Oct 1 2024 Hurricane Helene

The NC Private Protective Services Board (PPSB) emailed out a “memo” about “out of state security guards/officers.” It is a very short and clear restatement of the law and code as is. 166A offers “security and patrol” (or other PPSB regulated professions, and the PPSB itself) NO additional “powers.” Use of “out of state” (licensed/registered/commissioned) guards/officers, or IN-state “temporary hires” in an UNARMED (no guns) capacity is (and always was) “OK” with ZERO start time.

Use of ARMED (gun) officers/guards without “registration” IS NOT ALLOWED (illegal [misdemeanor violation of 74-C] and unlawful [violations of the Administrative Code]).

10.02.24 update: A “special” Firearms Training Certificate for “Reciprocity” was distributed by the PPSB:
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Here’s the “MEMO”:
Memo – Guidance and requirements for the use of probationary or out-of-state security guards 9.30.24

Here’s what IMFs can (and will) do to “help” any Security & Patrol Companies (licensed or not) that need to get “security feet/boots on the ground in the effected areas (mostly Western NC)”:

  • Put you in contact with “properly/fully licensed contract N.C. security companies” (we have a very good relationship with St. Moritz, and good relationships with Condor, Allied, Securitas, others including many “small, local companies”.
  • Get you (individuals and groups) your “Required in the first 20 days” First Four hours of “The Security Officer in NC” (basic/unarmed) Training. Recent update[s] to the code allow us to get this training done “remote”. We will “discount for our state” this training as much as possible. We have 6 (six) Un-Armed Guard Trainers ready and willing to “help out” in any way we can.
  • Help you with “there may be (IS) a (huge) paperwork requirement”. We can submit the required background checks for you; navigate and complete “permitium” applications (or train your staff); and help you with the myriad other NC 74C “office tasks” (such as getting properly added “designee[s]” and getting ‘ink’ fingerprints [we have hundreds of “FBI Cards” and several ink pads]).
  • Get you (individuals and groups) your “REQUIRED BEFORE ‘working’ (at a post or site)” ARMED training. We are located in Central (or Central/Eastern NC) but have “very good relationships” with Certified Trainers all over the state. We also “enjoy” a relationship with the PPSB that *sometimes* allows us to “shorten up” the “at least five days prior” reporting (pre-delivery/planning/scheduling) requirement before holding ANY Armed Training.
  • Help you in MANY other ways – we are not just/only “Training/Instruction” people. We do – and have done for many years – “(security) business consulting.”

Contact us at info@imfscorp.com with any questions or requests. Again: we will ‘discount’ as far as we can anything that we can do to ‘help’ those that are helping ‘us’.

“BE SAFE and provide the best security available to our Friends and NC-Family!” -Dean W.

= To Our Law Enforcement Family =

First and foremost: “There are no words” so we offer a “moment of silence” for the Two Deputies (KIA Floods, EOW during the storm). RIP Jim Lau (courthouse “security”) and un-named other. “Again, there are no words, so we offer all of the words, and our ‘best’ hopes, thoughts and prayers to their families (true and blue).”

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/2-nc-deputies-killed-by-hurricane-helene-flooding-association-says/47ZWNPW6SFE75EQP3SLARNQT5E/

Fair Warning: Do NOT be “stealing our jobs/work”. Get “registered and a ‘security’ shirt” or get back “on the clock” at your Department, Office, or Agency. You MAY NOT work “Armed Private Security” while using “public” (tax payer) uniforms and equipment. Tell your Chiefs and Sheriffs to “keep you roaming” like you are supposed to be and submit the overtime “bills” to the State (Emergency Services, 166A). “Stay OFF our sites!”

We “beg” for your assistance: BUST (severely) any “Gun Dork S’kirty Gords” out there working armed WITHOUT proper registration/licensing. They MUST HAVE their “Armed Guard Registration Card” on their “outermost garment excluding inclement weather clothing” OR “their COMPLETE (printed from permitium) application, Affidavit and Public Notice Statement, and Range (class) Qualification Certificate” with them until their card comes in. Cite them (Misdemeanor violation of 74C), arrest them (committing a crime while carrying a firearm??), we don’t know what else, but do something “law enforcement” after consultation with your local D.A. and/or the NCDOJ and don’t let them get away with it. Please…?!

 

 

 

September 20 2024 Updated NC First 4 Slideshows

The powerpoint slideshows for the “First Four Hours” of Basic or Un-Armed Guard Training in NC are “fixed” and uploaded here (zip file containing two MS PowerPoint files):

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Reference material (download/snapshot/retrieved 09.20.24):

NC Chapter ( § ) 74C: 2024_0920_NC_74C

The “Rules” or “Administrative Code” 14B NCAC 16: 2024_0920_14B_NCAC_16

-DLW

Efforts RE (now against) PPSB 2024 UAGT Notification

( By Dean Wiley March 16, 2024 – updated March 17 12:15AM )

Too Long Didn’t Read version

The Private Protective Services Board (PPSB) is “Proposing a change” to the Administrative Code that will require (exactly) FIVE DAYS notice “to the Director” before a “Unarmed Guard Class.”

The “Public Comment Period” about this change ends on April 11, 2024. Any one that has “thoughts” about this one way or the other should:

Send an email to PPSB Director Paul Sherwin as follows:
TO: paul.sherwin@ncdps.gov
SUBJECT: Proposed Changes to 0707
BODY:
I am [for or against] the proposed change to “notification for in person classes”.
[any other information or reasoning]
Signed:
Your Name (real names only please)
[ If you are a ‘regulated by PPSB person’ and want to give them that information, add it to your ‘signature block’ ]

Original Long Version Below (with a few ‘updates’)

As soon as the NCDOJ’s CJS Division got “shut down” about “pre-delivery reports” of notification of when and where classes were to be held: The North Carolina Private Protective Services Board (PPSB) decides to take a stab at it (in the back, in the dark, illegally ‘masked’ in a lie about terminology clarification).

see: http://imfscorp.com/july-2023-efforts-against-nc-cch-proposed-changes/

Here’s the “Proposed Rule Change” to Administrative Code 14B NCAC 16 (Rule) .0707 Training Requirements for Unarmed Security Guards Notice of Text and Public Hearing 14B NCAC 16.0707 (retrieved 03.16.2024 7:45A unchanged from original Jan? upload).

The “Public Comment Period” ends April 11, 2024

The “notice” (above) says that a Public Hearing was to be held February 20, 2024 at 2:00PM. This, too, is “in error” in violation of NC General Statute [§] 150B. The hearing can not be held two months before the close of “Public Comment”.

Here is my latest and last written “comment and objection” to the PPSB acknowledged by Director Paul Sherwin as “received”: 2024_0307_PPSB_150B_Comment_0707_ProposedChanges
( Word docx format if you want to modify it and submit it yourself: 2024_0307_PPSB_150B_Comment_0707_ProposedChanges )

TO: All Trainers; All Licensees; All potential “PPSB Regulated” people, especially those that “may” one day want to become a Certified Trainer

Send in your comments – IN WRITING! – and/or send in a WRITTEN DEMAND to be heard “by voice” before or during the April PPSB “meetings” (law/rules committee or full). If you don’t: you won’t have “legs to stand on” (exhaust the administrative process) after they “sneak” this five day (exactly) notification requirement through for your 16-Hour Basic or “Unarmed” courses.

= = =

( More ‘history’ and details from emails later )

Question: Why ‘fight’ this when you have always sent “Pre- and Post- Delivery (Notification) Reports” for your Armed Courses?

Answers:

  • Notification was required for ‘gun’ classes when I signed up to be a Firearms Trainer. I “went into it” fully knowing.
  • Notification has never been required for Basic or UnArmed classes/courses.
  • Notification for Basic classes/courses has never been discussed as an “unofficial” idea seeking public – including in-industry “private people and business effected in a burdensome way” – input.
  • The Board (members that are also ‘committee members’ of CJS Division) seeks to “intrude and interfere” in Private Commerce for (I truly believe) utterly immoral, illegal, unlawful, and/or “just stupid” reasons**.
    ** Licensee Board members “stealing” names of Trainers and other Licensees and/or Companies’ employees and other “industrial espionage”. Government intrusion and interference (tyranny) for “the sake of it; because we can.” Stupid = (as stated in my Comment and Objection letter above) The inclusion of “in-person” class notification may be a “typo.”
  • The Board is not now – and never will be – “invited or allowed” to “audit” my/our classes because my/our classes adhere to the letters of the law and code and ‘use’ their materials – with much more time spent pointing out “flaws” (dangerous mis-informations/mistakes, nonsense, typos, impractical/unrealistic “guidance”, misstatements of law [see power of arrest, assistance to LE, stricken 1989]) that all of the Board (many years, members and staff) don’t seem to notice or care about. My/our classes are delivered from a “We have to know this stuff because the Board will ‘quiz’ us on it” but “We have to be able to use the time to also ‘teach’ some real-world practical PRIVATE business realities” not from a “Good enough for government work as a government ‘instructor'” mentality.
  • The Board “may not” intrude upon “private business” in some misguided idea of “surprise audits”. (See NCCCH “nipped in the bud” above) I “pay for” the seats in my classes (room rent, sometimes per seat/person), and the Government CAN NOT “just show up” and cost me/us extra money. Even if they “could” – We would require them to PAY for their ‘seat’ in the class and sign a “personal” (not government agency” GUARANTEE that they won’t use the “real, correct information” received in our class to “fix” the above “errors” in their materials and/or “improve their position or pay or status at the PPSB as an employee without crediting and paying appropriate contract fees and royalties.” We already do – and always have – PAID (for) THEM to make this mess. They are not going to “steal” in the name of “audit” a way to “look less incompetent and apathetic.”

( Again, more later, I have to go to a Train-The-Trainer ‘meeting’ for UAGTs. 8:19AM 3.16.2024 )

Sept 16 2023 PPS Armed Recertification

Saturday, September 16, 2023 we will be conducting a North Carolina Private Protective Services Firearms Re-Certification Class/Course. This is a FOUR classroom hours re-certification and range qualification (day and night) course for handguns (no shotgun or rifle training).

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The starting time is: Eleven (11:00) A.M. (1100 hrs) at the “classroom”. FOUR (4) hours of classroom “law updates, review and testing/quizzing” are REQUIRED for “Armed Re-Certification (renewal).” If you are a “noon-ish-time eater” then bring your lunch or “plans” to get something “quick” that you can eat in the classroom so that we “stay on the clock as much as possible.”

The “classroom” is at:
Consolidated Underwriters (CUI)
206 South Wilson Avenue
Dunn, NC 28334
https://goo.gl/maps/WWRqNUuGXqLorKZx6?coh=178571&entry=tt
( google incorrectly shows the Car Rental business 2 doors away – CUI is 2 doors “down/south” from the Car Rental business/lot )
Park in the BACK, please.

DO NOT bring live ammunition into the “classroom”. DO NOT handle a firearm unless under the “watch” of – and at the direct instruction of – a Trainer.

Bring your CLEARED handgun(s) into the classroom – NO AMMUNITION – at the beginning to function check them and record the make, model and serial numbers. You only need your handgun(s) and pen/paper or other note-keeping tools in the classroom.

DO NOT bring live ammunition into the “classroom”.

What you will need at the range:

  • at least THREE HUNDRED (300) rounds of ammunition (duty or ballistic equivalent) “correct” for EACH of the handguns you will qualify on. 300 “only” gives you enough for 3 day and 3 night attempts
  • your handgun(s)
  • at least TWO (2) magazines for each handgun that you will qualify with
  • a sturdy or duty belt
  • holster(s) “correct” for your handgun(s)
  • magazine carrier(s)/pouch(es)
  • a hand-held flashlight (**gun mounted lights are allowed by the PPSB for re-certification. If used they must ONLY be used at the 5 yard line at night.)
  • a “billed cap”
  • eye and hearing protection (we have plenty if you don’t own it)
  • “appropriate attire” (no shorts, no V-neck or open-neck shirts, duty/work shoes/boots). There is a ‘very early’ prediction of ‘chance of rain’. If your “company” requires you to qualify in uniform then wear the uniform.

The cost per participant/student is: $170.00 per person ($150 + 20 range fee)

( * ) Range set-up and clean-up including “picking up at least as much brass/cases as we shoot” is required. If you don’t want to clean-up including picking up brass bring $20.00 more ($40 total) for “range fee” to pay someone else to do it for you. If you don’t want to pay more or set-up and clean-up: Get your PPSB certification some where else.

DO NOT bring live ammunition into the classroom. -= NO BULLETS!! =-

Range training and Qualification is to be at H2O Fowl Farms. This is an outdoor range. Dress appropriately and bring a lot of water. If there are not too many “interruptions or breaks (for getting food)” we will leave the “classroom” and head to the range at – or shortly after – 3:00PM (1500 hours).

H2O’s website: http://h2ofowlfarmsnc.com/

“Time permitting” we usually go into Benson and eat between day and night qualifications.

April 11-13 2021 NC PPSB Armed Full and Re-Certification Course

Sunday, April 11, 2021 through Tuesday, April 13, 2021 we will be conducting a North Carolina Private Protective Services Firearms Certification Class/Course. This is a TWENTY classroom hours certification course for handguns (no shotgun or rifle training). Day 3 – Monday – includes recertification for handguns.

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The starting time for all three days (Sunday-Tuesday) is: Eleven (11:00) A.M. and all days start at the classroom. Sunday and Monday “classroom” will end at approximately Seven (7:00) P.M. – Seven-Thirty (7:30) P.M. depending on participants “meal break” time.

Complete course schedule and requirements here (Adobe PDF document): 2021_0411_IMFs_PPS_Armed_3DayCourseOutlineRequirements

All full-course participants MUST have ALL of their equipment (guns, holsters, magazines, flashlights, belts) ready to train with at 11AM on Sunday April 11. We begin “practical” training IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT bring live ammunition into the “classroom”.

The cost per participant/student is starting at the “3-4 participants” discount rate because of self-paying guards and company/self-paying guards from Black Box Security ( https://blackboxsecurity.us/ ) and Lolair Protection Agency ( http://www.lolairprotectionagency.com/ ):
$220.00 $195 (includes $20 range fee to H2O Fowl Farms) for full certification
$120.00 $120 (includes $20 range fee to H2O Fowl Farms) for recertification
See our NCPPS[B] page.

( * ) Range set-up and clean-up including “at least as much brass/cases as we shoot” is required. If you don’t want to clean-up including picking up brass bring $20.00 more for “range fee” to pay someone else to do it for you. If you don’t want to pay more or set-up and clean-up: Get your PPSB certification some where else.

Contact IMFs Corp to sign up or for more information:
(910) 892 – 1616
(Do not contact H2O Fowl Farms, IMFs is the “coordinator” for this course.)

The classroom portion is being held at Consolidated Underwriters at their 206 South Wilson Avenue, Dunn, NC, 28334 location. Please park in the rear of the building. http://goo.gl/maps/QR6KG

DO NOT bring live ammunition into the classroom. -= NO BULLETS!! =-

Range training and Qualification is to be at H2O Fowl Farms. This is an outdoor range. Dress appropriately and bring a lot of water.

H2O’s website: http://h2ofowlfarmsnc.com/

April 8-9 2021 NC PPSB Basic 16 Hours

Thursday, April 8, through Friday, April 9, 2021 we will be holding a 16 Hour Basic (unarmed) North Carolina Private Protective Services (Board, PPSB) Certification Class/Course. Both days we will begin at 11:00am and end at approximately 7:30pm. This is the 16 hours of training required by the PPSB to get registered as an unarmed (or basic) security officer and/or pre-requisite to attending the “armed” 20 hour course.

Participants must bring their own note keeping supplies.

This course is being held at Consolidated Underwriters at their 206 South Wilson Avenue, Dunn, NC, 28334 location. Please park in the rear of the building. http://goo.gl/maps/QR6KG

Call (910) 892 – 1616 (land-line, no texts) and leave a message if you would like to get guards into this class.

March 27-29 2021 NC PPSB Armed Full and Re-certification Course

Saturday, March 27, 2021 through Monday, March 29, 2021 we will be conducting a North Carolina Private Protective Services Firearms Certification Class/Course. This is a TWENTY classroom hours certification course for handguns (no shotgun training). Day 3 – Monday – includes recertification for handguns.

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This course was put together for 2nd and 3rd shift ‘basic’ or ‘un-armed’ certified and registered guards. The starting time for Saturday and Sunday is: Twelve (12:00) P.M. The classroom starting time for Monday is: Eleven (11:00) A.M.

Complete course schedule and requirements here (Adobe PDF document): 2021_0327_IMFs_PPS_Armed_3DayCourseOutlineRequirements

All full-course participants MUST have ALL of their equipment (guns, holsters, magazines, flashlights, belts) ready to train with at 12PM on Saturday March 27. We begin “practical” training IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT bring live ammunition into the “classroom”.

The cost per participant/student is starting at the “5 or more participants” discount rate because of self-paying guards from St. Moritz and company/self-paying guards from Black Box Security ( https://blackboxsecurity.us/ ) and Lolair Protection Agency ( http://www.lolairprotectionagency.com/ ):
$220.00 $170 (includes $20 range fee to H2O Fowl Farms) for full certification
$120.00 $100 (includes $20 range fee to H2O Fowl Farms) for recertification
See our NCPPS[B] page.

( * ) Range set-up and clean-up including “at least as much brass/cases as we shoot” is required. If you don’t want to clean-up including picking up brass bring $20.00 more for “range fee” to pay someone else to do it for you. If you don’t want to pay more or set-up and clean-up: Get your PPSB certification some where else.

Contact IMFs Corp to sign up or for more information:
(910) 892 – 1616
(Do not contact H2O Fowl Farms, IMFs is the “coordinator” for this course.)

The classroom portion is being held at Consolidated Underwriters at their 206 South Wilson Avenue, Dunn, NC, 28334 location. Please park in the rear of the building. http://goo.gl/maps/QR6KG

DO NOT bring live ammunition into the classroom. -= NO BULLETS!! =-

Range training and Qualification is to be at H2O Fowl Farms. This is an outdoor range. Dress appropriately and bring a lot of water.

H2O’s website: http://h2ofowlfarmsnc.com/

March 25-26 2021 NC PPSB Basic 16 Hours

Thursday, March 25, through Friday, March 26, 2021 we will be holding a 16 Hour Basic (unarmed) North Carolina Private Protective Services (Board, PPSB) Certification Class/Course. Both days we will begin at 12:00pm and end at approximately 8:30pm. This is the 16 hours of training required by the PPSB to get registered as an unarmed (or basic) security officer.

This is a ‘private, invite only’ class arranged between IMFs and Black Box Security ( https://blackboxsecurity.us/ ) and some self-paying/self-certifying guards.

Participants must bring their own note keeping supplies.

This course is being held at Consolidated Underwriters at their 206 South Wilson Avenue, Dunn, NC, 28334 location. Please park in the rear of the building. http://goo.gl/maps/QR6KG

 

Jan 18-22 2021 Full Week of NC PPSB Training

Monday, January 18, through Friday, January 22, 2021 (with Sat Jan 23 as a ‘backup’ range day) we will be holding a full week of North Carolina Private Protective Services (Board, PPSB) Certification Classes/Courses. Every day except Friday we will begin at 10:00am and end at approximately 7:00pm. Friday’s Schedule is below.

Pricing can be found here: http://imfscorp.com/nc-private-protective-services/

St. Moritz Security Services is sending enough guards through that the “Five or More” rates are going to be extended to all who attend any of the training.

Monday-Tuesday January 18-19 “Basic”

Monday and Tuesday will be the “Security Officer in North Carolina” course. This is the 16 hours of training required by the PPSB to get registered as an unarmed (or basic) security officer. We will start at 10:00am both days. The address and link for the location of the classroom is below.

Participants must bring their own note keeping supplies.

Wednesday-Friday January 20-22 “Armed”

Wednesday through Friday we will be conducting the TWENTY classroom hours certification course for handguns ONLY. Friday will be an Armed Re-Certification Course (4 classroom hours and range qualification) as well as the completion of the ‘Full’ course.

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Wednesday and Thursday we will start at 10:00am and finish at approximately 7:00pm. Participants MUST have all of their equipment on Wednesday morning. We start “practical” training FIRST. Book, theory, nomenclature and law are all done after or during “practical” training.

On Friday, January 22, all armed participants (full and re-certification) should arrive at the classroom at 10:00am. After 4 hours (minimum) of ‘classroom’ (The Legal Module) we will go to the range for Day and Night qualification attempts. Complete requirements for armed training are here: 2021_0120_IMFs_PPS_Armed_3DayCourseOutlineRequirements

Due to the ammunition shortages (Coronavirus and Riots) the PPSB has authorized the use of the 30-Round Day and Night Courses of Fire (COF). It is up to your employer if they will accept those.

St. Moritz employees: 30-round COF will be allowed for Re-Certification ONLY. New certifications are required to shoot the “standard” 50-Round COF.

The cost per participant/student listed at our PPSB page does NOT include:
– $20 range fee to H2O Fowl Farms
* The more that attend, the lower the individual cost. See our NCPPS[B] page.

Contact IMFs Corp to sign up or for more information:
(910) 892 – 1616
(Do not contact H2O Fowl Farms, IMFs is the “coordinator” for this course.)

The classroom portion is being held at Consolidated Underwriters at their 206 South Wilson Avenue, Dunn, NC, 28334 location. Please park in the rear of the building. http://goo.gl/maps/QR6KG

Range training and Qualification is to be at H2O Fowl Farms. This is an outdoor range. Dress appropriately and bring water. Early weather forecasts predict VERY COLD and a chance of precipitation.

H2O’s website: http://h2ofowlfarmsnc.com/

Oct 27-29 2020 NC PPS Armed Full and Re-Certification

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 through Thursday, October 29, 2020 we will be conducting a North Carolina Private Protective Services Firearms Certification Class/Course. This is a TWENTY classroom hours certification course for handguns (no shotgun training). Day 3 – Thursday – includes recertification for handguns.

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Starting time for all three days is: Ten (10:00) A.M.

Complete course schedule and requirements here (Adobe PDF document): 2020_1027_IMFs_PPS_Armed_3DayCourseOutlineRequirements

All full-course participants MUST have ALL of their equipment (guns, holsters, magazines, flashlights, belts) ready to train with at 10AM on Tuesday October 27. We begin “practical” training IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT bring live ammunition into the “classroom”.

!!! Hurricane Zeta !!!

Hurricane Zeta (as of Oct 26 1:31PM) is forecast to bring heavy rain to the area Wednesday and Thursday. Full Course participants: be prepared to do range qualifications on Wednesday, October 28. We will notify recertification participants as the “remnants” of Zeta move closer to the area what we will do about recertification if the range is “rained out” on Thursday. If it is to be a “wash-out” both days we will notify everyone of the new recertification/range day ASAP.

Arrow (tip) is approximately where the range is. Click/Tap the image for a WRAL article.
Arrow (tip) is approximately where the range is. Click/Tap the image for a WRAL article.

The cost per participant/student:
– $220.00 (includes $20 range fee to H2O Fowl Farms) for full certification
– $120.00 (includes $20 range fee to H2O Fowl Farms) for recertification
* The more that attend, the lower the individual cost. See our NCPPS[B] page.

( * ) Range set-up and clean-up including “at least as much brass/cases as we shoot” is required. If you don’t want to clean-up including picking up brass bring $20.00 more for “range fee” to pay someone else to do it for you. If you don’t want to pay more or set-up and clean-up: Get your PPSB certification some where else.

Contact IMFs Corp to sign up or for more information:
(910) 892 – 1616
(Do not contact H2O Fowl Farms, IMFs is the “coordinator” for this course.)

The classroom portion is being held at Consolidated Underwriters at their 206 South Wilson Avenue, Dunn, NC, 28334 location. Please park in the rear of the building. http://goo.gl/maps/QR6KG

DO NOT bring live ammunition into the classroom. -= NO BULLETS!! =-

Range training and Qualification is to be at H2O Fowl Farms. This is an outdoor range. Dress appropriately and bring a lot of water.

H2O’s website: http://h2ofowlfarmsnc.com/