ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE ROUTINE R 152310Z NOV 02 ZYB MIN PSN 709014J21 FM CNO WASHINGTON DC//N3N5// TO NAVADMIN UNCLAS NAVADMIN 382/02 MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/-/NOV// SUBJ/NON-LETHAL WEAPONS TRAINING POLICY// REF/A/DOC/DOD/YMD:19960720// REF/B/DOC/NWP/-/3-07.31// REF/C/DOC/SECNAV/YMD:19920928// REF/D/DOC/OPNAV/YMD:20000726// NARR/REF A IS DOD DIRECTIVE 3000.3 POLICY FOR NON-LETHAL WEAPONS. REF B IS NAVY WARFARE PUBLICATION 3-07.31, MULTISERVICE PROCEDURES FOR THE TACTICAL EMPLOYMENT OF NONLETHAL WEAPONS. REF C IS SECNAVINST 5500.29B, USE OF DEADLY FORCE AND THE CARRYING OF FIREARMS BY PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY IN CONJUNCTION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT, SECURITY DUTIES, AND PERSONAL PROTECTION. REF D IS OPNAVINST 5580.1A, NAVY LAW ENFORCEMENT MANUAL.// POC/C. SONTAG GS-13/CNO (N34)/CALLSIGN:DSN: 288-0962 /LOC:COM: 202-433-0962/-// RMKS/1. THIS MSG ESTABLISHES NAVY POLICY AND ASSIGNS RESPONSIBILITIES FOR TRAINING NAVY PERSONNEL IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF NON-LETHAL WEAPONS (NLW) IN ACCORDANCE WITH REFS (A) AND (B). 2. THIS POLICY APPLIES TO U.S. NAVY SECURITY FORCES, INCLUDING DON GS083 POLICE, OTHER CIVILIAN SECURITY PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO PROTECT U.S. NAVY SHIPS AND FACILITIES, AND ALL U.S. NAVY PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO WATCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF ANTITERRORISM AND FORCE PROTECTION DUTIES. ALL INDIVIDUALS TRAINED IAW THIS POLICY ARE REQUIRED TO RECEIVE ANNUAL REQUALIFICATIONS TRAINING. (QUARTERLY REFAMILIARIZATION IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.) 3. THE INTERSERVICE NON-LETHAL INDIVIDUAL WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR COURSE (INIWIC) HELD AT THE MARINE CORPS DETACHMENT, FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO., IS THE ONLY FORMAL DOD NLW INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSE. INIWIC STAFF INSTRUCTORS SHALL BE REFERRED TO AS MASTER INSTRUCTORS. THE STANDARDIZED TRAINING AT INIWIC BY MASTER INSTRUCTORS PROVIDES COMMANDING OFFICERS A QUANTIFIABLE MEANS OF PREPARING NLW INSTRUCTORS. THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS OF THE INIWIC ARE THE MINIMUM STANDARD FOR THE TRAINING OF ALL NAVY NLW INSTRUCTORS. 4. U.S. NAVY NLW TRAINING WILL BE CONDUCTED IN A STRUCTURED MANNER TAILORED TO UNIT CHARACTERISTICS AND EQUIPMENT ISSUED. 5. GRADUATES OF THE INIWIC PROGRAM SHALL BE REFERRED TO AS SENIOR INSTRUCTORS AND ARE AUTHORIZED BY THIS POLICY TO INSTRUCT INSTRUCTOR CANDIDATES AND OTHER PERSONNEL IN THE USE OF HAND-HELD "OLEORESIN CAPSICUM" (OC) (I.E., PEPPER SPRAY), RIOT CONTROL AGENT FOGGER, STRAIGHT BATON, COLLAPSIBLE BATON, INDIVIDUAL HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT, HANDCUFFS AND FLEX-CUFFS. INSTRUCTOR CANDIDATES WHO COMPLETE THIS TRAINING WILL BE REFERRED TO AS BASIC INSTRUCTORS. A. THE INIWIC CURRICULUM FOR THE ABOVE LISTED WEAPONS WILL BE FOLLOWED DURING INSTRUCTOR TRAINING. TRAINING WILL INCLUDE DECONTAMINATION REQUIREMENTS, STORAGE, LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS, TACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS, AND EXPOSURE TO OC AS SPECIFIED IN THE INIWIC CURRICULUM. B. BASIC INSTRUCTORS ARE AUTHORIZED TO TRAIN INDIVIDUAL USERS ONLY FOR THE EQUIPMENT LISTED ABOVE, AND ONLY IF THOSE INDIVIDUAL USERS ARE WATCHSTANDERS, SHIP'S PERSONNEL, AUXILIARY SECURITY FORCE (ASF) PERSONNEL, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO SPECIAL CROWD CONTROL UNITS AND THOSE ISSUED NLW EQUIPMENT OTHER THAN THAT SPECIFIED ABOVE WILL NOT BE TRAINED BY BASIC INSTRUCTORS. C. BASIC INSTRUCTORS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO TRAIN ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTORS (WITH THE EXCEPTION NOTED IN PARA 6.C. BELOW). D. BASIC INSTRUCTORS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO TRAIN INDIVIDUALS TO USE ANY NLW OTHER THAN THOSE LISTED ABOVE. 6. TRAINING FOR UNITS THAT CONDUCT CROWD CONTROL OPERATIONS AND TRAINING FOR UNITS EQUIPPED WITH ADDITIONAL NLW NOT LISTED IN PARAGRAPH 5 MUST BE CONDUCTED BY SENIOR INSTRUCTORS. A. THIS INSTRUCTION BY SENIOR INSTRUCTORS WILL BE CONDUCTED TO TRAIN INDIVIDUAL USERS. IT WILL NOT BE USED TO TRAIN ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTORS. B. THE TRAINING PROVIDED AT THIS MORE ADVANCED LEVEL WILL INCLUDE, AT A MINIMUM, THE FOLLOWING TOPICS FROM THE INIWIC CURRICULUM: (1) RULES FOR THE USE OF FORCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH REFS (C) AND (D), INSTRUCTION ON THE FORCE CONTINUUM MODEL, IDENTIFYING PROPER LEVELS OF FORCE, LEVELS OF RESISTANCE, AND HOW NON-LETHAL TECHNOLOGIES AFFECT THE FORCE CONTINUUM. (2) INSTRUCTION IN CROWD CONTROL TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS. (3) INSTRUCTION IN THE STAGES OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, VERBAL AGGRESSION, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PHYSICAL AGGRESSION, PHYSIOLOGICAL DIVERSIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS. (4) USES OF HAND-HELD OC SPRAY, RIOT CONTROL AGENTS AND DELIVERY METHODS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIT EQUIPMENT ALLOWANCE. (5) INSTRUCTION IN OPEN-HAND CONTROL, INCLUDING PRESSURE POINT CONTROL TECHNIQUES, UNARMED SELF-DEFENSE MEASURES, WEAPON RETENTION TECHNIQUES, SUBMISSION/RESTRAINT/SEARCH TECHNIQUES, HANDCUFFING AND FLEXCUFFING. (6) INSTRUCTION IN USE OF THE RIGID STRAIGHT BATON, COLLAPSIBLE STRAIGHT BATON, AND RIOT CONTROL BATON (IF ISSUED TO THE UNIT). (7) INSTRUCTION IN RULES OF ENGAGEMENT AND THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT, AS TAUGHT IN THE INIWIC CURRICULUM. (8) INSTRUCTION IN THE CAPABILITIES AND EMPLOYMENT OF ISSUED NLW MUNITIONS. C. FOR NLW EQUIPMENT AND MUNITIONS ISSUED VIA THE ALLOWANCE EQUIPAGE LIST, OR THE TABLE OF EQUIPMENT (TOE) FOR SHORE INSTALLATIONS, THAT ARE NOT TAUGHT AT INIWIC, THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES WILL APPLY: (1) SENIOR INSTRUCTORS ARE TO BE TRAINED BY MANUFACTURERS' REPRESENTATIVES. (2) SENIOR INSTRUCTORS WILL THEN PROVIDE TRAINING TO BASIC INSTRUCTORS. (3) BASIC INSTRUCTORS ARE AUTHORIZED TO TRAIN INDIVIDUAL USERS. (4) BASIC INSTRUCTORS ARE AUTHORIZED TO TRAIN ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTORS. 7. THE DIRECTOR OPNAV ANTITERRORISM/FORCE PROTECTION DIVISION SHALL PROVIDE SENIOR INSTRUCTORS TO TRAIN BASIC INSTRUCTORS FROM FLEET UNITS, FORCE PROTECTION TRAINING TEAMS (FPTT), AFLOAT TRAINING GROUPS (ATGS), ANTITERRORISM/FORCE PROTECTION WARFARE DEVELOPMENT CENTER (ATFPWDC) AND OTHER TRAINING UNITS, AS NECESSARY. 8. ATFPWDC WILL EXERCISE CURRICULUM CONTROL MODEL MANAGEMENT FOR FLEET UNITS AND WILL SHARE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEVELOPING REQUIRED CURRICULUM FOR THE COI FOR BASIC NLW INSTRUCTION WITH NCIS (CODE 24). 9. SENIOR INSTRUCTORS FROM NCIS MOBILE TRAINING TEAMS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO CONDUCT THE INITIAL TRAINING OF BASIC INSTRUCTORS AND TO PROVIDE PERIODIC REVIEW OF TRAINING CONDUCTED BY BASIC INSTRUCTORS USING CURRICULUM DEVELOPED JOINTLY WITH ATFPWDC. 10. THE FLEETS, ATGS, FLEET TRAINING CENTERS (FTC) AND THE ATFPWDC WILL ASSIGN INSTRUCTOR CANDIDATES TO ATTEND NCIS-SPONSORED TRAINING TO BECOME BASIC INSTRUCTORS. 11. THE FLEETS, FPTT, ATGS, AND THE ATFPWDC WILL ASSIGN PERSONNEL TO ATTEND THE INIWIC. THE ATFPWDC WILL COORDINATE INIWIC QUOTA ASSIGNMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS POLICY. 12. BASIC INSTRUCTORS WHO ARE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN TRAINING USERS WILL RETAIN THEIR INSTRUCTOR STATUS. BASIC INSTRUCTORS WHO ARE INACTIVE FOR A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS MUST ATTEND A CLASS TAUGHT BY SENIOR INSTRUCTORS TO REGAIN THEIR BASIC INSTRUCTOR STATUS. SENIOR INSTRUCTORS WILL NOT REQUIRE RETRAINING. 13. NLW INSTRUCTORS WHO RECEIVED THEIR TRAINING FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN INIWIC PRIOR TO JANUARY 2003 ARE AUTHORIZED TO CONTINUE THEIR INSTRUCTION UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THEIR CERTIFICATES, OR JANUARY 2005, WHICHEVER COMES LATER. 14. COMMAND TRAINING COURSES DEVELOPED PRIOR TO THIS PUBLICATION THAT ARE NOT BASED ON INIWIC STANDARDS MAY CONTINUE UNTIL JANUARY 2005, AT WHICH TIME ALL NLW TRAINING MUST BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ABOVE POLICY.// 15. RELEASED BY VADM P. GREEN, N3/N5// BT