PMCI July 2016 | Página 5

to break into the security industry and current operators. However we offer training to Police, Fire, Ambulance, Press or any agency that could be operating in a hostile environment. It’s important to remember a tactical environment could be a terrorist incident in your local supermarket or even your nearest airport with mass casualties, it doesn’t have to be a battleground such as Helmand Province. PMCI: Do you train just military and police personnel or civilians too? Absolutely, if required we can bring students skill set from basic first aider in the office to emergency medical technician. PMCI: What exactly do you specialise in? TMS UK specialise in tactical medical consultation and training with extensive knowledge working in hostile and remote locations. and cas-sim blood! (Editors note: I’ve seen the guys in action and there is a LOT of cas-sim blood involved!) PMCI: Do you offer training in specialised equipment? Yes, we have some awesome bleed simulators to train wound packing and tourniquets. We have also had some very realistic injuries built to our own specifications to push the simulation and training to the max. PMCI: Do you have all the equipment available as part of your courses? Yes we provide all the consumables, and equipment required. All the students require to bring is a pair of boots and some clothes you don’t mind getting covered in blood, and a will to learn. If you want to bring your own tac gear you are more than welcome. Well currently we rent a disused mill in Chesterfield as and when we require it. The site is approximately 10 acres with a massive building to get lost in, outside area with barricades, obstacles, vehicles and a class/training room. The building has multiple levels, can be darkened in certain rooms. The plus side is we pretty much have free reign so we can use plenty of pyro, smoke Absolutely, I spent the last 8 years working within the industry as a CP/Medic. I think it’s important to keep-up personal skills and also to keep current with tactics and team skills. This all helps to make the scenarios and course content more relevant to our students. PMCI: Without going into specifics who do you, and your successful trainees, work with? PMCI: Do you offer your own services in your market area? PMCI: I know that you work with excellent training facilities; can you tell me more about those and what you do there? pmcimagazine.com