The policy covers instructors for negligence, everything on the range and any training that is done. The Committee discussed the qualification standards of the 6-hour refresher course. The intent of the 6-hour course is to refresh and train in marksmanship, tactics, dim light firing and for multiple adversaries and moving targets. The concern of the committee is qualification, which is testing, not training. Committee members informally agreed that the 6-hour refresher course is working fine.
Some agencies require the refresher course twice a year for their security persons.
One Committee member stressed that training in communication skills is very important. Security guards should attempt to talk a person into cooperating, rather than having to use physical force. The Department of Regulation and Licensing should not consider writing its own manual. There are still a few problems with the dim light firing and moving targets, but the instructor is only as good as his imagination and he or she should be able to come up with solutions to approximate dim light firing. Kirk Schneider indicated that there is an area in the manual that deals with a cognitive test for skills, tactics and mental preparation for a gunfight.