TRAINING SERVICES

PRG delivers high caliber training services and has trained over 6,000 law enforcement, border security and public safety officers in the United States and in 77 partner nations. PRG training portfolio includes courses in customs and related border operations, port security and emergency operations planning, financial crime investigation, export enforcement, anti-terrorism, anti-corruption, counter WMD operations, law enforcement concepts and procedures, as well as the operation and maintenance of border surveillance, inspection and security equipment. PRG delivers all levels of training from basic through intermediate to advanced, as well as professional seminars for senior executives and policy-makers.

Since 2003, PRG has deployed international law enforcement and border security instructors to over 175 worldwide training events in 77 different countries for U.S. Government agencies including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (International Counterproliferation Program – ICP) and the Department of State, Global Antiterrorism Assistance (GATA) and Export Control and Related Border Services (EXBS) Programs.

Within in the United States, PRG has delivered Predeployment Firearms Training to Department of Defense components since 2011 and Chemistry for Emergency Response training to U.S. Coast Guard Strike Teams since 2015.

PRG also delivers Export Compliance training services to corporate customers who export licensable goods and services under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

Our government and commercial clients know that PRG recruits and retains highly competent and experienced professional instructors to deliver the highest quality, most relevant and up-to-date training available. PRG accomplishes this by utilizing subject matter experts and incorporating best practices and current techniques to develop and deliver effective training when and where it is needed most.

International Law Enforcement and Border Security Training

PRG international trainers are respected professionals who served honorably with our nation’s premier law enforcement border security agencies. They have operational and training experience that covers the full spectrum of policing and border management disciplines. They have delivered training to police and border security agencies in Europe, Asia, Africa and Central and South America.

PRG has a large network of qualified trainers, and proven capabilities to develop and deliver focused technical training courses over one or two days or more comprehensive courses over several weeks. Our trainers bring extensive law enforcement credentials and we can access more than 1,500 qualified professionals with international training experience and cross-cultural awareness. We tailor training to the specific needs of any region or country.

Courses PRG has developed and delivered for Federal Government customers include:

Border Control Management Course is a two-week course developed for the GATA Program designed to provide experienced border security and law enforcement managers in GATA participant nations with a new perspective on managing and controlling land border resources specifically related to the detection and prevention of terrorist incursions.
Fraudulent Document Recognition Course is an intense 3-day course designed for the GATA Program to enable customs and other border security personnel to examine the nuances of travel documents in order to determine, after a 30-second review, if the document is authentic or not when presented for entry at an international port of entry.
Terrorist Crime Scene Investigations Course is a two-week course designed for the GATA Program to enable forensic crime scene investigators, and other law enforcement personnel with the knowledge, skills and equipment to respond to terrorist incidents and gather critical and pertinent forensic evidence from crime scenes, including bombings and mass shooting incidents, to successfully identify and apprehend the perpetrators.
Border Security Equipment Training PRG develops and delivers both self-guided computer based training and hands-on training on inspection, detection and surveillance equipment used by customs officers and border guards. PRG delivers training and training materials in any language. Over the past ten years we have developed and delivered courses overseas on:

■ Radioisotope Identifiers

■ Chemical and Explosive Trace Detector/Analyzers

■ Personal Gamma Radiation Detectors

■ Vehicle Search Systems

■ Gamma Radiation Survey Meters

■ Contraband Detection Kits

■ X-ray Fluorescence Alloy Analyzers

To enrich these training modules and make them more relevant to border security and law enforcement applications, PRG includes ample hands-on practical training and include course modules on Identifying and Mitigating the Effects of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Materials. We inform students how to identify, detect and handle these materials when encountered in the field and how to mitigate their potentially dangerous effects.

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Antiterrorism Training

PRG recruited and deployed Subject Matter Expert training teams to deliver antiterrorism training courses for the Department of State Global Antiterrorism Assistance (GATA Program) worldwide since 2008.

In addition to training delivery, PRG also provides the GATA Program with training and enabling equipment to support those courses and enable participant nation police and border security agencies to improve and carry out to their antiterrorism missions upon completion of the training.

Courses delivered by PRG for the GATA Program in over 30 countries include:

■ WMD Awareness
■ WMD Operations
■ WMD Hospital Based Management of Mass Casualty Incidents
■ Vital Installation Security
■ Terrorism Crime Scene investigation
■ VIP Protection
■ Senior Crisis Management Seminar
■ Preventing Attacks on Soft Targets
■ Fraudulent Document Recognition
■ Counterterrorism Components of Academy Development
■ Critical Incident Management
■ Border Control Management

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Firearms Training

PRG has provided pre-deployment firearms training for Department of Defense components for nearly ten years. PRG SME Firearms Instructors bring personnel deploying overseas to hazardous locations up to a minimal proficiency in the use, safe handling and maintenance of semi-automatic pistols and carbines as well as full-auto submachine guns.

Firearms’ training begins in all cases with classroom lectures and discussion on firearms familiarization where we demonstrate safe weapon handling, weapons characteristics and identify nomenclature.

Our instructors then cycle each student through a Firearms Training Simulator (FATS) prior to commencing a live fire qualifications course. The firearms simulation drills enhance judgment in shooting. No student may proceed to a live fire range until they have qualified through the FATS. All PRG firearms instructors are proficient and fully qualified in FATS use, operation, calibration and maintenance.

The directed live fire instruction consists of both small group and one-on-one instruction on the firing range until the student meets or exceeds the basic firearms qualification proficiency standard. PRG instructors also provide remedial instruction to students who do not meet initial qualification standards in order to bring them up to qualification levels.

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Export Compliance Training

A critical component of an effective corporate export compliance program is training company personnel, from the executive level to the entry level, how the export licensing system works and how following all U.S. Government licensing requirements is critical to the success of company operations.

PRG designs and delivers training tailored specifically to the company’s Internal Compliance Plan and the specific categories of defense articles and defense services or dual-use technologies exported.

PRG training covers:
■ Introduction to International Traffic in Arms Regulations(ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
■ End Use/End User Verification
■ Red Flags
■ Role of the Empowered Official
■Commodity Classification
■ Types of Licenses
■ CBP and the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
■ Recordkeeping
■ Criminal and Administrative Penalties for Non-compliance

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Financial Investigations Training

We maintain a cadre of retired federal criminal investigators who have developed and delivered anti money laundering and financial investigative training to federal law enforcement agencies throughout their professional careers. These SMEs are fully capable of developing and delivering up-to-date training modules based on current regulation and best practices for domestic or international delivery.

CBRNE Hazard and Recognition Training

Since our corporate inception in 2003, PRG has provided the Departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security with domestic and international training services into the recognition, identification and mitigation of the effects of hazardous materials encountered by public safety and border protection officers in the performance of their duties.

PRG course developers designed and delivered a series of weeklong weapons of mass destruction (WMD) courses for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency including:
■ WMD Awareness is a basic course that outlines the hazards of chemical and biological agents and radiological substances, and teaches protective measures to mitigate effects of exposure. The course demonstrates the essential elements of first response including isolation, notification and decontamination techniques.
■ WMD Dual-use Equipment identification is a more advanced course designed to assist border and law enforcement officers in the identification of equipment that used in the manufacture of fission and radiological devices, biological agents and chemical agents. It includes a module on explosives that enables the officers to recognize commercial and military high explosives and peripherals used in dissemination of WMD that they might encounter in a border control or law enforcement situation.
■ WMD International Investigations is a course targeted to the criminal investigator to enhance specialized investigative skills in trans-national investigations of WMD incidents. PRG designed the course to ensure investigators are familiar with international control regimes, techniques and resources used in transnational investigations, and how to secure evidence in the international arena.
■ WMD Information Analysis – a course designed for criminal investigators, criminal intelligence analysts and public prosecutors that focuses on the techniques involved in developing actionable intelligence used in combating the illicit trade or smuggling of WMD-related materials and technologies
■ WMD Threat Management is a course that teaches first responders techniques of donning, doffing, decontaminating and maintaining personal protective equipment (PPE). Students go through a rigorous series of physical exercises to demonstrate the usefulness and limitations placed on them when fully outfitted in PPE including respirators.

Since 2015, PRG National Fire Academy certified HAZMAT Instructors have delivered the FEMA Chemistry for Emergency Response Course to enlisted personnel and officers of the U.S. Coast Guard National Strike Teams in Mobile, Alabama, Fort Dix, New Jersey and Novato, California. This highly technical two-week course fulfills the learning needs of USCG Strike Team first responders who have limited knowledge of the chemical composition of hazardous materials. The course assists them in HAZMAT recognition and the safe handling and mitigation of chemical substances detected while deployed on field operations all across the United States.

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Customized Curriculum Development:

PRG has the capability to develop training courses in any law enforcement or border security discipline for foreign or domestic delivery through our dedicated cadre of Subject Matter Experts who developed and delivered training courses at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), the FBI Academy, the NYPD Training Academy and other federal, state and local training centers.

PRG has developed several multi-week law enforcement courses for the Department of State, Global Antiterrorism Assistance (GATA) Program. State accepted these popular courses into the GATA master curriculum, and delivered to GATA partner nations all over the world for several years.

PRG organizes training courses under the supervision of experienced Instructional Systems Designers. PRG Instructional Systems Designers and SME Course Developers oversee and collaborate to conceptualize, plan, develop, and deploy a knowledge-based training solution, in consultation with our customer. We follow the ADDIE Model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) of course design and development for all courses and apply simulation and gaming strategies to enhance learning and enable participants to transfer knowledge and skills to the job.

PRG course development includes classroom presentations, hands-on group and individual training, and realistic practical exercises. PRG designs all training with the terminal objective of enabling the student to utilize the training in an operational environment. PRG instructors are practitioners who understand the fundamentals and nuances in the curriculum and how to apply it to real-life situations.

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Specialized Equipment Training:

PRG regularly procures and delivers border inspection and security equipment for U.S. Government agencies to grant to security agencies worldwide. Often PRG is required to develop and deliver training courses specifically tailored to equipment, and readily translated into the host country language for the law enforcement and border security officers in the recipient nations.

PRG designed and delivered a series of courses for Department of State programs for border personnel, to assist them in operating and maintaining donated equipment. In addition to equipment training, each course includes a primer on the hazardous materials the equipment detects such as radiation, chemical agents or explosives. Some of the equipment training courses developed by PRG cover the following devices:
■ Sabre 4000™ – operation and maintenance of the hand-held trace detector for explosives, chemical agents, toxic industrial chemicals and narcotics
■ Mini-rad D – operation and maintenance of the portable radiation detector
■ PM1730GN – operation and maintenance of the gamma-neutron personal radiation detector
■ Zistos Vehicle Search System – operation and maintenance of the camera based inspectional system
■ Ludlum Model 192 Survey Meter – operation and maintenance of the portable, hand held electronic instrument used to detect gamma radiation
■ Innov-X Alpha Series XFR Alloy Analyzer – operation and maintenance of equipment used to determine elemental composition of metals and other materials, and perform alloy identification

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