Professional Security Training. Real-World Preparation.

Don’t Be A Sitting Duck is raising the standard for professional security training in Central Florida.

We know that getting licensed to work in Florida’s private security industry can feel complicated. Our goal is to make the process straightforward, affordable, and most importantly, worth your time.

Our courses go beyond simply checking the boxes required for licensing. With smaller class sizes, hands-on instruction, real-world scenarios, simulator training, and personalized range instruction, students receive the individual attention needed to understand the material and develop skills they can actually use on the job.

Whether you’re starting a new career in security or taking the next step into armed security work, Don’t Be A Sitting Duck provides the training to help you enter the field prepared and confident.

Florida Class D Security Officer License Training

Ready to start a career in private security?

Our Class D Security Officer Course provides the state-required training needed to apply for your Florida Class D Security Officer License.

The course is completed in our classroom over four days and covers the essential knowledge security officers need before stepping onto a post.

Training includes topics such as:

  • Emergency response procedures

  • Medical emergencies

  • Terrorism awareness

  • Report writing and documentation

  • Crime scene procedures

  • Patrol techniques

  • Observation and situational awareness

  • Legal responsibilities and professional conduct

  • Communication and incident response

Our classroom is designed to be friendly, interactive, and participation-driven. We don’t want students sitting quietly while someone reads slides for hours. Questions, discussions, examples, and real-world scenarios are incorporated throughout the course to help students understand how the material applies once they’re actually working in the field.

We also incorporate additional training covering handcuffing, baton, and OC spray liabilities, including MACE certification for OC spray.

The goal isn’t simply to help you complete a licensing course.

It’s to help prepare you to become a security professional.

Florida Class G Armed Security Officer Training

Ready to take your security career to the next level?

Don’t Be A Sitting Duck also offers the complete 28-hour Florida Class G Armed Security Officer Course for security professionals seeking to work armed.

Our three-day program combines classroom education, judgment-based simulator training, firearms instruction, and live-fire qualification.

Days 1 & 2: Learn When to Shoot

Before you learn how to use a firearm professionally, you need to understand when you are legally justified in using it.

Classroom instruction covers the legal responsibilities of armed security officers, firearms safety, use-of-force considerations, decision-making, and other topics required for armed security licensing.

Students are then introduced to our interactive firearms simulator, where classroom concepts are brought to life through realistic scenarios.

Instead of simply discussing use-of-force situations, students must evaluate evolving scenarios, make decisions under pressure, communicate effectively, and determine whether the circumstances justify the use of force.

The simulator creates a bridge between the classroom and the firing range.

First, we teach you when to shoot.

Day 3: Learn How to Shoot

The final day moves to the live-fire range.

Students receive hands-on firearms instruction designed to improve safety, handling, accuracy, and overall proficiency before completing the required state firearms qualification.

Our range instruction emphasizes individual attention so students aren’t simply handed a handgun and told to qualify.

We teach you how to shoot safely and proficiently before asking you to prove it.

The Class G course is taught by a Florida-licensed Class “K” Firearms Instructor and is designed to meet the training requirements established by the Florida Division of Licensing.

Students are responsible for providing the firearm, ammunition, and required range equipment for qualification. Firearm and range-related equipment options may also be available for an additional charge.

More Than a License

There are plenty of places where you can sit through a class, complete the required hours, and walk away with paperwork.

That’s not what we’re trying to build.

At Don’t Be A Sitting Duck, our focus is on producing better-prepared security professionals through smaller classes, practical instruction, realistic scenarios, simulator training, and personalized firearms instruction.

Because getting licensed gets you through the door.

Knowing what you’re doing when you walk through it is what matters.

Stop Sitting. Start Training.

Whether you’re entering the security industry for the first time or advancing into armed security, Don’t Be A Sitting Duck can help you take the next step.

Get trained. Get licensed. Get to work.

Check our calendar page for a course that works into your schedule and reserve your seat today. All courses require you to reserve a seat that is nonrefundable.

Instructor Bryan “Duckie” Villella Jr K#1300032 DI#3100064

Instructor Joel “El Oso” Rivera DI#3600173

Don’t Be A Sitting Duck Tactical Training DS#3100034

ALL PAYMENTS ARE FINAL – WE DO NOT DO REFUNDS AND RESCHEDULES ARE ONLY DONE ONCE BASED ON THE SITUATION