Close-Quarters Security & Self-Defense Training for Transport Crew

Specialized self-defense and security training for aviation, rail, and maritime crew. Delivered by military-trained instructors across Europe and worldwide.

Security Training for the People Who Keep Transport Moving

Aviation

Self-defense and security response training for cabin crew and pilots, aligned with EU aviation security training requirements.

Rail & Transit

De-escalation and physical response training for conductors, station staff, and onboard personnel facing rising rates of passenger violence.

Maritime & Cruise

Security awareness and physical response training for ship's crew, going beyond baseline STCW compliance for the realities of extended, isolated voyages.

Cabin crew, train conductors, and ship’s crew share a working reality that most corporate security training was never designed for: confined space, direct and repeated contact with the public, and no immediate backup when a situation turns physical. Comtac delivers structured, close-quarters self-defense and security response training built specifically for these environments. Not adapted from a general combat sports curriculum, but designed around the operational constraints of an aircraft cabin, a train carriage, or a ship’s corridor.

Delivered where you are

We deliver on location at your training center, crew base, depot, or port, anywhere in Europe or at operator bases worldwide.

No requirement for your staff to travel to us.

Why generic self-defense training doesn't transfer

A technique that works on a mat doesn’t work in a 60cm aisle, a train vestibule, or a ship’s galley. Our instructors with backgrounds in military close-combat training, including Savbor-affiliated methodology and Israeli Krav Maga (IKMA) lineage build every programme around the specific physical and legal constraints of the environment it’s delivered in.

Looking for individual or personal training instead of an institutional programme? The best time to learn how to protect yourself was before you needed to – the next best time is now.

Courses of CQC & Self-Defense

Self-defense means using physical action to protect yourself or someone else from harm — nothing more, nothing less. Everything we teach exists for that purpose: so you and the people you care about can protect yourselves if the need ever arises. The law is narrow about when force is justified.

Essence of self-defense

Real self-defense depends on a full set of skills, not just one. Striking with your hands and feet, clinching, executing throws and takedowns, and controlling an opponent on the ground are all part of responding to whatever a situation actually demands — not just one practiced scenario.

Aspect of self-defense

We teach using modern, tested methods designed to give you options, not one fixed response. Techniques range from control and de-escalation, causing minimal harm, to a decisive response when a situation leaves no other choice. Every technique is taught alongside knowing when it applies.

Teaching of self-defense

Research & Insights

Bystander Intervention

2026-08-24 No Comments

Eleven Minutes: What Police Timelines Reveal About the Gap Between an Attack and a Response What documented cases show about the interval when only the people already on scene can change the outcome At 7:39 p.m. on the evening of November 1, 2025, Cambridgeshire police received the first emergency call reporting a stabbing aboard a London-bound express

Victim Perspective

2026-08-21 No Comments

“I Could Not Leave My Cab”: What Transport Workers Say When They Describe the Moment It Turned Physical First-hand accounts from crew who have lived through the incidents behind the statistics Kiyya Rivera had worked as a New York City subway conductor for nearly four years before anything like it happened to her. On a rush-hour morning,

Frontline Crew Violence