The Court Security Officers (Designation) Regulations 2005

Training requirements for court security officers

2.—(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.