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For Security & Protection Specialists

  • Muscle Recovery: Essential to Your Next Workout

    To avoid rehab, athletes need to be thinking about pre-hab. Get ahead of an injury before it happens. Muscle recovery should be part of every training plan.

    Muscle Recovery: Essential to Your Next Workout

  • So, You Want To Be A Celebrity Protection Agent?

    “Elijah, I’m glad you choose me for the assignment, just so you know I have to be home on the 15th as my son has his little league try-outs.”  I’ll have to be honest and say, if the assignment extends past the 15th, I’m likely going to use someone else from the outset.  Why?  Because VIP clients appreciate familiarity but the rotation of celebrity protection agents does not project stability, instead, it implies just the opposite.

    So, You Want To Be A Celebrity Protection Agent?

  • Guide to Contracting & Subcontracting Security Services

    A Guide to Contracting & Subcontracting Security Services. Market yourself appropriately and professionally, create a large network, do a good job whenever you are given the opportunity and follow up.

    Guide to Contracting & Subcontracting Security Services

  • Breaking the Communication Barrier

    Security Consultant, Ben Hockman, shares tips on breaking the communication barrier when operating in foreign countries where the locals do not speak your native language. Specifically, the advantages he experienced, having Spanish language skills while working on an assignment in Colombia.

    Breaking the Communication Barrier

  • Global Risk Roundup January 2019

    Our Global Risk partners, Drum Cussac, provide in-depth analysis of global risks via in-house experts, cutting edge technology and through a comprehensive global source network. Here is your summary of the incidents you need to know about from the last 30 days.

    Global Risk Roundup January 2019

Featured Articles

FocusOn: YEMEN

FocusOn: YEMEN October 2013 Significant Events October 7: al-Qaeda (AQ) militants attacked a checkpoint in al-Bayda … >>>

Running the Gauntlet

  Author Interview with Luke Duffy Luke Duffy is a former Paratrooper, and present day contractor on the circuit … >>>

Changing Tides

Changing Tides Evolution of Gulf of Aden piracy, a personal insight:   About three and a half years ago, I decided … >>>

Workplace Violence

Awareness & Prevention Workplace violence has quickly become a growing concern for employees across America - with … >>>

Mental Body Armour

Mental Body Armour – have you got your kit on?   You wouldn’t dream of going on a job without appropriate physical … >>>

Top Articles

Pink & fluffy? Not at all!

There are many reactions that I encounter when I tell people what my profession is but the top three tend to be: … >>>

Armchair Quarterbacks

I think it’s no secret that I love our industry, the business is rewarding on so many different levels.  While not easy, … >>>

Protection

Working with Entertainers: Communicating with the House

The Saga continues, day after day, night after night as you travel from one city to the next visiting Theaters, Amphitheaters, Concert Halls and Arenas.  You are in full tour mode, arriving at locations in the wee hours of the morning ready to hit the ground … >>>

Are These The Top 5 Home Security Technologies Available?

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 where the people you love are safe, it is where you find comfort at the end of a stressful day and it’s one of the biggest investments you … >>>

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Surveillance

Working Girl – October 2011

Working Girl Jacquie Davis   I was sitting in a side road watching an address in London for a few days when suddenly I heard  the sound of breaking glass, I called up the other surveillance team members to ask if they had heard it, yes yes came the reply over the radio. I then saw […]

What's in your GO Bag – Going Digital

What’s in your GO Bag – Going Digital   Your Principal has a known stalker that has sent letters and threatening emails. You are at a small venue for a public appearance, and suspect that they might show up.   You need to remain with your client in a holding room, but what could make life […]

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Hostile

Journalists Behaving Irresponsibly

Embed from Getty Images   Over the past few weeks, our TV screens have been filled with images of journalists behaving like irresponsible children foolishly "braving" the raw elements while a handful of very responsible ones reported from hard-cover … >>>

Nigeria – Country Threat Assessment

NIGERIA: COUNTRY THREAT ASSESSMENT   Kidnapping Context: Violent crime is widespread which includes violent street crime, armed robberies, carjacking’s, kidnapping and rape. Nigerian nationals are most affected, but expatriate personnel without … >>>

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Maritime

Building Global Cyber Maritime Defence Standards

  “The announcement yesterday that shipbroker Clarksons confirmed its computer systems were breached in a major cyber-security attack is a further indication how the global maritime industry is very much in the cross-hairs of the cybercriminal. The … >>>

Women in Maritime Security

A female’s perspective of being a Maritime Security Operative in the HRA. An exclusive interview with Ruth Tiik I first met Ruth several months ago on a floating platform in the Red Sea where we and many others were stuck for several days waiting for our … >>>

More Articles on Maritime Matters

Medical

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 … >>>

Understanding the Importance of On-going Medical Training

The Security Industry Authority currently requires all those who apply for a licence to be in possession of a recognised first award, currently the First Person on Scene (FPOS) Intermediate Award or the Level 3 Award in First Aid Response or equivalent.  Both … >>>

More Articles on Medical Matters