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The Mission of Protection: Part 4

Executive Protection Articles, Rick Colliver

Prevention of Abduction

When we are hired by or assigned to a Protectee, it is often as a result of a direct or implied threat to the Protectee themselves, or the fear of harm to a family member.  We understand that violence occurs for many reasons including revenge, financial, ideological and political motivators.

We also know that if we strengthen security for our Principal, an adversary might, through a process of “transference”, abandon his or her plans and attack a secondary target that is perceived to be softer, but still yield the same headlines or outcome. Thus, we include as another critical element of protective operations, the prevention of abduction.
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The Mission of Protection: Part 3

Featured Articles, Rick Colliver

Prevention of Medical Emergencies

Actuaries tell us that the majority of persons over the age of forty-five will eventually find themselves in a statistical population that requires more frequent trips to the doctor, regular access to prescribed medications and diminishing physical skills.

Even in younger age groups, one needs only to turn on the evening news or call their local elementary school to find out about the latest batch of bacteria, fungi and viruses making their way through your neighborhood. Like it or not, we are all going to get sick… eventually.

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The Mission of Protection: Part 2

Featured Articles, Rick Colliver

Preventing Unintentional Injury

By Rick Colliver: Part 2 of 5

As we discussed last week, the protective mission can be broken into five critical elements.  But to simplify, we might even break these elements down into the broader categories of “intentional” and “unintentional” acts.

As a protection specialist, we have a responsibility for safeguarding our protectee not only from intentional acts of violence, but inadvertent ones as well.  In the United States, we live an average of about 78 years , with heart disease, cancer and stroke being the most significant contributors to our demise.  The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) tells us that more than half of the people over age 45 will die from one of these diseases.

On the other end of the spectrum, accidents are still the leading cause of death for persons age 1 to 45. And, not surprisingly, of all accidental death, motor vehicle accidents remain the number one cause. When we consider the statistics of traffic crashes alone, we recognize the importance of proper route selection and defensive driving skills in the everyday planning of protective movements, because protection personnel are, statistically, not significantly safer than the general population.
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The Mission of Protection

Featured Articles, Rick Colliver

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.

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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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