Personal protection, executive protection or bodyguard all describe the profession that provides protection of an individual or small group, usually family or corporate. The fear of kidnapping or revenge injury to a loved one of your actions and decisions weighs heavy on some. Threats to a professional, politician or celebrity are common.
For the DIY types and those on a budget they will have to rely on chemical deterrents like Mace or pepper spray, stun guns and Tasers or person alarms and pain compliance devices like keychain kubotans. A more lethal approach is a CCW permit and either firearms or edged devices use for self protection.
Celebrity Bodyguards
But the executive protection bodyguard is preferred by most. For celebrities their personal protection personnel provide a buffer between them and overzealous fans, provide protection in stalking situations and facilitate movement when attending certain public venues screening against the paparazzi.
Senators, Congressman & Politicians May Have Secret Service Protection at Capital But Not at Home!
Politicians by the very nature of their social participation in public affairs are vulnerable to everything from simple harassment to actual physical bodily harm and other threats of violence. Some professionals attract the public ire. Criminal and civil justice workers have found themselves the target of a vengeful family member, or an aggressive agenda of some activist group, and discover the need for personal protection.
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The executive protection specialist needs to be calm but alert. Training in open hand defensive systems is a must, as most actions take place in close quarters much to quickly to draw a weapon or defensive tool. Those with the strength speed of execution and expertise in open hand self-defense techniques can control a situation drawing little attention to themselves or their patron. Confidence, physical fitness, good reaction speed, an alert attentiveness and a grasp of close quarter tactical thinking and perhaps the highest consideration of all is experience, the characteristics define the ideal personal protection expert. For most of those who are targets of the stalker, political violence or have professional vulnerabilities, the DIY approach is probably not a viable alternative to one or two protection personnel, most just don’t have the situational awareness, mindset or skills to respond to a threat or breach of personal space.
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Generally depicted in the movies as protein guzzling behemoths, many of these proficient individuals are of average size, have the ability to blend and include many females professionals. Personal protection operatives came to the public’s attention during the first gulf war when military personnel where seen with their non-uniformed and apparently civilian guards. Subsequently firms that provided the bulk of executive protection for not only the coalition flag ranks but protected indigenous high profile politicians were impressed on the public conscious. Of course the Achaemenid emperors had their 10,000 strong imperial guards, the Immortals. A bit extravagant by today’s standards but it illustrates the fact that the personal or executive protection expert has been with us since ancient times. Anciently these executive protection types where drawn from the elite formations of the empire’s armies. So personal protection is a time honored tradition.
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