True Bodyguard Stories # 11 The Importance of Language
I was raised in a flat in the east end of London and born to a Lebanese mother and father. I can remember that while growing up my parents refused to speak English in the house and only Arabic, like any youth I rebelled against my parents and I refused to speak Arabic telling my parents that we lived in England and not Lebanon and therefore we had no need to speak Arabic any longer. I remember my father telling me that it was important that I remembered how to speak Arabic and that one day it would help me.
When I first started working in the field of Executive Protection, one of my first jobs was to provide protection to an American woman who had fled an abusive relationship with her 4 year old son from her husband who was a Saudi Arabian national. We had been hired by the woman’s father to insure that she and his grandson were able to get back to the United States safely. I was working on a team of all Brits like myself who were former Para’s and SBS.
President of Bodyguards Careers Harlan Austin has acquired over 25 years of field experience as an Executive Protection Specialist, seven years of which he served as Director of Security Services for Paisley Park Productions.
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