Mark Dawes is a Director of NFPS Ltd and has been awarded National Coach Tutor status and National Ratification Officer status by a Governing Body registered with Sport England for the development, delivery, accreditation and ratification of all Occupational Intervention and Disengagement Physical Skills Training, including Train the Trainer Development Programmes.

Mark has worked as a hostage negotiator and is a competent physical skills instructor with over thirty years of experience to fall back on. In addition he is a member of the Expert Witness Institute, an Associate Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), a certified competent Risk- Assessor, a registered and qualified Stress Consultant (Registered in 1994), a Licensed Cognitive Hypnotherapist licensed with the National Council for Hypnotherapy, a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming licensed through the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a TFT (Thought Field Therapy - commonly referred to as 'tapping') Algorithm Practitioner trained by and licensed with the British Thought Field Therapy Association.

During his career he has undertaken audits, risk assessments, training needs analysis' and post incident reports for his clients in relation to staff safety and the use of physical force. In addition, Mark has written reports for court cases ranging from negligence to Manslaughter in relation to the use of physical force. Furthermore, the training delivered has been reviewed in an industrial tribunal and found to be competent.

He has delivered training to other diverse public and private sectors including: NHS Hospital Trusts, Health Care Authorities, Social Services Departments, Charities, Colleges, Transport Companies, Courts, Security Companies, etc., and has also been involved with various Crime Prevention Initiatives.

He is also the author of three books: 'Understanding Unreasonable Force',  'Understanding Reasonable Force' and 'Managing the Monkey'.

John Steadman is without doubt one of the leading Physical Skills instructors in the world today with over forty-five years of experience under his belt. He has also been awarded National Coach Tutor status a Governing Body registered with Sport England for the development, delivery, accreditation and ratification of all Occupational Intervention and Disengagement Physical Skills Training including Train the Trainer Development Programmes.

Also, as a Founder member of one of the UK's Governing Bodies he has been given the following mandate: National Coach Tutor (30 years +), National Weapons Advisor, International Grading Examiner, Technical Officer, National Ratification Officer and Discipline Officer.

Recently he has been involved with writing and constructing the NVQ standards for the Governing Body which has been accepted by all lead bodies such as BTEC. In addition John has privately trained many security personnel from prison to police staff and has been the technical skills advisor to the BBC for the documentary "Eve Strikes Back", a personal safety documentary for women.

Debbie's work has included a considerable amount of family work, child protection work, and inter-agency liaison. She also has several years experience of residential work with adult offenders.

She has worked primarily and extensively with ten to eighteen year olds in the youth justice system involving the devising and implementing programmes of work to reduce the risk of re-offending, supervising young people on court orders, involvement with those who receive custodial sentences, undertaking risk assessments and preparing Court reports. As a co-worker for Barnardo's young abusers' project, she also delivered programmes of work for adolescent sex offenders.

Debbie is also a very proficient and competent instructor who can draw upon an extensive range of experience and training allowing her to address her subject matter with a well-informed and balanced approach.

Her skills complement all of the training and consultative services offered by N.F.P.S. Ltd. and we regard her as one of the most professional trainers in this field. Debbie has helped us to devise specific training programmes for our clients as well as assisting them in the development and construction of lawful and competent organisational policy.

She is also the author of : 'Understanding Unreasonable Force'.