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Importance of Using a Protective Mask in Correctional Facilities

During every CERT or SORT deployment in a correctional facility lays many dangers. Not on the ones first hand but the longer lasting ones. Wearing your protective masks can not only protect you from chemical contamination but it can also:

    1. Presents a psychological deterrent for visual appearance
    2. Conceal your identity and protect your anonymity – which you know inside a correctional facility can be life threatening in itself!
    3. Physical Protect your face from dangerous debris, contaminated and corrosive liquids, sand or other biological hazards

Remember protecting your face from all of the above mention threats can be critical for saving your life.

Stay safe, stay strong, and most importantly stay alive!

Dave Young is the Founder and Director of ARMA, now part of the PoliceOne Training Network. He is also the Chairman of PoliceOne.com Advisory Board, and a training advisor for Corrections1.com. Dave graduated from his first law enforcement academy in 1985, and now has over 25 years of combined civilian and military law enforcement and training experience. He was a sworn corrections and law enforcement officer in the state of Florida and has served as a gate sentry, patrol officer, watch commander, investigator, Special Reaction Team (SRT) member, leader and commander in the United States Marine Corps.

Dave has participated in and trained both military and law enforcement personnel in crowd management operations throughout the world. Dave is recognized as one of the nation’s leading defensive tactics instructors specializing in crowd management, chemical and specialty impact munitions, protocol and selection of gear and munitions, ground defense tactics, and water - based defensive tactics.

He has hosted television shows for National Geographic TV Channel on Non Lethal Weapons and the host of Crash Test Human series. He is a former staff noncommissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, a member of the Police Magazine advisory board, and a technical advisory board member for Force Science Research Center. Dave is an active member of the American Society for Law Enforcement Training (ASLET), International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA).

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