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The Vance Mobile Training Program brings a wide range of quality courses to your organization's doorstep. Vance understands that while most security, executive, HR, and legal professionals agree that education is a leading risk mitigation strategy, it is also challenging to coordinate and send a large group of employees to attend training. For this reason, busy professionals will find the Vance Mobile Training Program beneficial. Any course can be customized to meet your organization's specific needs, operational environment, and budget. Education and training courses that Vance has to offer include:

Bomb Incident Management
  • Learn to recognize improvised explosive device (IED) components.
  • Review how some devices have been fashioned or modified for concealment.
  • Learn recommended emergency threat call and evacuation guidelines.
  • Practice vehicular search procedures.
  • Practice building search procedures.
  • Gain the ability to overcome single or multiple opponents once a confrontation has escalated to a point where ground fighting is necessary.
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CLE Education Courses
  • Focus on legal issues important to legal professionals today.
  • Case study discussion and real-world experiences from Vance's legal practitioners.
  • Learn about the implications of pending or current legislation and regulations impacting:
    • Due diligence investigations
    • Electronic evidence
    • Identity theft
    • Phishing schemes
    • Ethical conduct
  • Practical tips for complying.
  • Accredited by respective state bar associations in which courses are conducted.
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Compliance and Ethics
  • Understand standards and rules governing companies doing business overseas, both by statute and by convention.
  • Learn the provisions, exceptions, defenses, and enforcement of many laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Anti-Bribery Convention, corruption guidelines of the Council of Europe, and the Inter-American Convention.
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Computer Forensics
  • Understand the types, locations, and probabilities of turning electronic information into evidence.
  • Learn about trends in electronic discovery costs and liabilities.
  • Learn how electronic evidence costs can be shared among parties.
  • Understand trends in forensic computing that include new sources of evidence; for example, PDAs and cell phones.
  • Explore the different types of electronic data: archived data, residual data, email, system data, logs, and audit trails.
  • Know about the sources of electronic evidence and mining for evidence.
  • Discover how some computer operating systems create artifacts that can potentially be useful in an investigation.
  • Work through examples of forensic computing, uncovering hidden information.
  • Understand the sanctions for destruction of electronic evidence–case reviews.
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Control Tactics
  • Understand techniques for physical and non-contact self-protection under various circumstances.
  • Learn the tools and concepts necessary to effectively protect people and escape a violent encounter.
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Crisis Management
  • Learn about planning, auditing, and testing crisis management strategies.
  • Learn how to conduct corporate security reviews.
  • Create a crisis management checklist.
  • Know what to consider when establishing a central command post.
  • Learn how to create internal and external communication protocols.
  • Understand the basics of fire prevention.
  • Develop strategies and procedures for vital records protection, emergency requirements, and evacuation route planning.
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Financial Fraud Prevention
  • Understand what constitutes financial fraud.
  • Learn to identify "red flags."
  • Recognize the warning signs.
  • Review various case studies.
  • Know how best to take action in escalating situations.
  • Develop best practices for prevention, detection, and response.
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Executive Protection Recertification
  • For security professionals who have sent their teams to be certified, but would like them to recertify.
  • Reduce legal liability by showing your commitment to quality security standards.
  • Sharpen existing skills.
  • Learn new skills.
  • Stay on top of the latest technology and tactical trends in the security industry.
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International Cultural Awareness
  • Learn how to adapt to local customs and traditions to avoid contentious or threatening situations.
  • Learn proper hand gestures, vocabulary, assistance locations, and emergency procedures that can help improve your safety.
  • Learn steps you can take to minimize chances of being victimized or inconvenienced.
  • Receive critical travel safety and security tips on important topics and questions, such as:
    • Whom do I call in case of an emergency?
    • What services does the embassy provide?
    • What should I do if I need to evacuate my residence, the city, or the country?
    • What behavior or language should I avoid?
    • What street scams should I look out for?
    • How do I identify licensed or regulated cabs?
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Protective Firearms

Learn the criteria to properly apply the force continuum and lethal force.
  • Review equipment and ammunition choices for personal protection operations.
  • Learn more about impact weapons, control tactics, aerosols, and protective firearms.
  • Understand the legal ramifications of escalation of force and the application of the force continuum as they apply to control tactic techniques.
  • Take an in-depth study of the human anatomy and nerve centers.
  • Learn the manipulation of pressure sensitive areas (PSAs) used to control and subdue assailants.
  • Gain unique hands-on experience through participation in practical exercises.
  • Learn vital strike points, joint locks, and bone manipulations used to control an assailant while inducing the minimal amount of force to ensure compliance.
  • Learn the most effective stances and firing positions for the protection specialist.
  • Practice the application of drawn/concealed weapon retention techniques.
  • Apply specialized protection weapons handling techniques in the following practical exercises:
    - Tactical and combat reload/Malfunction drills
    - Drawing from a concealed carry position
    - Turn-and-fire drills
    - Failure-to-stop drills
    - Multiple target drills
    - Formation shooting
    - Low-light shooting
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • Understand the importance of establishing a controlled environment to govern the company's policies, procedures, methods, and organizational structure.
  • Learn the practice of identifying and analyzing relevant risks (both internal and external), as well as determining how those risks should be managed.
  • Discover how to create information and communication systems to support the identification, capture, and exchange of information.
  • Learn how to carry out control activities that help ensure management's directives are carried out.
  • Understand the best methods for monitoring and assessing the quality of internal control performance over time.
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Special Event Security
  • Learn how to protect people and assets at large events with tens thousands of people, such as sporting competitions, or smaller events, such as shareholder's meetings.
  • Review the key components of the event security plan from access and perimeter control to VIP protection.
  • Develop the coordination of emergency response and security reaction in the event of an incident.
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Travel Safety
  • Practice kidnap prevention for senior executives.
  • Learn security guidelines for international travelers.
  • Apply crime prevention on the street and at the workplace.
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Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Review analysis of various workplace violence case studies.
  • Develop supervisory training to recognize behavioral pattern danger signs.
  • Provide public service and employee assistance program review options.
  • Learn more about developing effective policies and prevention programs.
  • Review best practices for screening employees before they are hired.
  • Post termination safeguards.
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