P.S.D. Pre Deployment Course

(Protective Security Detail)

Next Course Date:  See Training Calendar

 1) PSD Operation

• Introduction to High Risk Close Protection work
• PSD (Protective Security Detail) role against insurgents
• PSD basic skill sets (Individual and Team)
• High and low profile operations  
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Overt/Covert operational methods
• PSD Team protecting clients
• Advanced skill set

2) Tactical Shooting

• Tactical Israeli Point Shooting
• Basic & Advanced CQB (urban, rural)
• Dynamic drills using handguns, assault rifle and shotguns (M4, Shotgun, AK47)
• Engaging various targets
• Shooting at moving targets (side, front, diagonal)
• Shooting from a moving vehicle (static and dynamic)
• Shooting at a moving vehicle
• Shooting from a motorcycle
• Shooting in densely populated areas
• Shooting in low visibility (smoke, fire, fog, darkness)
• Shoot/don’t shoot drills and exercises
• Using cover while shooting:  left, right, above, below
• Simulative instinctive shooting
• Procedures for drawing weapons   
• Quick recovery from weapon jams
• Shooting while injured and disoriented
• Gun drawing and operation in difficult situations
• Gun drawing and operation in confined spaces
• Body armor/protection
• High emotional and mental pressure and tension exercises
• Tactically moving within a crowd
• Sniper and counter sniper
• Shooting while blinded and disoriented
• Night shooting
• Tactical use of a flashlight
• Laser sites
• Procedures for tactically exiting a vehicle
• Weapons transition
• Shooting while in motion (running, walking)
• Shooting through vehicle windshields
• Instinctive and reactive shooting with a handgun
• Foreign weapon use and familiarization
• Force on force shooting exercises
• One hand magazine change
• Final integrated drills

3) Professional Driving Training

• Professional driving skills used by secret service, SF, police and bodyguards
• Braking techniques and skid control maneuvers
• Surprise new off-road recovery techniques exclusively developed by CRI
• Handling multiple vehicles that are attempting to force the vehicle off road
• Understanding over/under steering a vehicle
• Dynamics of avoiding obstacles
• Emergency braking and turns
• Barricade breeching

• Escaping using a vehicle during a high speed pursuit without losing control of the vehicle
• Opening fire at a pursuing vehicle during a high-speed chase
• Maneuvering a vehicle through a realistic obstacle course during an    emergency situation
• Evacuating the vehicle from a mob or paparazzi environment
• Evacuation of the vehicle during an ambush
• Performing the PIT Maneuver and countering the PIT Maneuver
• Performing dynamic J-turns, L-turns, U-turns, reverse 270 and slalom
• Motorcade
• Vehicle escort
• Roadblocks
• Ramming various sizes of vehicles and obstacles
• Tactical motorcycle operation (on/off road)
• Pushing vehicles and obstacles with a vehicle
• Tactical ramming
• Crashing into other vehicles blocking evacuation routes (forward and reverse ramming)
• Ramming other vehicles under fire and safely evacuating into another vehicle
• Situational exercises simulating vehicular attacks
• Contact exercises in preventing the vehicle from being run off road or stopped 
• Correct escaping maneuvers
• Taking control of the vehicle after the driver has been immobilized
• Split-second decision making drills
• Counter roadblocks and illegal checkpoint survival
• Driving under fire
• Emergency procedures
• Handling the vehicle in an obstacle course
• Deceptive terrorist traffic stops
• Correct functioning while in pursuit or being pursued
• Deception on the roadways
• High risk maneuvers
• Vehicle emergency procedures
• VIP in/out, vehicle/building
• Vehicle selection and modification
• Final integrated drills

4) Tactical Team Formations

• Introduction to team formations
• Movements and footwork for individual and team positions
• Arcs of responsibility and tasks for each member of the team for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 person teams
• Client education, control and movement 
• Counter action drills for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 person teams
• Walking drills, low & high profile operations
• Tactical communications
• Communication while under attack
• Contingency planning
• Personal escort section drills
• Tactical movements by foot/vehicle
• Escorting and walking drills

5) Vehicle Formations

• Insertion and extrication of client to/from vehicle
• Seating arrangements for client and team members
• Contingency planning
• Counter actions on attack  

6) Security Advance

• Site surveys
• Route selections and surveys
• Restaurant surveys
• Hotel surveys
• Building surveys  
• Route reconnaissance
• Wall Search
• Ground Search  
• Movements by road
• Location security
• Hostile environments in various countries
• Security advance drills

7) Countering Ambushes

• Sharp shooting tactics to eliminate an ambush within 10 seconds
• Enemy sniper detection and elimination
• Counter Assault Team Drills
• Ambushes
• Location attacks
• Counter/ Anti-ambush tactics
• Surviving the kill zone
• Surviving mob attack
• Controlling multiple individuals
• Assisting a team under stress
• Techniques for taking down insurgents after the motorcade has been immobilized

8) Suicide Bombers, Car Bombs & IED’s

• Scanning for various types of booby traps
• Explosives
• Letter bombs
• Anti-sabotage
• Armoring a vehicle
• Detection of car bombs and booby trapped vehicles
• Countering car bomb attacks
• Stopping a suspected car bomb in progress
• Scanning a vehicle for explosives
• Counter measures for explosives
• Bomb scares
• Detecting and stopping a suicide bomber suspect moving towards a vehicle or facility

• Personnel searching techniques
• Terrorist use of unconventional explosives
• Dealing with suicide bomber(s)
• Countering suicide bomber tactics
• Performing bomb searches (vehicle and building)
• Booby trapped cars
• Various methods of scanning a vehicle for booby trap explosives
• Scanning a building for booby traps
• Detecting booby traps on the roadways
• Use of dogs and other animals as explosive delivery tools
• Booby trapping a firearm or other weapon
• Israeli method of tripwire detection
• IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) constructing, recognizing and searching for
• New terrorist methods of operation using explosives that CRI has recently uncovered
• Molotov cocktails
• Dealing with drugs and poisons used by the enemy
• Chemicals and gases

9) Room Clearing/ Executive Hostage Rescue

• Introduction to room clearing techniques
• Introduction to room clearing techniques
• Close Quarter Combat (CQB)
• Basics of stealth and dynamic entries
• 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 person teams
• Clearing in limited visibility
• Clearing under stress
• Tactics and situational awareness
• Single level building techniques
• Multi-level techniques, stairs and multiple entries
• Urban village, multi-building situations
• Use of rifles and pistols in CQB
• Multiple targets, multiple directions
• Vehicle and team movement live fire techniques

10) Escaping from Captivity Topics

• Escaping from captivity
• Surviving beheading attempts
• Surviving execution attempts by firearms
• Surviving execution attempts by edged weapons

• Releasing from being tied by a rope, duct tape, wire and/or handcuffs
• Improvising/Creating Weapons
• Disabling enemy alarm systems
• Correct movement around motion sensors
• Taking down enemy guards
• Commandeering a vehicle while escaping
• Crossing fences and other obstacles
•  Professional knife throwing and disarmament during beheading attempt
• Knife throwing techniques
• Handling expert and severe brutal knife attacks from multiple attackers
• Booby trapping an area for deception while escaping
• Multiple firearm disarmament when threatened by more than one captor
• Surviving drowning attempts
• Combative first aid
• Sabotage techniques in order to prevent enemy pursuit
• Weapons disarmament including handgun, assault rifle and hand grenades
• Dealing with tear gas attacks
• Recognizing various types of explosives and devices
• Functioning under extreme stress
• Physical attack while seated in a vehicle
• Surviving in a vehicle surrounded by 3 to 4 armed hostile captors
•  Fighting effectively after being partially immobilized or wounded

11) Defensive Tactics

• Weapons disarmament including handgun, assault rifle and hand grenades
• Basic & Advanced knife fighting
• Disarming an assailant with a knife or sharp object
• ITS (Israeli Tactical Survival) special defensive tactics method developed by CRI that instructs how to effectively deal with severe crime     and terrorist attacks in the field of hand-to-hand combat
• Defensive tactics in Krav Maga  and h’sardout
• Fighting in a professional and devastating way to an aggressor
•  Countering grabs, punches, kicks and choking

• Multiple attackers
• Ground fighting and countering Brazilian Jui Jit Su
• Countering attacks with broken bottles, chains, batons, acid, zapper, tire iron, etc.
• Countering joint locks
• Dealing with tear gas attacks
• Correct timing in a street confrontation 
•  "Trick" fighting tactics and also how to counter them
• Physical attack while you are seated in your vehicle
• Functioning under extreme stress
• Weapons retention and disarmament
• Hand to hand fighting
• Knife throwing
• Correct timing in a street confrontation
• Improvising/creating weapons
• Handling expert and severe brutal knife attacks from multiple attackers
• Countering injections of foreign substances
• Surviving in a vehicle surrounded by 3 to 4 armed hostile captors
• Dealing with attacks involving axes, ropes for strangulation, etc.
• Fighting effectively after being partially immobilized or wounded
• Operating tazers, zappers, light blinding devises and retractable batons
• Defense against tazers, zappers, light blinding devises and retractable batons
• Functioning under the effects of CS gas, pepper spray and mace
• Physical conditioning
• Developing speed and coordination
• Developing stamina
• Developing strength
• Developing flexibility
• Mental conditioning
• Week points in the human body
• Developing awareness
• Tactical thinking
• Final integrated drills

12) Tactical Medicine

This portion of the course offers the team the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence to meet life threatening and other dangerous situations.  Instruction emphasizes flexibility and adapting medical care to the tactical environment.

• Tactical Medicine
• Basic and Intermediate airway management
• Cervical spine stabilization
• Chest wounds and decompression
• Hemorrhage management including tourniquet use
• Terminal ballistics and blast wounds
• Patient extrication/movement
• Emergency wound care and communicable disease considerations
• Assessment of chemical/nuclear//biological warfare victims
• Non-lethal weapon patient management (e.g., Taser, chemical agents)
• Medical kit development
• Hands-on skills stations to improve Operator confidence in medical skills
• Burn/blast wounds

Realistic scenarios will refine Operator ability to provide appropriate medical care AND complete tactical objectives

 13) Career Development

• Résumé writing
• Interview techniques
• Job search
• Securing employment
• Recruiting
• Training and managing local guard forces

 Additional Course Information:

 Duration:  8 days

Course Location:  Las Vegas, Nevada

Course Dates:  February 20-28, 2007

Course Cost:  $4,700* per trainee

* future course prices subject to change

Includes training, meals during training, hotel accommodation, all weapons, ammunition and transportation to and from training sites.  

A pre registration/deposit fee of $1,200 must be paid before desired training dates can be reserved.  This fee can be paid by check, money order or major credit card.

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