Training Offered

An Overview

CPI is a 501(c)(3) (non-profit) public safety educational foundation and Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services Training School. We provide a wide range of training, including live-fire firearms training, force-on-force Simunition® scenario training, DCJS curriculum courses, foreign weapons familiarization, LEOSA-required qualification, investigator training, and executive protection training.

CPI Instructors Matt LeFande and Gary Jeter, both former government prosecutors, discuss Constitutional law in the classroom.

CPI Sgt. Chris Griffith and Conservator Trainees undergo CPR training at CPI HQ-Arlington.

Simunition® Training

The Commonwealth Protection Institute conducts force-on-force scenario training utilizing the Simunition® FX® training system.

The FX® training system provides the most realistic and useful force-on-force simulations available.

CPI utilizes Simunition® factory-certified scenario instructors, Glock sole-purpose training weapons with Simunition® FX® reduced-energy marking cartridges and Simunition® protective gear.

FX® and Simunition® are registered trademarks of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems-Canada Inc. CPI is under contractual obligation to provide FX® training to only qualified personnel. This training is not available to the general public.

Please contact CPI directly for scheduling and pricing info via e-mail: training@commonwealthprotection.org

Specialized Weapons Training

The Commonwealth Protection Institute offers live fire training in weapons including:

the HK MP5, UMP45, G3 and G36 systems,
FN Herstal's M249 Squad Automatic Weapons, (pictured above with Rob)
M60 General Purpose Machine Guns,
M79/M203 40mm munitions launchers,
as well as numerous other modern and legacy military and specialized operator weapons.

Foreign Weapons Familiarization Training

CPI offers hands-on operator and armorer training in the use of the following East Bloc weapons:

Samozaryadnyi Karabin sistemi Simonova (SKS)
7.62x39 Semi-automatic Rifles;

Avtomat Kalashnikova (AKM/AK-47)
7.62x39 Automatic Rifles (machine guns) and variants;

Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova (RPK)
7.62x39 Light Machine Guns;

Pulemyot Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy (PKM)
7.62x54R General Purpose Machine Guns (pictured here with Matt at MCB Quantico);

and Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyareva (RPD)
7.62x39 Light Machine Guns.

Read the United States Marine Corps' "outstanding" evaluation
of CPI's Foreign Weapons Familiarization Course.

Special Weapons Instructors Rich and Gary pictured here at MCB Quantico with Yugoslav AK-47 underfolders,
Tim with a Yugo SKS and Floyd with a sidefolder Krinkov.

Please contact CPI directly for scheduling and pricing info at training@commonwealthprotection.org

CPI is a registered United States Government training contractor.

Specialized and foreign weapons familiarization courses are not regulated by DCJS.