child safety

We are giving away 2 full Scholarships!

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We are giving away 2 full Scholarships! Donate to our “Bodyguards for Kids” Fundraising Event and enter to win an Executive Protection Specialist Course offered by Independent Security Advisors LLC, or a Surveillance Driving Course offered by Optimal Risk Group Ltd!


Not only will your donation be making a change and helping children in need, but it is also your ticket to our virtual educational event, and what a line of speakers we have! Plus, it is your ticket to our raffle prizes! Thank you to our donors for their generous offers on the scholarships! You are truly bringing our industry together!

“Bodyguards for Kids” the first annual fundraising event for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is now officially open and ready to accept your donations. Join us for our two-day virtual educational event as we are hosting 17+ subject matter experts from different countries.


Why participate?
1) Your donation is helping children in need and making a difference in their lives, first and foremost!
2) Your donation is your ticket to our educational event where, for only $39, you will have the chance to learn from 16+ Subject Matter Experts.
3) Your donation is also your ticket to our raffle prizes for a chance to win an Executive Protection course scholarship, books, and other great prizes!
4) This event will unite the security industry. No matter where you stand, no matter how you feel, this is for the kids…Do it!

We have also created multiple options for an individual or a company to contribute, participate in our event, and get highlighted as an Individual or Corporate Sponsor.

Minimum donation for individuals to be listed as event sponsors $250.
Minimum donation for companies to be listed as event sponsors $500.

For detailed information about our event, educational courses, speakers, and their bios please visit: www.bodyguardsforkids.com
After your donations, please contact us at info@lemareschal.com to be sent the event zoom invitation or to be listed for one of the above sponsorships options.

And don’t forget this event is for the kids! Let’s bring awareness about our industry and the human side of Executive Protection!

Boys aggressively targeted on Instagram and Snapchat, analysis of Cybertip.ca data shows

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Parents, pay attention! “Adolescent boys are being targeted primarily on social media giants Instagram® and Snapchat® as part of an ongoing sextortion crisis, an analysis of July Cybertip.ca data by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) shows.
For the month of July 2022, Cybertip.ca has opened case files for 322 victims of sextortion:
When the gender victim was known, 92 percent of cases involved boys or young men;
Sixty‑three percent of victims reported they did not disclose the incident to trusted person;
Fifty percent of victims were under than 18 years of age, 37 were 18 years or older. In 13 percent of cases, the victim’s age was unknown;
When the platform used to facilitate the harm was disclosed, Instagram (42 percent) and Snapchat (38 percent) were by far the most frequently used social media environments where victims were targeted. Whatsapp® (5.6 percent), Facebook® (3.6 percent), and Apple’s iMessage® (1.2 percent) were the next closest platforms in terms of frequency.”

Read the full report at: https://lnkd.in/gP3nkJ4h

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Child kidnapping prevention!

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In this article Orlando “Andy” Wilson, talks about child kidnapping prevention.

”Children are especially vulnerable to kidnapping as their natural inquisitiveness can be exploited by kidnappers and pedophiles and most nannies or drivers are not security trained, also many kindergartens and schools have very low standards of security. And most parents think that something as horrific as having their child kidnapped will never happen to them… But is does happen, and in such cases prevention is far better than hoping for happy endings that the chances are, will not materialize.

Most people think of kidnap for ransom situations when we discuss kidnapping but another type of domestic kidnapping is where an estranged parent will take a child they do not have legal custody for. These situations can become very complicated if the child is taken to or is in another country, as the local laws usually take precedence. The Hague Child Abduction Convention is the international law that tends to be used for child custody disputes but how this is interpreted at local levels is another thing. A single parent may have custody of their child in U.S. or Western Europe, but if their ex-partner is a citizen of say an Asian or Middle Eastern country and manages to get the child there, the local courts will most probably give them custody.” read the full article HERE