Nov 2026Nov 2 to 6, 2026
Court Security Specialist
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day.
Register takes you to our registration provider. Card, or purchase order for an agency.
The 40-hour course
Five days. One room. A different officer on Friday.
Seven TCOLE courses taught as one week, at a host agency, ending on the scenario day and the range. Your officers walk out knowing what they do when a courtroom comes apart, because they have already done it.
- TCOLE 21001 to 21007
- 40 hours
- $495 per officer
- Next: Nov 2 to 6, 2026 · Angleton, TX
- 254-423-5675
The curriculum
Seven TCOLE courses. Forty hours. One certificate.
TCOLE's own course numbers and titles, so a training coordinator matching them to a reporting form finds what they expect.
The classroom courses give them the law, the screening procedure, the devices and the systems in their building. The two practical courses are where they use them under pressure, in front of the officers they will stand beside. Those two cannot be taught online. That is TCOLE’s rule, and it is the reason this is a week and not a login.
21001Introduction to Court Security4 hours
21002Bailiff Functions in Court Security4 hours
21003Court Security Screening Basics8 hours
21004Explosives Recognition and Awareness4 hours
21005Introduction to Court Security Technology4 hours
21006Court Security Practical Exercise8 hours
21007Court Security Practical Firearms8 hours
Red numbers mark the two courses TCOLE prohibits from online delivery.
Hours are reported through the host’s licensed training provider or academy, or by each officer’s own department. We ask every host which one applies so nobody finds out on the last day.
The whole timeline
Most training only covers the middle.
The job is all three.
Five of the seven courses are about the part of the day when nothing has happened yet. Two are the bad day, on a day nobody gets hurt. And it is not over when it stops.
Before
The work starts three hours before anything happens.
Who walked in together and then sat apart. Which door is propped. What the magnetometer misses, and what a person's hands do just before they decide. Five of the seven courses are about the part of the day when nothing has happened yet.
TCOLE 21001 · 21002 · 21003 · 21004 · 21005During
The bad day already happened to them once.
Force-on-force. Stress, duress and pressure, built from real world events. Your people find out what they do when a courtroom comes apart, in front of the ones they stand beside, on a day nobody gets hurt.
TCOLE 21006 · 21007 · cannot be delivered onlineAfter
It is not over when it stops.
What to do after the fight. Who you account for, what you preserve, what goes in the report your agency files with the state inside three business days, and how a building goes back to hearing cases.
TCOLE 21007
The certificate
A separate certificate, on their own record, that they applied for.
The Court Security Specialist certificate is a proficiency certificate issued by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement under 37 TAC §221.41. It is not the same thing as the eight-hour court security officer certification that satisfies SB 42. They are two separate and distinct certificates on their Commission record.
Completing these seven courses is what makes them eligible. The certificate is not awarded by attending. They apply to TCOLE for it once the hours are on their record, and then they hold it, next to their peace officer license, for as long as they keep it current.
It says that the court detail is skilled work, and that they did the work. The officer beside them who clicked through eight hours does not have one.
Scheduled classes
Next classes.
What to bring, daily hours and the purchase-order note are on the schedule page. Did the classroom hours somewhere else? The 16-hour practical is the two days you still owe.
$495 per officer. Forty hours, seven courses, at your agency.