SHIP SECURITY OFFICERS (SSO) COURSE

• Security administration
• Relevant international conventions, codes and recommendations
• Relevant Government legislation and regulations
• Responsibilities and functions of other security organizations
• Methodology of ship security assessment
• Methods of ship security surveys and inspections
• Ship and port operations and conditions
• Ship and port facility security measures
• Emergency preparedness and response and contingency planning
• Instruction techniques for security training and education, including security measures and procedures
• Handling sensitive security related information and security related communications
• Knowledge of current security threats and patterns
• Recognition and detection of weapons, dangerous substances and devices
• Recognition, on a non-discriminatory basis, of characteristics and behavioral patterns of persons who are likely to threaten security
• Techniques used to circumvent security measures
• Security equipment and systems and their operational limitations
• Methods of conductions audits, inspection, control and monitoring
• Methods of physical searches and non-intrusive inspections
• Security drills and exercises, including drills and exercises with port facilities
• Assessment of security drills and exercises
• The layout of the ship
• The ship security plan and related procedures (including scenario-based training on how to respond)
• Crowd management and control techniques operations of security equipment and systems; and testing, calibration and while at sea maintenance of security equipment and systems
• Securing the facilities of the company - permanent and temporary facilities
• Cooperation with security factors outside the company - national and civil security factors
• Enlistment, categorizing, professional teaching and guiding for security offices in ships
• Writing of working procedures and security procedures
• Control, supervision and current exercising of the security system on the company ships
• Simulation of emergency situations
• Surprise concluding exercise - guided exercise