Understanding the use of cover is extremely important when rounds are being fired. Knowing how to shoot around cover and leaving your body barely exposed is the ultimate goal when using cover.

In this video, Glen Evans, co-founder of Church Security Alliance, demonstrates the difference in cover, how to distinguish the two, and how to shoot around cover. Additionally, he teaches you how and why you would want to shoot on the move.

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Although this church security related incident occurred in September, it is very applicable now as churches look at their liability under the law in use of force incidents. Understanding use of force and its legal implications are essential to anyone beginning a church security team or churches who have instituted a security program already.

As you watch the video, place yourselves in the shoes of the man who did the stabbing and the man who was stabbed. Could this have been handled differently? Did a weapon need to be introduced. Although we don’t have all the facts, what we do know is this man believed he was in the right, but the municipal authorities disagreed. He was charged with a felony.

Synopsis: Homeless man attempts to stay on the church property. A man, identified as church security by the media, attempts to remove the man from the property. What happens next is shocking. The incident devolves into a fight, and the church security employee pulled out a knife and stabs and slashes the homeless man.

The homeless man survived, but the church security employee went to jail. I attempted to research what happened to the church employee, but was unable to locate additional information.

Considerations:

Q: Is there ever a time to disengage?
A: Yes, tactical retreat is always an option when you are in over your head, don’t have a radio or cell phone to call for help, or have limited abilities to handle a threat. There is no shame in disengagement. It is smart.

Q: Does a church security guard have the right to physically remove someone?
A: If someone is a danger and you can articulate why you did something, then yes, there may be times when it is appropriate.

However, would it be easier to step back, contain the situation, and call the police? Absolutely! This would be the preferred course of action if it is at all possible. If there person wants to leave without hurting anyone, be a great witness. Get the description, plate number or any other identifying characteristic you can think of and let the police do their job. You have done your job because your church is safe and nobody has been hurt.

Often times, when people are engaged in a physical altercation, it is because the verbal portion of the confrontation didn’t go so well. There are simple verbal tactics you can use to calm a situation down and there are definite “triggers” that can increase the amount of violence you may face.

Q: Is a knife a good weapon to carry?
A: It depends on how you look at it. From a personal perspective and analyzing how difficult it might be to use a knife on someone, I think most people would agree a knife is a tool that is a last ditch effort to save your own life. Is it appropriate? Within the church security setting, I would have to say it is not appropriate. There are better options for self protection that are less lethal and work better to subdue someone who is attacking you. Never mind the public relations nightmare of having to explain why a church (who professes the love of God to everybody) has its church security team carrying knives for self protection. Who wants to stand before a camera and explain why somebody was stabbed on your property?

Protect yourself and your church against criminal and civil liability by understanding the law and what you are allowed to do. Two resources available for church security team training, verbal communications and Force Liability Reduction can be found at Church Security Alliance’s Store at a discount of $10 for the set.

Watch the video below to see how the media handled the incident, and place yourself in his shoes. This, I am sure you would agree, is not what anybody would want to see happen. Train!

Church Security Gear-Having the right gear can make all the difference.  One of our objectives as church security is to make it seem that we don’t have security. The easiest way to accomplish this is to keep your tools concealed, so nobody sees the them.

Having handcuffs available for a violent encounter is a good idea.  Having the ability to handcuff someone decreases the likelihood of hurting somone unnecessarily when a bunch of people pile on the suspect to hold him down.  Handcuffs allow you to utilize control of the suspect with pain compliance technques if necessary.

The hidden handcuff holder is a great little device that allows you to conceal your handcuffs in your waistband, while being able to quickly and efficiently deploy them should you need them.  In this video, Jack discusses how to use the hidden handcuff holder, and demonstrates how easy it is to use. He then discusses when church security personnel should use handcuffs.  Church Security Alliance is offering the Hidden Handcuff Holder and a set of Smith and Wesson chain handcuffs for $49.00.

How to Decrease Your Church Security Team’s Liability, Increase Competency, and Avoid Potential Criminal or Civil Penalties.  The Use of Force Liability Reduction Team Training DVD.

The risk of using force in a church security operation is a great source of potential liability for any church.  Recent events involving church related shootings, robberies, burglaries, and attacks have churches scrambling to place competent security in place using volunteers. There is a small chance law enforcement officers will be immediately available if your church is in sudden crisis and someone is attempting to harm people in your church building or on your church campus.

If your church security team member uses force what kind of liability can he or she face?  What can a church do to decrease its’ liability?

While the incident was occurring, these people decided to act, and disregarded their personal safety, and the safety of their future, and injected themselves into the crisis as it unfolded. What liability could each of these people face if a prosecutor or police officer deemed their actions as unreasonable?

What is at stake for someone who has taken on the challenge of protecting their church family from violence?

How can your team protect themselves from civil or criminal penalties should they see the need to use force?

In this church security team training DVD, you will discover how to best protect team members and church from potential civil liability and criminal action against them.

Face it, even police officers aren’t free from the penalties of the law if their actions are deemed unreasonable. Yet, they make mistakes everyday, and they are prosecuted for their actions, even when they were right.

It is critical your team members understand their standing before the law. How they interact with people is crucial to the success or failure of your church’s mission. The misapplication of force by an overzealous team member can substantially increase church liability, but the inaction by a team member who doesn’t understand their rights under the law can result in someone being harmed.

The 50 minute DVD is in Powerpoint presentation format and is taught by Police Use of Force Instructor Glen Evans. In the presentation Glen explains the difference between your church security team member and a police officer. Understanding the differences in roles is critical to correct applications of force in your church setting, and protects your members from civil and criminal liability.

Here is what your team will learn:

How the security role is different from law enforcement.


The penalties a police officer faces vs. a civilian when using force.


The Reasonableness Standard and how it applies to your security role.


What a police officer is allowed to do vs. what a civilian is allowed to do.


The Use of Force Continuum


How the Use of Force Continuum should be applied to the church security team.


When should a church security team use force?


The use of weapons in the church security setting and when to use them.


Whether a team member should ever restrain someone with handcuffs.


How to reduce liability in three easy steps.


What to say to a police officer after a use of force incident.


Whether you should seek the advice of an attorney.


Why documenting your training efforts is vital.

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Many church security personnel, both volunteer and paid, may be confronted with the possibility of using force on someone who is attempting to harm a member of the church. Use of force and self defense for those who choose to provide security for church is a confusing area wrought with potential liability. The security plans your church puts in place, and the prior prep work you do, can considerably lessen church liability, as well as protect the person who is confronted and uses defensive force for self protection, or to protect the safety and life of others.

In Part 1 of this six part series, Glen Evans, Church Security Alliance co-founder discusses how to limit use of force liability and steps you can take in advance to limit potential problems in the future. In providing security for church, your people must understand what is permissible as a civilian, how their role differs from a police officer, and the steps they need to take after an incident of force.

In this first video Glen discusses how your role as a church security operative differs from law enforcement and the liabilities each faces if the use of force is deemed “unreasonable.”
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In the rare circumstance that church security personnel would put their hands on someone, it is a good idea to understand simple escort positions. In this video, you will discover how to apply a simple elbow joint lock that can help you move a larger person with little effort, and little risk to injuring him.

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Pressure points are areas of the body that can be momentarily compressed, cause an extreme amount of pain, and sometimes stop somebody’s aggressive actions. The most appropriate use of pressure points is to get someone’s attention long enough, so you can move them from one place to another.

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By Glen Evans

Church Security Alliance

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This is an article that Glen had written in the past when training ladies in basic self-defense techniques. Consider printing this out and giving it to any ladies in your family, friends and the person in charge of the ladies ministry in your church with the thought that holding a series of classes would be beneficial for their future safety.

Understanding Her Power and the Right Self Defense Techniques and Products To Protect Herself

Understanding Her Power and the Right Self Defense Techniques and Products To Protect Herself

Self-defense for women has as many meanings as there are self-defense products and self defense techniques available.

When discussing self-defense for women, it often means personal protection against rape and abduction. A second consideration is against robbery or mugging.

Most women have an inherent fear or a gnawing feeling that they just aren’t sure they could protect themselves if faced with a challenge to their personal safety.

They instinctively know that they do not possess the physical strength, muscle development, and aggression that men possess. When your little girl becomes a young woman, many parents worry about their daughters knowing self defense with the whole mess of teen dating.

The biggest reason for the fear is a lack of knowledge.

* How is a woman supposed to protect herself against a man if he is trying to sexually assault her, abduct her, or force himself on her against her will?
* What self defense for women options exist?

Fear is produced when this question is unanswered…the good news is there are many self defense for women to increase personal safety and chance of survival if her path should cross a sexual predator. The key to self-defense for women is understanding the threat you may face, and the many defense options available to you

The first three steps to increasing your personal safety lie with you.

Self Defense for Women Begins With You

It is so important you realize you have the power within to defeat anyone seeking to harm you. You have many personal self-defense tools attached to your body.

In addition to knowing how to defend yourself, there are many self-defenses for women products available to you. Self-defense for women technology has made it possible that you can get a package in the mail, open it up, and you are ready to defend yourself. Many tools and weapons have become effective and very easy to use.

Yet, I don’t think all your personal safety issues can be solved with products, as good as they are. I believe women have unrealized potential. Often times women have convinced themselves that they don’t possess the strength they need to defeat someone. The key to self-defense for women isn’t in physical strength, but in the way you carry yourself, how you view the world and how the world views you.

Self defense for women is a combination of understanding how bad people behave, how to see a problem before it happens, and what to do if it does happen. I want to convince you that women have the power for self-defense, and do have the physical power when it is combined with self-defense techniques applied to appropriate targets. If you believe you neither possess physical power, nor you have physical strength to defeat a threat, then there are many self-defenses for women weapons available to you to help you get out of a jam.

However, you will never possess the power or physical strength unless you learn how to achieve this through taking a self-defense class, and preparing your mind and body with self-defense training.

When a woman’s self-defense skills are combined with an appropriate weapon she can easily become a predator’s worst nightmare.

Self Defense for Women Begins Awareness

You must understand there is something called self-defense awareness. This is such an important concept, and I don’t want you to miss this point…awareness begins when we agree that bad people exist, and we may be attacked by them at some point in our lives. If we walk around thinking bad things only happen to other people, than we are in a world of hurt when we are staring into the face of evil and wondering what in the world we are going to do about it.

If we ignore the bad people and they are now knocking on our door, it is then too late to come up with a plan of action…the time for planning is right now.

Self Defense for Women Avoidance Skills

When you apply the self-defense awareness skills it only helps you with your self-defense avoidance skills. Self-defense avoidance skills are those things we do to completely avoid a potential problem.

Whether we are walking around paying attention to our surroundings, increasing home security by making sure our doors are locked, checking out the window before answering the door, or seeing a problem and turning the other direction, we can ensure that we never find ourselves in a dangerous situation.

This may seem like it makes perfect sense, but when teaching self defense for women, many say they only pay really close attention at night or while walking in a dark parking lot.

SUMMARY

Criminals and predators are looking for an opportunity to attack you. If they set the trap, and you walk into it unawares, then you are making their job extremely easy. Our job is to make it very difficult, even dangerous for a criminal to choose us as a potential victim. Criminals want cooperative victims who know absolutely nothing, so they can get what they want and easily escape into the night.

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Do recent events have you concerned about your church’s security plan or lack of a plan? Have you been considering developing a church security ministry in your church, but you do not really know where to start?

When a church is confronted by the evils of child abuse, robbery, domestic violence, stalking, and church shootings, it is natural to ask many questions, but primarily, “What is our responsibility to provide a safe environment for our members?”

Has your church examined it’s liability If you have not done due diligence? What is at stake if background checks are not done, a child is abused, or the unimaginable violent event happens in your church? The importance of having your church’s policy and procedures in place BEFORE an incident happens is extremely critical. Knowing who is going to handle each responsibility, how it is going to be done, and documenting exactly how it was handled is expected in our litigious society.

How does your church assess threats? How would your fellowship respond to a bomb threat? How can your security and safety team care for the member or guest with an appropriate medical response? What if a tornado occurs during a worship service? How should the team respond? Or worse, what if a church shooting occurs, do you have a plan in place?

Failing to have a plan in place can be disastrous for your church. Contingency planning, training, and documentation are essential for reducing church liability and really protecting your congregation.

Here is the information you need to start a Volunteer Church Security Ministry. Stages of team development, risk analysis, setting up a team, choosing team members, talking to church management, policies and procedures.

Topics in this guide include:

Understanding the Reason Your Church Needs a Security Team

Why Should Churches Start a Safety or Security Team?

Planning for A Safety/Security Team

Church Risk Assessment: Where will you get Hurt the Most?

What Type and Size of Security Team Does Your Church Need?

Building a Church Security Team to fit the Church Size and Needs

What Can Your Church Security Team Legally Do?

Team Selection – Who Should You Choose

Using Off Duty Police or Volunteers for Church Security?

The Importance of Criminal Background Checks

Do You Have an Emergency Church Crisis Management Plan?

Working With Local Law Enforcement

Notify the Local Law Enforcement Agency about Your Team

Use of Force Continuum’s – Introduction and Chart

Protecting the Church Offering – The Risks

Protecting the Church Offering – Procedures

Dealing with Unruly People

Seven Things Never to Say to Anyone, and Why

Bomb Threats or suspicious Packages

Evacuations

Security for the Children’s Ministry

The Church First Aid Kit

Understanding AED Basics

Another Church Shooting? Should We Arm Ourselves?

Church Security Teams and Carrying Sidearms.

Should the Entire Team be Armed?

Use of Force Policy (check local laws)

Use of Force – Physical Contact

Use of Force – Impact or Chemical Defensive Weapons

Use of Force – Deadly Force Weapons/Firearms

Four Self Defense Moves For A Close Quarter Attack

The Expanding Baton

OC Spray

The Taser

Team Response to the Active Shooter

Single Person Response To The Active Shooter

The Need for Intelligence Gathering by Church Security Teams

A Review of the Knoxville, TN Church Shooting

California Church Shooting – Critical Incident Review

Church Building Security

The Guardian Call –The Story of Church Protectors

Bomb Threat Information Sheet

Hate or Anti-Religious Groups – Menacing Person or Weapons Threat Sheet

Sample Security Team Application

Sample Incident Report Sheet

Incident Report Log

Risk Assessment Form

The Church Security Ministry is such a vital part of our church ministry. People come to hear the wonderful message of Jesus Christ…it needs to be in a safe place. The Church Security Team provides the church family the freedom to focus on ministry while they keep the environment safe and protected. It is a new day in church life and the security and safety ministry is a must!

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