Executive protection

src: www.securitas.com

Executive Protection (EP), also known as strict protection , refers to security and risk mitigation measures being taken to ensure the safety of VIPs or other individuals who may be exposed to increased personal risks because of their work, high profile status, net worth, affiliation or geographic location.

Video Executive protection

Overview

Protective measures may include home security systems, bodyguards, armored vehicles and vehicle braking plans, mail filtering, personal jet travel, background checks for other employees, and other precautions. Executive protection can also provide security for immediate and/or extended family members to prevent kidnappings and extortion.

Executive protection is a very specialized field within the private security industry. Professional elite executive protection will have special training in executive protection, driving, first aid, and firing skills.

The term executive protection was created in 1970 by the US Secret Service when they created the Executive Protection Service to keep the visiting foreign official.

In the United States, executive protection services are regulated at the state level and in most cases require separate licenses, insurance, training and permits. In addition, the Law Enforcement Law Enforcement Official 2004 (aka HR-218) does not serve as a license for law enforcement officers who are not tasked with providing executive protection services. Employing unlicensed and uninsured protection services, including those offered by unskilled law enforcement officers, creates direct responsibility for the client.

Any bona fide executive protection firm should be able to provide prospective clients with:

• Country-issued Corporate Business License (HR-218 or retired law enforcement status no replace this document)
• State-issued registrations to provide protection services (HR-218 or retired law enforcement status do not replace this document)
• Copy of current liability insurance
• Personal certificates of initial and ongoing executive protection training for each agent
• Registration issued by the state to provide protection services for each agent
• State-issued registration allows agents to carry weapons for professional use. (HR-218 or status as retired law enforcement officer not replace this document)
• State-issued secret permissions for individual agents (HR-218 may replace this document)

The executive protection team may have agents that appear in multiple roles to better protect clients, including:

• Lead Details
• Detailed Lead Assistant (Detail Manager)
• Tactical Commander
• Motorbike Retrieval
• Advance Lead
• Mobile Agent
• Static Agent
• Protective Intelligence Agent

Executive protection is sometimes a common good, usually when it fails. As an example:

• On July 19, 2011, Rupert Murdoch was locked up in London during the Parliament hearing.
• In 1998, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was besieged in Belgium.

There are different types of executive protection. They can generally be divided into the following categories:

• High threat protection for internationally traveling officials
• Protection of corporate executives for high net-worth company officials
• Celebrity melee protection

The defining characteristics among these categories are first, the amount of resources available for the task, and the two types of environments they operate on a regular basis.

Maps Executive protection

References

src: esecurityspecialist.com

Further reading

• June, Dale (1998). Introduction to Executive Protection . Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press. 978-0849381287.
• Oatman, Robert (2006). Executive Protection: New Solution for a New Era . Baltimore, Md.: Noble House. 978-1561679423.
• Braunig, Martha J. (1993). The Executive Protection Bible . Aspen, Colo.: ESI Education Development Corp. ISBN: 978-0-9640627-0-2.
• De Becker, Gavin (2002). Fear Less: The Truth About Risk, Security, and Security in Terrorism . Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-08596-0.
• De Becker, Gavin (1997). The Gift of Fear: The Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence . Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-23502-0.
• De Becker, Gavin, Thomas A. Taylor, and Jeff Marquart (2008). Only 2 Seconds: Using Time and Space to Beat the Killer: with Compendium Attacks on Risk People . Studio City, Calif.: Gavin de Becker Center for Violence Studies and Reduction. ISBN 978-0-615-21447-4. [www.just2seconds.org]
• De Becker, Gavin (1999). Protecting Gifts: Keeping Kids and Teens Safe (and Parents Sane) . New York: Press Dial. ISBN 978-0-385-33309-2.
• Karlin, Susan (November 8, 2007). "Covering Your Assets". CondÃÆ' Â © Nast Portfolio .
• Karlin, Susan (November 8, 2007). "How to Choose an Executive Protection Company". CondÃÆ' Â © Nast Portfolio .
• Karlin, Susan (December 9, 2007). "Secret Weapons of the Stars". ISRAEL21c.
• Kobetz, Richard W., ed. (1991). Provide Executive Protection . [1] Executive Protection Agency. ISBN 978-0-9628411-0-1, ISBN 978-0-9628411-1-8.
• Kobetz, Richard W., ed. (1994). Provide Executive Protection, Volume II . [2]: Executive Protection Agency. ISBN 978-0-9628411-1-8.
• Oatman, Robert L. (1997). Art of Executive Protection . Baltimore, Md.: Noble House. ISBN 978-1-56167-384-1.
• Colliver, "Rick" R.E. (2011). "Primary Protection, Lessons learned". Dublin, Oh.: Terrapin Group Publications.
• Patrick Van Horne and Jason A. Riley (2014). "Left of Bang How Marine Corps Combat Programs Can Save Your Life". New York, NY: Black Irish Entertainment LLC. ISBN 978-1-93689-130-6.

Source of the article : Wikipedia