Theodore Encinas | Hector Guitierrez

Theodore “Ted” Encinas, BA

Director of Operations
SAPD Ret., Former USASF

Ted is a retired Police Officer having served in various Southern California Police Departments. His background includes assignments as; Field Training Officer, SWAT Officer, Special Enforcement Detail, Buried Undercover Militant Prison Gang Intelligence Agent, Robbery Prevention Surveillance Team, Special Forces enlisted service as a Communications Specialist, cross-trained in light weapons, demolitions and medical aid. Service as a commissioned officer included Operational Detachment “A” Executive Officer, Range Officer, Training Officer and the Team Intelligence Officer. As part of his SWAT duties, Ted was assigned to work with the Secret Service Presidential Protection Unit when President Nixon visited Ontario, CA. on a campaign stop.  During the 1984 World Olympics, Ted was assigned as the Supervisor for the Norco Olympic Shooting Venue.

Mr. Encinas has operated California Security Academy, a California State Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, licensed Firearms Training Facility for since 1974. The academy has trained security personnel in basic handgun and shotgun use as well as advanced tactics. Mr. Encinas is also a BSIS licensed Firearms Instructer and Range Master.

Mr. Encinas was contracted to single handedly train a 40-man Terrorist Reaction Unit at a training site in the mountains of West Virginia. This training consisted of all aspects of premises security, patrolling tactics and techniques, ambush and counter-ambush tactics, Repelling and Helicasting, Direction and Ground Control of aircraft arriving and departing, firearms training for handguns and assault rifles, perimeter control using the deployment of seismic sensor systems and techniques of Bodyguard and Executive Protection tactics. Mr. Encinas was responsible for writing the lesson plans and presenting the training himself on site.

Hector Gutierrez
CSA Instructor

Hector is a former USMC Recon Scout Operator of 14 years and member of the California State Police and California Highway Patrol. Hector Was part of the "Operation Just Cause," parachuting into the Panama Canal Zone with the USMC Force Recon unit.

Hector subsequently spent a career with the California State Police and later was absorbed into the California Highway Patrol. He spent several years assigned to the CHP Motor Division working Traffic Enforcement, Field Training Officer, and other areas of enforcement.

Hector left the CHP and became a staff member at California Security Academy as an instructor. He has been on staff now for approximately 14 years. Hector has attended California Rifle and Pistol Association's Range Safety Officer training course and their Pistol Instructor Course, which are both approved and certified by the NRA. Hector obtained the certification by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services as a Security Officer Firearm Instructor and Security Officer Guard Registration Instructor. Hector has also worked on Executive Protection Details while in law Enforcement and since leaving Law Enforcement.