CPPO - Defence Police Training Centre

Close Personal Protection Operator Cse

PMKeyS Course No. 113924

Aim

To train selected Military Police and Air Field Defence Guard personnel as Close Personal Protection Operatives for employment within the ADF.

This is an intense specialist training course, conducted over 7 weeks, open to selected full time Military Police and RAAF ADG members only (Army GRes members on recommendation only). This course is mentally and physically demanding with assessment topics include driving skills, weapons, team and individual skills, planning and physical fitness and endurance. Training requires a level of assumed knowledge and skill, therefore must be well prepared to meet these challenges.

Prerequisites

Rank: CPL - CAPT (E)
PES: Medical Class 1
Pass - CPP Fitness Assessment – Entry Standard
Pass – SLP 9mm Mk 3 WTT, LF 1-6 WTSS
Pass – F88 Austeyr WTT, LF 1-6 WTSS
Qualifications: SPBC, ADG Basic Course, SPOBC
Experience: Minimum 24 months Service Police member

Pre-course

All trainees must be physically fit prior to attending the course. Trainees attending the course with existing injuries, which prevent them from undertaking training, will be returned to their parent units. Trainees during the course will undertake a progressive and extensive skill based physical training program. All personnel paneled to attend the course are to complete a CPP Fitness Test, supervised by a PTI, achieving the entry standard prior to arrival on the course, the results of which are to be faxed to the course manager. (The requirements for which are detailed below). A pre-course training program, detailing physical preparations is attached below. Trainees should take the opportunity to ensure that their base skills in F88 Steyr and 9mm SLP Mk3 are practiced and revised before attending the course. All trainees paneled to attend the course are to complete WTT and LF 1 – 6 in both of these weapons systems and send the results by Fax to the Course Manger. All Trainees will be contacted by email by the Course Manager on release of the Course Panel and informed of the more detailed requirements for course preparation. This will include pre-course reading and research topics.

CPP PreCourse Training Program

Close Personal Protection Fitness Test (CPPFT)

The roles and tasks of the CPP Operator (CPPO) require a high degree of individual and collective battle skills to ensure the survivability of both the assigned Principal and the CPPO. It is therefore essential that all CPPO's are suitably conditioned and physically capable of undertaking prolonged protection duties at short notice in non-permissive and/or uncertain threat environments. Based on the CPP job requirements submitted by RACMP, the RAAMC designed a CPPFT with five (5) core activities in order to test the physical readiness of personnel to conduct CPP tasking. These activities have all been assigned two standards, namely the:

Entry Standard – this is defined as the standard that is required to be met in order for personnel to be granted entry onto a CPP course. This standard is naturally less than the job standard, taking into account the physical gains which will occur as part of the course curriculum. This standard is also designed to ensure an acceptable level of base fitness is present in trainees so as to safely undertake CPP training.

Job Standard – this is defined as the standard that is required to be met for an individual to be deemed physically capable to conduct CPP tasking. The job standard is both the exit standard from the CPPO course and the physical standard to be maintained by CPPO in order to remain deployable in a CPP role. This standard is a unisex and all-age standard in recognition of the physical demands placed on all CPPO in the performance of protection duties. These operational demands are not lessened as a result of age and/or sex.

Activity One – Weighted Heaves
• Entry Standard – min 3
• Job Standard – min 6

Activity Two – Cadence Push Ups
• Entry Standard – min 30
• Job Standard – min 40

Activity Three – BFA Sit-Ups (feet not held)
• Entry Standard – min 55
• Job Standard – min 70

Activity Four - 5km Forced March
• Entry Standard – 50 mins or less
• Job Standard – 45 mins or less

Activity Five – CPPO Swim Test

Entry Test. The trainee is to conduct a safety jump into the deep-end of the pool and then swim any stroke 50 metres to the other end of the pool. There is no time limit for this lap to be completed. Upon touching the wall, the trainee is to immediately push away from the wall and commence treading water for two (2) minutes.

Job Standard. This test involves a human role-player dressed in DPCU (no socks, no footwear) simulating an unconscious and unresponsive casualty. The role-player is to be pre-positioned in the water, approximately 10m from the edge of the pool at the shallow-end. The CPPO is to be located on the blocks at the deep-end of the pool. On the command “begin” the CPPO is to conduct a safety jump into the pool, swim 40m to the casualty using any stroke, adopt the pistol grip under the casualty's chin to maintain his/her head above the waterline and then drag the casualty 10m to the pool edge. At no time is the casualty to assist the CPPO during the drag process. There is no time limit for this test. Upon touching the wall, the CPPO is to immediately push away from the wall and commence treading water for five (5) minutes. A detailed diagram of the job standard swim test is attached below.

• Entry – Successful completion of stated test, no time limit.
• Job – Successful completion of stated test, no time limit.

Personnel that fail to achieve the entry standard in the CPPFT on day one of the course will be returned to their parent units.