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Assessing Vulnerability; The First Step in Protective Operations

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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

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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

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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

Featured Articles, Nathan Seabrook

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.

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Executive Protection – EP Operations Center

Doc Rogers, Featured Articles

By: Doc Rogers

On larger and/or multi-principal international assignments, you may be requested to set up an operations center (OC). This is a hotel room with the beds removed and working tables and several folding chairs brought in. This room is not for sleeping or comfort; it’s the OC.

It should have computers, charts, briefing boards, maps from the area where the assignment is taking place, CNN Headline News for a source of continuous intelligence gathering, phones and radios for communicating with agents and security drivers in the field. This will give them a heads-up on any local situation or immediately pass along an important development as well as giving them an area to conduct tactical conferences.

Communication from the OC should be excellent to avoid any confusion or communication breakdowns. The personnel in the ops center need to have the ability to communicate with the agents and security drivers. OC personnel need to work together to resolve any problems and have an in-depth understanding of what is require by the agents in the field. The personnel should listen more than they talk to build good working relationships and should have the ability to work harmoniously with the EPU (executive protection unit) in the field.

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