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  • Evacuating and Moving Through Buildings Tactically

    For the purpose of this article, we are not interested in conventional SWAT tactics as it is not our job to apprehend, or even nullify, the threat; your job is to look after yourself, your family, or your client. It’s a fact that law enforcement SWAT tactics don’t work against criminals and terrorists who know how to defend buildings, so conventional law enforcement SWAT training is something you can forget in this scenario.

    If you have to evacuate your home, office, hotel, or shopping mall, for whatever reason, it needs to be done quickly, quietly and with the minimum of fuss. You should always know where your escape routes and exits are but never use obvious ones as the criminals or terrorists will have thought of these and may have blocked, booby-trapped, or prepared ambushes on them. If there is an incident going on get as much information as possible as to where the threat is, and what is happening, and then start moving away from it using cover.

    Evacuating and Moving Through Buildings Tactically

  • Europe To Fuel Global Bulletproof Vests Market Outlook Through 2026

    An upsurge in the body armor demand across the world is likely to fuel the global bulletproof vests market expansion in the near future. In recent times, there have been numerous public protests worldwide due to religious, racial, or political differences, which is increasing the demand for safety components. Rising need for protection for the police and numerous law enforcement personnel will majorly increase the use of bulletproof vests.

    Europe To Fuel Global Bulletproof Vests Market Outlook Through 2026

  • Keeping Your Edge – Measured Responses in Tour Security – Part 3

    In the previous instalments of this ongoing series, we discussed the challenges faced by Protectors who work with entertainers that spend at least some portions of their career involved in stage performances.

    Keeping Your Edge – Measured Responses in Tour Security – Part 3

  • 10 Tips to a Healthier Life as a Protector

    Recently, I was having a conversation with a fellow member of the clergy about his goal of becoming a Navy chaplain. To my shock and… Read Now…

    10 Tips to a Healthier Life as a Protector

  • US Presidential Security Support

    One memorable occasion was the visit by President George W. Bush to Manila, the Philippines, in October 2003, when he on his way to Thailand, where he was to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. This visit served as a great example of how much of an asset you can be for the protective elements if you know and apply protective operations principles.

    US Presidential Security Support

Featured Articles

Workplace Violence

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

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, … >>>

Top Articles

Commercial Security Courses

A WORD OF WARNING FOR THOSE THINKING OF TAKING COMMERCIAL SECURITY COURSES AT HOME AND OVERSEAS Having dug around in … >>>

Industry News July 2020

Gavin de Becker adds Harry and Megan to his A-List clientele June 03 Los Angeles, CA The Duke and Duchess of Sussex … >>>

Three Keys to EP Success

From time to time some of the newer Executive Protection Specialist’s ask me questions about how to excel quicker and … >>>

Protection

Judgement Index

Predicting Performance and Risk The Judgement Index is a value-based analysis of judgement capacity, behaviour and stability; it is very abstract in its methodology yet highly accurate. Judgement Index UK has adapted the system, using 40 years of clinical … >>>

Utility of Force

It seems a strange anomaly to me that as a Close Protection Officer there is no requirement for me to have any physical intervention training.  I hear that there are plans afoot to make Protection Officers take the physical intervention module from the SIA … >>>

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Surveillance

The Danger of Unmanned Drones

Gil Boyd is an expert in physical security measures and warned us of the dangers of unmanned drones 4 years ago in this article he wrote for the Circuit. After the recent chaos caused by drones at Gatwick airport, London, UK, it would be worth reminding ourselves of the threat posed by this unregulated, flying […]

The Rise in the Use of CCTV in Court Proceedings

An estimated 5.9 million CCTV cameras were in operation throughout the UK in 2016, making the British public one of the most surveilled in the world. Only Beijing has more CCTV cameras than London, where the average person will be recorded on camera 300 times in one day.

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Hostile

UNDERPINNING RISK & CRISIS MANAGEMENT

RISK AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT SERIES   Often managers, decision-makers and even planners tend to think with a focused view within their own areas of expertise and influence. A financial manager, for instance, will consider the business bottom line and ways … >>>

AN INSIGHT INTO OPERATING IN SOMALIA

    Somalia, a lawless country located on the east coast of Africa, should be no stranger to anyone in the security industry. The hub of maritime piracy, an area that that has been at civil war for over thirty years and a country that many … >>>

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Training

Escaping the Kill Zone

Escaping the Kill Zone   Everyone has their own strategy when it comes to vehicle gun fighting. Most of it is based on television and with no sense of reality. NEWS FLASH - it doesn't work like on television.   Most people have never fired into … >>>

Relax

Relax I have been participating in quite a few discussions lately about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and the topic has come up in so many different circles that I thought that I should write a brief piece on it.  I have been discussing this with … >>>

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Maritime

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 of Tuna it was inevitable that … >>>

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

Why has this affected me so much?

  One of the things I’m often asked by security personnel suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is “Why has this affected me so much?”  They may have been working at the sharp end for many years and never had any issues or have dealt … >>>

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 … >>>

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