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Executive Protection Overview
Executive protection (EP) is a service which boosts productivity and mitigates the elevated and ever-changing personal risks, threats, and vulnerabilities of individuals due to their prominence, wealth, occupation, reputation, travel destinations, or other factors. Services include secure travel logistics, close personal protection, intelligence analysis, and related measures to ensure the productivity and safety of the principal wherever and whenever necessary. In addition to providing peace of mind for prominent individuals and their families, many corporate boards mandate executive protection for CEOs and other principals. This mandate fulfills duty-of-care requirements to safeguard shareholder interests which are often contingent upon the wellbeing of these principals.
Enhanced productivity for the principal is more than a byproduct of executive protection. This is a goal, and frequently the most tangible near and long-term benefit of best-in-class corporate executive protection programs. Ultimately, the mission of 91Ƶ® Enhanced Protection Services is Keeping our Clients Safe, Happy, and Productive®, and the goal of the EPT-201 training program is to help ensure that EP agents receive the proper tools to accomplish this critical mission.
The Executive Protection Training Program (EPT-201)
91Ƶ® Enhanced Protection Services offers the Executive Protection Training Program (EPT-201) training program primarily in Las Vegas, Nevada and Summit Point, West Virginia. The comprehensive program culminates in a capstone, full-mission-profile situational training exercise in which students are evaluated on the entire spectrum of skills that encompass the course curriculum.
The six-day, 54-plus hour course utilizes a hybrid combination of live, instructor-led training combined with web-based online components. The training program is designed to deliver a very comprehensive blend of both soft and hard skills for executive protection professionals of all experience levels, including entry-level, novice, and seasoned practitioners currently protecting Fortune 500 principals, C-Suite ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and public figures.
Performance Objectives
- Mission of executive protection
- The Corporate environment for ultra-high-net-worth-individuals
- 91Ƶ Enhanced Protection Services culture
- Agent conduct, wellness, and daily best practices
- Legal and ethical considerations
- Organization of the protective detail
- Concepts of security and protective rings
- Executive protection arrivals
- Executive protection departures
- Walking coverage
- Protective intelligence
- Advance planning
- Site surveys
- Technology, communications, and specialized equipment
- Legal physical response
- Active threat mitigation and response
- Modes of transportation
- TSCM and room sweeps
- Limo driving
- Other related subject matter
What Makes this Executive Protection Training Program different from others?
Many training academies focus on the government executive protection model of the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Department of State, and other federal and state-level organizations. However, our curriculum is focused on training our agents to support private sector C-Suite ultra-high-net-worth embedded clients, domestically and internationally.
Rather than training agents to operate in three-car motorcades and multi-agent details like the government model, the curriculum focuses on the more realistic mission profile typical of C-Suite executives or ultra-high-net-worth principals. A common EP detail in today’s enviorment may include one to three agents and one or two motorcade vehicles in support. It’s more common in the corporate setting to see an agent providing a “loose follow” coverage of a principal rather than being an arm’s length away or part of a diamond formation around the principal, typical of the government EP model. This protection coverage is reflective of actual concepts being provided to current contracts of high-net-worth individuals, Fortune 500, and Fortune 50 companies.
While hard skills are certainly important, the course focuses on the “probable versus possible” contingencies while weighing the “risk versus service” components of executive protection. While an attack-on-principal is certainly a possibility, it is more probable for agents to deal with the daily challenges of vehicle collisions, vehicle maintenance issues, lost luggage, last minute travel modifications, non-attack medical emergencies, and a myriad of other considerations. Our course focuses on these probable issues. Additionally, the emphasis in training is to focus on proactive soft, human skills so agents may remain “left of bang” and stay ahead of contingencies through solid executive protection program leadership, proper vetting and selection of security professionals, extensive mission planning, sound protective intelligence and detailed advance work.
This course strives to instruct students on the “why” behind executive protection practices. It is not enough for students to be able to simply perform the concepts, but to be able to persuade, defend, and instruct clients, principals, and others on industry standard best practices. The curriculum is meant to equip students with recent and relevant training to prepare them to seamlessly apply these concepts to the corporate setting. This training program recognizes the “primary learning” concept, which is, an individual will fall back to the primary learning concepts they first received. For this reason, the curriculum recognizes the importance of instilling “best practices” which are directly applicable to the environment the agents will be operating in and will avoid training scars.
Who Should Attend?
Instruction is provided by the 91Ƶ Enhanced Protection Services operations and training team. Each instructor possesses decades of recent, relevant real-world operational experience in both domestic and international environments.
Who Provides the Training?
Instruction for the EPA-301 is provided by the 91Ƶ Executive Protection and Intelligence operations and training teamEach instructor possesses decades of recent / relevant real-world operational experience in both domestic and international environments.
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