculum that permits the use of reasonable force to achieve any lawful goal, and protects the officer(s), the individual, the agency, and the community officers are sworn to protect.
ISC also provides services for:
- Department Use of Force Policy Review
- Independent Use of Force Incident Investigations
- De-Escalation Training (Lecture Based) (Physical Skills)
- Handcuffing Training / Certification
- Baton Training / Certification
- Safety Restraint Chair Training / Certification
- Flex Cuff Training / Certification
- Public Safety Security Use of Force / De-Escalation Training
- Professional Healthcare De-Escalation / Self-Defense Training
- Active Shooter Readiness Training
Take a look around the website. Do not hesitate to call.
Thank You.
ISC Core Values
Dwayne Fortes brings with him the teaching of the 14 Leadership Traits he embraced while serving honorably in the United States Marine Corps.
1. Justice: Justice means two things: being fair to others and being seen to be fair. When you are fair, people feel they are treated kindly.
2. Judgment: Judgment is being able to effectively weigh up situations and understand the effect your decisions will have on others. It's also known as common sense, the most important quality to have in your team.
3. Dependability: Earning others trust to be there when needed and offer support and friendship.
4. Initiative: Initiative is the tendency not to wait for someone else to tell you what to do, but to see what needs to be done and effectively do it.
5. Decisiveness: Intelligently coming to a decision quickly with the best intentions of resolving the situation.
6. Tact: Possessing the skills that enables you to work with others without causing conflict.
7. Integrity: Living according to a set of rules, values and principles that underlie what we do, what we say and who we are.
8. Enthusiasm: Having a positive can-do attitude that draws others to you and your plans.
9. Bearing: The manner in which you conduct and control yourself. It is your appearance, your posture and your mannerism that reflects self-confidence and self-control.
10. Unselfishness: Prioritizing the needs of others that best helps the majority.
11. Courage: The key qualities of leadership. It enables you to accept challenges and responsibility in the face of difficulties and see things through.
12. Knowledge: Enables leaders to have the experience, training and information necessary to accomplish any task to a successful end.
13. Loyalty: Is a special trait of leadership, not just towards your team but to those who you invest in so that the mission continues to evolve long after you are gone.
14. Endurance: Having the stamina to keeping going when all around you are thinking of giving up. There is no certainty of success. It is patience, commitment, and endurance in the pursuit of achieving your goals that will exceed your expectations along the way.
ISC Instructor-Trainers have a longevity of Experience
Dwayne Fortes has dedicated over 30 years of training Law Enforcement Officers; Correctional Officers; Deputy Sheriffs; Trial Court Officers; Probation Officers; and Specialized Military Units. Dwayne has earned certifications in:
- Force Science Institute (The Analysis of Use-Of-Force Incidents)
- Forensic Video Analysis -I and II - (Interpreting Video Evidence)
- State Certified Defensive Tactics Instructor-Trainer
- State Certified Firearms Instructor
- Gracie Survival Tactics (GST) Instructor (Level I and II)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
- (FLETC) Certified Use of Force Instructor
- FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association (L.E.E.D.A. - Trilogy)
Dwayne and his team of professionals have over 150 years of combined on the job experience and knowledge related to the lawful applications of Use of Force, and all that it encompasses.
ISC can help guard your agency from claims of unreasonable and/or excessive force by teaching methods that work; and what doesn't work; while employing reasonable force consistent with your department policies, procedures, and standardized training programs to achieve any lawful goal.
We look forward to partnering / training with you.
Respectfully,
Dwayne Fortes