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Chris
Gleed has obtained the
services of
Chris Gilbert,
(Roadcraft/Metropolitan Police Hendon), as our ‘Speaker’ for tonight's meeting. As
most of you know, Chris is a very prolific and entertaining
speaker who exudes enthusiasm.
Chris Gilbert has a
wealth of driving experience both inside and outside the
Metropolitan Police Service. He’s been involved in driver
training for over 35 years and as a Class 1 police driver,
taught high performance advanced driving for 22 years.
Click here to view - YouTube - Met Police Driving School
As a police staff trainer he helped to
select and trained new police and civilian instructors, and
perfected a range of teaching techniques for converting Class 1
police drivers into Advanced Class 1 instructors.
Chris has taught learner drivers as an
RAC Registered Driving Instructor/ Ministry of Transport
Approved Driving Instructor. In the police service, he has
taught at all levels of advanced driving up to the coveted
Advanced Class 1 level, including pursuit driving, 999
driving, high speed night driving, convoy driving, towing, PCV,
LGV, skid pan instruction and training new driving instructors.
He also taught tactical vehicle deployment for riot situations,
anti surveillance training for British government ministerial
and European Parliament Brussels drivers. He is a former Police
Advanced Driving Examiner and a DSA Delegated PCV & LGV Driving
Examiner.
His talk
will be about two hours long with a break halfway through and
will include as much detail as possible about his driving
history, Roadcraft and its principles as well as information on
‘Response Driving’. Chris has also taught Prince William and
Prince Harry to drive!
His
‘Ultimate Driving
Craft’ DVD will be available at a reduced price for the
night so it will be worth coming along to take advantage of that
offer. A preview is available on
YouTube.
Obviously Chris has a
fair way to travel to speak to us so please, do yourselves a
great favour and come along to take advantage of his talk and go
away enlightened with the fact that you will possess more
knowledge than you came in with.
Please invite along
anyone
who may also be interested in coming.
Bring
with you all those questions you've always wanted to ask!!!!
Start Time : 7:00 for 7:30pm
Venue :
Blunsdon House Hotel
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