Category: UK bodyguards

• The importance of being a responsible and safety-conscious citizen in your community

  Leaving the comfort of your couch and going out to see what’s taking place can save people’s lives. Criminals don’t want to be captured and usually flee if confronted by witnesses. Making criminals aware that someone is watching is a powerful deterrent to their criminal activity and makes for a much safer community

  January 16, 2013

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• Being a Close Protection Operative: Your relationship with the client

  Sometimes maybe you wonder what kind of relationship you are allowed to have with your client because of the nature of your profession. You are spending many hours with him, sometimes good moments, sometimes bad. You are the one who is in presence in his important business meeting, or in his ‘’private and personal meetings’’.…

  May 27, 2012

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• Close Protection Operatives aka Bodyguards, do you know who they are?

  Many people seem to have a confusion about what a CPO is. Because is one of the professions that doesn’t have specific standards to follow, unfortunately there many non professionals who are giving the bad image in our industry. A Close Protection Operative is: – The person who is in charge to protect his/her client’s…

  August 10, 2011

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• Section: Professional Advices from Experienced Close Protection Operatives around the world.

  So you want to be a bodyguard? Lets have a look on a 48hours detail of a close protection agent. By Dave Marris High Risk Security Contractor & Security Consultant I have been pounded recently by requests from Facebook, and a couple of other sources, by requests from various people wanting to know how they…

  April 13, 2011

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• Do you know who you are hiring?

  Do we really know what the role of the Close Protection Agent is? Do we really know what characteristics they must have before we start hiring people? We have taken many times in the past analyzing what kind of training a CPO must have gone through, but this time, after the recent incident with Kate…

  February 1, 2011

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• Section: Professional Advices from Experienced Close Protection Operatives around the world.

  What do you expect? Some helpful hints to getting your foot in the door. By Jason Collins CPS, Security Consultant, CP Instructor You have taken the time to go through one of the many Executive Protection schools around the world. You’ve sacrificed time and money for this training. You’ve learned the core fundamentals to becoming…

  January 29, 2011

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• Section: Professional Advices from Experienced Close Protection Operatives around the world.

  From Georgios Liakouras Anti-Terrorism Specialist Agent, CPS About your Resume: It is what it is. Even if it is only 1 page, don’t ever lie about your qualifications or the personal information you are mentioning within the resume. It is not professional to lie because if a potential employer does their due diligence and researches…

  January 20, 2011

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• Working in the shadows

  A professional close protection team isn’t limited to the close protection operator observed standing next to the VIP. There are often personal protection operators working and contributing to the VIP’s safety from a distance and who are never seen by either members of the public or the media. Their job is as equally important to…

  November 30, 2010

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