Non Destructive Entry for Firefighters, Police Officers & EMS by Deviant Ollam

I took a "Non-Forcible Entry" class at Texas Fire School almost 20 years ago. The instructors knew their stuff and were smart about it. They went to the Texas Department of Corrections and spoke with the best burglars inthe business, and learned their best tricks of the trade, then passed it on to us in class. I can tell you one thing, locks are only for honest thieves.

Dev doing the training at discounted pricing for first responders fits with my image of his kindness/generosity which is just great to see.

I must have watched about 15 hours worth of Deviant talks by now. I see a lot of repeats. but crazy how every video always have nuggets of something new

I was working the daytime weekend shift at a bank data center, the only person in the building, on a Sunday. I had made a pot of coffee in the employee lounge, outside of the machine room and went out to get a cup of coffee when there was a power outage. (No, we didn't have a UPS.) Couldn't get back into the machine room, so I called the security guard to have him let me in. The machine room security doors had a door-within-a-door with a deadbolt that locked them to the outer frame. The idea being that if the door electronics (card read, door opener, POWER, etc.) failed, the inner door could be opened with a simple key. That simple key was not on the guard's key ring. "OK, I guess I'll just wait here until the power comes back on." The guard left. As I was standing around, I noticed that the raised machine room floor extended a couple of feet outside of the door. Also noticed that the floor tiles weren't held down by fasteners, and there was a pretty big gap between the top of the floor tiles and the bottom of the door. Couldn't pull one up with my hands, so I got a large paper clip and wiggled it underneath the tile far enough to grab the edge of the tile and pull it out. the floor was elevated about 10 inches, more than enough to crawl under the door, push up a tile on the inside, climb up into the machine room and finish my shift. Power came back on later, so the evening guy got in OK. When I told my supervisor about it, he told me not to do it again, because the door is covered by a security camera. So I broke into the machine room of a bank that was doing $10 million a day with a paper clip. I don't think they ever did anything about the missing key, the unsecured tiles, and the wide open space under floor that could be entered just by pulling up a floor tile. The bank merged with another one about 5 year later, and they closed the data center. It's a hotel convention center now.

53:00 Imagined a situation where wife comes by, asks you to open a padlock that she forgot combination for, you sit down, open a beer and chill. She asks "what are you doing? I asked you for help." and you reply with all the chill and confidence "preparing the tools, honey".

I haven't done much of this kind of stuff, but there was one time when I was cleaning someone's yard, and she had not left the gate open for me to get in, or it had closed on its own or something, so I took the 6ft USB cable in my pocket out, looped it over the fence, caught the latch, and pulled it open. It ain't much, but I was proud of it at the time.

As a paramedic working in an area where we don't always have the fire department to fall back on for entry, I appreciate the info. Probably gonna put together a small kit for those rare circumstance where memaw is having a COPD exacerbation and can't get up to unlock the door for us. Thanks king 👑👑👑.

Grat video! Years ago we responded to a victim stuck in an elevator that almost turned to be very pricey destructive but with my past of being an electrician we located the control equipment and where able to reboot the system and it auto delivered to the bottom floor and opened up. After that call i got to train my crew on elevators even though i didnt have much rank other then firefighter with a couple years on that dept.

I've worked in more than one EMS department where CH751 was the narcotic box lock key.

This is Deviant's most thorough and comprehensive bypass presentation, at least that I've seen. All around great guy.

I’ve watched all of Dev’s videos, now I’m a felon. True story.

An interesting story about REX sensors. I was working at a secured facility (I will not mention where). The way the entrance worked was there was a vestibule you could badge into, and then you would put your phone in the cubbies there. You then badged into the actual secured area. A message was sent out for employees to please not hang out in this vestibule and check their phones. While an explanation was not given I assumed it was because the REX sensor was being tripped, leaving the door unsecured.

Re: the multiple keyboxes for multiple people who might need to get in: I've seen the rural equivalent -- each person who needed access brought their own padlock, and hooked it between the owner's lock and the next one between the ends of the chain that wrapped around the pole and held the gate closed, so the owner only has to go out and unlock his lock once to give a repeating visitor access by adding theirs to the chain. Not the MOST secure system (anybody could add THEIR friends, and it's not at all difficult to pop most padlocks you can do that with, but hey, locks just keep honest people honest. (the owner, the two oil companies that had pumps on wells on his land, the owner's friends and family who used it as a private shooting range/fishing hole, the occasional hunter who paid him to hunt deer or trap feral hogs on it ... )

I got a new hobby after finding LockPickingLawyer channel. Then I watched this. Its full of pain realizing you cant have all this bypass fun legally :( Thanks for great content though! May it help us save many lives

At 27:17 you mention that turning the handle disengages most handle security. I stayed at a hotel up in Canada a couple of times about 5 years ago, forget the city, but the cleaning staff could still open the door even if I turned the deadbolt, I got woken up by then a time or two. I ended up placing their tv remote under the deadbolt turn handle and wedging it on the door handle and they could no longer just walk in. They never were happy about it but I was less happy about having someone walk in on me sleeping in the buck.

7:58 HAHAHAHA, that's a hoof pick. It's used for digging stones and debris out of a horse's shoes. A must have for an equestrian farmer! Never thought I'd see it used as an entry tool! Man that put a smile on my face.

my brother used to live in an app block where the front door of the block was so poorly fitted you could slip the latch with a twig from the big bush that was next to the door and he'd have to do this fairly regularly as the key tag reader didn't work a lot of the time

Deviant is the best at this stuff. 🙏 He's also charismatic so it's makes it very easy to listen to and understand.

Every time I see the part on latch slipping I remember when I used to open the door to our flat when I forgot the keys... I was 8 i think. That tought legit scares me now with what I know.

Little late to the show but really appreciate you making yourself available to Ft Washington Deviant, they're one of two FDs that primarily respond to the area I live in and knowing they've got access to potentially faster techniques than just breaking things makes me that much happier to live here