July 11, 2015 — The Hyattville Life & Times published a story today about how the Hyattsville City Police Department partnered with Vistelar to host a four day instructor course on Verbal Defense and Influence.

Hyattsville police host national verbal defense training

According to HCPD, course topics included keeping conflict from escalating into confrontations, defusing confrontations and de-escalating violence.

The course had 26 students from such agencies as:

• Metro Transit Police Department
• Maryland Transit Administration Police Department
• Anne Arundel County Police Department
• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
• U.S. Patent Office

… as well as from the Washington Post and other agencies in Delaware, New Jersey, Utah and Georgia.