be there in seconds. These guys are trained and certified in Defensive Tactics, which is a program by the Human Factors Research Group – the same course a police academy cadet walks out with. It’s absolutely police training. The reason is that what comes with that is what’s called a Forced Contin- uum or Use of Force and Control Continuum. It means you are certified to use force that is tactically, medically, and legally sound. That’s the training my QR team gets. Keep in mind, the knob doesn’t go up to ten like it does in policing – it’s still private security – and my guys are specifically trained to recognize this, but it’s still critical to have in order to quickly defuse escalating situations in a large crowd. It’s still about presence, but it’s done right now.” “It’s still about presence, but it’s done right now.” Dan said he’d like to see industry standards change. Far too often, he explained, event planners look at how many shows a given company has under its belt as opposed to their qualifications.
provide security for everything from retail to industrial warehouse locations. I also operate RMG, which is a little more niche-based, and there we specialize in security for the heavy industrial and healthcare sectors. Across my companies, there are just under 80 training courses avail- able to employees who want to move up to different posi- tions – and that’s in addition to mandatory training, like the DT course my QR guys take.”
Dan even taught the last Defensive Tactics (DT) course his Toursec team completed.
“In Atlantic Canada right now, there are only eight instruc- tors for the Human Factors Research Group and CPTED [Crime prevention through environmental design] programs – that’s it. I had to go to police academy to get this qual- ification and was actually just renewed a couple of weeks back. Of those eight people who hold the same qualifica- tion, three of them work for me, one is the Head of Correc- tion at Success College, two of them run the security program at NSCC Truro, one is an adjunct professor there, and one is a sheriff’s instructor in PEI. If you look at the ‘Who showed
“I’ve got a mainstream company called APPS and we
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