Christopher A. Hertig

Chris Hertig is a retired college professor who has written and taught about professional development of security personnel, violence management and the history of policing and security for 4 decades. Hertig is a Certified Protection Professional as well as a Certified Protection Officer Instructor. He is an active member of several professional organization including ASIS, IFPO and ILEETA.

Security force development: strategies and tactics

Christopher A. Hertig

March 23, 2021

If security forces are going to perform more functions, which they should...they need additional training. More training for your security teams is an expensive proposition, but an all-important one.

Cluster-in-Chief

Correcting Violence Management Failures

Christopher A. Hertig

August 13, 2019

Mass violence, primarily shootings, is growing and can only continue to do so, and we have a professional obligation to analyze where the failures are and to take corrective action.

Professional Organizations for Instructors: Out in Front

Christopher A. Hertig

November 1, 2011

Professional organizations provide a number of benefits to the occupational/professional groups that they serve. Associations help to pave the way for the profession to progress by offering seminars, publications, courses and industry updates. They set the standards of practice all the way from accreditation and certification to codes of ethics.

Contract Security Training and Development: Examining methods of contract training

Christopher A. Hertig Sandi Davies

April 1, 2011

Once upon a time security contracts were entered into for cost containment. That was the driving force behind them.

Christopher A. Hertig

February 1, 2010

Teachers. Instructors. Professors. Whatever their title may be; they are the individuals responsible for imparting knowledge, skill and ability. In an era of increased online instruction, there is still a

Christopher A. Hertig

September 1, 2007

Certified Protection Officer Instructors help facilitate the delivery of the CPO program in the classroom. This enables large employers to run academy type classes.As chief security officers and security directors

Christopher A. Hertig

August 1, 2007

The International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO) has developed a distance education program in crime and loss investigation. The Foundation developed this program due to several needs. Entry-level security personnel

Ransomware and the propulsion of the extortion economy has rapidly eclipsed into a national priority. Recently, we observed the catastrophic impact of a widescale ransomware attack impacting gas pipelines and raising national gas prices overnight.

Security departments have long struggled to bring their real-time voice communications into the present, resorting to communicating with radios, unsecure applications, multiple devices, and Wi-Fi-only solutions.

Christopher A. Hertig

ARTICLES

Security force development: strategies and tactics

Cluster-in-Chief

Professional Organizations for Instructors: Out in Front

Contract Security Training and Development: Examining methods of contract training

Who Will the Teachers Be?

Next Step: Certified Protection Officer Instructor

Investigation Next Training Goal

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