Private Security Training · Protective Security
Observation & Situational Awareness
Trained observation: establishing a baseline for a site, noticing meaningful deviations from it, describing people and vehicles accurately, and maintaining attention across long shifts without drifting into complacency or profiling.
Learning objectives
- Establish and use a site baseline
- Detect and describe deviations accurately and objectively
- Produce accurate descriptions of persons and vehicles
- Sustain attention and counter complacency
Course modules
- 01Baseline and anomaly principles
- 02Behavioural indicators without profiling
- 03Accurate description and recording
- 04CCTV and control-room observation
- 05Attention management across long shifts
- 06Observation exercises
Assessment and certification
Observation and description exercise.
Certificate of Completion issued on successful assessment.
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