Mike Malpass has been a police officer in Arizona from 1996-2022. During his career, he held positions as a patrol officer, Tactical Training Detail instructor and later assigned to his department’s S.W.A.T. team as a tactical operator, in 2005. Prior to that, he was a police officer for the Dublin, Ohio Police Department since 1992. His most recent assignment was to the police training academy as a lead defensive tactics instructor where he also conducted a neuroscience study on training the brain for better decisions under stress. In 2019, he published his first book, Taming the Serpent: How Neuroscience Can Revolutionize Modern Law Enforcement Training. He recently retired from the police department and is currently finishing his second book due to be published in 2022/2023.
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Mike is a five-time national kick-boxing champion. He is a second-degree black belt in Burmese Bando under Dr. Maung Gyi and a first-degree black belt in Shotokan and Isshinryu Karate. As well as the Naban grappling found in the Burmese Bando system, Mike has also studied and practiced Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling, Sambo and Brazilian Jujitsu. He has recently achieved the status of Full Instructor of Combat Systema under Kevin Secours, Integrated Fighting Systems, in Montreal, Canada.
Mike holds the following certifications from the State of Arizona through AZ POST: Lead Defensive Tactics Instructor, Impact Weapons Instructor, Firearms Instructor, Taser Instructor, Force on Force Instructor, Level 1 Grenadier Instructor, Distraction Devices Instructor High-Risk Traffic Stops Instructor. |
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Prior to being assigned to the S.W.A.T Unit, Mike was assigned to the department's Tactical Training Detail for four years. There, Mike taught courses in: Building Search, Active Shooter Response, Tactical Handgun, and Patrol Vehicle Tactics. He also holds the Force Science Instructor Certification.
Mike also authored many lesson plans that are approved through AZ POST to be taught to his agency and to law enforcement personnel from numerous agencies in Arizona, as well as military personnel prior to deployment overseas. These courses include: Ground Survival, Advanced Defensive Tactics Concepts, Dignitary Protection Defensive Tactics, Rifle Retention, Edged Weapons Defense, Team Arrest Tactics and Women's Self-Defense classes. |
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In 1989, Mike earned his bachelor's degree in Exercise Physiology from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Building on his education, law enforcement career and fighting experience in boxing, kick-boxing, and mixed martial arts fighting, Mike has found a way to adapt the skills learned for sport into a reality-based system designed for real-world force encounters. |
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