Grudko Associates - Security training

TRAINING

A local government VIP protection team under instruction.

Security is a state of mind, not a collection of pieces of equipment. This applies to everyone - from security guards to housewives and executives, from schoolchildren to their grandparents. We do not have any ‘standard’ courses as each one is custom designed to the client's requirements.

Our clients have included:

* Top 500 companies
* Mining groups
* Prominent individuals and executives
* Government departments

Topics covered include:

* Investigation techniques
* Electronic surveillance and counter surveillance
* Locksmithing/entry techniques
* Anti hijack drills
* Armed and unarmed combat - edged and improvised weapons
* Weapons skills - Handgun, Rifle, Shotgun, Sub-machine Gun & Assault Rifle

Our most popular and fastest growing training program is our PRIVATE INVESTIGATION course

The course, entitled " Investigation and solving of crime and civil matters" is a forty hour, five day program (08h00-16h00).

This course is accredited by Unisa (University of South Africa) and the Technikon, Pretoria. Upon successful completion of the course each candidate will receive a formal certificate from these institutions.

Course co-ordinator

Our course co-ordinator is Brigadeer (retd) Hennie van Rooyen, who has been appointed as a Subject Matter Expert at IBM,South Africa within the Criminal Justice system.
He holds a Masters Degree in Police Science from Unisa after submitting his thesis on Criminalistics - The science of investigation process.

He is the author of "Crime Investigation" and "Physical Evidence in Crime Investigation" and of various Study Guides at the Technikon SA and Technikon Pretoria.
Brig. van Rooyen has also been a moderator and examiner for 10 years in the subject of Crime Investigation at both institutions.
He was the Project Leader of the establishment of the Detective Academy within the South African Police Service and is now a part time lecturer at the Technikon ,Pretoria.

Background

Mr van Rooyen has the following experience :

* 15 years field experience as a South African Police Service detective
* 4 years as a manager of a specialised investigation unit within the SAPS Detective Service.
* 23 years within the SAPS
* Retired with the rank of Brigadeer.

Course contents

* The role of the Private Investigator
* Powers and rights of PIs
* The investigation process
* The investigation of criminal and civil matters
* Information, intelligence, evidence and proof
* The value and role of physical evidence
* Notes, reports and statements
* Surveillance and observation
* Technology and special skills
* Interrogation and interviewing
* Information sources and networking
* Tracing techniques
* Profiling
* Informers
* Entrapment
* Case management
* Giving evidence and Court procedure
* Counter intelligence
* Counter surveillance
* Countering industrial espionage
* Creativity
* Appropriate legislative sections

This course is based on a practical, hands-on approach, focusing on real life exercises, including a visit to the SA Police forensic laboratory.
Expert speakers take the specialist sections.

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