By virtue of the powers conferred on me by the final disposition of the Order of 7 July 1995, on a proposal from the Directorate-General of the Civil Guard and with the agreement of the Permanent Inter-Ministerial Commission Arms and Explosives, it is necessary to issue instructions for the execution of the mandatory shooting exercises by security guards, private escorts and private guards of the field, as well as the empowerment of the directors and shooting instructors and tests to be performed for obtaining "C" weapons licenses.

So, I've had to dispose:

First.

The instructions for the conduct of the private security personnel shooting exercises, the rating of the directors and the shooting instructors and the tests to be carried out for obtaining the license of arms C are approved. they are then transcribed.

Second.

This Resolution shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Madrid, 28 February 1996.-The Secretary of State for the Interior, Margarita Robles Fernández.

INTRODUCTION

The present instructions are based on the need to organize the execution of the mandatory shooting exercises by security guards, private escorts and private guards of the field, as well as the of the Director and Instructor of Shooting referred to in the Private Security Regulation, approved by Royal Decree 2364/1994 of 9 December 1994.

1. Object

Check the ability to maintain, maintain, and manage the weapons of the aspiring personnel to obtain the "C" arms license, necessary to exercise the functions of private security with weapons and maintenance of the fitness of those who are already in possession of this license.

Check fitness for the conservation, maintenance and management of weapons and the ability to train and address private security and surveillance personnel shooting exercises, granting enablement for the Instructor and Director of Shooting duties, as well as the maintenance of such aptitude and capacity.

Check the good condition and operation of the weapons and the conservation of the endowment ammunition.

2. Staff to perform the shooting and periodicity exercises

Security Guards who provide or are able to provide services with arms and particular field guards, a mandatory shooting exercise for the semester (Articles 84.1 and 94 of the Private Security Regulation).

Private schools, a mandatory shooting exercise every quarter (Article 90.5 of the Private Security Regulation).

First semester shooting exercises and first and third quarters (escorts), will be considered training. The rest of the exercises shall be fitness check (qualification).

3. Assistance for shooting and documentation exercises

The personnel taking part in the performance of the qualifying shooting exercises referred to in these instructions must attend at least eight hours after the completion of the last service and perfectly uniformed security guards and particular field guards.

When you attend shooting exercises, you must carry the following documents with you:

National identity document in effect.

Professional identity card.

Arms license.

The weapon's membership guide.

Authorization to move the weapon, if any.

The lack of any garment of uniformity or of any document may be sufficient cause for the elimination of the shooting exercise of the staff in which this circumstance is present. This staff must perform the exercise at any other scheduled session.

4. Dates

As a general rule, security personnel shooting exercises will be performed:

Security Guards and particular field guards:

First semester: During the months of March, April, and May.

Second semester: During the months of September, October, and November.

Scholts:

First Quarter: During the month of March.

Second Quarter: During the month of May.

Third Quarter: During the month of September.

Fourth Quarter: During the month of November.

Shooting exercises will be performed on weekdays from Monday to Friday, both inclusive, in sessions of up to four hours, and must exist between two consecutive sessions of at least two hours.

The last day of the scheduled shooting exercises will be dedicated to incidents and in this will perform the exercises the personnel who, for justified cause, have not been able to attend the day that they have indicated to carry it out.

Within ten days of the incident, a shooting day shall be established for the recovery of the shooters who have obtained a negative result in the exercises.

Exceptionally the instructions contained in this paragraph may be modified by the Head of the Command when justified reasons give it to the "General Secretariat". Directorate General of the Civil Guard. "

5. Places

Shooting exercises must be performed in the gallery or shooting ranges, whether or not they are owned by the security companies, authorized in accordance with the provisions of the Arms Regulations.

Where these facilities do not exist, they may be carried out in the places that the forces of the Civil Guard units usually use, trying not to match their regulatory exercises.

In the event that, in some provinces, the number of authorized fields and galleries makes it impossible for all of them to assist the personnel of the Civil Guard, who are in charge of supervising the shooting exercises. The Heads of Commanders may reject, for these qualifying exercises, the places requested by firms which do not allow, in a session of a maximum duration (four years), for reasons of optimising their performance. hours), the performance of the shooting exercise of a minimum of one hundred men.

In the case where closed galleries are used, for these types of qualifying exercises, their ventilation equipment must renew the total of the local air a minimum of 12 times an hour. This shall be justified by a certificate from the Ministry of Industry and Energy.

The parabalas used shall also be constructed in such a way as to prevent the occurrence of lead particle suspension due to breakage of the projectiles.

6. Weapons and ammunition

As a general rule, and whenever possible, each participant will perform the shooting exercises with the weapons awarded for the service.

In any case, and in order to check their status and operation, all weapons owned by the company must be involved in the shooting exercises.

On the assumption that, for whatever reason, the company would have more weapons than guards, the remaining weapons must be moved to the range in the qualifying exercises, for their test by the Chiefs of Safety or Shooting Instructors (10 shots).

7. Request, Deposit and Envelope of Cardboard

Companies will be able to apply at any date for the acquisition of the cardboard that they require, both for the training of the shooting and the endowment of their staff, and for the testing of the personnel's training. aspirant.

The card must be deposited in the headquarters of the security companies in safe boxes suitable for this purpose or in places that meet the appropriate security conditions, in the opinion of the Arms and Explosives of the Command. Companies will carry a record-high and low ammunition, foliated and sealed by the Formerly Cited Weapons Controller.

The cardstock whose acquisition can be ordered by each company is as follows:

Shooting Exercises:

Revolver: 75 cartridges per year per shooter.

Shotgun: 50 cartridges per year per shooter.

Carabine: 75 cartridges per year per shooter.

Pistol: 75 cartridges per year per shooter.

Unawarded weapons for service: 10 cartridges per year per weapon.

For each shooter with negative result (for recovery exercise) and for each shooter with provisional withdrawal of the license the same as for the total annual corresponding weapon, distributed as follows:

A full rating exercise.

Rest of ammunition for training.

C "C" license procurement tests:

50 cartridges per aspirant.

Regulatory Envelope:

25 cartridges per weapon.

In order to facilitate the acquisition of the card, which in small quantities may be inconvenient, in line with items that do not complete the packaging, the companies will be able to round off these quantities as long as they are completed. of the annual exercises, the total of the excess ammunition does not exceed 200 cartridges of each caliber.

In the range of the shooting exercises, the envelope cartridges that have the regulatory weapons will be used, with the ones being exchanged for many of those that have been acquired for the shooting exercises.

8. Annual calendar and requests from companies

In order for private security companies to be able to schedule the dates for carrying out the mandatory shooting exercises of their personnel, in the month of January of each year the Command Headquarters of the Civil Guard shall draw up, within the limits of paragraph 4, the annual calendar for the semi-annual and quarterly shooting exercises, to which the abovementioned undertakings shall have access.

Once the calendar is known, companies will be able to apply for places at least ten days before the start of the exercise period. Exceptionally, for justified reasons, the Heads of Commanders may accept requests of this type outside the time limit set.

In that request for dates will include the places, own or others, that they propose for the realization of the exercises of their personnel.

The commanders of the Commanders will attend as far as possible the dates requested by the companies and the proposed places always trying, in the exercises of qualification, to fulfill the concept of maximum performance of the staff designated for the supervision referred to in paragraph 5.

In any case, for acceptance, the shooting gallery proposed by the company must meet the requirements set forth in paragraph 5.

9. Healthcare

Both in shooting galleries and in duly authorized fields, the health services of the companies will be mandatory, in order to attend in the first instance and subsequent evacuation, if appropriate, to the assistants before any accident that may occur.

If companies do not have their own health service, they will manage their presence, in charge of their budget, to the organizations or entities that they create convenient.

10. Exercise to perform and consume

The exercises to be performed by private security guards, according to Annex 1, shall be as follows:

1. Security guards:

Short Weapon: Revolver 4-inch caliber 38.

First semester:

marksmanship:

3 shots (one string) of test.

24 shooting (4 series of 6) scoring.

instinctive shooting:

4 test (2 series of 2) shots.

6 shots (3 series of 2) punctuable.

Total: 37 cartridges.

Second semester:

Same as the first quarter, with one more test cartridge in marksmanship.

Total: 38 cartridges.

Annual total: 75 cartridges.

Distances:

Punteria shooting: 25 m.

instinctive shooting: 10 m.

Time:

marksmanship: 3 min. by string.

instinctive shooting: 3 sec. by string.

White:

Silhouette described in Annex 2.

Marksmanship Shooting: A Silhouette.

instinctive shooting: Two silhouettes.

Long Weapon: Pick lime. 12/70. 12-pot cartridges.

First and second semesters:

Shot "hunter" style:

2 shots (one string) of test.

10 shots (5 series of 2) punctuable.

Shooting from the hip ":

3 shots (one string) of test.

10 shots (5 series of 2) punctuable.

Total shots: 50 (25 per semester).

Distances:

Shot "hunter" style: 25 m.

Shooting "from the hip": 10 m.

Time: In all cases 3 sec.

White: In all exercises two silhouettes.

Interval: 3 meters between silhouettes.

2. Particular field guards:

Long Weapon: Carabina several calibers.

First semester:

marksmanship:

7 shots (2 series of 3 and 4) of test.

30 shots (6 series of 5) scoring.

Total: 37 cartridges.

Second semester:

Same as the first quarter, with one more test cartridge.

Total: 38 cartridges.

Annual total: 75 cartridges.

Distances:

Gauge equal to or greater than 9 mm Parab.: 50 m.

Rest of calibers: 25 m.

Time: 3 min. by string.

White: A silhouette.

Short Weapon (if applicable): Revolver cal. 38. Same as security guards.

3. Escorts:

Short Weapon: Semi-automatic pistol of 9 mm Parabellum caliber.

In all exercises (1 per quarter):

marksmanship:

2 shots (one series) of test (2 in the first quarter, 3 in the remainder).

6 marksmanship (one series) punctuable.

instinctive shooting:

2 shots (one string) of test.

8 shots (4 series of 2) punctuable.

Total: 75 cartridges.

Distances:

Punteria shooting: 25 m.

instinctive shooting: 10 m.

Time:

marksmanship: 3 min. by string.

instinctive shooting: 3 sec. by string.

White:

Marksmanship Shooting: A Silhouette.

instinctive shooting: Two silhouettes.

11. Classifications

It will be sorted on impact inside silhouette:

Negative: Up to 50 per 100 of the total rating shots.

Positive: Over 50 per 100.

First: Over 70 per 100 in all annual exercises.

Select: Over 90 per 100 in all exercises you perform for two consecutive years (diploma as attached).

It will be considered impacts within the silhouette all those that the mark left by the projectile touches the silhouette.

Shooters who do not achieve positive results in the qualifying exercise or the recovery exercise will be temporarily suspended from the arms license.

Private security guards who have been temporarily suspended from the arms license will be able to provide any type of service that does not require the use of these weapons and are authorized to assist them. fields or places of draught, designated by the undertaking, so that, under the direction of qualified instructors, they undertake the necessary practices to regain the ability to dispose of their "C" weapons licence again.

The tests for temporarily suspended arms licenses will be carried out during the following semester's regulatory exercises, to which the suspension would have taken place, when and where the Head of the Command will appoint and, in any case, under the supervision of the Civil Guard.

12. Direction of the shooting exercises

Shooting exercises, training or qualification exercises, private security personnel, will be directed by accredited shooting instructors or by the corporate security chiefs if they are enabled for this.

Shooting Exercises for particular field guards who are not in a security company will be directed by instructors who are dependent on or hired by their company.

The competence referred to in the preceding two paragraphs must be accredited to the Civil Guard, by means of an examination to be carried out at the Unit or Teaching Centre designated by the Directorate-General for a programme This is done by enabling those who pass it up as draught instructors by issuing the appropriate accreditation (Annex 4).

This enablement allows the holders to use any of the weapons participating in the exercises, exclusively for the purpose of checking their proper functioning, training of shooters and conduct of the aptitude tests, and precisely in the places to do so, regardless of whether, for their personal circumstances, they may have any type of licence.

The role of these instructors, who may or may not belong to the companies, will be to direct the practices and improvement in the management of the private security personnel, to verify that the exercises are carried out with the rules, taking into account the disruptions that occur, checking and scoring the results and in general all that implies the good development of the shooting exercises.

In order to be able to carry out this control function, the security companies must appoint for the shooting exercises an instructor for each group of ten shooters or fraction.

Shooting lines shall have a maximum of thirty shooters, performing the function of the shooting director any of the instructors in charge of each group, without leaving the latter's own functions.

When on a line of shooting matches personnel from different companies, the functions of shooting director will be provided by shift between the instructors.

Without prejudice to the limitation of men per line of shooting, when the means and dimensions of the field permit, as many lines may be formed as is considered convenient, each one acting with its director of shooting and corresponding instructors.

Shooting instructors shall record, in duplicate, in the relations of the assistants, the scores obtained by facilitating one of the copies, through the Chief Security Officer of the company, or in hand if present, to the supervisor of the Civil Guard.

Also, in the qualifying exercises, they will establish a relationship of the weapons without the successful tenderer to record the results of the fire tests, providing a copy to the supervisor of the Civil Guard.

The training of the shooting instructors may be withdrawn or suspended when, in the opinion of the personnel of the Civil Guard who carry out the duties of supervision, the persons concerned do not carry out their work with sufficient competence and where they distort or permit to distort, in whole or in part, the rules for the performance of the exercises or the scores obtained.

In cases of suspension of the qualification for insufficient competence, it may be obtained again by demonstrating in the following qualification exercise that the aptitude has been recovered. In the event that this is not the case, the qualification must be obtained by carrying out all the necessary formalities for obtaining it.

In cases of withdrawal of the instructor's rating for falsifying or allowing to distort, in whole or in part, the data, the results of the performance of the exercises or the scores obtained, may only be obtained from new enablement by performing all the necessary paperwork to obtain it.

The suspensions, which will lead to the withdrawal of the accreditation, will be agreed by the Heads of Commanders on a reasoned proposal from their supervisory staff and communicated to the companies to which they belong or have hired their services.

13. Cartillas de luto

When the private security personnel are licensed, the Tiro booklet (as modeled in Annex 5) will also be delivered, duly completed, which will be personal and non-transferable. It will be held by the company and will be handed over to its holder by causing it to be discharged.

The safety chiefs will record on the draft cards, the results obtained by the guards, who will have received from the instructors in the relations of participants, referring them within the maximum period of ten days to the Civil Guard supervisor to be stamped with the OK.

In the event that you have received from the instructors, the two copies of relations with the results, because they have not been delivered by hand at the time of the exercise, will immediately forward one of them to the supervisor.

14. Material and expenditure

The material means for the realization of the shooting exercises (silhouettes, supports, patches, etc.) and the fields or galleries will be managed by the companies and at their expense.

Exactly the same will be done with the staff who consider it necessary to hire to auxiliary to the staff in the development of the exercises, whether they are shooting instructors, auxiliary to place targets, transport of personnel and media, etc.

15. Monitoring of shooting exercises

The Head of Command will appoint the staff who will supervise the shooting exercises.

The monitors correspond to them:

Attend all qualifying exercises and training exercises when they see fit, without prior notice to companies.

Check that the exercises are performed according to the instructions.

Evaluate the performance of shooting instructors in their roles, including shooting managers.

Verify the documentation of the exercise attendees, as well as the enablement of the instructors.

Give the thumbs-up to the attendees when the results of the shooting exercises have been recorded by the companies.

Give an account to the Head of Commanders of the shooters who have obtained a negative result and those in which the temporary suspension of the arms license is appropriate.

Make reasoned proposal, to the Chiefs of Command, of the causes that consider sufficient for the temporary or definitive suspension of the training of the shooting instructors.

Assess the level of training in the management of the arms of the assistant personnel.

Check the good functioning of the weapons and the conservation of the ammunition.

16. Examinations for the procurement of arms licenses

1. General conditions:

They will take place with the periodicity that the circumstances require, and at least once a month, whenever there are aspirants, in the headers of the Commanders and in the place that the Chiefs of these appoint.

As you wish to obtain the "C" arms license, applicants must prove their status as a security guard or equivalent (article 121 R.A.), the companies, entities or bodies in which they provide their services. shall be responsible for providing them with the weapons and ammunition necessary for their training and examination to obtain such a licence.

It will consist of three qualifying tests with the following order:

Knowledge and handling of the weapon.

Practical shooting exercise.

Written exercise.

2. Special conditions for the shooting exercise:

For security guards:

Revolver:

2 shots (one string) of test.

8 shooting (2 series of 4) rating.

Distance: 25 meters.

Time: 3 minutes per series.

White: A silhouette.

Suitable: More than 50 per 100 impacts on the silhouette.

For particular field guards:

Carabine:

3 shots (one string) of test.

12 shooting (3 series of 4) rating.

Distance:

50 m. for a gauge equal to or greater than 9 mm Parab.

25 m. other calibers.

Time: 3 minutes per series.

White: A silhouette.

Suitable: More than 50 per 100 impacts on the silhouette.

3. Courts:

The Command of the Civil Guard receiving license applications "C" will have the appointment of a court to examine the applicants for the theoretical-practical knowledge.

To the examinations of the aspirants will be obligatory the assistance of shooting instructors, for the performance of the functions of the exercises of the shooting, being valid all the general considerations expressed by them, that not contravene specifically noted for these examinations.

17. Other considerations

Until shooting instructors are enabled to assume the functions indicated in this instruction, they may be performed by the duly authorized Civil Guard personnel performing the duties. monitoring.

In any case, companies may use personal, own or foreign personnel, who are provisionally engaged in the work of instructors, provided that the assistant supervisor considers sufficient training to do so.

ANNEX I

General exercise execution rules

The rules that are then expressed are not a comprehensive description of all aspects that span a shooting exercise.

They are simply a somera exhibition of elementary measures to follow for the safety of the interveners in the shooting exercises and that, on the other hand, are known by any person of accredited competence to direct shooting practices, referred to in the Private Security Regulation.

To make it easier to understand the general rules of execution of the exercises, then some of the most commonly used concepts are defined.

White line: The one that forms the silhouettes.

Shooting line: The one that the shooters form.

Shooting distance or just distance: The existing one between the line of shooting and the line of the target.

Shooting Orders: All instructions, voices, or signals that the instructors or shooting directors express to command or coordinate shooting exercises.

Series of shots or "series": Number of shots that are fired uninterruptedly, without varying the situations of shooters and targets, and without orders or intermediate instructions from the shooting director.

Runtime or "Time": The one that is designated to perform each string.

Shooting Position: Posture that the shooter adopts at the time of fire.

Shooting position "to the fighter" (shotgun): Peculiar derivative position, as the name suggests, of the sport of the Cynetic. It consists, schematically, in carrying the weapon to shoulder support and overtaking the opposite foot with bending of its corresponding leg, slightly tilting the body forward.

"From the hip" (shotgun) position: Basically, it consists of carrying the weapon to the hip corresponding to the hand that holds the grip, keeping the legs semi-open, slightly flexed and the body significantly faced with the target.

Starting position: Position prior to the start of the fire. It is normally used to unify movements in training, weapons testing, loading and unloading, etc.

Low-guard starting position " (short weapon): Position in which the shooter, faced with the target, draws the weapon pointing to the ground and with the arm at an angle of approximately 45 ° to the vertical of the body.

Pre-come position: Long-weapon starting position (carbine and shotgun). Simplifying, this position consists in that the shooter, faced with the target, holds with both hands ahead of the chest, parallel to the plane of the body, inclined about 45 ° to the vertical and with the barrel upwards.

Execution Rules

Short Weapons

Located the shooters at the firing line, the instructors will order to adopt the position of low guard, to unload the weapons and to check the bedrooms. In this position you will examine the weapons and indicate some simulated shooting exercises to check the release and skill in handling them.

Finished this phase, order the weapons to be loaded with the number of test cartridges and return them to the fundas, for once the entire line is in this situation start the exercise itself.

To start the exercise, the shooting director will give the order to prepare for fire. Upon receiving it, the shooters will remove the weapon from the holster and position themselves in a low guard position and dispose of the guns to make fire (by mounting them, removing the insurance, etc.).

Past a prudential time, and always watching if the shooters are prepared, the shooting director will announce, describing it, the exercise that is going to be done. This description will include whether it is test or score series (with the corresponding ordinal), number of shots, distance, available time, and number of silhouettes. It will then give the order of fire verbally or with a previously agreed acoustic (or other) signal.

When you receive the order, the shooters will lift the gun and fire the cartridges for the string, in the time indicated.

Fire times may be limited with moving targets or with sound (or other) acoustic (or other) voices or signals.

Finishes the series, the shooters will revert back to the low guard position. In this position the shooting director will give the order to load the necessary cartridges for the next series and will command to keep the weapons and target the targets, if any.

After the test series and the scoring series, the shooters will approach the targets up to a distance that allows for the observation of the impacts, but without them being able to touch them, until the order of patching.

The patching will be performed after the instructors have taken note of the scores obtained.

Respecting the starting positions, low guard, shooting distance, the times indicated for the fire in each exercise and the number of cartridges per series, the rest of possibilities such as shooting position, grip, mode (double or simple action) etc., are completely free at the initiative of the shooting instructor or, if this does not indicate anything, of the shooter.

Long guns

All considerations for the short weapon are valid for the long weapon, except:

Low-guard position to be replaced by "prevent", in all long weapons.

Free throw position that, in the case of shotgun shooting, will be that of "the fighter" or "from the hip" as appropriate to the exercise.

ANNEX 2

Silhouette dimensions for private security personnel shooting exercises

ANNEX 3

ANNEX 4

ANNEX 5