Texas Certified Tactical Academy, TCTA, is a genuinely certified academy in every sense of the word. Founded by former US Army military combat veterans and security experts, we offer you firsthand experience training by professionals who have been in the private security industry for more than 30 years.

No other security training academy in Texas can provide such vast experience directly from the security industry like TCTA without combining non-security experience or combining several members of their staff’s experience to reach that number. Some manipulate the facts, throwing 20+ years of experience around when you find out they are combining two or three instructors’ years of experience to reach that number or adding non-private security experience years to pump it up. TCTA is different and does not play a marketing game with our students to earn their trust. 

 “I just finished the Level 3 commission officer training today and am so satisfied with how it went that I made my review immediately. I left feeling confident in what I learned and will continue taking classes from them. The environment they provide is professional, entertaining, and full of information that is presented in a way that keeps you interested, so when it comes time to test you are ready.” –Daniel Lambert

With years of training underway, TCTA has attained leadership status in private security training circles and is the preferred training academy in Texas for many security providers and agencies. In fact, (and surprisingly enough), we have found (caught) much of our content, sayings, and course material on several of our competitor’s websites to include their handouts. So, when your competition comes here to spy, copy, take content, plagiarize, and mimic your material or business model, that speaks volumes in itself on many levels, right?

2025- Now celebrating over 13,000 security officers trained, which has been our honor to do it!

No Backdoor Recruiting Here

We’ve discovered several local security companies/schools that offer an online class also offer jobs or outright recruit your employees/officers on their site and throughout their course process; this is only acceptable “if” the student is looking for work (and unemployed), but if they are already employed with your security company and you have paid to have them take that course, having that company/school recruit or poach your employees without your knowledge through links and pages inside their site can be very frustrating.

That recruitment practice should be unacceptable and/or unethical, especially when you are sending/paying your employees to attend. Texas Certified Tactical Training (TCTA) is the safer source of online security training for employers. We make a written pledge and promise that we do not offer or suggest jobs to any student, nor will you find any links or backdoor recruitment/employer contact information on our site. We do not wish to violate the trust that we have in our many, and valued security providers that send their employees here for training.

“Wonderful experience, instructor Glenn was spectacular, very informative, & professional. I Drove all the way from San Antonio all 5 days while working before or after class just to receive his phenomenal education for a Level 3 Commissioned Security Officer. Went above & beyond while answering any questions, comments, or concerns we had through the course. Was willing to stay after class to answer anything we weren’t positive about to make sure we weren’t confused about anything we covered in class or could think of. Just the best instructed I’ve had & will be returning for additional courses; recommending to family, friends, & co-workers.”-John Cruz

More Trustworthy Training

We have noticed several security training academies offering a 100% online Level 3 Commission course which should not be occurring. There are several portions of that course that absolutely cannot be done online at home (such as shooting range qualification and weaponless defense) how are they advertising that you can complete their entire course at home when those two blocks of instruction absolutely cannot be done at home unless you have a shooting range in your backyard with a qualified Texas DPS instructor to include a Texas DPS Weaponless Defense instructor at home as well? Exactly! They cannot show you a picture of a karate kick online and sign off that you’ve gone through a block of instruction of weaponless defense, it’s totally ridiculous and unethical.

What we have found is some of these schools are misleading their customers as far as the Level 3 Commission class. After they collect their money and complete a sham online portion they call “theory” their paying customers are informed by those schools that they do not provide range qualification and/or weaponless defense (that they know is required), so they inform their customer after paying them, to go find a second school to complete those portions (or they refer you elsewhere)-  but in either case you’re going to be charged twice and go through delays and inconvenience- this is a horrible business practice.

Additionally, the Texas DPS form that they are required to hand each and every student after completing their course requires 3 different signature blocks, in this case these other schools are only signing one block only and giving the form to the student leaving two other required blocks to be signed blank. They want the second school to sign their form in those areas to complete the portions of the class they are unable to complete. This is so ridiculous, so bogus, and so lame, it is unbelievable why these other schools are even attempting to offer security training if they cannot provide the full class to their students from A-Z.   Clearly, they want to make money off the private security students, but they are unable and unwilling to do the job properly. If they don’t have the time or proper instructors they should stop advertising those classes. It absolutely comes off as some type of unethical, fraudulent business practices many feel and borderlines “bait and switch.” If you are advertising the full Level-3 class but after a student pays you inform them you cannot perform a portion of the class and to go elsewhere how is that not bait and switch? These guys actually create more work for us re-training and informing their customers, then fixing and correcting their paperwork. At least 5 customers per month come to us from other training academies to complete or fix their issues, which again is ridiculous.

TCTA provides the entire class from A-Z you do not need to go to a secondary school for parts of our classes, we get it all done in-house.