Job description: how to become an enhanced surveillance agent (ESA)?

The profession of enhanced surveillance agent or armed security agent is currently being regulated. It will allow security agents to train in order to perform armed surveillance activities with category B and/or D weapons.

Summary:

• Missions

• Training

• Career development prospects

• Work uniform

Enhanced surveillance agents may use category B and/or D weapons only in the context of specific missions authorized by the competent administrative authority:

- surveillance and guarding: prefect;

- personal protection: Minister of the Interior.

This carrying of weapons must be justified by the existence of an exceptional risk (risk of attack for example).

The weapons that can be deployed in the context of ESA missions are:

- Category D weapons: defense batons, batons, telescopic nightsticks, incapacitating or tear gas aerosols with a capacity less than or equal to 100ml.

- Category B weapons: handguns such as 9mm automatic pistols and .38 special revolvers, incapacitating or tear gas aerosols with a capacity greater than 100ml.

Recently, the private title "Armed Surveillance Operator" from the French Security Institute is recognized by the National Council of Private Security Activities (CNAPS) and awards a level 4 qualification (high school level).

Obviously, weapons training is also, like all initial training in the private security field, validated by an examination and the issuance of professional certification. For human surveillance agents, training in handling category D weapons lasts 71 hours and 139 hours for categories B and D. As for personal protection agents, training lasts 156.5 hours for category B and D weapons.

Enhanced surveillance agents (ESA) can also operate on sensitive sites and vital importance points (ESA-2S) and carry, in addition to category B and/or D weapons, category A1 shoulder weapons in the context of armed surveillance missions within a well-defined perimeter such as a nuclear facility or a site housing nuclear materials.

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