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Executive Protection: Contingency Planning

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Contingency planning by executives help to further protect them on the road. They are designed to help minimize your risk of being a victim of violent crime.

In addition to following these preventative steps, you may want to consider planning for contingencies in case an unfortunate situation does occur.

In the Marines, we first create the plan of how we’d like our mission to go. But then, we’d create numerous contingency plans or “What if…” scenarios.

How would you respond to certain scenarios?

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Executive Protection: High Risk Considerations

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When on the road, executives should protect themselves from high risk considerations. Let’s face it, most executives don’t travel with a bodyguard detail. They rely on their own skills and knowledge to keep themselves safe (or perhaps luck).

Some of the common high risk considerations are:

Terrorism.

In doing your advance recon, you should learn the level of terrorist activity within a country. Those statistics, plus your own monitoring of the news, should allow you to better assess the threat.

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Executive Protection: Get Your Affairs In Order

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When executives inquire how best to protect themselves while on the road, one of my first responses is:

Get your affairs in order.

In the event something did happen to you while on the road, it’s essential that you have your affairs arranged to minimize the impact on your friends and family.

Some things to consider as part of your pre-trip logistics are:

  • Itinerary. Have you shared it with your trusted advisor(s) and family.
  • Credit. Do you have ample credit on the cards you’re bringing. ...
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Executive Protection: How To Avoid The Authorities

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Sometimes executive protection can be as exciting as avoiding these two issues. More than any other cause, these result in more detentions and ‘incidents’ than any other reason.

Remember, when traveling, you’re subject to the local laws of where you’re visiting and not those of the state or country where you live.

Being familiar with important laws can keep you out of trouble. Ignore them at your own peril.

The famous latin expression of;

ignorantia juris non exusat” or Ignorance of the law does ...

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Executive Protection: Conduct Advance Reconnaissance

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Whether protecting yourself or hired to protect executives, it’s important to conduct advance Reconnaissance of your destination. It doesn’t matter whether you’re traveling internationally, or staying in your home country.

While in Special Forces, a vital step in our planning process involved conducting a Reconnaissance of an area or target.

Having been one of the operatives who conducted these ‘Recon’s’, I can tell you first hand of their importance. We’d collect information on the topography, enemy strength (and weakness). We’d survey bridges ...

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Executive Protection: Strategies On The Road

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If you’re an executive looking to maximize your protection and stay safe on the road, understand that it’s less about James Bond and more about the lottery.

Unless ‘they’ already have a dossier on you and are planning an ambush, you are more likely to be targeted for an opportunistic crime.
This means you “look valuable” and become a target based on your expensive clothes, jewelry and perceived importance. While flattering, this is not a James Bond movie, this is real ...

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