Advanced Security Management at Mohawk College

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Develop an advanced level of skills and knowledge in the ever-changing world of sophisticated and enhanced security operations
mohawkcollege.ca/asm

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[ Gunfire ]
>> Good.
[ Gunfire ]
>> My name's Sarah Warnock.
I'm in the Advanced
Security Management Program.
I plan on, when I graduate,
to apply to the Canadian
Border Services Agency
and the reason why I chose
this program was to open
up my doors just in case
that avenue doesn't
appeal to me anymore.
I've never shot a gun before, so
I wanted to get that experience
out of the way so that if I
ever did have to do something
like this that I would
get confident in myself.
I chose Mohawk because
I heard very good things
about the program.
It's very hands on.
The professors are very
qualified in what they do.
>> My name's Fred Armitage.
I'm a professor in the Advanced
Security Management Program
at Mohawk College, and
we're at Urban Tactical,
which is a fire range
facility outside of Brantford.
In Advanced Security Management
today, we're on the range
to forming a protective industry
firearms indoctrination,
which is just an exposure to the
type of firearms that are used
by executive protection teams,
closed protection teams,
law enforcement agencies
across Ontario and Canada.
It gives the students
an actual opportunity
to smell what a firearm
smells like when it's fired,
what it sounds like, what it
feels like to pick one up.
To the best of my
knowledge, nowhere else
in the province is
this type of training
or learning taking place where
students are actually being put
and coached live fire on a range
as part of their curriculum.
Not as an extracurricular
activity,
as part of their
classroom hours.
It's groundbreaking.
It's taking a lot of work
on behalf of our departments
and our program to
facilitate the partnership
that allowed this to happen.
And it's a true benefit
to our students who,
in the Advanced Security
Management Program,
will go into the
protective industry careers
and may not have
another training facility
or training institution
between them and their job.
We might be the last
stop for them.
They leave here far better
equipped than their peers
in other programs at
other institutions.
We're not just providing
education.
We're providing industry
certifications
that employers are
telling us that they need.
We consistently and constantly
go into the industry and ask,
"What do our graduates
need to work here?
What would you like to
see a graduate have?"
And they tell us and we
build it into the program.
They're being prepared as
well as anybody for a career
in law enforcement,
but on top of that,
we open up to them
emergency management
and business continuity systems,
so working for communities
or organizations.
Keeping them flowing in the
cases of natural disaster,
terrorist attacks, pandemics.
I try to steer the
students towards some
of the private industry,
which is my niche
because the dollar figures
for entry-level positions
are much higher.
When I left policing to work
privately, I tripled my wage.
Traditionally, those
types of jobs aren't known
to students coming in.
They've often been made to feel
that anything that's not
policing is a fallback.
And I'm here to tell
them that I saw the world
and flew first class and
made a lot more money
in the private sector than I
ever did as a police officer.
Both are amazing jobs and
both are still on the table
and they're more
competitive than their peers
for both ends of the industry.
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