Circuit Magazine

For Security & Protection Specialists

  • Understanding the Importance of On-going Medical Training

    It can be difficult to maintain medical training with the pressures of schedules, but whether it’s online or hands on, the importance of on-going medical training should not be forgotten or underestimated.

    Understanding the Importance of On-going Medical Training

  • Remaining Professional: Dealing with High Conflict Personality

    You cannot change a high conflict personality, so you must have a calm and well-practiced approach to working alongside them.

    Remaining Professional: Dealing with High Conflict Personality

  • Preparing for the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season

    As the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season approaches, concerns exist of a repeat of the destruction experienced last year. The responsibility of security, risk and business continuity teams is a complex one. You are your organization’s first line of defense against any and all threats to operational continuity and people safety. How should you go about reducing your exposure?

    Preparing for the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season

  • Show Time

    While no security measures are 100%, these are good guiding principles to minimize the potential for an unwelcome encounter with your celebrity principal during their show.

    Show Time

  • Ignore Terrorism… And we loose…

    We are not immune to attack and we owe it to our clients to be well versed on terrorism, and international conflicts, which could have domestic consequences. Ignore what’s going on overseas, and ignore terrorism and we face losing at home.

    Ignore Terrorism… And we loose…

Featured Articles

Traumatic Stress

People like me don’t get traumatic stress! Dave* served in the Falklands and Northern Ireland and has “been there, got … >>>

Changing Tides

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

Mental Body Armour

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

Protective Intelligence

Modern Tools for a Traditional Task Many protective service providers and law enforcement agencies have protective … >>>

Bodyguard Diary

Just under a year ago I graduated from a recognized executive protection training course. After doing some pretty … >>>

Top Articles

Exit Strategy

One of the most dangerous things I have had to encounter when escorting a client is when you egress a nightclub … >>>

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

Interview: Tom Taylor author of “Armored Men”

Circuit Interview with Tom Taylor author of “Armored Men” By Derrick “Bear” Collins  [one_third] [/one_third] [two_third_last]The Circuit magazine takes a moment to speak with noted author Tom Taylor regarding his newest book “Armored Men”.  Having worked on … >>>

Working a Political Convention

Lessons Learned I recently had the opportunity to play a security role with a large corporate client directly involved with the 2016 Democratic & Republican National Conventions.  The conventions only occur once every four years but it’s scale and … >>>

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Surveillance

The Silent Witness & Hacking

The Silent Witness & Hacking   With the proliferation of mobile phones in the public domain, many myths surround the actual truth that lies behind this wireless technology and the inappropriate use of the word Hacking associated with them in recent times. In my past role in a Police Technical Support Unit, I have interrogated […]

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 […]

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Hostile

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, Haiti, which is regarded as one of the poorest and most dangerous slums in the Western Hemisphere. My Haitian operatives are doing … >>>

Non-Lethal Hostage Rescue

The horrific terrorist attack in a busy shopping mall in Nairobi, in September 2013, was a counter-terrorist team’s worst nightmare.  Well trained militants with a detailed knowledge of the building, armed to the teeth with heavy weaponry and explosives … >>>

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Maritime

A day in the Life – Maritime Security

A day in the Life - Maritime Security   The word on the high seas is that the first modern day Somali Pirates were in fact the Somali Coastguard. With Chinese, Spanish and Italian fishing fleets invading the waters off Somalia and fishing them almost dry … >>>

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 … >>>

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Medical

Hypothermia in Trauma

This article will cover: Why casualties need to be kept warm How we normally keep warm and how casualties lose heat What can be done to minimise heat loss Why casualties need to be kept warm As warm-blooded animals, we keep the core … >>>

Making the right choice

Making the Right Choice   Instinctive.. shooting, unarmed defensive tactics, evasive driving.. whatever. In a sudden and urgent situation there may be no time to stop and ponder what needs to be done, no time to think through conflict management models. … >>>

More Articles on Medical Matters