Slavo

MISSION STATEMENT

The main goal of IPDTA is to establish contact with police / law enforcement & military organizations and/or individual police / law enforcement & military officers interested in exchanging and developing the ideas/methods about realistic unarmed and armed combat, arresting and defensive tactics for officers.

IPDTA does not represent any federal, state, county or local law enforcement agency or any branch of the Armed Forces of any country.
IPDTA is a non profit organization. Fees are used for materials, shipping, postage, patches, labels, advertisement, promotions, training documents etc...

IPDTA runs also a full spectrum of realistic self defence/street survival courses for other groups of professionals and civilians.

FOUNDER

IPDTA was founded in 1996 by Slavo Gozdzik, police officer in the Swedish Police Force.
He has worked as a patrol officer since 1989. He was for many years responsible for the defensive/arrest tactics and expandable baton training in Uddevalla PD. Also involved in Door Supervisor Training.
Earlier occupations: 5 years as a bouncer (Sweden and Poland), 3 years at correctional institutes for young criminals (Sweden) and 3 years as a teacher of gymnastics.

HISTORY

IPDTA was created to be a meeting center for officers interested in exchanging the ideas and developing effective unarmed/armed tactics for patrolling police/law enforcement officers.
Over and above their regular duties both as a patrol and training officer, Slavo and other IPDTA instructors traveled throughout Europe since 1995 to teach self defense. All the while searching for more effective self defense and arresting tactics for patrol officers.

The mission of finding out more effective methods resulted in courses/seminars/lectures for different Departments.
Those vits/courses/lectures were done by IPDTA representatives or instructors.

• SWAT team members in Stockholm and Gothenburg/Sweden
• SWAT Team members Gdansk PD, Poland
• National Police Academy in Stockholm/Sweden
• Police Academy in Copenhagen/Denmark
• CSP Legionowo/Poland - Special Police Training Center
• Police Academy in Szczytno/Poland
• Police Academy in Slupsk/Poland
• Arlington Heights PD/USA
• Uddevalla Police
• Bialystok PD, Poland
• Progress Housing Group
• Birmingham University
• Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

• Royal College of Nursing
• Lancashire Constabulary (Firearms Training/Officer Safety Training)
• Derbyshire Police (Officer Safety Training)
• Devon & Cornwall Police (Firearms Training/Officer Safety Training)
• Cheshire Police (Firearms Training/Officer Safety Training)
• North Wales Police (Firearms Training)
• Merseyside Police (Firearms Training)
• Grampian Police (Officer Safety Training)
• Suarez International, USA
• Border Protection Unit , Bialystok Poland
• Emergency Unit Members Uddevalla Hospital, Sweden

REPRESENTATIVES

Martin Cooper UK

Rick Sjodin USA


IPDTA Polska

IPDTA HQ Sweden

Richard Johns Canada

Dave Lamprecht South Africa