Belgian Security Guard General Attest study plan
Belgian Security Guard General Attest · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Legal framework and private security regulation
Map the structure of the Belgian private security law: identify which activities are reserved, which are licensed, and which bodies supervise them
List the categories of personnel (guarding, mobile surveillance, event security, shop guarding, bodyguard, security adviser, alarm responder) and state the conditions attached to each
Summarize the licensing and training requirements an individual must satisfy before carrying out guarding duties
Explain in writing what happens to a guard's legal position when acting outside the licensed framework
Your checkpoint
A one-page legal map (categories, conditions, supervising bodies) plus 10 self-written flashcards on licensing; score at least 8/10 on a self-quiz built from your own notes
Legal framework and private security regulation
Distinguish the powers a private guard actually holds from those held by police, and state the legal basis for each limit
Describe the rules on uniforms, identification, equipment and the carrying of defensive tools, and identify what is prohibited
Outline the obligations that apply to a security firm's contract with a client, including record-keeping and reporting duties
Apply the rules to three short scenarios and justify each outcome by reference to the applicable obligation
Your checkpoint
Three written scenario answers (150-200 words each) on scope-of-powers problems, each citing the rule relied on, reviewed against your week-1 map
Deontology, ethics and professional conduct & Fundamental rights and use of force
State the core deontological duties of the profession (integrity, confidentiality, non-discrimination, neutrality, correct use of authority) and give a concrete example of each
Explain how fundamental rights (life, physical integrity, liberty, privacy, property, non-discrimination) constrain a guard's daily choices
Apply the principles of necessity and proportionality to rank a set of possible responses to a confrontation, from least to most intrusive
Identify the point at which a guard must stop acting and hand over to police, and justify that threshold
Your checkpoint
A proportionality decision ladder: at least 6 rungs from verbal presence to handover to police, each with a written trigger condition and the right it protects
Criminal law and criminal procedure basics
Classify the offences a guard most often encounters (theft and its aggravated forms, assault, vandalism, trespass, drug offences) by their essential elements
Explain the basic stages of criminal procedure from observation and report through to the file reaching the prosecutor
Describe the guard's role as a witness: what to record, how to preserve evidence, and what not to do at a scene
Distinguish flagrant from non-flagrant situations and state how that changes what a guard may and may not do
Your checkpoint
A witness report template plus two completed sample reports on fictional incidents, checked for factual precision, chronology and absence of opinion
Civil law and liability & Fundamental rights and use of force
Explain the difference between contractual and extra-contractual liability and give one security-sector example of each
Identify the elements required to establish liability (fault, damage, causal link) and apply them to a guard's mistaken intervention
Describe how employer liability and personal liability interact for a guard acting in the course of duty
Explain the duty to assist a person in danger and the limits of that duty, tying it back to the use-of-force principles from week 3
Your checkpoint
A written case analysis (300 words) of a fictional unlawful detention by a guard, covering fault, damage, causal link, who is liable, and the rights infringed
Observation, reporting and communication & Conflict management and aggression handling
Write an observation report that separates observed fact from inference, with correct time, place, persons and sequence
Apply a structured de-escalation sequence (assess, approach, communicate, offer options, set limits, close) to three escalating scenarios
Demonstrate active-listening techniques in writing: paraphrase, reflect feeling, ask open questions, confirm understanding
Identify personal triggers and stress signals and describe a self-regulation routine to use before intervening
Your checkpoint
One full incident report plus a transcribed de-escalation dialogue (minimum 15 exchanges) for a fictional aggressive visitor, self-scored against a checklist of fact-versus-opinion and de-escalation steps
Safety, fire prevention and emergency response & First aid and basic life support
Describe the guard's duties on discovering fire or a fire alarm: alarm raising, evacuation, assembly point, access for emergency services
Explain the classes of fire and match the correct extinguishing agent and method to each, including when not to attempt extinguishment
Perform the basic life support sequence from scene safety and calling emergency services through compressions, ventilations and use of an automated external defibrillator
Describe how to recognize and respond to choking, severe bleeding and an unresponsive casualty while waiting for emergency services
Your checkpoint
A written emergency action card for your own site (evacuation steps, call sequence, extinguisher choice) plus a self-assessed BLS step list scored against the official sequence with no step out of order
Access control, surveillance technology and workplace procedures & Legal framework and private security regulation & Criminal law and criminal procedure basics
Explain the legal and procedural limits on access control: what may be checked, what may be refused, and how to handle refusal without exceeding authority
Describe the correct use and the privacy limits of surveillance technology (camera coverage, recording, retention, access to images)
Complete a full timed mock exam across all ten domains and identify your three weakest areas from the result
Re-study the three weakest areas and re-test them until each reaches a passing-level score
Your checkpoint
One timed mock exam (all domains) with a written error log listing every missed item, its domain, the correct rule, and a re-test score for the three weakest domains
Milestones
Week 2: Without notes, list all personnel categories with their conditions and name the supervising bodies; score at least 80% on a 20-question self-quiz on legal framework
Week 4: Produce a clean witness report from a fresh fictional scenario in under 25 minutes that contains no opinion statements and no missing time-place-person details
Week 6: Deliver a de-escalation dialogue in which every escalation step is met with a documented technique, and an incident report that a reader unfamiliar with the case could reconstruct the timeline from
Week 8: Score at least 75% on the full mock exam with no domain below 60%, and show a documented re-test improvement in the three weakest domains