Valor Personal Protection Course (PPO)

Service Description

This is a 16 hour (two consecutive days) Texas Department of Public Safety - Private Security Bureau's (PSB) Level IV Personal Protection Officer (PPO) course. It fulfills the State of Texas training requirements of the PSB for a Personal Protection Officer License. Unit 1: Options in Personal Protection Unit Objectives: 1. The student will be able to recognize statutory requirements for Level IV certification. 2. The student will develop understanding of the four different options in personal protection. 3. The student will be able to identify principles relating to tactics and techniques to apply when responding to threats. Unit 2: Personal Protection Strategies Overview: A personal protection officer’s duties are performed in all types of public and private settings. In order to ensure that a client is safe from harm, personal protection officers must develop strategies to operate in all situations encountered. Unit Objectives: 1. Students will be able to identify tactics to avoid circumstances that increase the potential for harm to clients. 2. Students should be able to identify the concept of “personal protection consciousness” and to list examples of behaviors applicable to personal protection officers. 3. Students will recognize steps that may be taken in order to minimize threatening situations. 4. Students will be able to list examples of the zones of control associated with physical locations Unit 3: Force Option Unit Objectives: 1. Students will identify the five Force Options provided for personal protection officers 2. Students will identify the four suspect categories identified in the Dynamic Resistance-Response Model. 3. Students will determine proper force option responses to each suspect category. Unit 4: Defensive Tactics Preface: During Level 3 Training, students were provided basic survival skills utilized in close quarter empty hand tactics. While these tactics may assist in the survival of officers, Level 4 Defensive Tactics should review Level 4 materials with specific focus upon critical survival skills. Unit Objectives: Student will be able to perform the following: a. Basic Strikes (Empty hand, fists, forearms, elbows, knees, kicks) b. Pressure Point Application c. Takedowns/Takedown Avoidance d. Ground Defense Equipment: compact, subcompact, full size weapon, rifle, level II IWB/OTW Holster, 3 Magazines, IFAK soft body armor, suit & tie or sports coat, concealment garment, 100 rounds handgun/rifle, 100 NLTA handgun ammo.