Joseph Bobovsky, MD Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine
Advisor
Dr. Joseph Bobovsky is a Reserve Sergeant with the Yakima Police Department in Yakima, WA. In addition to his role as Assistant Team Leader for the Yakima Special Weapons And Tactics team for the past 11 years, he has served as team sniper for 8 years.
Dr. Bobovsky is a Certified Sniper Instructor, both Basic and Advanced, for the Criminal Justice Training Commission in Washington State. He also holds a 1st degree Black Belt in Aikido, a 2nd degree Black Belt in Tang Soo Do, and 3rd degree Black Belts in both Ninjutsu and Jisson Kobudo.
A diplomate of both the American Board of Emergency Medicine and of the American Board of Anesthesiology, Dr. Bobovsky is currently the Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital and Managing Partner of the Physicians Anesthesia Association in Yakima, WA.
TORIS Research
Due to the serious nature of providing personnel with information on debilitating injury, as it applies to lethal force, TORIS is dedicated to ensuring that the most current scientific information is the foundation upon which all of our curricula are designed. This ensures that personal lethal force curricula are based upon demonstrable scientific fact, which has been directly investigated and evaluated by TORIS as well as by our collaborative partners.Read more…
Curriculum Design
Training for lethal force situations prepares operators for the most stressful and highest-risk moments of an entire career. Regardless of the tools used, the training must ingrain the ability to deliver sufficient injury to stop a lethal threat and the judgment to use that ability properly. Firearms are a core portion of an operator’s training, but it is easy to foresee deadly situations where a firearm is difficult or impossible to bring to bear. Unable to draw, a mechanical failure, struggling for control of a weapon…Read more…
Risk Management
With the ad hoc nature of Defensive Tactics (DT) technique selection, most agencies are operating without soundly engineered and medically reviewed DT programs. When instructors are untrained in the associated knowledge of injury mechanisms, scope, and probability, they may fail to communicate the actual risk of serious injury. In addition, there may be liberal use-of-force policies that do not take into account the disguised risk of injury… Read more…