Providing Close Protection: Faith Based Environments

1210 Franklin Road,Brentwood TN 37027

30 July, 2021

Description

Learn how to provide effective close protection skills in your faith-based environment. Close protection is a service designed to keep people safe from physical harm and other threats to their safety. You don’t have to be a bodyguard to provide these services. In fact, if you volunteer for your church’s security team and stand post in the sanctuary, or if you are assigned to monitor the children’s ministry, then you are providing close protection services. Join Michael Mann Security Services in Brentwood, TN on July 30th- 31st and learn how to provide an effective level close protection for your house of worship. Course Topics:  The bodyguard: a quick history of providing close protection services  Providing security in faith-based environments  The five principles of providing close protection in the sanctuary  Equipment considerations  Providing pre-emptive care: a review of medical response protocols  The use of surveillance detection in faith-based environments  Threat assessments: preventing the attack through deterrence and early detection  How to conduct a security survey for your house of worship  The use of force: considerations for the protective environment  The deployment and use of firearms in houses of worship Instructor Michael Mann, CPP®, PSP®, CDEP has 30+ years’ experience in physical security, law enforcement, executive protection and corporate security. Michael’s experience in close protection began during his service with the United States Marine Corps Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST), a dedicated security and antiterrorism unit of the Marine Corps. Michael also served on the mayor’s security detail while employed as a police officer with the Metro Nashville Police Department, and he served as an executive protection manager for a large risk management firm. Michael has served as a regional security manager and global physical security director, and he is certified in dignitary and executive protection. Michael has had the privilege of attending numerous executive protection training courses provided by R.L. Oatman and Associates, Inc.; the Executive Protection Institute (EPI); Executive Security International (ESI); Vehicle Dynamics Institute (VDI); and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs: Protective Security Operations Training Program (PSOTP). Michael has Master of Science (MS) Degree in Security Management; a Certificate in Terrorism Studies from the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews and he studied terrorism at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Michael is also a 32- year student, practitioner and teacher of modern pistolcraft and self- defense, and he serves as an adjunct staff member for a large university assigned to teach courses in criminal justice, homeland security and counterterrorism