Kubotan

BY

T1WSrUKl KUBOTA
md JOHN Qm PETLRS, JR.
SOLO ONLY TO SWORN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

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PREFACE
Officers today are constantly striving for new techniques and ideas lo assist them In the controlling of situations where individuals resist arrest. Resisting may take the form of simply refusing to move, or of attempting to fight with the oflicer. In any arrest situation, the chances ofan officer getting hurl are always high, and with today's recent trend in law enforecemenl to lower height and weigh1 requirements for police applicants, as well as the number of women being hired as police officers, many officers are confronling criminals who are much larger, or who are more powerful. Additionally, the views of society have changed toward law enforcemenl officers. The lack 01respect toward police officers is more and more evidenl In the increasing number of suspects who resist arrest and who verbally chaslise law enforcement officers. There does not seem lo be the sense of outrage and shock voiced by society when a police officer IS murdered, as shown in past decades. Those who once would have hesitated lo challenge an officer's authority are no longer hesitant, andofficers are finding lhemselves having to increasingly control suspects with physical means. The Kubotan, developed by Master Takayuki Kubota, is a 51/2 inch long cylindrical piece of plastic which, when used properly, will control a suspect, regardless of his size, by even the smallest oflicer. It does not appear offensive and is actually very harmless looking with one model made with a key ring.Its small size makes it ideal to be carried by uniformed offlcers, deteclwes, corrections or parole officers, or anyone else who deals in law enforcement. The Kubotan can be held in an officer's hand, under his citation book, readlly available i f the offense develops inlo an altercation. A handcuff key may be attached to the Kubotan key rlng model, making the Kubotan always available when removinghandcuHs from a suspecl. Another advantage of Ihe Kubotan is that it Can be carried with an officer al all times - both on and off duty - and is always readily available in a pocket, stuck in the belt, or just carried in the hand. All too ofen an oflicer is trained to use a baton or similar tool, only to find it is left in the patrol car when needed, or that the oflicer is not in uniform andunable to carry it. The Kubotan shouldn't be carried unless the oflicer has been tralned in ~t'suse. A minimum arnounl of training is required to learn Ihe six basic techniques and orher applications illustraled in this manual. With proper instruction, virtually any law enforcement officer will have a tool which will enable him to do his job more effectively and safely, while rninlrnlzing injury lo thesuspect. This book, with 114 pholographs, contains the most complete and most comprehensive training lechniques utilizing the Kubotan. It is dedicated to officer safety, to professlonalisrn and lo surviaval.

KUBOTANB is a registered trademark of Takayuki Kubota.

. Michael N Becar

Idaho P.O.S.T.
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Michael N. Becar is a pollce training coordinator with the Peace Officer Standards andTraining Academy (P.O.S.T.) in Boise, Idaho. He is responsible for coordinating in-service training for law enforcement officers in Soulhwestern Idaho.

During the past few years, criminal justice personnel from around the globe have been using the Kubotan in thelr daily activities - bolh on and ofl duly. And, as you can suspect, there have been hundreds - posslbly even thousands - of situationswhere the Kubolan has been used successfully. We know of a few cases where, because of the Kubolan, suspect's lives were saved. In one case, a suspect had been severly beaten with a conventional baton for resisling arresl. Allhough badly hurl, the suspect continued to fight. An officer who had been cerlified in the Kubolan arrived on the scene as a responding back-up unil. Quickly, he applied Ihe...