John Dunlap (left) performs a handcuff simulation on Charlie LaShure of Life Fellowship Church, as senior instructor William Chadwick (right) observes during a training session to become personal protection officers, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Krugerville. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer)
‘A vested interest’
Charles Chadwick opened Christian Security Institute, the training company in Krugerville, in 2006. The group has worked with roughly 100 churches and trained more than 450 active officers. Only a handful of students have failed, Chadwick said, and it’s typically during the psychological evaluation.
Once the churchgoers graduate from the security officer program, they’re commissioned officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety Private Security Bureau.
“They have professional credentials, they’re not just a bunch of guys licensed to carry and decided they were going to put together a church security team,” Chadwick said.
Their model ensures there aren’t strangers tasked with protecting churches, said William Chadwick, Charles’ son and the institute’s head instructor. “Their wives are in the sanctuary; their kids are in the children’s wing. They’re not leaving. They have a vested interest.”
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