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Add You - What is a Bodyguard?........ A Secret Service Agent lookalike?........A Goon?........
United, A to Z Rental and Sales, Sunbelt Rentals, and Classic Party Rentals all made new acquisitions in 2005. These companies were able acquire the others with the hopes of making a bigger and better future for themselves.United purchased Atlantic Rentals of Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. United hopes to make a move in the Canadian market with the acquisition. The company now serves all 10 Canadian provinces and is on track to open 35 new operations this year.A to Z Rental and Sales bought 5 branches in the Pacific Northwest from HSS Hire Service Group of Britain. A to Z was also able to acquire all 14 remaining Colorado HSS RentX branche locations in Colorado.Sunbelt rentals acquired Northridge
All too often today, alleged professionals emerge, almost on a daily basis, having received their state license or ‘no’ license at all and hang up ‘shingles’ and conduct business. In New York or Florida, for examples, the require
There is a scene in a movie called “Facing the Giants” where the coach of a small high school has to inspire a team that hasn’t performed well and is used to failure. When the quarterback of the team indicates he doesn’t think they can win Friday’s game the coach pulls him aside for one of the most inspiring moments in the film.“Don’t you quit on me, Brock,” he commands the quarterback who is blindfolded and made to crawl on the football field with another player on his back. “Don’t you quit.”Foot by agonizing foot Brock moves across the football field thinking he was only going 20 yards. In the end the player collapses in the end zone. His fellow teammates stand in awe of the punishment it took to reach a goal Brock
In today’s world, security professionals refer to “bodyguards”, our associates, as “executive protection specialists" or "EP agents”.
In terms of answering the first question, “What is a bodyguard"; let’s first ask the question: What is Executive Protection?
Executive Protection is the integration and deployment of physical & technical security measures and countermeasures to protect the life of the protectee (person protected) and/or corporate asset or property.
Executive protection is not simply the traditional image of a "goon" guarding a dignitary, V.I.P. or celebrity. The modern protection agent image is centered on:
• a “non-confrontational, incident avoidance” professional.
• the offensive, tactical, assault minded individual serves his/her purpose in a “compound” environment.
• today’s executive protection specialist is trained to “cover and evacuate”.
PAST or TRADITIONAL IMAGE of an EXECUTIVE PROTECTION AGENT
• large stature • flashy clothes • always armed – legal or not • forceful & aggressive • “gofer” or “lackey” role • site protection only • overuse of personnel • not always trained or educated
CURRENT IMAGE of an EXECUTIVE PROTECTION AGENT
• average height • business dress • armed when necessary • diplomatic & flexible • security professional • 24/7 total protection • technology used when possible • educated & computer literate
The above comparison and/or delineation leads to an issue which is dear to my heart, because all too often in today’s business world, an unsuspecting client attempts to seek out a qualified professional and without knowing or realizing, the client calls on a firm or individual whom he or she has located through the yellow pages or internet, and winds up discussing their very serious issues with an individual directly from the above list: the past image of an Executive Protection Agent.
All too often today, alleged professionals emerge, almost on a daily basis, having received their state license or ‘no’ license at all and hang up ‘shingles’ and conduct business. In New York or Florida, for examples, the requirem
This is a scary statistic. Imagine how much more successful your event would be if you could get just half of those "undecided" folks to register. Imagine how much more energy there would be in the room, not to mention how much extra cash would be in your company's bank account.It's NOT an insignificant number.This is why automatic follow-up with registrants who "bail out" before they're done securing their seat is very important.Online registration makes life far easier on both event planners and registrants, but the right system can also increase attendance and decrease cost for your company.If you don't have an automated way of tracking folks who abandon registration forms half way through and
Executive Protection is the integration and deployment of physical & technical security measures and countermeasures to protect the life of the protectee (person protected) and/or corporate asset or property.
Executive protection is not simply the traditional image of a "goon" guarding a dignitary, V.I.P. or celebrity. The modern protection agent image is centered on:
• a “non-confrontational, incident avoidance” professional.
• the offensive, tactical, assault minded individual serves his/her purpose in a “compound” environment.
• today’s executive protection specialist is trained to “cover and evacuate”.
PAST or TRADITIONAL IMAGE of an EXECUTIVE PROTECTION AGENT
• large stature • flashy clothes • always armed – legal or not • forceful & aggressive • “gofer” or “lackey” role • site protection only • overuse of personnel • not always trained or educated
CURRENT IMAGE of an EXECUTIVE PROTECTION AGENT
• average height • business dress • armed when necessary • diplomatic & flexible • security professional • 24/7 total protection • technology used when possible • educated & computer literate
The above comparison and/or delineation leads to an issue which is dear to my heart, because all too often in today’s business world, an unsuspecting client attempts to seek out a qualified professional and without knowing or realizing, the client calls on a firm or individual whom he or she has located through the yellow pages or internet, and winds up discussing their very serious issues with an individual directly from the above list: the past image of an Executive Protection Agent.
All too often today, alleged professionals emerge, almost on a daily basis, having received their state license or ‘no’ license at all and hang up ‘shingles’ and conduct business. In New York or Florida, for examples, the require
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• the offensive, tactical, assault minded individual serves his/her purpose in a “compound” environment.
• today’s executive protection specialist is trained to “cover and evacuate”.
PAST or TRADITIONAL IMAGE of an EXECUTIVE PROTECTION AGENT
• large stature • flashy clothes • always armed – legal or not • forceful & aggressive • “gofer” or “lackey” role • site protection only • overuse of personnel • not always trained or educated
CURRENT IMAGE of an EXECUTIVE PROTECTION AGENT
• average height • business dress • armed when necessary • diplomatic & flexible • security professional • 24/7 total protection • technology used when possible • educated & computer literate
The above comparison and/or delineation leads to an issue which is dear to my heart, because all too often in today’s business world, an unsuspecting client attempts to seek out a qualified professional and without knowing or realizing, the client calls on a firm or individual whom he or she has located through the yellow pages or internet, and winds up discussing their very serious issues with an individual directly from the above list: the past image of an Executive Protection Agent.
All too often today, alleged professionals emerge, almost on a daily basis, having received their state license or ‘no’ license at all and hang up ‘shingles’ and conduct business. In New York or Florida, for examples, the require
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• average height • business dress • armed when necessary • diplomatic & flexible • security professional • 24/7 total protection • technology used when possible • educated & computer literate
The above comparison and/or delineation leads to an issue which is dear to my heart, because all too often in today’s business world, an unsuspecting client attempts to seek out a qualified professional and without knowing or realizing, the client calls on a firm or individual whom he or she has located through the yellow pages or internet, and winds up discussing their very serious issues with an individual directly from the above list: the past image of an Executive Protection Agent.
All too often today, alleged professionals emerge, almost on a daily basis, having received their state license or ‘no’ license at all and hang up ‘shingles’ and conduct business. In New York or Florida, for examples, the require
I am on my way to the quarterly status update with my Sales Manager. The last quarter has been terribly bad. We reached nowhere near the Sales target. Naturally, I am moving ahead with a great resistance and a palpitation rate of the highest order. I have no idea of what will turn out for me in the meeting.Fifteen minutes later, I come out of the room. There is a sigh of relief on my face; a similar _expression can be seen on my Sales Manager's face. As soon as I come to my cubicle - out of my Sales Manager's sight, this "sigh of relief" explodes into an _expression of joy - I DID IT, AND I DID IT AGAIN !!!I could convince him easily about why the sales couldn't happen this time, why I had absolutely nothing to do wi
All too often today, alleged professionals emerge, almost on a daily basis, having received their state license or ‘no’ license at all and hang up ‘shingles’ and conduct business. In New York or Florida, for examples, the requirement for providing Executive Protection or bodyguard services is possession of a Private Investigator’s license. There is no other training or experience required. This occurs all too often and these so called professionals present themselves as the Executive Protection expert “extraordinaire!
They forego any semblance of proper operational protocols such as ‘security advance work’ and usually without even conducting a proper threat or vulnerability assessment, offer to provide clients protective services and worse of all, at ‘cut’ rates.
They not only compromise the quality of service rendered the client, but they also dilute the profession, undermining the ‘qualified professionals’ out here and completely undermine the profession from a ‘business aspect’.
The bottom line is the unsuspecting client can’t understand why he or she is being quoted rates as low as $40 and as high as $200 per hour. Note: The truth be known, a client can easily procure services of a qualified professional for around $100-$125 per hour domestically and somewhat higher for international assignments.
The truth also be known, the majority of these ‘shingle hanging non-professionals’ couldn’t explain or expound on the essence of “Executive Protection, it’s procedures and concepts and probably do not know or understand the basic difference between a threat and vulnerability assessment.
Another untruth in this business is the belief that experience in the military, specifically, the ‘special ops’ experience, is critical to this field. This is so not true. Domestically, in the continental U.S., highly strategic, offensive combat experience is not the ‘end all’ and ‘be all’ when it comes to protective assignments. This experience, however, does have a seriously important role in some ‘very high risk’ environments, such as Colombia or Iraq, but the normal, routine, every day protective assignment is usually a ‘one man’ and sometimes a ‘two
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