By Bodyguard Careers
The types of people that come to one’s mind when thinking about executive protection are celebrities, politicians, and wealthy business men with a net of over $1 million a year. That is partially correct, but the truth of the matter is that high net worth individuals are those who earn $500,000 or more per year.
Let’s take a look at celebrities first: There are numerous cases of actors that have been subject to stalkers because of a role they have played in the past or just because of their spotlight status.
Public awareness of stalking increased when public profiles, victims of stalking, began to speak out. An example that comes to one’s mind is Jodie Foster’s stalker by the name of John Hinckley Jr. who in order to gain her love he stalked President Carter with the intention of assassinating him-a plan that thankfully never came to fruition; later, the same individual attempted to assassinate President Reagan.
People who don’t live in the spotlight would think the solution to stalking would be to obtain a restraining order against the individual. Is that a sufficient and safe solution for a public figure?
Not really. An executive protection agent knows that the people he should be soliciting his services have already identified that there is concern about their safety that cannot be left to chance: the lives and potentially the lives of their loved ones may be in jeopardy either now or the (near) future.