HIT “HONOUR INTEGRITY TENACITY” a prerequisite of CQC/MSD course joining and high achieving.
The Todd Group utilise multiple applicant vetting methods and means.
Interview application information as well as other sources of received information will determine vetting requirements and levels.
Our application process being conducted sometime before course joining provides time for in-depth analysis of all applicants provided information.
Tools at our disposal to uncover identification and background information include requests for a scanned passport picture page and driver’s license or another form of photographic ID.
Applicants may be asked to provide a criminal history check or other information.
Todd Group HQ accepted applicants will next undergo an induction intake.
This induction intake enables the assessment of the applicant’s physical attributes and capabilities as well as the demeanour and attitude.
HQ training team as well as instructors and exponents are present at the intake inductions to identify applicant strengths and weaknesses and any relevant information.
International applicants unable to be interviewed by Todd Group depot instructors are required to provide all required support information for the application processing and also have an online video interview.
The interviewing process is strict and to the point and the questions asked require definite detailed answers.
The interviewing process is designed to identify the individual applicant’s character strengths, weaknesses and traits.
While such interviews may not identify the applicant’s levels of mental toughness, inner resolve practical smarts and combative physical capabilities, it does identify if they meet the responsible citizen course joining requirements.
Strategic interviewing and profiling can identify a lot about individuals including those that can’t help themselves by talking themselves up or trying to tell us all about our tradecraft.
Then you get the noddys that nod their head in agreement with anything the interviewer says, drop names or are boot lickers and think they are helping their application odds by doing so.
Some provide irrelevant information or confuse their civilian prior training with military close quarter’s combat and military self –defence.
Why would anyone be applying if they were expert in the training they were applying for and if their prior training provided the capability they required but applicants some forget this.
Irrelevant information that brings attention to the applicant does not go unnoticed and often is followed by requests for detailed relevant information to support the individual’s application.
The application process includes identifying undesirable connections and associations with organisations or others involved in criminal activities.
Such connections will lead to an application being declined.
The Todd Group are firm and fair with course joining applications but as military and law enforcement training providers, we require all our civilian applicants to be responsible citizens of high integrity.
False information on official forms or provided at interviews will result in the application immediately being decline or for training members revoked membership.
Prior criminal convictions, especially of a serious nature that resulted in imprisonment generally will prevent course joining.
Some historic criminal convictions where the applicant has led an exemplary life over decades since the offending depending on the nature of the crime may well be given consideration for course joining.
It is not only the vetting process that can put a fast stop to an application but for accepted exponents that are identified as not being of the required attitude and demeanour or deemed to be unfit or unsafe for continued CQC/MSD training, they will be binned right away.
Military CQC/MSD training for civilians is a privilege not a right and comes with stringent good character and high integrity requirements.
Responsible pers do not want to train with undesirable irresponsible or unsafe individuals and is our responsibility and duty to ensure such applicants or accepted exponents are identified and binned immediately.
While we may not be able to immediately identify alternate agendas hidden motives or intentions, when we do training/membership will be terminated permanently.
All applicants must sign official documents and legal binding contracts and breaches of contract, including the provision of false information come with consequences.
We have multiple resources and tools at our disposal that can be utilised in vetting applicants to ensure we go to the upmost efforts so that our ranks are made up of decent responsible citizen’s.
In the unlikely event that the vetting system fails to identify unsuitable applicants for course joining or after course joining it is discovered they are unfit for such training, we must take immediate affirmative action.
So while it is impossible to always identify individual’s hidden agendas or alternate motives on application as soon as we do they will be binned.
One breach of our code of conduct contract, failure to disclose information, provision of false information on official forms or under interviewing and that will be the pers last involvement in our CQB/CQC/MSD training.
