Training of the PCASP team
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC.1/Circular.1443 – Interim Guidance to Private Maritime Security Companies Providing Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel on Board Ships in the High Risk Area1 – (25 May 2012) - Annex – Interim Guidance to Private Maritime Security Companies Providing Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel on Board Ships in the High Risk Area1 - 4 Management - Training of the PCASP team

Training of the PCASP team

  4.3 PMSC should ensure that the PCASP it employs receive and can demonstrate having received adequate and appropriate individual and collective training. Records of such training should be maintained and demonstrate that PCASP have the necessary operational capabilities as per section 5 of this document. PMSC should therefore be able to provide documentary evidence of the following:

  • .1 comprehensive, detailed and auditable records of training, both initial and refresher;

  • .2 that the team leader has verifiable familiarity of the ship type and the particular route envisaged and in maritime security and protection;

  • .3 that personnel are trained and qualified to documented company standards in the appropriate use of force which include the command and control relationship between the PCASP and the master of the ship;

  • .4 that personnel are trained and competent with the specific firearms, ammunition and other related security equipment deployed on the ship;

  • .5 that PCASP personnel are given medical training to a recognized national or international standard;

  • .6 that personnel are given appropriate training and/or briefing specific to the ship type, where that ship will be operating and what legal/practical implications that might have for their deployment, and in the provisions of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code, International Safety Management (ISM) Code and BMP.

Parent topic: 4 Management
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