LA CCTV Supply · Training
Training that starts with what is already published.
Our SCIF and ICD 705 material is public, free and complete at the public level — read it before you book anything. When a team needs more than reading, we run tailored sessions on site, live online, or as a packaged reading path for onboarding.
01 Already published, already free
Start here. It costs nothing and it is the same material.
We put the public-level SCIF and SAPF curriculum on the open web on purpose: the projects go better when the general contractor, the electrician and the owner’s security officer have read the same thing.
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Understanding SCIF & SAPF Security
The full public-level walkthrough: what accreditation actually means, perimeter construction, intrusion detection and UL 2050 Extent 3, access control, RED/BLACK separation and EMI filters, and portable electronic devices.
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SCIF Answers knowledge base
A searchable, cited knowledge base built from the same material — modules, a glossary and a source library, so a question during a coordination meeting has an answer with a citation behind it.
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Free downloads
Primers, a RED/BLACK field guide for GCs and installers, an editable project readiness questionnaire and a briefing deck — no sign-up, no email wall.
Download the handouts
Take the paper to the project meeting.
- SCIF & SAPF Security Primer · PDF · 5.6 MB
- Low-Voltage Installer Quick Reference · PDF · 413 KB
- RED/BLACK, Filters & Penetrations Field Guide · PDF · 3.2 MB
- Project Readiness Questionnaire · DOCX · 143 KB
- Briefing Deck · PPTX · 2.5 MB
Educational material. Do not add classified information, CUI or facility addresses to these documents, and share completed questionnaires only through channels your security officer approves.
02 Tailored training
Six modules, mixed to suit the room.
Sessions are built around your drawings, your hardware and the job you are actually on. We would rather teach four things your crew will use next week than twelve they will forget by Friday.
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Security systems fundamentals
What each subsystem actually does, where the boundaries are, and the vocabulary everyone in the room should share before a design review starts. Aimed at people who manage the systems rather than terminate the cable.
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Reading a security drawing set
Sheet types and symbols, the door schedule, the riser, the point-to-point detail, and how to find your scope in someone else’s package — including the four places contractors usually miss scope and eat it.
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Commissioning & acceptance testing
Building a test plan from the specification, running it, recording it, and holding a punch list that closes. What “it works” has to mean in writing before a system is accepted.
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Documentation & as-builts
Redline discipline in the field, serial-number capture, naming conventions that survive the next integrator, and an O&M package that is still useful three years later.
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Low-voltage install practice for shielded and acoustic spaces
Penetrations, sleeves and firestopping, acoustic treatment at the boundary, separation from noise sources, cable dressing and workmanship — the practices that keep an inspection from turning into rework.
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SCIF & SAPF project awareness
For everyone who will set foot on an accredited project: who decides what, why the Construction Security Plan exists, what the escort rules mean for your crew, and the traps that fail inspections.
03 Formats
Three ways to run it.
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On-site
We come to your office, your jobsite trailer or your training room. Best for crews, and the only format where we can walk a real installation and point at things.
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Virtual
Live, instructor-led sessions for distributed teams and multi-site owners. Same material, split into shorter blocks so nobody sits through four hours on a video call.
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Self-paced
The published primer, the knowledge base and the downloads are free and always available. For staff onboarding, we can package a reading path and a knowledge check around them.
04 Audiences
Who ends up in the room.
Mixed rooms work well. A GC and an installer arguing about a penetration detail in front of the owner is worth an hour of slides.
Owner’s security & facility staff
The people who will live with the system: what it does, what it cannot do, and what to ask for when it misbehaves.
General contractors & project managers
Interpreting a security scope written by somebody else, coordinating it with the other trades, and not discovering the conduit requirement after the slab is poured.
Installing contractors & technicians
Drawing sets, install practice, commissioning and closeout — the parts of the job that decide whether a punch list is two items or forty.
Architects & engineers
How the security narrative and Division 28 text land on a real jobsite, and which specification habits create change orders.
Program & contracting staff
What is reasonable to ask a vendor for, what evidence a closeout package should contain, and where sourcing restrictions bite.
Anyone starting an accredited project
Shared vocabulary before the first coordination meeting saves more schedule than any single decision made in it.
05 Sample curriculum
A two-day programme, as an example.
This is a starting point, not a catalogue. Tell us who is in the room and what the project is, and the running order changes.
| Module | Audience | Length | What you leave with |
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| Security systems fundamentals | Owner’s staff · new technicians | Half day | Shared vocabulary; what each subsystem does and how they interact; what to ask a vendor. |
| Reading a security drawing set | GCs · project managers · installers | Half day | Confidence with sheets, symbols, door schedules and risers; a checklist for finding your scope. |
| Low-voltage install practice | Installing contractors & technicians | Full day | Pathways, penetrations, firestopping, acoustic and separation practice, cable workmanship. |
| Commissioning & acceptance testing | Installers · owner’s representatives | Half day | A test plan built from the specification, with pass criteria and a punch list that closes. |
| Documentation & as-builts | Installers · project managers | Half day | Redline discipline, serial capture, naming conventions and an O&M package worth keeping. |
| SCIF & SAPF project awareness | Everyone on an accredited project | Half day | Who decides what, the Construction Security Plan, escort rules, and the usual inspection traps. |
Attendance is recorded and issued as a list of modules and hours. It is not a certification, a licence, or continuing-education credit, and we do not represent it as one.
Technician training portal
The design-level curriculum lives behind the login.
LA CCTV Supply technicians and authorized project staff sign in with their existing CRM credentials for requirement-by-requirement design training, submittal workbooks and knowledge checks.
Requirement-by-requirement design training
Working through the Tech Spec the way a designer has to read it.
Submittal workbooks
Templates and worked examples for accredited-space submittals.
Knowledge checks
Short assessments per module, with the answer key behind the login.
Project references
Internal reference material for technicians and authorized project staff.
Is this a certification course?
No. We issue an attendance record listing the modules covered and the hours, which is useful for a training file, and we do not claim it is a certification, a licence or continuing-education credit. Anyone who tells you a half-day class certifies a SCIF is selling something.
Do we have to buy equipment from you to book training?
No. Training is a service in its own right, and the public SCIF material is free to anyone. Most people who take a course have no purchase order open with us at all.
Can you train our crew on the job we are already building?
Yes, and it is the most effective version: we use your drawings, your hardware and your open punch list. We can only teach on your site under your access rules, and we do not perform the installation work — that stays with your licensed contractor.
What does the technician portal contain that the public pages do not?
Design-level curriculum, submittal workbooks and knowledge checks for LA CCTV Supply technicians and authorized project staff, who sign in with their existing CRM credentials. The public pages carry the public-level material, and they are genuinely complete at that level.
Tell us who is in the room.
Crew size, roles, the project you are on and the date you need it. We will propose a running order and tell you honestly which parts you can get for free from the pages above.
Please don’t send classified information, CUI or facility addresses through web forms or unencrypted email.