Tomahawk’s Armed Guard Training Program is made up of three modules designed to establish and enhance necessary skills.
This program teaches armed security professionals how to safely and effectively respond to different types of workplace violence and threats. Tomahawk’s Armed Guard Training Program is made up of three modules designed to establish and enhance necessary skills. Our series of courses provides security officers with the skills, tactics, techniques, and procedures needed to handle emergency situations.
- Length: 5 days
- Delivery: In-person, interactive simulations, shooting range, and classroom discussion
- Audience: Armed security professionals
Emergency Response Specialist: Baseline Course
In this training, participants will:
- Receive training in Stop the Bleed and other emergency medical interventions
- Learn de-escalation techniques
- Practice and refine shooting skills on a live-fire pistol range
- Gain a strong foundation in delivering measured, safe, and effective responses to security threats through classroom discussions and scenarios
- Receive a personalized, comprehensive performance evaluation
Based on participants’ performance in this training, we offer recommendations on who should be authorized to carry a weapon as a security professional in the workplace.
- Length: 3 days
- Delivery: In-person, interactive simulations, shooting range, and classroom discussion
- Audience: Armed security professionals who have successfully completed the Emergency Response Specialist Baseline Course
Emergency Response Specialist: Tactical Response Course
Designed to increase confidence and improve decision-making under pressure, this training builds upon the skills gained in the Emergency Response Specialist Baseline Course. Participants will:
- Utilize tactics such as distance, angles, cover, and concealment
- Conduct broader tactical movements alone and in teams to respond to threats
- Learn effective management of an emergency until first responders arrive
- Length: 3 days
- Delivery: In-person, interactive simulations, shooting range, and classroom discussion
- Audience: Armed security professionals who have successfully completed the Emergency Response Specialist Baseline Course and Tactical Response Course
Emergency Response Specialist: Sustainment Training
Participants will refresh and build upon their emergency response skills. Tomahawk tailors this course to the abilities and needs of the participants and client. Instruction might include:
- Firearms training and interactive tactical response scenarios
- Learning esoteric aspects of threat response, such as the importance of holding areas of strategic value and advanced response planning
- Improving areas of weakness identified from previous sustainment training, as well as reviewing lessons learned from Incident Response training exercises conducted on client property
