Basic certificate.

A basic certificate can be acquired after a minimum of 30 hours of effective Bajutsu Special Police training.
By "effective training", it is understood that time taken to prepare the horses, or while travelling, etc… does not count.

Minimum program

1- Presentation of Bajutsu Special Police: its history, philosophy and method.
-> Mental and technical training.

2- Advantages and limitations of the use of horses in police or security services.

3- Awareness of the importance of classical dressage.

4- Special stirrup connecting girth: presentation and setting up.

5- Training in balancing techniques.

6- Forward, backwards, circular and lateral evasive actions.

7- Accustoming the horse to working with on foot teams, armed attacks and projectiles.

8- Lateral and rotating releases on hold.

9- Simple techniques to capture fugitives (by the collar).

10- Initiation in crowd management (forcing back, sitting, releasing, dispersion, infiltration, etc…)

11- Initiation in positioning techniques.

12- Initiation in simple techniques used to neutralize individuals.

13- Initiation in simple embarkation techniques.

14- Presentation of the pain centers.

15- Projection exercises.

16- Initiation in police horse dressage.

17- Information concerning urban patrols (Highway Code, positioning on the road, behavior towards others…)

Remarks:

All techniques used in motion must be presented at both walk and trot.
Assistants play a "relatively" pacific role facilitating the training of both horse and rider.

 

Advanced Certificate.

The advanced certificate can be acquired after a minimum of 70 hours of effective Bajutsu Special Police training.

Minimum Program:

1- Techniques to capture fugitives.

2- Group and crowd management.

3- Positioning techniques.

4- How to neutralize and immobilize individuals.

5-Embarkation techniques

6- Rider and horse/rider evasive actions.

7- Release on holds (using both hands).

8- Hand-cuffing techniques.

9- Recuperating on foot colleagues in hostile surroundings.

10- Group application of individual techniques.

11- Facing weapons such as knives…

12- Advance dressage specific to police horse.

13- Accidents prevention.

14- Specific tack.

15- Fall techniques.

16- Mount-Dismount techniques.

17- Non-violent communication techniques, crises and conflicts management.

18- Drug information.

19- Projection exercises.

Options.

-Using a truncheon.

-Using guns.

-Training in atemis techniques.

-Information on how to keep the peace whilst riding.

-Traffic regulation.

Remarks:

All techniques used while in motion must be presented in all 3 paces.
Depending on the horse's level of preparation, assistants play an active and progressively less cooperative role, going as far as simulating rebellion, active escapes and hands on aggression.