PPCT Management Systems, Inc. is unparalleled in our commitment to training and research. From being one of the first to utilize pressure points in defensive tactics to today's research into threat pattern recognition and its correlation in multiple areas of training (Use of Force, Knife, Ground Firearms and others), PPCT has been at the forefront of cutting edge research and how it can better serve our law enforcement communities. Agencies across North America know that PPCT will deliver their training methodologies, materials and conduct in a manner reflecting their own ideals. This conduct has served us well with nearly four decades of satisfied clients.
Training Calendar
The PPCT / Human Factor Science Training Calendar is how we track our Instructor courses going on around North America. Should you not be able to find any courses in the time and area you are looking for, please contact us and our staff will be able to assist you in locating a class or an Instructor Trainer to contact to help (re)certify your class.
Below is a link to the most-requested forms for running a training course. Within the link below, you will find the following forms:- Training Certification Request (TCR) Form
- Course Attendance Form
- Training Injury Report Form
- Pre-Program Well Being Form
- Post-Program Well Being Form
- Program Evaluation Form
Bruce Siddle
Bruce Siddle is the CEO and managing partner of PPCT Management Systems, Inc, a law enforcement training and publishing company that provides training and contract services to emergency rescue, law enforcement, military and counter-terrorism personnel. Over a period of three decades, Mr. Siddle’s career has included supporting hundreds of Municipal, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, and the Department of Defense Special Operations community. Mr. Siddle is an international authority in the study of high risk and precision human factors. Mr. Siddle is credited with pioneering the study of survival stress and how it impacts the performance of law enforcement officers, military personnel and combat aviators. His pivotal research into the influence of the Sympathetic Nervous System on perceptual processing, cognitive processing, motor performance and memory, is now widely incorporated in performance based training for the criminal justice, military special operations and the combat aviation sectors. Mr. Siddle has authored numerous articles, white papers and research abstracts addressing survival stress, survival reaction time; all researching the relationship between precision performance and the effects of negative stress on precision performance. He has personally funded and coordinated 38 research projects.Since 1999, Mr. Siddle’s research has specifically focused on the study of pre-attentive processing during high risk environments and time-compressed response times. He has been a guest speaker for hundreds of agencies throughout the United States, including the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriff’s Association, the International Association of Firearms Instructors, the Academy for Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to name just a few. He has been a consultant for the U.S. Dept. of Navy’s Redcell, U.S. Dept. of Army’s Delta Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Dept. of State’s Mobile Security Unit, U.S. Dept. of Defense, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, the U.S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team and Firearms Training Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Hostage Rescue Unit, Federal Aviation Administration Air Marshals, and various military special operation/warfare units since 1986. Mr. Siddle has been a training consultant to the Hong Kong government since 1988, working for the Hong Kong Police and the Hong Kong Corrections training academy, as well as the United Kingdom police and prison agencies, and several close-in-protection contracts for the Queen of England’s personal protection unit (Royal Protection Group). Mr. Siddle was a contract instructor for the intelligence community since 1988 and has held security clearances through the Department of Army, Department of State and the CIA. Post September 11, 2001, Mr. Siddle’s companies received contracts from the TSA to conduct all of the passenger screener training, to design and implement the Federal Flight Deck Officer’s training system, and to design and train thousands of Federal Air Marshals.Mr. Siddle has been a guest on Fox News, NPR, Dave Glover, Glenn Beck and a featured combat human factors expert on a Smithsonian Institute/History Channel special regarding elite counter-terrorism units. In 2010, Mr. Siddle was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame. In 2013, the leadership of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center/DHS nominated Mr. Siddle to receive the President of the United States’ “White House Champions of Change Award” in regard to his ongoing research. In 2015, Mr. Siddle was honored to support the Michigan Attorney’s General Office in the submission of an amicus brief for the United States Supreme Court. In 2016, Mr. Siddle finalized six years of continuous research on threat pattern recognition in the context of pre-attentive processing, reaction time and critical skills decision-making in lethal environments.
Past Clients of PPCT Management Systems, Inc.
70% of the United States Criminal Justice Academies
United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Tactical Team Close Quarter Countermeasures
United States Department of Army SOTF (Delta Force), Ft. Bragg, NC
United States Department of Army Ranger Training Battalion
United States Department of Army Military Disciplinary Barracks, Ft. Leavenworth, KS
United States Department of Army Survival, Escape, Evasion and Resistance School – John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School
United States Department of Army Ranger Training Battalion, Ft. Benning, GA
United States Department of Navy Redcell, Littlecreek, VA
United States Drug Enforcement Administration: Operation Snowcap
United States Department of State
USMC Embassy Security Personnel
United States Department of State Mobile Security Units
United States Secret Service Presidential Protection Detail
United States Secret Service Counter Assault Team (CAT)
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)
United States Department of Defense Camp Peary, VA United States Federal Aviation Administration
United States Postal Inspection Service
United States Transportation Security Administration Passenger Screeners, Baggage Screeners, Federal Air Marshals
United States Transportation Security Administration Federal Air Marshals
United States Department of Homeland Security State of Michigan - Department of Attorney General Central Intelligence Agency
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Glynco, GA 2010-2015 Joint Firearms Firearms Threat Pattern Recognition Research Study
Royal Hong Kong Police Department VIP Protection Team, HK Police Academy Royal Hong Kong Correctional Services
Tactical Response Squad 22nd Regiment, SAS, Minister of Defense Hereford, England
Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department (Queen’s Guard)
London Metropolitan Police, EnglandCollegiate Research Studies in cooperation with PPCT:
Eastern Illinois University - Department of Psychology
SIU Carbonadale - Department of Curriculum & Instruction
University of Minnesota - Department of Biomedical Engineering
Below are our most frequently utilized training courses:
The Threat Pattern Recognition Use of Force (TPR UoF) Instructor System is the first subject control system developed through tactical, legal and medical research.
The Edged Weapon Control System (formerly known as the Spontaneous Knife Defense Program) is based upon the reality of an imminent Lethal Force Engagement. We adopted human factor variabilities of a narrow bandwidth and the Incapacitation Template.
The Ground Control System utilizes three different resistance methods in order to subdue subjects in ground fighting.
The Tactical Firearms Engagement System is designed from a purely new approach focusing on tactical human factors. It is also designed to be trained from inside a training facility.
The PPCT Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention (SHARP) course has been specifically designed to meet the needs of women when control methods and assault prevention methods are required.
We have a number of other courses offerings as well, such as Violent Patient Management, Disruptive Student Management, Impact Weapon / Collapsible Baton and others. Email or give us a call to receive those course descriptions.
Blink of an Eye is a text that examines gunfights and combat as a science. Safety, marksmanship and firearms responsibility are fundamental to firefight training. Blink of an Eye moves the bar further by focusing on new research taken from studies of fatal firearms engagements with law enforcement officers, new time-motion studies from the human factor sciences, and U.S. Government anthropometric research that applies to combat firearms designed to fit the human hand. Research has found that the single greatest killer is TIME. And action is always faster than reaction. Blink of an Eye proposes a new model of combat science – a fundamental change in thought process to keep our military, law enforcement and concealed carry professionals ALIVE.For ordering information, please call the office at (618) 476-3200 or via email at orders@humanfactorscience.com.
Contact Us
Normal business hours are 9AM to 4:30PM, Monday through Thursday and Friday 9AM to 1PM, Central time. We will do our best to get back with you within 24 hours or less. Should the matter be urgent, do not hesitate to give us a call at (618) 476-3200. You can also reach us by fax at (618) 476-3221.