IPC - New social link for Law Enforcement Units

Many of you already knowCaptain Jacques Levinet,international expert and founder ofvarious self-defense disciplines forcivilians (Self Pro Krav, DefenseBaton, Defense Cane) as well asseveral police operational trainingmethods (Real Operating Systemor ROS, Operational Tonfa or OT,Operational Baton or OB,Protection and InterventionOperational Technical Gestures orPIOTG).

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His pilgrimage around the world within police, military and SWAT units (UnitedStates, Russia, Australia, Canada, South America and Europe) allowed him to get intouch with the world's leading experts on security. From his personal experiencesemerged the idea of ??establishing a bridgehead and bring together the securityforces throughout the world in the form of a global structure that he named as IPCor International Police Confederation. This initiative has been well received worldwideand several countries have already joined the IPC. We wanted to learn more aboutthis creation.

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Budo International: Could youdescribe to us what is IPC?Captain Jacques Levinet: The

International Police Confederation (IPC) isreserved exclusively for members of thesecurity forces, whether active or retired(police, army, customs, prison, officialsecurity forces). The organization is a linkbetween different police units so as toexchange practical and operationaltechniques, experience and cooperationamong members of the security forces,experts and organizations worldwide. Thisstructure is headed by a group ofrenowned professional instructors,including Captain Jacques Levinet,international expert and founder of theIPC. Belonging to the IPC, subject toconditions, opens up the wide range ofrights to participate in internationaltraining courses, seminars, meetings,conventions, recognitions andprofessional information. No politics andno religion in the CPI.

B.I.: Please, tell us about the structureof the IPC...

C.J.L.: The organization is built arounda central office consisting of a President,two Vice Presidents and a SecretaryGeneral, as well as an IPC Director and arepresentative for each countryconcerned. For membership in the IPC,you must imperatively belong to thesecurity forces (police, army, customs,prison staff, and state official securitybodies). A detailed and documentedrequest must be sent to the IPCheadquarters, which decides theacceptance or rejection on the basis ofthe candidate's seriousness andcredibility. The amount of the annual fee is50 €. In addition to France, which countson several representatives, othercountries have already joined the ranks ofthe IPC in Europe, USA, South Americaand Asia.

B.I.: What are the objectives of the IPC?C.J.L.: Our aim is to exchange the different professional

experiences of each of our members, based on their workand according to their country. The laws are not the same,especially concerning self-defense, in Europe andelsewhere. For example, the use of service weapons isdifferent, according to the security forces units and theirown ethical and legal use criteria. It is good to know, at thetime of globalization, the way that the different lawenforcement forces work on the ground. The IPC plans toestablish exchanges in legal matters, without any

controversy (knowing the rights and duties of each of ourmembers in the performance of its functions), in theexperience of managing violence, in the formation (bothbasic and permanent) and training methods for thedifferent law actors in their application on the spot. Ourgoal has no political or economic purpose and onlypretends to get to know each other among the differentbrotherhoods that form the law enforcement forces. Auniversal acknowledgement without any chauvinism or apriori.

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B.I.: What will be the means of action of the IPC?C.J.L.: The universal English language will be our

common vehicle for our media. The IPC will hold regularmeetings with the managers and directors of eachrespective country so that the first step will be to knoweach other better and define common actions with respectto the same goals. Courses and seminars will also beorganized to share knowledge from stakeholders, on the

basis of their personal experience and professionalism.Exchanges of information, always marked by ethics, will beheld respecting the professional secrecy inherent to anyunit. For this we already have a website online with theplaceholder and a Facebook social link. Videos are alreadyin operation in social links as YouTube or Daily Motion.Common regular courses will also be on the agenda of thedifferent countries that make up the IPC. This should help

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to make known the different trainingmethods. Likewise, pedagogicalmeans common to IPC will be alsostablished to give a performanceidentity and a tag to the IPC.Diplomas and IPC graduationcertificates shall be awarded afterevaluation of the knowledge and

experience of each of the applicantsand not necessari ly without anyverif ication. In short, individualmembers of the IPC wil l be alsoactors and stakeholders, on the basison their personal achievements, andnot just inactive members claimingthey belong to the IPC. An interaction

is needed to give credibility to ourstructure and make it more real.Knowledge is shared and cannotbe decreed

B.I.: What awards has the IPC?C.J.L.: The IPC is already based

on the credit granted to it by theInternational Federation of SelfDefense and Police Training ALJ(Jacques Levinet Academy), whichis already established in manyFrance regions, in departmentsand clubs as well as in severalEuropean countries and othercontinents. To ensure a betterstudy of the concerned officialauthorities, every Director of theIPC it will be accredited by a letterof recognition of his functionswithin our organization. Then weintend to sign associationagreements and mutual recognitionwith other existing structures orfederations in the countriesaffiliated to the IPC. The IPC creditalso implies acceptance of theeducational components of themember countries. In other words,training methods taught and usedby the representatives of the IPC,will be studied as appropriate,recognized and endorsed withinour organization. Our goal is notbeing sectarian or not recognizingthis or that family of methods, butto remain open in accordance withthe methods chosen by our

different foreign partners. Forexample, with respect to France, theReal Operational System or ROS,which has been already proved withspecial units and general services,has been approved by the IPC, but itwon't be the only one, since we don'tbelieve ourselves to be in possessionof the truth. This opening will allow usto improve and better acceptdifferences without proselytizing. Infact, we do not want an IPC methodbut a set of knowledge, with respectto its intrinsic identity.

B.I.: Which are the projects of theIPC?C.J.L.: Getting an international

recognition worthy of the name issubject to the credit we want toobtain from the different countriesinvolved. This cannot be foreseen butthrough a serious work of ourmembers and the tag of the IPC. Allthese reasons push us to project anannual international meeting, underthe form of a common trainingseminar, and at the same time apolice conference with the attendanceof quality participants, about therespective problems of action andreaction in law enforcement. Suchevents should enable us to strengthenthe ties that bind us to theInternational Police Confederation.Finally, an IPC membership certificateis available to allow each of ourmembers to identify himself betterwith his interlocutors.

So we wish good luck and successto the IPC.

For further information:http://www.International-Police-

Confederation.comTel .: 00.33.467.075.044

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