INDEX
CHAPTER II
PROTECTIVE FORCE DUTIES
1. SECURITY OFFICERS. Security Officers may be used to augment Security
Police Officers and/or to perform such duties as access control,
facility patrol, escort, and assessment and reporting of alarms. Each
Security Officer shall be required to possess the skills necessary to
perform assigned duties. Security Officers shall demonstrate
familiarity and knowledge of the responsibilities identified in job
analyses, and proficiency in the skills and abilities necessary to
perform those jobs, including but not limited to:
a. Knowledge of the assigned site and routine patrol duty
requirements, and ability to perform assigned duties; e.g.,
conducting physical checks of repositories containing classified
matter; checking buildings and rooms to ensure that all classified
matter is secure; and noting and reporting indications of
suspicious activity.
b. Operation of vehicles, as required by duty assignment.
c. Operation of communication equipment reasonably expected to be
employed within their duty assignment, including proficiency in the
use of accepted communication terminology, acronyms, and phonetics,
and the methods for verifying operator identity of incoming signals
and signaling duress.
d. Knowledge of Departmental and site policies and procedures
governing the Security Officer's role in site protection.
e. Knowledge of any Federal- and State-granted authority applicable to
assigned activities, and relative responsibilities between the
protective force and outside law enforcement agencies.
f. Knowledge of post or patrol operations including, as appropriate:
(1) Access control systems, procedures, and operation including
visitor and employee credentials, badges, passes, and visitor
logging procedures.
(2) Prohibited article detection, including the operation of
personnel, vehicle, and package screening devices employed at
duty posts.
(3) Inspection techniques for persons, packages, and vehicles.
(4) Badging and escort responsibilities including the requirements
for and ability to perform as escorts.
(5) Ability to implement plans and procedures to protect the site
during disruptive events; e.g., fire, industrial disorders,
and civil disturbances.
(6) Familiarity and recognition of various types of classified or
sensitive matter being protected, including the normal
location, routine uses, and movements of the material at the
duty post.
(7) Response to alarm annunciations and reporting of observations.
(8) Incident reporting.
(9) Methods of weaponless self-defense, as applicable to the
assigned position.
2. SECURITY POLICE OFFICERS. 10 CFR 1047 and 1049 delineate Security
Police Officer responsibility to enforce specified laws regarding
property of the United States and provisions of the Atomic Energy Act
that may subject an offender to a fine or imprisonment or both.
Security Police Officers shall be required to possess the individual and
team skills necessary to protect Departmental security interests from
theft, sabotage, and other hostile acts that may cause adverse impacts
on national security, the health and safety of Departmental and
contractor employees, the public, or the environment.
a. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. The requirements for each
Security Police Officer to demonstrate familiarity and knowledge of
the responsibilities identified in the applicable job analysis and
proficiency in the skills and abilities necessary to perform these
job tasks include, but are not limited to, those identified for
Security Officers in paragraph 1 and:
(1) Knowledge and proficiency in the use and care of all weapons
as required by duty assignment.
(2) Knowledge of and the ability to apply Departmental and site
policies and procedures governing the Security Police
Officer's role in site protection.
(3) Knowledge of and the ability to apply Department of Energy
policy on the use of deadly force and limited arrest authority
as set forth in 10 CFR 1047 or 1049, as appropriate, and the
fresh pursuit guidelines contained in Attachment II-1.
(4) Knowledge and proficiency in post and patrol operations
including, as applicable:
(a) Requirements for, and ability to perform as escorts for,
sensitive materials such as weapons, classified matter,
and special nuclear material.
(b) Response to and assessment and resolution of alarm
annunciations and other indications of intrusion.
(c) Methods of self-defense, arrest, and detention.
(d) Basic procedures and elements of investigations,
including recognition and preservation of evidence and
the directives governing search and seizure operations,
in addition to the limitations of authority for a
Security Police Officer to conduct investigations.
(e) Basic tactics necessary to engage and neutralize armed
adversaries and familiarity with the probable nature of
expected adversaries, the arms and equipment the
adversaries are likely to possess, and other likely
characteristics of importance to the engagement as
defined in the Design Basis Threat Policy and any locally
originated threat guidance.
b. Security Police Officer Levels. Security Police Officers are
categorized according to a three-level system for tailoring
training requirements to assigned duties. These levels are
identified as Security Police Officer I, II, and III. Job analyses
for duty assignments shall be completed and shall be approved by
the local cognizant Departmental authority for safeguards and
security to determine the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities
required to perform the duties of each Security Police Officer job
assignment. The following is a general description of the division
of duties among the Security Police Officer levels.
(1) Security Police Officer I (SPO-I).
(a) Assignments: Fixed post; no external response
requirement - This may include access control points,
central alarm station operation if an armed individual is
required, and towers or other fixed monitoring/
surveillance positions.
(b) Qualifications: Department of Energy standardized SPO I
training and site specific training as identified by the
site-specific job analysis. Defensive combative physical
fitness standard as identified in 10 CFR 1046.
(2) Security Police Officer II (SPO-II).
(a) Assignments: Response positions that may include
situation response, assessment and containment, and
patrol duties. Special assignments may include law
enforcement, helicopter operations, canine handler, and
vehicle patrols.
(b) Qualifications: Department of Energy standardized SPO-I
and SPO-II training, and site-specific training as
identified by the site-specific job analysis. Offensive
or defensive physical fitness standard, as identified in
10 CFR 1046, shall be determined by the site-specific job
analysis for the individual duty assignment.
(3) Security Police Officer III (SPO-III).
(a) Assignments: Special Response Team positions that may
include crisis entry, hostage rescue, and other team
tactical solutions to adversary activities.
(b) Qualifications: Department of Energy standardized SPO-I
and SPO-III training, and site-specific training as
identified by the site-specific job analysis. Offensive
combative physical fitness standards as identified in 10
CFR 1046.
3. SPO-III DUTIES. Each SPO-III must possess the individual skills
necessary to meet the program requirements of this chapter. The skills
and knowledge required for an SPO-III to perform these duties include,
but are not limited to:
a. Ability to act successfully as a member of an aggressive and timely
mobile response team as dictated by site-specific vulnerability
assessments, using force options and team techniques necessary for
interdiction, interruption, neutralization, and recapture
operations directed against an adversary.
b. Ability to qualify with site-approved weapons, techniques, and
equipment, which may be necessary either to protect the site or to
effectively engage and neutralize an adversary. Techniques used
may include, but are not limited to, rappelling and tactical entry.
4. SPO-III SELECTION CRITERIA. Security Police Officers may be assigned to
or may volunteer for Special Response Team duties; however, each
individual must also meet selection criteria in order to be assigned as
a Special Response Team member. Team members may be required to meet
more or higher qualification standards than required by an SPO-I or
SPO-II. Such standards shall be in writing and shall be approved by the
cognizant local. Departmental authority for safeguards and security.
Before being assigned to a team, Security Police Officers shall meet the
following minimum standards:
a. Be trained and qualified as an SPO-I.
b. Be formally evaluated by site protective force management as having
the potential to successfully accomplish SPO-III duties and
missions.
c. Be capable of performing the duties and completing the training
requirements as specified in paragraph 3 above and page IV-3,
paragraph 4.
d. Be capable of maintaining the Offensive Combative Physical Fitness
Standard as specified in 10 CFR 1046.
5. SPECIAL SKILLS.
a. General. Protective force operations may require individuals with
additional special skills, such as pilots, communications and alarm
station operators, canine handlers, and crisis negotiators. The
scope of such duties will be locally determined based on
site-specific needs. Personnel assigned to such duties shall be
required to be proficient in their performance.
b. Crisis Negotiation Team. Each crisis negotiator shall have
successfully completed a Central Training Academy or other
Department-approved crisis negotiation training. Negotiation teams
should be integrated into Special Response Team exercises
semiannually. Members of Crisis Negotiation Teams shall be
familiar.with protective force, including Special Response Team,
tactics and operations, but do not need to be Security Police
Officer-trained and certified.
6. SUPERVISORS. Each protective force supervisor shall possess the skills
necessary to effectively direct the actions of assigned personnel to
protect Departmental safeguards and security interests. Line
supervisors of Security Police Officers shall be trained and qualified
as Security Police Officers. Each supervisor shall demonstrate
familiarity and knowledge of the responsibilities identified in the
applicable job analysis, and proficiency in the skills and abilities
necessary to perform those jobs. These include, but are not limited to:
a. Knowledge of the duties and qualifications of supervised personnel.
b. Familiarity with the basic operating functions of facilities for
which the supervisor has protection responsibilities.
c. Ability to ensure that subordinates and their equipment are ready
for duty.