Certified Protection Officer

Are You Ready?

The CPO program is designed for security officers and students who wish to learn more about security/asset protection. It is aimed at the career-oriented individual.

Experience

Candidates must have six (6) months of full time protection officer experience (or equivalent) or one year of part time protection officer experience (or equivalent). Students enrolled into a recognized classroom training program may also qualify for this program.

Topics covered include

• Crisis Intervention
• The Protection Officer as a Leader
• Security Risk Management
• Effective Communications
• Antiterrorism and VIP Protection
• Security Awareness
• Crime and Incident Scene Procedures
• Automation in Protection Operations
• Interviewing and Statements
• Patrol Principles
• Legal Aspects of Security
• Environmental Crime Control
• Alarm System Fundamentals
• Occupational Safety and Health and the Protection Officer
• Apprehension and Detention Procedures
• Information Security and Counterintelligence
• Ethics and Professionalism
• Workplace Crime

Course and Certification Prerequisites

This certification is for experienced frontline security officers, supervisors and first line managers.  Typically the requirements are: