Requirements
Height: at least 180 cm
Combat sport experience: 2.5 years or more
Experience in the security sector: 2.5 years or more
Age: 20 to 40 years
Education/training: completed apprenticeship, A levels or equivalent
Languages: fluent speaker of the regional language; understanding of the local dialect; knowledge of foreign languages desirable
Background check: no criminal record or entries on the debt register
Selection
Besides attending the standard introductory meeting, which includes the job interview, those applying for positions in the DELTA personnel division need to pass an additional assessment, which primarily involves checking character suitability for work in the DELTAgroup’s first personnel division.
Training
There is a selection process for all basic DELTA training. All applicants must prove themselves over a period of several weeks on a demanding training course and pass regular assessments.
Before being deployed, staff in the first personnel division must successfully complete the following training modules:
Basic training
- Fire safety
- Service theories
- Radio operation
- Communication
- Medic Level 1
- Security screening of people and their belongings
- Psychology
- Law
Extended basic training
- Basic unarmed self-defence
- Advanced unarmed self-defence
- Multipurpose (police) baton use
- Team tactics
- Basic crowd and riot control
- Advanced crowd and riot control (with intervention)
