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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...].
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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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