Course Location

SCI Rockview Centralized Armory

1 Rockview Place

Bellefonte, PA 16823

Course Dates

December 17th and 18th, 2025
0800-1600

Course Profile

Course Description:

A specialized two-day, comprehensive High-Risk Transport Instructor Certification Course. Participants will learn how to instruct, train, and certify their own agency personnel in high-risk transport techniques to include route and facility threat assessments, vehicle preparation/maintenance and use of the Emergency Response Belt Transport System.

Course Topics Include:

• High Risk Inmate Movement and Planning.
• Pre-movement preparation, application of restraint’s, movement priorities.
• Vehicle preparation checks and safety protocols.
• Emergency Response Belt control and restraint movements.
• Handling violent high-risk inmates, safe takedowns in restraints, attempted escapes and response to weapons assaults from family members, gangs during transport to court /hospital facilities.
• Practical Tactical Demonstration and scenario-based exploration.
• Correctional facility and environmental planning and logistics and related threat assessment

TUITION

Cost Per Student: $800

Includes:

• Training manual
• USB Drive with Instructor Materials
• Emergency Response Belt
• Instructor Certificate
• 3-year instructor certification

HOST AGENCY

SCI Rockview Agency Contact:

Capt. Jeffrey Knode

Phone: (717) 645-9075
Email: jknode@pa.gov 

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