Travel

Over the course of their assignments, private security officers are not averse to coming across multiple types of employees, guests, or contracted employees. Depending on the size of the organization housed in one or several fixed assets and the...

Operational Guidelines for Executive Protection Agents at Fixed-Based Operators (FBOs)  As Summer quickly approaches, protection teams are seeing private aircraft use increase to accommodate vacation travel. Corporate teams have already seen sharp increases in travel internationally with COVID restrictions lifted...

In the first few days of March 2024, the world looked on at the Ambani pre-wedding celebrations that drew thousands of some of the most famous and influential guests from around the world.  But what are the security implications for...

Including medics in executive protection teams is highly beneficial. Executive protection teams are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of high-profile individuals such as executives, politicians, and celebrities. Having a dedicated medic as part of the team can...

Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM), is a very effective method for measuring an organization's risks in an advisory capacity, evaluating an organization’s structure during and after a serious incident or crisis, and putting strategic countermeasures in place to lessen...

If you’re reading this article because you saw the word “Secret” in the title and thought you’d be seeing something that no one else knows, stop reading now. There are no Secrets in anything we do in Protective Operations...

Spend more than a few minutes in the executive protection profession and it will become obvious that two of the major components of any protective visit is Logistics and Ground Transportation. By major, we mean, where some of the...

What really drives the energy, if any, behind a risk assessment? Risk assessments are an important cog in the initial and recurrent security framework of any ad hoc or permanent security detail. For fixed assets, site risk assessments are...

As a practioner and instructor of close protection, I focus more and more of my time and attention on the two things most important in the close protection field: Time and Distance. My good friend Jeff Marquart, a fine...

Imagine you are a lone EP Medic tasked to accompany your client for their 2-week trip to a remote destination, be it a cabin in Alaska, a ranch in Wyoming, a yacht trip to St Barts, or an Arican...