Executive protection: terror alerts and corporate board liability are focusing new attention on security issues for top company officers
HR Magazine,  Oct, 2004  by Susan Ladika

Terrorist attacks in the United States, bombings in the Middle East and kidnappings in Latin America have focused the spotlight on improving security for corporate executives when they’re at home or on the road. But threats to corporate leaders also might come from less headline-grabbing sources–animal rights activists targeting the home of a pharmaceutical firm’s CEO, or an angry former employee brandishing a handgun and trying to force his way into the COO’s office.

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SUMMARY

Two executive protection positions in the private sector dealing with a high net worth family. Responsible for a variety of program work to help ensure the integrity of the EP team.
RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for protection of personnel and well as property and personal assets in a global setting. Works closely with family staff members and local law enforcement and security officials.

Requirements
COMPETENCIES/ABILITIES

Candidates must possess a 10 year minimum strong working knowledge and experience of EP operations working with executive and family protection. Candidates must maintain themselves in excellent physical condition and must be able to work comfortably in a team environment as well as on their own. Being able to think and respond to a dynamic, ever changing environment is paramount. Applicants must be prepared for domestic and overseas travel and be able to pass all State private security requirements to include a demonstrated proficiency with firearms. Candidates must have a clean driver’s license record. Candidates should have superb writing and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact and communicate effectively and seamlessly with the family members, corporate executives and senior colleagues of the family in business and social environments. A college degree is preferred as is EP Team leader experience.
RESUME SUBMITTAL

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their resumes via the position posting on the SMR website at: http://www.smrgroup.com

By Dan Sommer
Offers of up to $7000 pr month plus accommodation, in a society with a rich cultural heritage, excellent nightlife and a high threat level from kidnap and assassination attempts. These are factors that explain why CPO’s are now increasingly seeking their fortune in Mexico.

The close protection industry in Mexico is expected to grown significantly during the next few years, this is due not just from the increased threat from kidnappings, which are among the highest in the world with an estimated 3000+ kidnappings a year. But today; Mexico’s elite is also at threat from the much more rapidly growing number of assassinations.

Accordingly there were an estimated 1300 assassinations carried out in Mexico in 2004, an estimated 1800 assassinations in 2005 and so far the first nine months of 2006 have already passed the 1700 mark!

Who and Why. The usual victims have been found among drug dealers and police officers involved one way or another in the drug trade, but today businessmen who have been unwilling to “assist” the drug cartels are increasingly finding themselves targeted as well.

Drug Cartels are now increasingly seeking the cooperation of major Mexican corporations in the import, storing, packing and transport of drugs to the US markets; simply because many of the corporations already have extensive and efficient transport and export systems in place. (more…)

24 hour assignment for EPS – PPS  who lives in or near Memphis, TN “Must have Verifiable References for Executive or Personal Protection Experience within the last year. Graduates of ESI or EPI academies preferred.

Minimum three years prior experience working as an Executive Protection Specialist. Ideal candidate will be discreet, polished, grounded, and have military, security or law enforcement background. For immediate consideration contact Robert Mann at win@wincor.com or call 310 385 8200

Please do not send your resumes to me, what I post is all the information that I have on this listing. I would recommend that you do your due diligences
Hucky
 
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Moscow Times reported today on bodyguards in Russia, and more specifically on hiring hot female bodyguards in Russia. The article starts:Olga Korolyova is a diminutive 1.64 meters tall. She has shiny blond hair. If you get too close when she’s at work, she’ll immobilize you with two blows. “I like to defend the weak,” the bodyguard said at a recent training class. As another participant lunged at her with a plastic knife, Korolyova cracked the assailant’s arm and slammed her to the floor. Retreating, knife in hand, Korolyova triumphantly fired a fake gun at her attacker.

This has long been a highly-regarded profession in Russia. From the Moscow Times in 2005:

Now in their second year, the security awards are known as the ZUBR (for za ukrepleniye bezopasnosti Rossii, or for the strengthening of the security of Russia) and are billed rather grandly as one of the new “civil society initiatives used to cooperate with the government in the fight against new threats.” The word zubr means bison, so all the award winners went home with a large metal bison.

More and more executives in Russia are starting to hire protection, which can cost $1500/week and up. And more and more women are starting to enroll in bodyguard school, not surprising when you consider that in Soviet day, supposedly no man would sleep with a woman who couldn’t disassemble an AK-47 in under a minute. It’s a wild world over there, and if you’re in the business of oil or arbitrage, why not hire someone who can protect you and look good while doing it?