Unless the department wants to make a major investment of time and money to mandate continuous martial arts training for officers, you can't seriously expect LMPD officers to do much more than talk, spray, taze and shoot. If they did require martial arts training from the academy until retirement, LMPD would be one of the few in North America. All forms of combat require frequent practice for you to remain proficient, especially unarmed combat. The typical police officer would be unnecessarily risking