David Kenik is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Police Officers Safety Association, Inc., a non-profit organization that offers enhanced training to law enforcement officers. Certified as a police instructor in pistol, revolver, shotgun and rifle, he serves as a Training Officer for a New Mexico police agency. Additionally, David is a contributing editor to several firearms magazines.

David has been an avid shooter for over twenty five years and has trained with many internationally recognized use of force programs in the judicious use of lethal force, firearms, defensive shooting, weapon disarming and retention and edged weapons.

As a gun rights advocate, David co-founded and is a Past Chairman of Citizens’ Rights Action League, a state-wide group that advocates the right to self-defense and lobbies against gun control legislation in Rhode Island. Under his leadership CRAL was, and continues to be, an effective force against restrictions upon of law-abiding citizens.



Ralph Mroz is an internationally recognized authority on defensive tactics, firearms training, and training methods. Ralph is the Training Director of the Police Officers Safety Association, Inc. and a police officer in Massachusetts, currently assigned to his county’s counter drug/gang task force.

Mroz has produced the Facing the Blade and Extremely Close Quarter Shooting videos and is the author of Defensive Shooting for Real-Life Encounters and Tactical Defensive Training for Real-Life Encounters. His publications have re-defined the way that training is done with firearms and for edged weapons defense. He is also the author of several hundred articles in the professional law enforcement press.