After three-and-a-half years of savage war that killed over 250,000 people and dislocated 6 million more in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the warring parties of what was known as the Bosnian War […]
For military, police, and security professionals, the career demands that we are prepared to respond to a variety of threats and that we have the right equipment on us or with us to adequately respond. […]
Interpersonal skills are life skills used every day to communicate and interact with other people, individually and in groups. For close protection operatives/officers (CPOs), or bodyguards. These soft skills include aspects of self-management such as […]
Editor’s Note: A recent article published on the PSC website described a foreign protection assignment that included caring for the child of a protectee who was attending a public event that the child could not attend. […]
There are two parts to this narrative about how we took care of an A-List Hollywood star during his visits to China as a brand ambassador for our client, an international tier one luxury brand. […]
One of the earliest international executive protection missions I advanced was a multi-nation tour leaving from West Germany and traveling to Athens, Greece, the island of Crete, Istanbul, Turkey, and returning to West Germany. Our […]
This mission and my team were an afterthought. C-suite executives, including the CEO, and spouses of a major U.S. multi-national investment bank were coming to a Hong Kong conference. Protecting those executives during their busy […]
Curveballs are common in protective security. They range from minor, such as the boss wants to get out of the hotel for a late-night McDonalds visit, to critical like the one described here when interference […]
What is “Protective Intelligence?” To the executive protection analyst plugging away in a 24-hour operations center, protective intelligence is one thing. To the security consultant with an MA or MS in psychology, protective intelligence means […]
I had the honor of speaking at a Protective Security Council conference during which I heard an oft-repeated question among other executive protection practitioners in attendance, and incorporated into a number of other conference seminars […]
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