WELCOME
TO
DEFENSIVE
DRIVING SCHOOL
MALTA
Our Mission
Our
aim is to set driving standards in Malta. Our driving tuition will lead the
market & set quality levels for other schools to follow. Our pupils will
be prepared to anticipate, recognize & deal safely with all road hazards
& conditions. Quality instruction is
our commitment!
Company Profile
Defensive
Driving School was set up in 1998 when Ian felt the need to introduce
defenisve driving instruction that was
lacking in Malta. Unfortunately old habits prevailed in the driving instruction
industry and the high number of accidents on our islands were the result.
After obtaining his qualifications in U.K.,
Ian started his marketing campaign and the feedback was overwhelming. The
difference in driving instruction, services offered and customer support were
all very well welcomed by the Maltese public. The determination to offer the safest and
the most professional driving tuition in Malta is paying back.
We hereby invite you to taste some of our
views and achievements by visiting the rest of our website. We DO appreciate
your comments or suggestions, so please email
us now.
NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE!
& EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!
Who we are.........
Chief Instructor: Ian Pace
Ian
started his working career with Avis Car hire as a Fleet Controller. He
managed the daily operations and assisted the rental agents to ensure all
cars were delivered on time and according to Avis standards. Then after
being employed as a courier with DHL International, Ian was promoted as
Operations Supervisor. One of his daily tasks was to manage and organise DHL’s
fleet of vehicles and drivers. From then onwards Ian decided to take things
further and instead of improving the driving skills of just one company, he
thought "why don’t I teach better driving?"
 Before
setting up the first Defensive Driving School in Malta, he achieved various
diplomas in Management and Modern Business Administration and Safety
Co-ordination. In fact, to date, Ian is the only U.K. qualified driving
instructor on the island of Malta. Ian’s mentality to do things right and
as professionally as possible, took him to Birmingham were he learned and
practised Advanced Driving Skills and Advanced teaching skills from one of
the U.K.’s leading driving schools, Driving Technique Ltd.
Mark
S. Kendrick, Ian’s instructor, is a very professional and a very known
instructor in the field of safe driving and advanced driving. Ian’s
intensive course and 4 assessment tests confirmed his dedication to achieve
a high level of proficiency, skill, and knowledge. Ian’s discipline played
a key part to achieve his 4 diplomas in, Advanced and Defensive Driving
Instruction, Advanced Driving Test, Advanced and Defensive Driving and
Instructing Course and Skid Control.
These
are the comments that Mark had to say about Ian’s performance.
"Right
from the very start of his course, Ian impressed me with his
knowledge of driving best practise. Most notable was his passion for
improving driving standards on Malta’s' roads and thus the safety of all
those who
live and visit the Islands.
Driving Technique's Advanced & Defensive Driving &
Instructing Diploma is
the highest award available to a civilian Advanced Driver/Instructor
in the and, probably, the world. Ian achieved our high standards having
passed
testing assessments of his driving and instructing ability following
an intensive training program.
Ian is thus equipped to teach drivers to advanced level. I have no
doubt
that Ian and his Defensive Driving School will
set the standard for all
other Maltese driver training establishments to follow in the
future."
 
 
We are also members of RoSPA (Royal Society
for the Prevention of Accidents)
Origins of Defensive Driving
All of this stemmed from great concern about the
accident rate on British roads in the 1930's. This concern was not only about
the general public standard of driving but, also, that of the police. It
was decided to create a police driving school for the Met. and this started at
Hendon in January 1935. For two years they plodded (no pun intended) on
without any
significant improvement in standards. The real change came when Lord
Cottenham took over in 1937. Cottenham had been writing in the motoring press
from the 1920's on driving more safely on the roads. At Hendon he introduced a
methodical approach to dealing with driving situations and this proved so
effective that, after WW2 a host of other police driving schools were set up
around the country and it spiraled from there.
In the mid fifties the 'police system' moved into the
public domain with the introduction of 'advanced driving organisations' (such
as the Institute of Advanced Motorists and ROSPA, Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents) and a public version of the police driver training
notes, Roadcraft, was produced by HMSO. I am not sure when the label
'defensive' became attached to these techniques, but it was quite possibly
some sort of government drive in the 60's.
In the early 1960's a group of knowledgeable and concerned people recognised
that there were no 'civilian' courses for drivers of high performance
vehicles, remembering that then there was no open road speed limit. And so, in
1962, the High Performance Course came into being fronted by a former Hendon
Advanced Wing Instructor, John Miles. This was the first true high
speed advanced course for members of the general public. Again its ethos
rested very heavily on the learnings at police driving schools.
In the early 1930's, in parallel with police driver training, came the police
traffic divisions which were originally designed to 'monitor and supervise'
road users. They were expected to display exemplary standards in their own
driving so as to set the right example for other drivers.
"Many thanks to my friend Nigel Albright for
the above explanation on the origins of Defensive Driving."
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