PMCI May 2015 | Page 6

TRAINING: PROJECT GECKO pmcimagazine.com I know that you have excellent training facilities that you make use of throughout Europe; can you tell me more about them and what you do there? Correct. And that is a result of good reputation and no compromise over opportunities. Our current training facilities divide into two categories, Field and Urban. We are using different types of training grounds but the famous one is an ongoing project we have in central Germany which consists of an indoor complex, with a complete urban layout. We expect the project to grow dramatically during 2015 and hope to finally finish it around the end of 2015. You also provide field training; what does this entail? Correct. PG offers different levels of SUT and land navigation courses. Without exposing too much, in those courses we will teach our participants how to communicate, work together and go through a process of problem solving. Aside from the mental thing, which we like to develop within our students, this courses main goal is to teach different SOPs, which are an essential tool within field operations. Do you train just military and police personnel or civilians too? We have different classes and we run different courses. Some of them are highly suitable for civilians, some are less. The reality is that we have a few