How Do You Stop a Threat You Can't See Coming? This past March, WikiLeaks dumped 8,761 CIA documents collectively … >>>
Featured Articles
Can I Get Some Work?
KEEPING YOUR EDGE: Can I get some work? Hands down, this has to be amongst the most confusing phrases in … >>>
Surveillance Detection & Global Business
Surveillance Detection & Global Business As we continue this series of articles discussing surveillance … >>>
Working a Political Convention
Lessons Learned I recently had the opportunity to play a security role with a large corporate client directly involved … >>>
Changing Tides
Changing Tides Evolution of Gulf of Aden piracy, a personal insight: About three and a half years ago, I decided … >>>
Protective Intelligence
Modern Tools for a Traditional Task Many protective service providers and law enforcement agencies have protective … >>>
Behavioral Analysis
Behavioral Analysis in Threat Detection In 2005 three suicide bombers detonated body-borne improvised explosive devices … >>>
Mission Creep
Mission Creep Mission creep [definition]: Gradual increase in scope: a tendency of military operations in foreign … >>>
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, … >>>
Journalists Behaving Irresponsibly
Embed from Getty Images Over the past few weeks, our TV screens have been filled with images of journalists … >>>
Top Articles
Remaining Professional: Dealing with High Conflict Personality
In our roles as a security professional we will at times come across individuals with high conflict personalities, … >>>
Preparing for the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season
As the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season approaches, concerns are rising over a possible repeat of the widespread … >>>
Show Time
YouTube, CNN, TMZ, Entertainment Tonight and other blogs and television magazines are full of countless examples of … >>>
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 … >>>
Ignore Terrorism… And we loose…
Boston April 15, 2013 14:49 pm: Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev load two bombs into two separate … >>>
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
One Agents Opinion, Bodyguard Or Executive Protection Specialist?
Bodyguard Or Executive Protection Specialist… What’s In A Name? When someone asks, “what do you do for a living”? Do you say, I’m a “Bodyguard” or do you tell them that you’re an Executive Protection Specialist? What’s in a name? What’s in a name? Let’s … >>>
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 … >>>
Surveillance
Surveillance Detection for Individuals
Individuals face a variety of threats in today’s global environment. By developing and applying a Surveillance Detection (SD) plan to the targets daily protection operations you can significantly reduce the likelihood of an attack on your target. Before surveillance detection (SD) can be used to prevent or deter an attack, you must […]
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 […]
Hostile
Hostile Environment Surveillance Operations
A look at Hostile Environment Surveillance Operations As a result of the privatization of Iraq in 2003 and the dramatic growth of private security operations in politically unstable and hostile environments, close protection professionals are … >>>
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 … >>>
Maritime
Obtaining & Maintaining Non Residency and SED
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, working overseas in hostile environments is the one for you. There are many companies who are hiring … >>>
Maritime Security: The Race to the Bottom
When President George W. Bush famously stood on board the USS Abraham Lincoln declaring the end of major combat operations in Iraq in 2003, few people would of anticipated the private security boom that was about to unfold. The post-war reconstruction … >>>
Medical
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 … >>>
Hypothermia
You are on a ski trip with a VIP, a 45 year old male, when he falls and breaks his leg. He is unable to walk, let alone ski. He is diabetic and not particularly fit. You have been skiing in the backcountry all day and are tired and hungry. The … >>>