Summary
Salih Avci (pronounced: aavji) is one of the chief trainers of the SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommandos, the special response units of the German state police forces), MEK, ZUZ (the SWAT unit of the German Customs Service, and GSG 9 (the elite counter-terrorism and special operations unit of the German Federal Police) in Germany as well as various other special forces ranging from the American Rapid Response Team (RRT) in Chicago to the special police of one of China's biggest provinces. Avci is a security consultant for the Ministry of Justice in Germany.
Avci was born in Turkey in 1962 and moved to Germany in 1971. He started training in Wing Tsun in 1980 in the European Wing Tsun Organization (EWTO). In 1986, he attained the 1st technician degree. In 1997, he left EWTO to found WTEO (Wing Tsun-Escrima Organization).
Avci is still the world chief trainer of the organization. Today, WTEO has more than 8000 students, excluding law enforcement forces. There are more than 70 schools of WTEO alone in Germany and several others in Holland, Turkey, France, Austria, Spain, Jordan, Italy, Sudan, Greece and La Reunion.
Since 1997, Salih Avci has been the head and chief trainer of the young and dynamic martial arts organisation. As head of the Organisation, Salih Avci is responsible for the standard of the instructors’ training and the students. He leads the official seminars that take place around the world.
He has been training the SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommandos: special police commandos)of the largest German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) since 1992 in the areas of safety and interference techniques. The NRW Police Force is the biggest of the 16 German state police forces because almost a quarter of the German population lives in NRW.
In 1996 Salih Avci became a member of a working group organised by the Ministry of Justice of NRW that had the task of revising and setting new guidelines for law enforcement, he was then assigned as Chief Instructor of that group. The new techniques of Avci WingTsun/Escrima were introduced into law enforcement in NRW. Other public organisation were including Avci WingTsun/Escrima into their training. The Customs Office and the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations use Salih Avci’s experiences and abilities for training their task forces.
The positive results that were reaped from Salih Avci’s system during real-life dangerous situations resulted in the training of the police of NRW Avci System. These techniques are now being applied on a daily basis by officials in NRW. Other Federal States in Germany have stated their interests in incorporating Avci WingTsun/Escrima into their officials’ training.
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