Mo. Code Regs. tit. 11 § 75-18.020

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 21, November 1, 2024.

Section 11 CSR 75-18.020 - Minimum Training Requirements

PURPOSE: This rule identifies the minimum training requirements for corporate security advisors.

(1) As a condition of licensure, corporate security advisor license applicants shall complete a training program consisting of at least forty (40) contact hours. This training program shall, at a minimum, cover the following topics in the minimum time noted:

(A) Handgun safety, responsibility, liability, and qualification - 8 hours

(B) Missouri statutory laws related to detention of offenders by private citizens - 4 hours;

(C) Defensive tactics - 4 hours;

(D) Intermediate weapons - 4 hours;

(E) Basic first aid/CPR and AED use - 8 hours;

(F) Workplace violence response - 4 hours;

(G) Prevention of assaults and kidnapping - 4 hours; and

(H) Reduction of personal and corporate civil liability - 4 hours.

(2) For the handgun qualification portion of the training program, applicants shall successfully complete the same handgun qualification course administered during the basic law enforcement training course pursuant to 11 CSR 75-14.030 and 11 CSR 75-14.050.

(3) At the completion of the training program, applicants shall be tested for mastery of each subject area. A written or practical examination may test more than one (1) subject area simultaneously.

(4) Trainees shall be graded as follows:

(A) Mastery of firearms shall be tested by practical examination and scored on a numerical scale from zero (0) to one hundred (100). Supplemental written examinations are permitted, but the overall firearms score required for graduation pursuant to paragraph (5)(B)3. of this rule shall be based solely upon the practical examinations. The final grade of the firearms practical examination may, at the discretion of the training center director, be recorded as a pass or fail;

(B) Mastery of defensive tactics and any other training subject areas requiring a trainee to perform a demonstrative skill shall be tested by practical examination and may be graded on a numerical scale from zero (0) to one hundred (100) or on a pass/fail basis;

(C) Mastery of all other subject areas shall be tested by written or practical examination and shall be graded on a numerical scale from zero (0) to one hundred (100). Pass/fail grading is not permitted;

(D) A trainee who achieves less than seventy percent (70%) on any written examination may, at the discretion of the training center director, retake the examination one (1) time. The highest score that may be awarded on a retake examination is seventy percent (70%);

(E) A trainee who achieves a failing score on an objective graded pass/fail basis may, at the discretion of the training center director, reattempt the objective one (1) time;

(F) A trainee who achieves less than seventy percent (70%) on the firearms practical examination may, at the discretion of the training center director, retake the practical examination one (1) time. The highest score that may be awarded on a retake examination is seventy percent (70%);

(G) The weighing of each exam in calculating a trainee's overall score shall be determined by the training center policy before the start of the training course; and

(H) The determination to grade an objective pass/fail shall be made before the start of the training course.

(5) To be eligible for graduation from a corporate security advisor training program, a trainee shall, at a minimum-

(A) Attend one hundred percent (100%) of the total contact hours of the corporate security advisor training program; and

(B) Achieve-

1. A score of no less than seventy percent (70%) on each written exam;

2. A passing score on each objective graded pass or fail; and

3. An overall firearms score of no less than seventy percent (70%).

(6) Only those basic training centers licensed pursuant to 11 CSR 75-14.010 -14.080 and those Continuing Law Enforcement Education (CLEE) training providers licensed pursuant to 11 CSR 75-15.030, shall be approved to deliver the corporate security advisor training program.

(7) Any corporate security advisor license issued by fraud, misrepresentation, or mistake to a person not qualified to receive such license shall be subject to recall by the director. The director's determination to recall a license shall be subject to review only pursuant to section 536.150, RSMo.

11 CSR 75-18.020

Adopted by Missouri Register August 3, 2015/Volume 40, Number 15, effective 9/30/2015