PROTECTIVE AGENT

(12hr) Pre-assignment Training

201-204

This course is for:

PROTECTIVE AGENT / SECURITY GUARD

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PRIVATE SECURITY TRAINING

COURSE RATIONALE

This course is intended to provide a comprehensive training/educational pathway for private security practitioners, public law enforcement officers who work security part time, and those who seek new careers or promotion in the field of private security.  Special attention was devoted during the preparation of this curriculum to assure that it contains all of the required topics set out by Rule as directed by the Minnesota State laws regarding certified training of security practitioners.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

    1. This course is designed to meet or exceed the requirements of the Minnesota State Board of Private Detectives and Protective Agents for mandatory pre-assignment training of private security practitioners and for continuing education credits for private security practitioners.
    2. This course is also designed for police officers who perform private security services or who own security companies. It is intended that this course will meet or exceed the requirements of the POST Board for licensed public law enforcement officer POST credits.
    3. This course will be of interest to protective agent contract company owners, managers and authorized representatives as well as the security officers who work for these companies.

COURSE CONTENT

The following list of topics will be addressed in this course:

Lesson 1

Security Overview
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Definitions
B. Security Overview
C. Job Description
D. Security Officer Limits
E. Risk Management Options
F. Police Officer Comparisons
G. Customized Topics Designed To Fit The Audience

Legal Authority & Liability Issues
II. LEGAL ASPECTS OF PRIVATE SECURITY
III. SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Lesson 2

Communications
IV. CONFLICT RESOLUTION & VERBAL DE-ESCALATION
V. FIELD NOTES AND REPORT WRITING
VI. CUSTOMIZED TOPICS DESIGNED TO FIT THE AUDIENCE

Lesson 3

Incident/Situation Assessment
VII. PHYSICAL SECURITY INTEGRATION DESIGN
VIII. RISK ANALYSIS & EMERGENCY RESPONSE
IX. CUSTOMIZED TOPICS DESIGNED TO FIT THE AUDIENCE

Essential Topics Not Required By Rule
X. OFFICER SAFETY
XI. CUSTOMIZED TOPICS DESIGNED TO FIT THE AUDIENCE

Ethics
XII. ETHICAL ISSUES IN SOCIETY THAT IMPACTS SECURITY
XIII. ETHICAL ISSUES SPECIFIC TO THE SECURITY INDUSTRY
XIV. CUSTOMIZED TOPICS DESIGNED TO FIT THE AUDIENCE

Lesson 4

Minnesota Protective Agent Related Statutes & Administrative Rules
XV. LAWS AND RULES REGULATING PROTECTIVE AGENTS.
XVI. USE OF FORCE AND ARREST LAWS
XVII. CUSTOMIZED TOPICS DESIGNED TO FIT THE AUDIENCE


Foundational Information & Exams

There is plenty of text material provided for the student to answer the majority of questions. However, a few questions will require looking up the answers on Google. Certainly “on-line” training is nowhere as effective as a teacher in the classroom directing a Socratic discussion. But the element of searching for the answer to the questions in the text and Google searches will help bring a portion of the training into the Socratic methodology realm.

Author Of This Course:
Charles T. Thibodeau, M.Ed., CPP, CSSM, CPO, CPOI, CFAI, CPDT, CPAT

1. Reference:  National Paideia Center, Asheville, NC 28801, (2015)  Google this for a Minnesota Paideia Center and additional information.


DISCLAIMER

The following pages of material must not be confused with an attempt of the author to hold himself out as an attorney, or a person who is a licensed attorney in any jurisdiction on the globe either domestic or foreign. This means that the author of this material is not now and never has been licensed to practice law. No one in the administration of this company, Charles T. Thibodeau and Associates, has ever been licensed to practice law. The author is holding himself out as a very successful Expert Witness in court trials both as a plaintiff’s expert and a defendant’s expert. He began his Expert Witness career in 1991. He is currently performing in that field of Expert Witness.

At this time we are writing in March 2017. The author has been an expert witness in both Criminal Court and Civil Court as well as both State Court and Federal Court for a total of 26 years. This author intends to continue working as an Expert Witness in cases where the subject matter of a lawsuit meets his Expert level of knowledge in any particular subject relating to the Private Security and the Private Detective professions. To obtain a Curriculum Vitae of this author’s background. Please send an email request and snail-mail a check for $3.00 for postage and copy costs and the author will send you his 18 page Curriculum Vitae. See above for address and email.

There are 4 Lessons in this Course.
You must Pass the Quiz in each Lesson before you are able to move onto the next Lesson.

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Lessons

Lesson 2 Private Security Training CTTA202

Length: 180 minutes

Hostility Communications Analysis 1. The best private security tool you have available is your brain and your mouth. Although you may have a can of chemical spray, a night stick or ASP, handcuffs and a gun, you must be slow to act and fast to listen. You cannot communicate well when you are in a […]

Lesson 3 Private Security Training CTTA203

Length: 180 minutes

ETHICS, INTEGRITY, MORALS 1.  Ethics is defined as:  “Doing what is right when no one is watching. 2.  Integrity is defined as:  “Behavior that follows a code of values or principles.” 3.  Morals is defined as :  “The principle of right behavior, conforming to a standard of right behavior, knowing right from wrong.” 4.  It […]

Lesson 4 Private Security Training CTTA204

Length: 180 minutes

Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 326, 2015 1.  The primary State Laws governing private security and private detectives are found in Chapter 326. 2.  In order to meet the definition of a security officer, as set out in MS 326.32, the officer must be paid a fee, wage or salary for his or her services. 3.  A […]