Surveillance Detection & Global Business As we continue this series of articles discussing surveillance … >>>
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Prometheus Viper FPOS
Prometheus Viper FPOS Course Review As the requirements and conditions of gaining employment on the circuit … >>>
Mission Creep
Mission Creep Mission creep [definition]: Gradual increase in scope: a tendency of military operations in foreign … >>>
Running the Gauntlet
Author Interview with Luke Duffy Luke Duffy is a former Paratrooper, and present day contractor on the circuit … >>>
Hypothermia in Trauma
This article will cover: Why casualties need to be kept warm How we normally keep warm and how casualties lose … >>>
Driving in Hostile Areas
January 2013 and I am sitting in the back of a Toyota Prada on the outskirts of ill-famed Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, … >>>
Burning the Quran Can Be Prosecuted in the U.S.
Burning the Quran Can Be Prosecuted in the U.S. On a recent visit to Mazar-e-Sharif, a northern Afghanistan province … >>>
Working Girl – July 2011
Working Girl I've been travelling around the UK on a CP job for the past few months but was also lucky enough to be part … >>>
The Untrained Negotiator
The Untrained Negotiator This article will focus upon guidance for the initial responder receiving a call in … >>>
Mystery Shopper – Circuit Q&A
Mystery Shopper - Circuit Q&A Nick McCarthy interviews Linda Eastwood. Linda, we became ‘friends’ recently via an … >>>
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Are These The Top 5 Home Security Technologies on The Planet?
Just for a moment, stop what you are doing and think about your house. Your house is a home, it is your castle, it is … >>>
Russia World Cup 2018 – Threat Analysis
The Russian Federation will host the 21st FIFA World Cup this summer between 14 June and 15 July. This highly … >>>
Safety Tips for Travellers at the 2018 Russia World Cup
Keeping the people in your charge safe is an essential part of any security or protection-based role. Yet more often … >>>
Ignore Terrorism… And we loose…
Boston April 15, 2013 14:49 pm: Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev load two bombs into two separate … >>>
Risk and Retaliation at the Russia 2018 World Cup
The World Cup comes to Russia this summer and so will the world. If they haven’t already, your clients will soon begin … >>>
Medical emergencies: Acute Respiratory Emergencies
You’re out mountain biking with your client and their family when he develops a sudden shortness of breath. The … >>>
Exit Strategy
One of the most dangerous things I have had to encounter when escorting a client is when you egress a nightclub … >>>
Why A Political Soloution With The Afghan Taliban Is So Important
We've all seen over the last few years just how quickly ISIL established themselves in a fractured Iraq and Syria. At … >>>
Hands-On Protection Training
Are We As Good As We Think We Are? After finishing 5 days of intense and demanding protection training aimed at the … >>>
Do you know what you are?
Who are you? Or more specifically; What are you? Are you an employee, an independent contractor, a part-time employee, … >>>
Protection
Top 10 client relationship-building tips
Top 10 client relationship-building tips FRONT RIGHT SEAT Clients are the lifeline of the Protective Services Industry. Without them there is no work. How you relate to them and how they feel about you and the services you provide will determine how … >>>
EP For Green… When Will Our World’s Collide?
In June 1920, the United States Congress passed the 18th amendment, (the Volstead act) and the start of prohibition. Herbert Hoover the POTUS at the time said, “Our country has undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- … >>>
Surveillance
Surveillance Tips for Investigations & Protective Intelligence
Surveillance is a skill learned best through experience, however tactics and techniques can also be improved via tips and tricks from seasoned practitioners. This article contains some very effective tactics, techniques and procedures for conducting surveillance investigations, for both private investigators as well as for protective intelligence assignments.
Surveillance Detection
Surveillance Detection A key skill for security and counter-terrorism professionals History has taught us that certain kinds of activities can indicate terrorist plans are in the works, especially when they occur at or near high profile or sensitive sites, places where high profile individuals reside or work, or where large numbers of people gather like […]
Hostile
FocusOn: YEMEN
FocusOn: YEMEN October 2013 Significant Events October 7: al-Qaeda (AQ) militants attacked a checkpoint in al-Bayda province, killing eight soldiers. Four other soldiers are missing. October 7: the Yemeni Air Force launched air strikes against AQ militants … >>>
Protecting War Correspondents
The Most Dangerous Job in the World It looks exciting on the TV, glamorous even. Journalists, dressed in blue flak jackets and helmet, crouching behind a vehicle as gunfire rains down on a nearby building. But warzones – like war correspondents – are … >>>
Maritime
Cyber-Security Offshore
The New Virtual Battlefield? Our reliance on Information & Communications Technology (ICT) is stemmed deep in our everyday lives in the modern world and the Maritime and Offshore Oil & Gas industries are no different at all. Whether it’s the internet … >>>
Obtaining & Maintaining Non Residency and SED
Obtaining & Maintaining Non Residency and SED (Seafarers Earning Deductions) New to the industry, got a contract working overseas and don’t know where to start? NON RESIDENCY You may have decided that a land-based career overseas is the … >>>
Medical
Review: Medipro PHMT
COURSE REVIEW: Medipro Training: PHMT (Pre-Hospital-Medical-technician) Having previously completed FPOS (I) MIRA and Remote Team Medic Courses I was looking for a training course which had both industry recognition and would take my knowledge and skills to … >>>
Managing Spinal Injury
Continuing the series of articles on the safe management and treatment of a medical emergency, Prometheus Senior Instructor, Kate Owen, discusses the management of spinal injuries. Spinal trauma and spinal cord injury can have a life-changing impact … >>>