Church Security Essentials & Fundamentals Course
This course is designed to train faith-based organizations in the basic concepts and strategies to establish a volunteer Security Team or Safety Ministry using the best general practices in the industry. The learning objectives for the student will be to understand the concepts and dynamics of establishing, organizing and working together as a team. The student will learn legal issues, civil liability, training requirements, documentation, incident reporting, de-escalation techniques dealing with disruptions, responding to emergencies (fires, medical, lost & missing children), securing the children’s/youth ministries, patrol techniques & strategies, brief overview of Active Shooter protocols & other Critical Incident responses (lockdown/evacuation/countering strategies) and site vulnerability assessment.
Church Security Fundamentals Block Schedule
0800-1000: Introductions & intro to church security/ Team concepts
Legal issues and civil liability
Site security vulnerabilities
1000-1010: Break
1010-1100: Security strategies (communications & placement of team members)
Use of force laws and other legal concerns
1200-1300: Lunch break
1300-1400: De-escalation techniques & Force on force concepts
1400-1410: Break
1410-1500: Patrol techniques
Situational awareness
1500-1700: Incident reporting and documentation
Children ministry protection strategies
Emergency action plans
Lockdown and evacuation drills
*Schedule subject to change*
8 hours total
Price $50.00 per person. Or call to arrange private group training. Must have 10 students minimum to book private training course.