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Bodyguarding: Understand what you are selling

Doc Rogers, Executive Protection Articles

As bodyguard professionals we should realize that we are a brand and our brand is designed to make clients feel safe and confident during business and leisure activities. You are selling your leadership abilities, problem solving abilities and your ability to operate under pressure successfully while keeping your clients well-insulated and removed from safety concerns.  To be successful your employees or teammates must mold easily into this brand by delivering consistent bodyguard service.

Professional bodyguards are hired for their experience, training, time-management, communication, skills, skills in taking initiative and special skills learned in the military, law enforcement, personal security detachment or private sector – marketable skills.   Security and executive protection (EPU) unit directors are looking for someone who is sincere, that can demonstrate that they have the integrity and good, sound decision making and reasoning skills necessary to become a bodyguard or member of the EPU either as a vendor or an employee.

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Think Before You Put The Keys In The Ignition

Hucky Austin, Insider Tips

Whether you are taking your Protectee on a drive across town from Hollywood to Anaheim, or a road trip from San Diego to San Francisco. It is important to take every necessary precaution to ensure a safe trip for you and your Protectee.

The last two decades have seen an increased in national awareness of the dangers involved in daily travel and the simple preventative measures that can be taken to greatly reduce the risks of accidents and injuries. This awareness has spilled onto the Web and information is readily available that deals with every conceivable aspect of t motorized travel and travel safety.

The crusade to spread the word about travel safety has grown to include more aggressive and progressive tactics, including defensive driving strategies, drunken driving legislation, speed limit enforcement programs, and much more. With devices such as cellular phones and GPS advanced automobile capabilities offering luxuries that present potential distractions for drivers, our nation’s highways are potentially more dangerous than ever before.

Perhaps that is the reason why more information is now available about safety laws and precautions than at any other time in the history of motorized travel. Something to think about before you put the keys in the ignition.

Four Bodyguard Contract Mistakes to Avoid

Doc Rogers, Featured Articles

Navigating the rough bodyguard waters and reaping in the rewards can be trickier than it seems. The following are five simple, but highly important mistakes to avoid when it comes to bodyguard contracts.

1. Contracts. Not having a contract drawn up by a lawyer for professional bodyguard services. Always obtain the services of a lawyer when making a bodyguard contract, don’t try to save money and do it yourself. It should spell out the exact services, personnel and equipment to be provided by you in the “Service Provision” section of the contract.

2. Client Responsibilities. Not having a “Client Responsibility” section in your contract. It should explain the client’s financial responsibility and work performance such as:

•    Roundtrip airfare to area of operation for all bodyguard personnel.
•    Suitable accommodation for all bodyguard personnel.
•    Client responsible for expense reimbursements relating to food, ground transportation and dry cleaning of clothing for all bodyguard personnel.
•    Client shall allow all bodyguard personnel to undertake their activities without hindrance.
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Executive Protection Recession Survival Guide

Doc Rogers, Executive Protection Articles

In today’s executive protection market, companies and individuals with a small number of EP agents can thrive in this competitive market, operating from anywhere. This means assisting multinational corporations with low-profile EP for its senior execs visiting various cities in the U.S. or doing business in unstable countries worldwide.

However, by keeping your EP operation small, it’s going to be tough doing the majority of things on your own (advertising, contracting, invoicing and training).  Everybody in the EP industry is hurting, so the more you can save and help your clients save on EP services the better.

You don’t want to position yourself as a “high-end boutique” EP service provider, during recessionary times clients are looking for extremely high quality EP services at reasonable rates. Think high volume and moderate profit margins by designing your services to have a very low overhead, many EP companies and individual freelance teams go out of business because they create a large overhead structure.

Times are tough for everyone so it’s all about strategy; continue to manage your EP operations carefully with an eye towards meeting the future demands of your clients and prospects so you will be able to fund the initial assignment costs.  This means managing your cash flow so your profits are sufficient to fund your small EP team as well as having funds set aside for larger EP assignments for the future.

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Professional Development

Announcements, Matthew Stiehm

The author of today’s Featured Story (Professional Development) is someone who will be joining the Bodyguard Careers.com staff as an ongoing contributor. Please allow me to introduce you to Matthew Stiehm.

Matthew has an Ed. D in Higher Education Leadership from Argosy University Twin Cities, and a M.S in Criminal Justice Administration from Central Missouri State University, and B.S in Social Science from Wayne State College.

Matthew brings his unique experiences and perspective to Bodyguard Careers and we are pleased he wants to share his extensive knowledge and background with our readers.

Hucky

Professional Development:

By Matthew Stiehm

As a professional regardless of your career choice individuals need to be concerned with ongoing career development.  With executive protection specialists working a variety of hours, shifts and times when is there time to find professional development.  There are a variety of ways to keep skills current, keep your mind sharp, in a relatively short time frame.

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Automating Perimeter Protection for Executive Protection

Bruce Alexander, Featured Articles

By Bruce Alexander

There’s a a product on the market that merits serious consideration for planning and integrating physical security features into an Executive Protection Plan (EPP).

Lighthouse is an Israeli computer aided design (CAD) program that assists in planning and designing physical security perimeters. Lighthouse integrates digital terrain models, with aerial and satellite imagery, GIS technology, sensor specifications, engineering and environmental data, and thereby creates a 3D interactive representation of the perimeter. The program “helps users analyze the terrain, identify weak spots, define physical obstacles, propose location of obstacles, and analyze technological obstacles” before the actual sensors are implaced.

Used correctly, Lighthouse designs plans for a variety of sensors configured to the actual terrain as opposed to “force fitting” technology to the environment. What I like about the concept of Lighthouse is that it you can model how sensors will act or react in a given environment before you can actually position those sensors. This seems like a very cost effective and efficient way to design a physical security perimeter as opposed to placing sensors and then trying to determine whether those sensors are appropriate for the terrain and vulnerabilities later on.

I can see multiple applications where Lighthouse can assist in designing a security perimeter with EP applications. The most obvious application would be designing and integrating physical security measures for estates and executive residences with a significant surrounding land. Another application might be private aviation facilities or marinas. Of course, Lighthouse can also be used for corporate facility security planning where EP is a consideration or concern.

As I’ve said in previous posts, I’m a big proponent of using physical security measures to enhance Executive Protection.  Lighthouse might be one of those products worth considering for an EP application.

As usual with all of my product reviews, I have nothing to do with whatsoever with Lighthouse.

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