A church’s armed security team’s failure to train is a huge liability! Failure to document your training also increases your liability.
In Texas, commissioned security officers are required to qualify with firearms only once every two years when renewing their security officer...
Chuck Chadwick gets “Schooled” in Public School Security
A review of Texas Public School “Guardian” Program
In Texas, the most popular Public school security program is the “Guardian” program. Sometimes also called the “Defender” program. This is...
Gatekeepers in Private Christian Schools
Attention all Texas state licensed private Christian Day-Care/Preschools and K-12 schools:
Our Gatekeeper Program™ for churches is also a tremendous program for private Christian schools. We have a client that ran into a bit of a problem when a...
What’s next in your church security?
Depend on where you are in the process. Are you looking at Church Security as a Project or a Program?Let’s look at the difference between the two.In short, a Project is something you undertake, accomplish and are...
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A look below the surface level…
Come Jan 1, 2016 we watched as the open carry law went into effect and witnessed firsthand how Texas quite tactfully excepted the new lift of restriction that you no longer needed to conceal your...
Who is guarding your Private Christian School?
This subject is all in the news now and we wanted to weigh in. Unlike public schools who depend on the state to hire and deploy armed School Resource Officers (SROs), private schools don’t have that option funded by our tax dollars...
Proactive Background Clearing Techniques
By: William Chadwick
12/8/2017
Striking interesting topics one at a time can be fun and enlightening. So how about proactive background clearing? We operate in the mindset of the hunter, never the hunted. Operate like a predator and not the...
The Age-Old question… 9 or .45? The others follow suit of course with a small array of defensive rounds in the line-up all with the intention of completing one single task. Stopping the enemy in his tracks, dropping the enemy in his tracks, and doing so more efficiently and...
We have Gatekeepers coming to the range all the time with handguns that they want to use on duty as Gatekeepers, protecting hundred, if not thousands, of congregants.
As usual, on the firing line, there are those that must use two magazines to fire 10 rounds. Those single stacked...