# The Court Security Officers (Designation) Regulations 2005, Regulation 2: Training requirements for court security officers


(1) Before a person may be designated as a court security officer, he must provide the Lord Chancellor with documentary evidence that he has completed one or more training courses which include instruction in the following –
(a) the duties and powers of a court security officer;
(b) risk assessment;
(c) safe working practices;
(d) managing stress when dealing with threatening situations;
(e) techniques for restraining a person and removing them from a building.
(2) Where the Lord Chancellor has designated a person as a court security officer, he may subsequently require that person to undergo –
(a) further training in any of the matters mentioned in paragraph (1);
(b) training in any other matter which the Lord Chancellor determines,
and the Lord Chancellor may make different determinations in respect of different officers, courts, court buildings and areas.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/588/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/court-security-officers-designation-regulations-2005/regulation-2
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