Community Awareness for Public Safety

The goal of this course is to teach basic security skills to non-law enforcement personnel. This training is particularly valuable for those who work at theme parks, sporting arenas, malls, and other target rich environments. The cornerstone of CAPS is behavioral assessment training. Participants will learn to recognize certain behavioral characteristics that are commonly exhibited by individuals who have harmful motives. This includes a lesson on surveillance indicators – clues to suggest that someone is surveilling your organization/establishment in preparation for a future attack or other criminal activity.

Participants will also gain a basic understanding of threat and vulnerability analyses, and learn simple security precautions that everyone can take to be safer in the work place. CAPS also discusses layers of defense and supports the idea that security is everyone’s job.

The skills acquired during this course can be implemented quickly and easily in any work environment. There is no equipment to purchase or maintain. There is no physical element to this training. Employees need only to be able to observe their surroundings and report those observations to the appropriate person when necessary.

CAPS is a four hour course and is offered in a two-day package. Over the course of the two days, the host agency will receive three sessions of CAPS training and one CAPS Train-the-Trainer session. Each CAPS session can accommodate up to 40 participants and each Train-the-Trainer session can accommodate up to 20 participants.

CAPS was developed from training materials that have been certified by the US Department of Homeland Security.

 

 

Contact US

Deidra Phillips
Specialist

1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Suite 101
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Phone: (865) 946-3230
Toll Free: (866) 449-5342
Fax: (865) 946-3214
deidra.phillips@tennessee.edu