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Motorcade Operations: A Quick and Easy Overview

Doc Rogers, Featured Articles

By Doc Rogers

Motorcades have a particular configuration and organization of vehicles; this article will give you an understanding of the basic principals of a protective motorcade. This includes types of movements, types of motorcade and motorcade maneuvers and avoiding potential threats along the route.

Route Selection

Your job is to protect the client during motorcades and conduct route planning.

Evaluation

Evaluate the roads and the routes (primary and secondary) to avoid getting the client vehicle boxed in by other vehicles. Instruct your security drivers to leave an avenue of escape open should the need arise and get away quickly if there is a transportation threat.

Basic Rules

Vary the client’s route to and from work as well road movement times.

Route Planning

Advance bodyguard team establishes route planning and security operations prior to the client’s visit.

Route Security

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New Look: Bodyguard Careers v4

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Those visiting Bodyguard Careers today will notice that we’ve just released a new theme. It’s not a complete overhaul in terms of look—rather, it’s an evolution or refresh of our current design. We are hoping that these subtle changes will make it easier to navigate, and a little less cluttered. There are a few more changes coming in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned. There will probably be a few small bugs that we’ll need to iron out, but overall things are pretty stable and we are looking forward to hearing your feedback! If you have any suggestions, questions, please leave a comment for us. And we will do our best to implement your suggestions.

Stay Safe,

Hucky and Jeff

Checklist Guidelines for Executive Protection Assignments

Doc Rogers

By Doc Rogers

This checklist is designed to cover procedures required for EP details and provide fundamental knowledge in a checklist form to organize, manage and direct EP assignments in the field for timely and effective planning.

Advance Planning

  • Budget (nothing starts without a budget, its first order of business).
  • Responsible hospital (positive contact to be made). Obtain hospital contact information (name, phone #, cell phone and email).
  • Law enforcement agency (positive contact to be made). Obtain LEO contact information (name, phone #, cell phone and email).
  • Hotel security director a critical relationship to develop (positive contact to be made). Obtain Hotel security director contact information (name, phone #, cell phone and email).
  • Security planning and management for venues and meeting with senior security personnel at each location.  Obtain contact information (name, phone #, cell phone and email).
    Comprehensive threat assessments of known and potential threats (country, city, airport, hotel, venue, etc.). This is your pre-assignment intelligence.
  • Motorcade requirements (number of vehicles, type, etc.). Find and ensure limo drivers are trained and professional.
  • Ensure adequate motorcade route plans and contingency route plans are in place. Main and alternate routes (must be run multiple times).
  • Special parking set-up in advance at airport, venues, hotels, etc.
  • Development of briefing booklets for EP agents.
  • Plan for worst-case scenarios and conduct walk throughs of evacuation routes (evacuation procedures and assigned safe havens).

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Surviving an Active Shooter

Featured Articles, Mark Six James

By Mark “Six” James

An active shooter is an armed person who has used deadly physical force on other persons and continues to do so while having unrestricted access to additional victims.  Active shooters often look for soft targets like malls, churches or schools due to their low presence of security and high access to potential victims.

The active shootings at Columbine High School, Omaha Mall, Virginia Tech, and Fort Hood left a trail of victims because the shooters were far more prepared than those who suffered in those ordeals.  Financial or emotional stressors, forced separation from a lover or a job, bullying or an overly aggressive manager or insensitive instructor may create the flashpoint which triggers workplace or school violence.

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New Trends in Executive Protection: Does Size Matter?

Personal Protection Jobs

By Bruce Alexander

Brains over brawn is how Michael McCann, former Director of Security for the U.N. and now CEO of McCann Protective Services (MPS) describes the new trend for Executive Protection in his March 1st article “Brains vs. Brawn – Determining New Trends in VIP Security” (www.securitymagazine.com) McCann stresses “professionalism, experience and discretion” as the defining trends for Executive Protection.

In his article, McCann emphasizes that selecting an EP specialist on size at the expense of professionalism, may create more problems. According to McCann, good EP practices such as a threat assessment and advance work can mitigate potential problems. However that’s assuming the EP specialist has the proper training and experience to begin.

Too often celebrities pay for protection by the pound and risk hiring someone who’s first instinct is to resort to force when confronted with a potential problem because they lack the requisite training and professional expertise to consider and employ other options. McCann does caution that physical fitness is still a prerequisite but physical stature alone should not be the defining criteria.

I couldn’t agree more with Mr. McCann if I wrote the article myself. I still am amazed that celebrities would rather surround themselves by look-alikes from the WWF than professional EP specialists who have the brains, demeanor and expertise that really matters to keep someone safe.

Having physical presence helps, but all the size in the world won’t make a difference against a determined adversary who has already figured out how to defeat any advantage that size might create. Using size to confront an adversary is a reactionary response. When celebrities finally figure out that by avoiding situations where their security doesn’t depend on the size of their protector perhaps then they’ll opt for protection that doesn’t put them in that position to begin with.

I don’t want to give Mr. McCann’s article short shrift here so I encourage you to read the rest of his article. His other points are definitely worth reading.

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