Our mission is to provide community-based security for Jewish Organizations
We Protect Jewish Lives
Jewish Community Threats
Sadly, antisemitism is on the rise. In recent years, we have seen the largest number of antisemitic incidents since the ADL began tracking over 30 years ago.
We face threats from the extreme right, the extreme left, and radical jihadi extremists.
We face threats to our synagogues, and to our outdoor events, which are among the most difficult to effectively secure.
We must overcome the ‘it will never happen here' mindset, and commit to ensuring effective security solutions for our community.
Need for Security
There is no longer a debate that having a security presence is important to keep our synagogues and communities safe. Unfortunately, having off-duty police officers for every service is not always affordable and not always possible, as off-duty police details are subject to resource availability amidst a national police staffing challenge and competing department needs. Other options, including private security or informal volunteer teams, currently require compromises on time, cost, training, availability, liability, and many other factors.
We believe that it is imperative to ensure an effective resource exists within the community.
Trained. Ready. Available.
Having a secure community means having security that is always ready and available. Use of volunteers with varying levels of training and without liability coverage raises many real concerns and challenges.
Some congregations have chosen to accept those risks to ensure a security presence. We seek to eliminate that compromise.
Our mission is to provide professional, well-trained, uniformed, volunteer-based security solutions that are readily available to the organizations and communities they are serving.
Our Training
Our training is tailored to the threats faced by the Jewish community, and is designed for facility and site security, not civilian concealed carry or military combat. Our Director of Training has spent over a decade training US Diplomatic Security agents to protect our embassies and dignitaries overseas.
Volunteers are required to successfully complete our training course, provided at no cost to them. Our training syllabus includes all components required to meet DCJS standards for armed security guards, but then goes on to greatly exceed it. Our training includes threat detection, facility security, TECC trauma medical response, and hand to hand defensive tactics.
All volunteers will receive ongoing training to maintain and expand their skills, and are required re-qualify multiple times per year at the range, just as law enforcement officers must do.
Our Uniform, License & Insurance
Synagogues that use volunteer security teams choose to undertake certain legal risks as a compromise to ensure that security is available when they need it. We eliminate that compromise. Once fully operational, we will be a Virginia DCJS-licensed armed security company, with plans to expand to Maryland and DC. Once volunteers complete our training, they will serve their community wearing our uniform, operating under our license and with our insurance.
These elements provide confidence and reassurance to synagogue leadership, congregants, and any police officers who may be working alongside our security guards.
Your Team
Our security guards are your volunteers. They are from your organization, protecting their own community. They attend your congregation. They have intimate knowledge of your building and operations. They know your members. They are culturally sensitive to your congregation. They are highly motivated to ensure the safety of their family and friends.
We provide a security solution that is truly the best of all worlds.
Volunteers will operate under your comprehensive security and incident response plan, under your chain of command, and in collaboration with any other internal or external security resources you employ.
Volunteers will receive their training and will be issued with our uniform and equipment. Volunteers will be required to maintain a minimum number of monthly hours of service based that will be determined by the needs of their synagogue or institution.