Retraining as a Specialist for Protection and Security (m/f/d)
Retraining with an IHK qualification – all the way up to operations management.
Cologne
24 months (incl. 10-month internship)
100% fundable
As a specialist in protection and security (m/f/d), you plan security measures in the areas of property security (guarding), event security and personal protection. This involves checking and implementing compliance with protection and security regulations. Assessing dangerous situations is particularly important here, as measures must be planned in advance and then implemented.
General information
Entry requirements
- Clean official certificate of conduct
- Physical resilience
- Good German language skills
- Motivation and willingness to learn
- Conflict management skills
- Sense of responsibility
- Assertiveness
Certificates / qualifications
- IHK competence examination under Section 34a GewO
- Firearms competence in accordance with Section 7 WaffG
- IHK vocational qualification: “Specialist for Protection and Security” (m/f/d)
- Event security
- First aid basic course and fire safety assistant
- Certificate of participation in operational and situational training
Fields of work
- Personal and VIP protection
- Cash and valuables transport
- Train escort, stewarding and security services
- Alarm response, patrol drives and intervention services
- Security services in correctional facilities
- Reception and gate services and access control
Funding available through
- Employment agency and Jobcenter
- Vocational advancement service of the German Armed Forces (BFD)
- Employers' liability insurance association
- Pension insurance providers
- Rehabilitation programmes (Reha)
Self-payers
- Current prices are available on request. Course fees can also be paid in convenient monthly instalments (max. 10).
Further information
- Specialist for Protection and Security (course starts twice a year). Very high success rate
- The rate of placement into employment subject to social insurance contributions after passing the exam is 100%
- Programme duration: 24 months including a 10-month internship. Class times: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Topics / teaching units
- Introduction and initial instruction (16 teaching units)
- Integration phase and orientation (32 teaching units)
- Vocational training, labour and collective bargaining law (124 teaching units)
- Structure and organisation of the training company (124 teaching units)
- Law I (180 teaching units)
- Law II (192 teaching units)
- Occupational health and safety (136 teaching units)
- First aid basic course (16 teaching units)
- Environmental protection (64 teaching units)
- Substitution (160 teaching units)
- Security technology (160 teaching units)
- Protection and security (188 teaching units)
- Security areas (56 teaching units)
- Work organisation, information and communication technology (72 teaching units)
- Communication and cooperation (96 teaching units)
- Investigation, clarification and documentation (80 teaching units)
- Planning and operational organisation of security services (152 teaching units)
- Classroom phase, plant/property security (80 teaching units)
- Classroom phase, personal and escort protection (80 teaching units)
- Classroom phase, revision and review course (120 teaching units)
- Classroom phase, exam preparation and documentation (160 teaching units)
- Internship (1232 teaching units)
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