Mark Dawes is a Director and National Coach Tutor of NFPS Ltd.

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, 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 the founder of Quantum Thinking.

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 more than 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 four books: 'Understanding Quantum Thinking' '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 over forty-eight years of experience to his credit and has worked as a consultant and trainer to the BBC, the Armed Forces, Foreign Military and Police Services, Social Care Directorates, NHS and many Security Companies. 

Recently he has been involved with writing and constructing the BTEC standards for the physical skills component of the NFPS / BTEC Awards which lead the way in occupational physical skills training in the UK. 

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 co-author of : 'Understanding Unreasonable Force'.