Position: Executive Protection/Chauffeur
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $75,000 – $95,000 /Year
Posted Date: October 10, 2009
Close Date: October 30, 2009
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The Mission of Protection
Prevention of intentional injury
By Rick Colliver: Part 1 of 5
Unlike traditional security or law enforcement duties, the mission of protection is more narrowly focused to prevent specific risks from affecting the protectee. At the basic level, the protective mission can be broken into five critical elements:
* Prevention of intentional injury
* Prevention of unintentional injury
* Prevention of medical emergency
* Prevention of abduction
* Prevention of embarrassment
Through effective advance work we are able to steer the Protectee away from these dangers and to facilitate their daily schedules; making us of value to them. And, without steering the debate down another street, let me confess that even though many protection philosophies warn us against carrying luggage or performing other “assistance” tasks, I have carried suitcases and pushed shopping carts once or twice. But, in my defense I could argue that a man following a woman who’s pushing a shopping cart draws a whole-lot more attention that a man pushing a shopping cart who’s following a woman who’s…shopping. And, a shopping cart can be a right proper defensive weapon if used or intended as such.
Assessing Vulnerability; The First Step in Protective Operations
By: Rick Colliver
Before we initiate any protective operation, we must begin with baseline threat and vulnerability analyses to understand how susceptible our Protectee is to danger and what security precautions and processes are already in place to mitigate these threats. Unfortunately, an obstacle to this process of analysis is that we live in a “what-have-you-done-to-me-lately?” society.
To be sure, as soon as someone steals from us or attacks us, we rise to the occasion and begin to re-evaluate our security, suddenly finding budget dollars that were previously unavailable.
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The Friday Night Quiz
Test your Knowledge:
The Stasi (State Security Department) was set up in which of the former Eastern Bloc Countries?
a.) Romania.
b.) Poland.
c.) East Germany.
d.) Bulgaria.
What is your answer?
Answer to last weeks quiz.
e.) All of the above.
Video of the Week:Tactic-Techniques/Defensive Shooting
This weeks video comes from David Kenik a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Police Officers Safety Association, Inc., a non-profit organization that offers enhanced training to law enforcement officers.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usv3KAr1PlI&feature=related[/youtube]
Bodyguards in Iraq
Bodyguards in Iraq
By Nathan Seabrook: Part 1 of 4
The war in Iraq was both a wake up call and rapid transition of how the nature of CP/PSD operations were to evolve. Changes in SOP’s, tactics, weapons and movement operations were to rapidly transition because of the ever changing and fluid tactics used by insurgent and criminal groups throughout Iraq.
This four part article will look at some of the changes that CP/PSD teams used in Iraq in order to successfully and safely accomplish their missions and operations.