Executive Protection and the Use of Firearms - A Study of a Representative Sample

There has been much discussion about the effectiveness of firearms in Executive Protection. For many protectors, as well as for the protected, guns mean protection and, moreover, an indispensable requirement to be able to exercise it. This is why we set ourselves the difficult task of determining, with data and facts, how effective firearms really are in [...]

Armed escorts at public events

I am skeptical about the use of weapons in executive protection, not because I think they are useless, but because their limited effectiveness is overstated and they often generate more problems than solutions. An example of this are two cases that occurred in less than a month: one in Argentina and the other in Mexico. The first [...]

The protégé as chief bodyguard, a major risk in executive security.

Executive protection, officials and celebrities... Evolving to the concept of CIRM

One of the most frequent and difficult problems for all of us who work in executive protection is undoubtedly the fact that most of the protégés assume two different roles at the same time: one that corresponds naturally to them as protégés, and another, which does not correspond to them, as heads of their own [...].

Chance can no longer be the foundation of Executive Protection.

Executive Protection is a profession that has been undergoing an unreasonable development. Over the decades, this activity has focused on increasing its capacity to respond to an attack, which, according to the facts, is totally illogical. When analyzing the assassinations, assassination attempts and kidnappings committed in the last century, it [...]

Drones: emerging threat in Executive Protection.

In early November of this year, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi escaped unharmed from an attack when a drone loaded with explosives struck his residence in a high security zone in Baghdad, Iraq, injuring six of his bodyguards. If we take into account that organized crime groups are [...]

A strong slap in the face for French presidential security.

On June 8, 2021, during a visit to the town of Tain-l'Hermitage, located in southeastern France, a man slapped French President Emmanuel Macron. We don't know how much the blow hurt the French president, but it certainly stung the French security agencies, particularly the [...]

Executive protection, between knowing how to shoot or knowing how to sell?

When we think of the skills that a protector must have, the first thing that comes to mind are the spectacular executive protection courses in which participants use weapons of all calibers; perform all kinds of physical and motorized acrobatics; carry the executive in a "necktie" while running and shooting at [...]

Counter-surveillance in Executive Protection: most important but least used.

Several months ago I wrote an article on the non-existent structure of prevention in executive protection, with particular emphasis on the absence of counter-surveillance in daily operations, to which some colleagues commented to me that the counter-surveillance measure has been a known method in Mexico for many years. Of course, I never said [...].

Executive protection training; an amusement park.

Executive protection training could certainly be considered a postmodern activity, as fantasy and imagination prevail over reality. This profession is also probably the only one in which protectors are trained in something they may never use in their working life, while they are trained in something they may never use in their [...]

The three major problems of deterrence in Executive Protection.

Deterrence was undoubtedly one of the pillars of traditional executive protection. Weapons, patrols and numerous intimidating agents were intended to discourage any hostile person or group that might pose a threat to the protégé. However, like most of the measures previously used in our profession, it also [...]

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