There’s a moment in every commissioned officer’s career where the next rung comes into view: protection work. Guarding a person instead of a post. It pays better, it demands more, and Texas gates it behind its own license — the Level 4 Personal Protection Officer credential — with its own required course. This is that course.
Over two consecutive in-person days — the state sets a 15-hour classroom minimum, and Texas requires Level 4 training in person — you’ll work through what separates protection from patrol: threat assessment, movement with a principal, planning, positioning, and the judgment calls that define the job. It’s taught by a Texas DPS Level 4 instructor with a career of real-world protection and law-enforcement experience, which matters, because PPO work is mostly decisions and only occasionally anything else.
One piece of licensing truth we state plainly, because the internet gets it wrong: the PPO license requires a security officer commission held or applied for in conjunction with your PPO application — Texas explicitly allows the concurrent path. Our enrollment sequence asks that your Level 3 training be complete before you take this course; the license paperwork can then travel however the state allows. We’ll map your exact sequence before you spend a dollar.
