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Welcome to the Great Lakes Police Motorcycle Training Seminar Website. The GLPMTS is a registered not-for-profit organization.
The 2009 event will be hosted by the London Police Service at the Ontario Police College in Aylmer, Ontario.
The Great Lakes Police Motorcycle Training Seminar (GLPMTS) was established in 1999 by a group of police motorcycle trainers in the province of Ontario, Canada. A training seminar provides a forum for the exchange and development of specialized skills. Any progressive, professional body continually evolves and develops with the police motorcycle profession being no different.
An annual police motorcycle training event provides these opportunities:
- Establish and promote safe motorcycle riding skills within the police community.
- Promote awareness of the police motorcycle officer in the public arena as a safe, responsible motorcycle officer.
- Establish a cohesive fraternity and encourage kinship in the law enforcement motoring community.
- Support local and regional charities affiliated with the police community
The GLPMTS provides both theoretical and practical information. The organizing committee develops patterns and courses designed to challenge all levels of riders with a format designed to increase and improve a police rider’s skill. The instructors are on hand to teach and mentor the novice riders. As the riders ability progresses they advance through an intermediate level and finally to an expert level. The courses are designed to replicate real-life events and obstacles that a police motorcycle officer may be faced with while riding.
The GLPMTS also has a competitive component. The organizers host a riding competition on the final day of the seminar. The competition tests the riders on slow speed motorcycle control, obstacle negotiation, braking and collision avoidance techniques. Introducing a competitive element further improves a rider’s abilities. The human body will not be able to distinguish between the hormones that are released during a competitive event from those that are released during an emergency motorcycle riding incident providing realistic training in a controlled environment.
Through this format the GLPMTS helps the riders:
- Develop a Winning Attitude
- Improve Mental Strength
- Develop Superior Motorcycle Riding Ability
- Improve a Rider’s Situational Awareness, Multi-Tasking and Task-Focusing
- Enhance Motorcycle Riding Performance
- Improve a Rider’s Ability to Deal with Stress
- Provide Exposure to New Techniques, Equipment and Methodologies
Over the past ten years the seminar has raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity. The charity recipient for the GLPMTS is the Ontario Police Memorial Foundation, which assists the families of fallen officers. In 2008 the GLPMTS donated $5,000 to this worthwhile cause.
The GLPMTS supports community policing. Although participation in the GLPMTS is restricted to police personnel the public is encouraged to attend and observe. There is no admission cost for spectators. Seminar training days and the competition are exciting to watch and provide and opportunity for citizens to interact with the police officers. There is always opportunity to speak with an officer, sit on a police motorcycle and take pictures.
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