MILITARY TRAINING STYLE – FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING CERTIFICATE (FETC): SPECIALIST SECURITY PRACTICES

This military training style certificate is also known as FETC in Specialist Security Practices and is accredited by the Safety and Security Sector Education and Training Authority (SASSETA). The total credits are 137 and the qualification code is 57713.

 

MILITARY TRAINING STYLE

The practical part of the course is approached from a military training style perspective. Thus, when you are at the academy, you will stay in accommodation with meals per day and uniform included. With that, we incorporate the Milites Dei Academy military training style, where you will be a part of the flag rise, morning exercises as well as drill and other practical military training style skills. This in return, allows you to boost your experience and expertise so that you become a security official that operates with military training style precision, honour and toughness.

 

EMPLOYMENT and PROMOTION POSSIBILITIES:

With this qualification, you will be able to acquire the knowledge to:

Use a series of legal and security skills to protect and serve their clients and communities in accordance. Therefore, this will allow the learner to provide a more effective service that will improve both client and community.

In other words, satisfaction and position are provided to fulfil their mission of creating a safe and secure environment. This will be for all who live and work in South Africa.

 

The learner will also be able to:

• Provide security services to clients.
• Explain and apply current legislative requirements to own area of responsibility.
  Range: Area of responsibility refers to the security area for which one is responsible. 
• Contribute to a safe and secure environment, therefore ensuring better security.
• Communicate with internal and external clients so all parties can be included.

 

DURATION:

This is a year course on a part-time basis which you will be able to complete online and then have contact sessions at the academy to finalise all the work completed at home and to finalise all the practical parts.

 

QUALIFICATION RULES

The qualification is made up of a combination of learning outcomes from Fundamental, Core and Elective components. So, totalling 137 minimum credits.

 

Fundamental Component consists of Unit Standards in:

• Mathematical Literacy at Level 4 to the value of 16 credits.
• Communication at Level 4 in a First South African Language to the value of 20 credits.
• Communication in a Second South African Language at Level 3 to the value of 20 credits.
  It is compulsory therefore for learners to do Communication in two different South African languages, one at Level 4 and the other at Level 3.

 

The Core Component consists of Unit Standards to the value of 61 credits all of which are compulsory.

And the Elective Component: has Specific Focus is that of Supervisory Level and the total value of 93 credits.

 

UNIT STANDARDS INCLUDED IN THE COURSE

	ID	UNIT STANDARD TITLE	CREDITS
Core	116534	Carry out basic first aid treatment in the workplace	2
Core	13936	Outline the legal environment of a selected industry	2
Core	13953	Apply the principles of situational leadership to a business unit	5
Core	8600	Care for Customers, therefore be good at it	3
Core	242830	Conduct a security threat assessment in a defined operational area	6
Core	242825	Conduct evacuations and emergency drills, but in an orderly fashion	4
Core	13952	Demonstrate a basic understanding of the Primary labour legislation that impacts on a business unit	8
Core	115226	Describe human, social and ecological rights in the field of crime and victimisation	8
Core	11505	Identify, handle and defuse security-related conflict	12
Core	15096	Demonstrate an understanding of stress in order to apply strategies to achieve optimal stress levels in personal and work situations	5
Core	120480	Demonstrate an understanding of crime prevention	6

Fundamentals:

Fundamental	119472	Accommodate audience and context needs in oral/signed communication	5
Fundamental	119457	Interpret and use information from texts and understand them	5
Fundamental	119467	Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes	5
Fundamental	119465	Write/present/sign texts for a range of communicative contexts	5
Fundamental	9015	Apply knowledge of statistics and probability to critically interrogate and effectively communicate findings on life-related problems	6
Fundamental	119462	Engage in sustained oral/signed communication and evaluate spoken/signed texts	5
Fundamental	119469	Read/view, analyse and respond to a variety of texts	5
Fundamental	9016	Represent analyse and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space in different contexts	4
Fundamental	7468	Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business, national and international issues	6
Fundamental	12153	Use the writing process to compose texts required in the business environment, so this helps with technical writing	5
Fundamental	119459	Write/present/sign for a wide range of contexts	5

 

The following electives form part of the study:

Elective	242812	Induct a member into a team so they feel welcome	4
Elective	117877	Perform one-to-one training on the job so practical skills get learned	4
Elective	13941	Apply the budget function in a business unit	5
Elective	242816	Conduct a structured meeting, thus be effective	5
Elective	14667	Describe and apply the management functions of an organization	10
Elective	13944	Describe the relationship of junior management to the general management function	5
Elective	114877	Formulate and implement an action plan to improve productivity within an organisational unit	8
Elective	11473	Manage individual and team performance to succeed	8
Elective	114589	Manage time productively, in order to be more effective	4
Elective	242819	Motivate and Build a Team, so great leaders are formed	10
Elective	118045	Supervise the implementation of loss control measures	8
Elective	10981	Supervise work unit to achieve work unit objectives (individuals and teams)	12
Elective	117871	Facilitate learning using a variety of given methodologies in order to do good research	10