Peter King of British Cycling Federation receiving accreditation certificate from Essex Police.
The Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS) is a government scheme organised by various police services throughout the UK in conjunction with their partners. There are many people and organisations within the community who work in the areas of public safety and security. The scheme allows such people, after suitable training and vetting, to be officially accredited and possibly given certain police like powers. Click on the appropriate link under the “Community” tab above to find out more.
Community Safety Accreditation Scheme
Specialised Training Services Essex Ltd. has been providing high quality and professional CSAS training for various organisations since the inception of the scheme. The course we provide has been approved by Skills for Security as reaching the national standard for accreditation training. These standards have been agreed between Skills for Security and the Association of Chief Police Officers. Successful candidates will receive official certification from Skills for Security.
The course involves 14 modules taught through 60 directed learning hours. About half of the 60 learning hours are achieved through distance learning material. The remainder of the course involves 5 days classroom contact. The classroom contact can be scheduled into one block or split over separate days. The 14 modules are:
1. The extended police family and Community Safety Accreditation Scheme.
2. Legislation relevant to Community Safety Accreditation Schemes, Accredited Persons and the powers that may be exercised.
3. Diversity and social inclusion into communities.
4. Interpersonal social skills in the community.
5. Risk assessment, personal safety , crime or incident scene management
6. Conflict management and assertiveness
7. Recording evidence and details of incident.
8. Solving problems associated with community safety.
9. Crime reduction in communities.
10. Using communication equipment.
11. Dealing with incidents within the communities.
12. Crime, anti-
13. Principles of theft, robbery, burglary and criminal damage
14. National Intelligence Model
(For more information on the scheme go the the Home Office web site here.)
Successful candidates receiving their accreditation
