Bruce K. Siddle
Mr. Siddle is the Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Detonics™, the former CEO of Homeland Security Corporation, Inc. and the founder of PPCT Management Systems, Inc. (the largest research-based use-of-force training organization inside the United States).
Mr. Siddle is internationally recognized as an expert in the study of combat human factors, use of force and counter-terrorism training. Mr. Siddle is often credited as the pioneer who initiated the study of survival stress and how it impacts the performance of law enforcement officers, military personnel and combat aviators. His pivotal research into the influence of the Sympathetic Nervous System on perceptual processing, cognitive processing, motor performance and memory, is now widely incorporated in all facets of use of force, combat and survival skills training. Just as importantly, Mr. Siddle research is routinely used to help defending law enforcement and military personnel against charges of excessive force.
Mr. Siddle is the author of 29 articles and abstracts on varying aspects of survival stress and performance, has funded and coordinated 38 research projects. Mr. Siddle has been a guest speaker for hundreds of agencies throughout the United States, including the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, International Association of Chief’s of Police, the National Sheriff’s Association, the International Association of Firearms Instructors, the Academy for Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers.
He has been a consultant for the U.S. Dept. of Navy’s Redcell, U.S. Dept. of Army’s Delta Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Dept. of State’s Mobile Security Unit, U.S. Dept. of Defense, U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, the U. S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team and Firearms Training Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Hostage Rescue Unit, Federal Aviation Administration Air Marshals, and various military special operation/warfare units since 1986. He has been a training consultant to the Hong Kong government since 1988, working for the Hong Kong Police and Correctional training academies, as well as the United Kingdom police and prison agencies, and several close-in-protection contracts for the Queen of England’s personal protection unit (Royal Protection Group). Mr. Siddle was also a contract instructor for the intelligence community from 1988 to the spring of 2000.
Mr. Siddle’s passion is researching and writing. He is the author of Sharpening the Warrior’s Edge, the first text to provide a scientific explanation into survival stress responses, such as visual narrowing, auditory exclusion, hypervigilence and why survival performance often deteriorates. His newest publication is Warrior Science, the Study of Combat Human Factors that will be released in 2010. He is now writing a third text, Combat Human Factors, with his sons Kevin and Jonathan, which encapsulates a 2-year research project on stress and firearms performance.