The Court Security Officers (Designation) Regulations 2005

• Citation: S.I. 2005/588
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Court Security Officers (Designation) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.

Section 2 Training requirements for court security officers

(1) Before a person may be designated as a court security officer, he must provide the Lord Chancellor with documentary evidence that he has completed one or more training courses which include instruction in the following –

(a) the duties and powers of a court security officer;

(b) risk assessment;

(c) safe working practices;

(d) managing stress when dealing with threatening situations;

(e) techniques for restraining a person and removing them from a building.

(2) Where the Lord Chancellor has designated a person as a court security officer, he may subsequently require that person to undergo –

(a) further training in any of the matters mentioned in paragraph (1);

(b) training in any other matter which the Lord Chancellor determines,

and the Lord Chancellor may make different determinations in respect of different officers, courts, court buildings and areas.

Section 3 Proof of identity and other requirements

Before a person may be designated as a court security officer, the Lord Chancellor must take the following steps:

(a) obtain proof of the person’s identity;

(b) obtain a declaration from that person as to whether he has any unspent criminal offences within the meaning of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 ; and

(c) make criminal records check.