ISR Matrix Law Enforcement is at its center and source, a unique integrative teaching approach and training methodology created and developed by Luis Gutierrez. It is by design, a systematic framework or strategic template to methodically and safely teach and train law enforcement with modern functional tactics. Highly adaptive and structurally dynamic, it utilizes specific stages and phases of uniformly patterned steps that gradually evolve with incremental instruction and layered drilling sequences to cyclically advance students through training goals and fixed curriculum requirements. 

Its initial expression, ISR Matrix 101, was co-founded with and launched alongside Officer Paul Sharp in 1999 who contributed his wealth of law enforcement experience and martial sport's knowledge to its original VHS format and public presentations. For the next few years Luis Gutierrez and Paul Sharp would introduce the material via short teaching blocks at BJJ and MMA camps hosted in Oregon by the Straight Blast Gym and a couple of memorable and pioneering LEO only sessions to close out those camps. Luis Gutierrez (Florida) and Paul Sharp (Illinois) would then separately teach their own students back home, some of which would eventually go on and start their own successful companies and become popular years later.

In 2005 Luis Gutierrez was sought out, evaluated, and invited to introduce ISR Matrix Law Enforcement (LE) to the USAF OSI Anti-Terrorism Specialty Team. The intent was to further develop a team oriented and weapon centered apprehension system within the context of the unique missions being assigned to their special operations teams working in various capacities within combat zones. Blending aspects of law enforcement with their role in counter-terrorism, their missions needed them to be able to escalate and de-escalate within military rules of engagement and from going hands on to weapons and / or apprehension to combat and vice-versa. 

From 2005-2008 Luis Gutierrez would further evolve and expand the ISR Matrix's LE curriculum and training approach to incorporate the needs of security and special operation forces and through these instrumental and formative years, integrate and further unify the system's apprehension and combative principles and tactics for the Armed Forces which became the ISR Matrix AF. This transformative work would lead to further inquiries and requests for the ISR Matrix among Special Response Teams stateside and overseas and soon after that, trainers from Homeland Security, Air Marshals and DEA were attending courses regularly.  

In the decades that would follow, the ISR Matrix Law Enforcement System was taught and trained throughout North America, Australia, Europe, Iceland and Asia and and would be shown periodically to Law Enforcement educators and trainers at national and international events, conventions and shows. 

In 2018, Luis Gutierrez introduced the ISR Matrix’s Civilian Systems which were designed around personal protection and self defense and further developed and introduced its women’s counter abduction and counter assault program, the ISR-C.A.T.

For a more in depth and detailed account of all of the key individuals and the contributions they have each made to ISR Matrix Law Enforcement, continue here...