Hello Everyone,

It’s me, Jeff, the lesser known behind the scenes guy for Bodyguard Careers.  While Hucky continues to be the face (both literally and figuratively) for the site, I continue to try and find ways to make the website better for our readers.

We have been working hard to bring the Bodyguard Careers community to you, and we have some exciting things to share with you in the near future.

For now, I am posting to let you know that there are several ways that you can connect with Bodyguard Careers.  Find us on your favorite channel:

Our Website – www.bodyguardcareers.com

You can always keep up to date by visiting our website.  Here is where you will find the most up to date content posted, comment on posts, and contact us with questions/concerns and ideas for articles.

While we love having everyone visit our website, and we hope you visit several times a week, there are also other ways to keep up to date with Bodyguard Careers.

Perhaps you didn’t know, but we also offer these options for connecting:

Our Email Newsletter – (You can Sign Up to the Left)

Every Thursday morning, we send out an email highlighting articles, jobs and more that were published during the previous week… and maybe even some content that is exclusive to the email newsletter.  At the time I write this, we have a list of 3,500+ people who have expressed their interest in receiving our newsletter.  That number is far higher than we ever thought we would see when we created the site in 2005.

RSS Feed Reader

For those of you who are tech savvy and follow websites through your RSS Reader, you can add Bodyguard Careers to your feed reader and be notified of our new posts within a few hours of when it’s posted.  If you follow a lot of websites and don’t always have the time to visit them all, this can be a great way to stay informed when a site is updated.

Here is our feed address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BodyguardCareers

Facebook Fan Page

While we haven’t formally announced it yet, we have had a Facebook Fan page for a few months… and we already have 200 fans!  If you have a Facbeook account, we definitely recommend becoming a fan of Bodyguard Careers, because you can start to interact with the community right within Facebook.  Here is a link to the page… hope to see you as a fan!

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Twitter @bodyguardcareer

Twitter’s character limit prevented us from using our full name, but the effect is the same!  You can now connect with Bodyguard Careers on Twitter by following @bodyguardcareer.  While we have had an account for most of 2009, we don’t have nearly enough followers! Join the community on Twitter and let’s get connected.

(interesting fact – the guy in sunglasses in the photo above is me!)

http://twitter.com/bodyguardcareer

Prevention of Abduction

When we are hired by or assigned to a Protectee, it is often as a result of a direct or implied threat to the Protectee themselves, or the fear of harm to a family member.  We understand that violence occurs for many reasons including revenge, financial, ideological and political motivators.

We also know that if we strengthen security for our Principal, an adversary might, through a process of “transference”, abandon his or her plans and attack a secondary target that is perceived to be softer, but still yield the same headlines or outcome. Thus, we include as another critical element of protective operations, the prevention of abduction.
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Prevention of Medical Emergencies

Actuaries tell us that the majority of persons over the age of forty-five will eventually find themselves in a statistical population that requires more frequent trips to the doctor, regular access to prescribed medications and diminishing physical skills.

Even in younger age groups, one needs only to turn on the evening news or call their local elementary school to find out about the latest batch of bacteria, fungi and viruses making their way through your neighborhood. Like it or not, we are all going to get sick… eventually.

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Test your Knowledge:

The responsibility for close protection services of the Pope and the Vatican City is left to who?

a.) the College of Cardinals.

b.) the Swedish guard.

c.) the Swiss guard.

d.) the carabinieri close protection wing.

What is your answer?

Preventing Unintentional Injury

By Rick Colliver: Part 2 of 5

As we discussed last week, the protective mission can be broken into five critical elements.  But to simplify, we might even break these elements down into the broader categories of “intentional” and “unintentional” acts.

As a protection specialist, we have a responsibility for safeguarding our protectee not only from intentional acts of violence, but inadvertent ones as well.  In the United States, we live an average of about 78 years , with heart disease, cancer and stroke being the most significant contributors to our demise.  The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) tells us that more than half of the people over age 45 will die from one of these diseases.

On the other end of the spectrum, accidents are still the leading cause of death for persons age 1 to 45. And, not surprisingly, of all accidental death, motor vehicle accidents remain the number one cause. When we consider the statistics of traffic crashes alone, we recognize the importance of proper route selection and defensive driving skills in the everyday planning of protective movements, because protection personnel are, statistically, not significantly safer than the general population.
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