Part 2: Advice for Future Female EP Professionals Breaking into the Industry - By Female Practitioner Rachel G. Physically Prepared. You don’t have to stand out above the crowd and resemble a modern day Greek God. However, you should look capable of carrying your own weight and the weight of the client off the "X." Physical activity needs to be a part of your daily checklist. Should there be an event that requires you to forcefully move your client or remove someone from y

Actions of a protection specialist have a direct impact on the client. We are not only protecting the client from harm, but also from embarrassment. In this video, a protection specialist unknowingly tracks mud into a venue. As practitioners, we must be thick skinned and always learn from out mistakes. Food for thought; What if this was a "solo agent" arriving with his client? How should the situation be quickly and quietly handled? Learn more at our upcoming 7-Day Executive

To carry or not to carry? Is that really a question? Whether or not to carry luggage has always been a debate in executive protection training and standard operating procedures within the team. Is a protection specialist a lap dog or guard dog? Do we carry luggage? In our opinion, yes. Executive protection is a diverse industry. The fundamentals remain constant, but the client, company, risk, and manpower vary greatly. On corporate, family, and celebrity details, security is

Part 1: What you can do, what you shouldn’t do and what can you get away with - By Female Practitioner Rachel G. Women in the EP industry are stereotypically pictured closer to something you would see in the Secret Service; suit, hair in a bun, and an ear-piece. Which, if you chose that route, is fine. However, a female EP agent looks more like a regular person. If what we do in EP is surveillance; looking for the people who are looking at you, and more importantly: who is

Executive protection is a unique industry. The way an individual or team operates is based on a combination of the client's needs, personal preferences, and an array of requirements and limitations. These include the client's mission, funding, manpower, and resources that are allocated to the team. A Fortune five executive’s resources will be much greater than a celebrity client. The executive will have a larger budget, a global footprint, require more agents, protective inte

Non-Friendly Forces / Organization: - Threats - Capabilities - Probable method of attack - Weather - Pre-existing medical conditions - BOLO's / Persons of Interest Friendly Forces: - Organization of the detail (identify by name) - Agent in Charge (AIC) - Shift leader - Lead driver - Limo driver - Follow driver - Advance - Detail - Positional assignments Attachments and Detachments: - Special positions - Surveillance Detection - Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) - Technical S

Advance Assessment -Prior to arrival phone the site manager/POC at Venue. -Upon arrival contact site manager/POC involved with the visit. -Identify primary and alternate entrance/exits to location. -Identify primary and alternate entrance/departure areas. -Set up barricades (traffic cones) if permitted. -Identify parking area for motorcade. -Identify location for Advance/stash car. -Check location and foot route principle will use. -Identify location of restroom. -Identify po

In this industry, we all work long hours and travel often. It is a constant challenge to maintain shooting and training standards when time and budgets are limited. Here are a few tips to standardize proficiency within armed protection teams. Most can be accomplished with one hour a month on the range and 50 rounds of ammo. A firearms training program should be implemented based on the team’s standard operating procedures – SOPs. 1. A qualification standard should be establis

Walking Formations: Escorting a client on foot can take many different forms. Walking formations may be adjusted based on the client's wishes, manpower, threat level, whether the client is alone or with guests, and the nature of the detail you are working on - overt, low profile, or covert. You must rehearse walking formations in training. But, in the real world, it is never perfect. You and your team must “fill and flow” to close gaps in coverage to the best of the team’s ab

The basic goal of training should be to teach a skill thoroughly enough for the student to be able to repeat the objective away from the classroom AND self-diagnose/correct mistakes. Training only is the down payment on a skill or technique. Practice is the cost of ownership. Once the objective has been learned, it must be repeated, practiced again and again until it becomes a subconscious, reflexive response. Only then can you truly claim to "own" a skill. Training a skill t