Contact: Chuck Chadwick, Christian Security Institute, 972-712-8818, Chuck@ChristianSI.org
FRISCO, Texas, March 9, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Behind the innocuous doors of a suite in a Frisco, TX strip center sits the nation's only security school exclusively dedicated to training church security personnel. The Christian Security Institute (CSI) is a state licensed security school that produces plainclothes Personal Protection Officers for some of the largest churches in America. It's president, Chuck Chadwick, former security director for Ed Young's Fellowship Church, says the demand has been increasing steadily for the past ten years to where the institute now furnished the church specific training program to a host of churches.
Equipped with the latest technology using laser shot simulation, defensive tactics area, judgmental branching video scenario simulation and firearms training the school has all the tools needed to train elite "Gatekeepers". Live firearms training is conducted at a local private tactical range.
The Institute also touts its command center with a wall of video monitors where it tracks violent church crimes form across the nation. "Keeping track of national church violent crime incidents helps us to understand the need for our programs." says Chadwick. "We use data bases such as the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and Carl Chinn as our source data."
"The laws in Texas are quite specific about the legality of carrying firearms in churches as a part of the increasingly popular 'Security Teams'" Chadwick says. "You can't just get Bubba-Joe with his Concealed Handgun License to ride heard over the flock. Actually it is illegal and can earn the pistol packer a class 'A' misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $10,000 fine."
The statistics speak for themselves. According to the nation's leading church violent crime statistician Carl Chinn of M7 www.CarlChinn.com; from 1/1/1999 through 9/15/2010 there were 167 deadly force incidents resulting in the death of others in churches.
Of those incidents only 5 were stopped in process by law enforcement, 7 were stopped in process by others and the remaining 155 were stopped when the attacker was finished.
Law enforcement tell us that until they get there; "We are on our own to stop the incident." Most of the time the police get there to take the report. In the average active shooter incident a person is shot every 15 seconds.
In the most infamous church shooting at New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 2007 the assailant emptied three thirty round clips from an assault rifle killing two young girls and wounding several others. The total incident lasted less than five minutes.
"We had to come up with a solution that was legal and low cost for churches." says Chadwick "That is went we developed our 'Gatekeeper' program modeled after the Gatekeepers of biblical days." (I Chronicles 9:21)
A free seminar, "Active Shooter Strategies & Texas Security Laws", will be given April 9, 2011 from 1:30pm - 3:00 pm at the Christian Security Institute located at 1701 Legacy Dr. Suite 125, Frisco, TX. This free seminar will examine some of the more infamous incidents and detail the various legal options available to Texas churches.
Contact Chuck Chadwick (972) 712-8818 or Chuck@ChristianSI.org
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