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How can you minimise the risk?
Understand this:
Attackers like easy victims.
A person who is unaware of their surrounding is an easy victim.
A person who appears distracted is an easy victim.
Just because you are smaller or younger than the attacker does not in itself make you an easy victim.
Follow these suggestions to help you avoid becoming a victim:
Try wherever possible to avoid walking in isolated areas alone, this includes reserves, car parks and streets.
If you must walk through isolated areas especially on a regular basis make sure you have some Deliberate Action Plans (see below).
Ensure that your awareness level is set on ‘Heightened Awareness’ (see below)
Know your route and continually check around you.
Don’t walk with IPod or other devices in your ears, this takes away a vital sense.
Don’t walk along reading a book or magazine, this shows potential attackers that you are unaware of what’s going on around you, it makes you a much easier victim.
Don’t walk along totally engrossed in a phone call.
If you are confronted run to safety not just away from danger.
If you are confronted follow the ESCAPE Immediate Action Plan
Early detection – this works if you awareness is set on ‘Heightened’
Step Back – always step back from a person confronting you, try to remain outside grabbing range.
Communicate – Talk to the person, slow the confrontation down as you plan your next move, have your hands up palm facing the attacker, talk as calmly as you can.
Assess the situation – look for escape route or plan your next move.
Prepare – get ready to run or defend yourself - kick, punch, scratch or gouge.
Engage or Escape – If you can run do so, if you can’t then defend yourself. Only engage as a last resort, escape is a far better option.
A Deliberate Action Plan is about pre-planning.
Step 1
For students and adults alike, if you walk or travel the same way to school or work each day are there ways for you to avoid walking through isolated areas; if not you must know what is along the way:
* Are there places where people are always present that you can run to?
* Where are the local shops?
* Where do the various side streets go?
* Are there things along your route you could pick up and use to defend yourself?
For adults think about what you can do to avoid having to walking through, parking or being in isolated areas or travelling on public transport late at night. Take some sort of action such as moving your car before darkness.
Step 2.
Check what you are doing to see if you appear to be an easy victim.
* IPod, Books, being engrossed in a phone call etc make you an easy victim – plenty of people get run over in traffic due to this as well
* Spend a few days playing the ‘Predator/Prey’ game. This involves you thinking like the attacker, looking at people and working out; ‘how would I attack them’, ‘What would I do’, ‘are they an easy target’ and then importantly learning from their mistakes, don’t do the same thing.
Step 3
Think about what you would do if someone tries to attack you.
* Know where you would run to.
* Think about what you could do, it doesn’t take years of martial art training to knee someone in the groin.
Step 4
Use your ‘Heightened’ awareness skills to ensure you detect potential threats early enough to avoid them
Step 5
If you think you are a potential victim (yes that is everyone) consider some sort of reality based martial art or self-defence classes or course.
Heightened Awareness
The Heightened level of awareness is the second level. The first level is Safe & Sound which should be only used when you are safely tucked up at home, door locked with no potential threats. When you step out the door you should go to level 2 – Heightened.
This is not difficult is just means being aware of everything and everyone in your personal space. Personal space varies, but as a rule of thumb is it the area as far as your eye can see in any given direction.
The example of someone walking across a reserve means that you would be looking ahead, to the sides and now and then behind you. This is not walking like you are in a combat zone but making sure that no one can get close enough to harm you by surprise.
When interviewed by Police victims often say “he came out of nowhere” or “he just appeared”, that is not true, in reality the victim simply did not see the attacker approaching.
Contact Active Protection Solutions. We can develop cost effect Personal Risk Management and Threat Assessment programs to ensure that you minimise the risk to you, your family and your business.
For more information:
Web: http://www.activeprotect.com.auEmails: enquiries@activeprotect.com.au
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