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Protection Specialist Course
General Description
The Close Protection Specialist (CPS)
course is run in conjunction with Globe Risk and is designed to
qualify individuals in the duties and responsibilities of a CPS
team member. This program covers all of the organizational, practical
and theoretical elements of VIP protection through a combination
of classroom and hands on training. The course is an integrated
academic and practical regime intended to bring the graduate to
an operation level as a CPS team member
This course is challenging both
physically and mentally and will produce a high quality Close Protection
Specialist on successful completion.
Instructors are former members of military Special Forces units
or Tactical Teams, including the British Special Air Service (SAS)
and the Canadian Airborne Regiment. Each has extensive training
and internationally operational experience in the field of Close
Protection and Security. The Chief Instructor (CI) for the course
has provided security for Presidents, Prime Ministers, Royal families
and Pope John Paul II.
They combine operational and instructional experience to form one
of the best operational and training teams in the industry. Our
instructors are operationally skilled in: Close protection, Counter
terrorism, intelligence gathering and tactical operations.
Working on a team approach for delivering each training course.
This ensures that the best experience can be directed in the most
cost-effective manner to each course curriculum. The most technically
competent instructors are used at each stage of the training, whilst
at the same time ensuring that programs are devolved to the lowest
practical staff level to ensure cost effectiveness of the overall
training package.
Course Details
The CPS course is conducted over a seven-day
period, not including weapons training. In order to train and familiarize
each student with the realities of CP work, the training takes place
over the full 24-hour period each day of the course. No exceptions.
All training needs are covered during the course including lodging,
meals, weapons, ammunition, vehicles and insurance.
Training will take place in the classroom, in the local area and
in major cities during the exercise phase. Great care has been taken
to place the student in an atmosphere, which will permit them to
experience the stresses of close protection work while challenging
them to perform at their best.
Our training program is intended to make the student operationally
ready upon graduation. As such, stress levels are slowly increased
during the progress of the course to evaluate personal character,
teamwork and overall performance. This manner of instruction is
utilized by elite Special Forces units to select and train operational
personnel and as such has been adopted by Globe Risk as its preferred
method of training and selecting Close Protection Specialists.
Students are expected to arrive by 1200 hours on the day before
the course commences and are expected to arrive prepared to give
a 100% effort at all times. Evaluation of each student is conducted
over a 24-hour period each day.
Course Content
Close Protection work can be both glamorous and exciting but the
true satisfaction comes from planning and executing a complex itinerary
and keeping the principal safe and secure while successfully overcoming
a variety of unexpected challenges. Due to this reality, Globe Risk
focuses its' course content and attention on preparing each student
for the realities associated with close protection work by giving
them the tools necessary to operate effectively on a close protection
detail.
A significant portion of the course will include practical exercises
that have been designed to expose students to the realities of close
protection work while instilling in them valuable lessons that will
assist them in keeping themselves and their principal's safe.
The Close Protection Specialist course will include the following
subjects:
- Close protection theory
- CP & the law
- Dress, deportment & etiquette
- CP equipment
- CP team duties
- SOP development
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- CP team organization
- CP orders
- Vehicle & foot drills
- Evasive Driving
- Convoy procedures
- Vehicle Anti ambush drills
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- Principal profiling
- Threat, risk, vulnerability assessment
- Venue security planning
- Security advance planning
- Bomb recognition
- Unarmed Combat
- Weapons training
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Weapons Training
The
weapons training portion of the course is a three-day option which
students may elect to take. Weapons' training is conducted on site
utilizing state of the art facilities and advanced Special Forces
techniques. Canadian students are required to hold a valid Possession
and Acquisition License (PAL) prior to engaging in advanced weapons
training. International students, who do not hold the above Canadian
Certificate, must demonstrate prior to attendance on course, their
previous firearms training and experience.
Subjects covered include but are not limited to:
Concealed carry and drawing from same.
- Weapons selection
- Instinctive shooting (live fire).
- 360 % multiple target acquisition.
- Vehicle considerations
- Use of body armour
- Live CP team drills
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