Bodyguard Training
Bodyguard training, often referred to in professional circles as Executive Protection Training, can be a pathway to an exciting and lucrative career.
Bodyguard Training Schools
PFI Solutions
For over a decade, PFI has been involved in the training of individuals and teams for executive protection, security services, protective driving and counter-intelligence. Paul French, the C.E.O, has over 20 years of experience including the close protection of senior government officials, royalty, numerous corporate executives and media personalities. He has led details on four continents in a range of threat levels and environments, from Hanoi to Hollywood, Key West to Kazakhstan and many other places between. PFI regularly offers three executive protection related courses. Introduction to Executive Protection (2 Days), EP MasterClass (7 Days) and Security Driver / Escort (2 Days). Our classes are taught by experienced close protection operators who provide real world insight into the role of the protective agent. PFI is located in Los Angles, CA, where we are able to provide attendees with field training exercises in a town where close protection is one of the predominant security services requested.
Executive Protection Institute
The premier professional program to certify men and women to perform in the new career field of Personal Protection. The Executive Protection Institute offers a wide range of course for the Executive Protection professional. These courses include: So You Want To Be A (Bodyguard) Personal Protection Specialist (PPS), Managing Physical Security, Corporate Aircraft Security, VIP Protection for Law Enforcement, Providing Executive Protection, and more.
Enterprising Securities
Enterprising Securities offers a range of Executive Protection and Corporate Security courses, including: Executive and Close Protection, Advanced Protection Operations, Security Driver, Security Surveys and Vulnerability Assessments, Individual Terrorist Awareness Course (INTAC), Senior Team Leader, Career Development for the Protection Specialist, Professional Etiquette, and Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Search and Protocol.
OPS: Options for Personal Security
Cutting Edge Firearms, Self-Defense, and Tactical Training Across the U.S.A. OPS offers a two-day course in Executive Protection Fundamentals. The Executive PRotection Fundamentals cCourse will provide you with critical Executive Protection skills required to protect your Principal in both permissive and high threat environments. This curriculum is geared towards practical application of proven methods. Topics covered include Executive Protection roles and missions, route surveys, hasty and formal advances, embarking and disembarking from vehicles, walking formations, cover and evacuate drills, and vehicular operations. This class includes a high intensity field exercise in which you and your fellow students will work as a mock protective detail, facing a variety of challenges in real time.
Corporate Security International, Inc.
Corporate Security International, Inc. is designated a Certified Training Institute (number NCPPSCT10002) by the North Carolina Private Protective Services Board. Some of the programs we offer are for SRT / Swat Teams, and others are for police / security offficers.
Executive Security International
ESI is the oldest Executive Protection, Bodyguard Training, Academy in the world to offer 2000 hours of peer reviewed Certification Programs for Protection and Security Specialist in Executive Protection, Protective Intelligence and Investigation.
Gryphon Group International, Inc.
Defensive driving, executive protection, and surveillance courses in Florida and Australia.
BlackWater Training Center
Blackwater Training Center offers shooting and Executive Protection Courses
Praesidia Defence
Executive Protection & Business Security: Use the knowledge of former members of German government security services, combined with international experience. Praesidia Defence offers a 12 day Basic Executive Protection Course and a 16 day Intensive Executive Protection course. In addition, Praesidia Defense offers a 5 day Advanced Executive Protection refresher course and 3 day seminars on both Terrorist Tactics and Protective Surveillance.
John Brawn
Ireland's leading self defence and self protection instructor. Seminars and workshops in subjects from self defence and fitness to assertiveness and body language throughout Ireland and the UK.
International Mobile Training Team
The International Mobile Training Team is a group of professionals who design, develop and instruct weapons, security, law enforcement and special operations courses. We travel world wide, anywhere and anytime! We have literally traveled the globe training foreign nationals and US assets.
Scotti School
Swiss training school with courses in Firearms Training and Law Enforcement Skills, Professional Driver Training, and Executive Protection Training.
Tactical Response
If power comes from diversity, Tactical Response Incorporated is truly powerful. Our Instructors come from various and diverse backgrounds. Our staff is comprised of Military, SWAT, and Civilian experts in weapons, tactics, hand-to-hand, and the most important aspect: mindset. Gunwriters, Operators, and Top Shooters make up our Internationally recognized group of professional trainers and each is motivated to pass along as much knowledge as you are willing to accept. We don't care if you are a Dentist, Navy SEAL, Computer Geek, Concerned Citizen, or Patrolman. No matter what you do for a living, we will always treat you with respect; and you will receive the best training available, regardless of cost. It is our belief that Warriors come from all walks of life and that all Warriors are our brothers. Some we have just not met yet...
Williams Associates Protective Services
Williams Associates Protective Services is a full service tactical firearms training and executive security consulting firm with our main offices located in Shelton, CT. USA. In our efforts to impart our philosophy upon our clients and students that it is NOT enough to survive a violent confrontation, but that you MUST win at all costs, we utilize our expertly trained former Military, Close Security, and Law Enforcement personnel, and provide a range of training services designed to meet the needs of our clients from fully structured training programs designed for citizens, security / law enforcement, and military personnel to custom developed hybrid and individual training programs designed for those with limited time but still requiring professional training in firearms and tactics.
Incredible Adventures
Bodyguard Training in Moscow, Russia. Instructors are top executive protection experts and instructors from the Russian government and Special Forces. Learn and practice solo, 2, 3, and 4 man bodyguard skills. Course material includes cover and evacuation drills, close protection and protective surveillance principles and techniques, firearms training, and counter explosives techniques.
Bodyguard Service International Ltd.
Bodyguard Service International offers a 10 day (Basic) Executive Close Protection Program and a 30 day (Advanced) Executive Close Protection Program.
Clearwater Bodyguard Training
Drawing on years of collective experience, the members of Clearwater Associates Special Projects now offer exclusive Close Protection Operative training. More commonly known in the public eye as "Bodyguarding" Training. This course is significantly different from other training currently available; it is an absolutely factual course and will teach the student everything they need to know at entry level to the Close Protection industry.
International Association of Professional Protection Specialists
IAPPS Academy offers a two-day Introduction to Executive Protection, a four day Executive Protection One, and a seven day Executive Protection Master Class.
Center for Advanced Security Studies
The Center for Advanced Security Studies is a discrete, professional organization which trains and employs Close Protection Officers (bodyguards) worldwide but with a special focus on South America. The Center for Advanced Security Studies deals with large multi-national corporations down to families in need, sometimes as a result of kidnapping. The center runs the longest and most intensive commercial protection course available. This course was originally only available to Military Special Forces or Police Hostage Rescue Units. This course is not for everyone. It is both long and intensive. Successful candidates need to be highly motivated and reasonably fit. Most of all they need to come with a good attitude and a desire to learn. The goal of this course is to produce an absolutely first class bodyguard, ready for "high risk" employment Worldwide. This goal is achieved by maintaining an excellent student teacher ratio (usually about 3:1). The focus is on realism and hands on type training. The graduation exercise is a multi day scenario, entailing a very challenging mission planning sequence culminating in an extremely complex live fire exercise. Finally, all course graduates will immediately partake in a 2-5 day actual operation. During this time, you will be under the supervision of our own highly experienced cadre of operators. Finally, this exercise is an excellent opportunity to get a "feel" for what being a bodyguard school graduate is all about, not to mention exposure to potential clients and a nice start to a bodyguard resume.
ISA Academy
ISA Academy provides up to date bodyguard training services. ISA trains bodyguards, politce. law enforcement, counter terrorism, and security personnel from all over the world. Your training will be spent practicing and studying a wide variety of tactical, protective and security related topics. The ISAAcademy curriculum also includes intensive training in defensive tactics, practical exercises and the use of firearms. Several tests will be administrated in all areas to monitor the progress of each student. Close protection officers giving high profile cover.
Trojan Securities International
Trojan offers an Advanced Executive Protection Training course. Trojan makes an all round operator, which can do executive protection, surveillance, basic tactical operations and counter actions. These are essential skills needed for operating in countries where it is politically unstable, you could be placed in a situation that does not even have anything to do with your current assignment. The advanced executive protection training course, is the most complete training package we offer, which covers executive protection, counter actions, surveillance, close quarters combat and executive hostage rescue. The training was developed for operating in hostile environments.
Israeli Special Forces
Israel Special Forces provides courses and training in various security-related areas. We give bodyguard training, self-defense classes, first aid lessons and more. Our classes are for citizens, for the army and for other security personnel. The courses are given by some of the best Israeli army instructors.
Task International
TASK International is recognised as one of if not the foremost civilian close protection training organisation in the UK. It is accredited by the UK Government Security Industry Training Organisation, (SITO), International accrediting authority BTEC/EDEXCEL, which issues its Advanced Diploma, Northern Colleges of Further Education, (NCFE), the UK Government Security Industry Authority and the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS). The standard TASK course in the UK has been adapted for US operatives and is being run in South Florida at the Miccosukee Hotel Resort, Miami. It runs for 12 days, including a middle weekend to take full advantage of candidates attendance, reduce the amount of dead time and of course value for money. The programme covers all essential elements of close protection techniques.
Bodyguard Training Videos
Now, for the first time ever offered on video, you can go inside the school that trains professional bodyguards. The lessons presented in these videos have never before been so completely captured in detail on film. The training presented in these videos is the same training taught to agents assigned to protect celebrities, dignitaries, and heads of state worldwide. The BODY FOR HIRE video series gives you the basic building blocks to begin your career as a professionally trained personal protection specialist. Many working bodyguards today don't actually have a professional background in this field. They were merely physically big enough, or bluffed enough to get hired. The people that hired them use them as "window dressing" security. And they pay them much less than what a professional would receive. Typically these untrained guards earn less than $20,000 annually. But with professional training, they could easily command $60,000 or more. The key is their training. Join an elite group of men and women providing professional personal protection to a growing list of clients. Order the BODY FOR HIRE video training series and start building your career today.
Body For Hire; The Complete Bodyguard Training Series
Several years ago I recruited a number of world class, experienced military and law enforcement professionals for a new training project. These instructors were drawn from the former ranks of the U.S. Army's DELTA force, the U.S. Department of Energy's top-secret security service, and some of America's most active law enforcement SWAT teams. Each instructor came to Hawk East, Inc.'s training program with special talents and skills as the country's best teachers. The VIP Protection Specialist Training Course comes from this program. Most on-site VIP Protection Specialist training courses cost thousands of dollars to attend. Now, you can begin your training for a fraction of that price. This DVD set contains all three videos comprising the complete Body For Hire VIP Protection basic course. -- Roger Hair, President of Hawk East, Inc.
Books for Bodyguard Training
Executive Protection: A Professional's Guide To Bodyguarding
Being a bodyguard is not all sunglasses, dark suits and muscle. This book debunks the myths and stereotypes and describes the realities of protecting celebrities, executives and foreign dignitaries. Executive protection specialist Benny Mares tells you how to get in on the ground floor of this expanding field.
The Executive Protection Professional's Manual
There is a big difference between an "Executive Protection Professional" and a "Bodyguard." This book separates truth from myth. Two authors, both experts in their respective fields, give you the facts and critical knowledge about the field of executive protection. Together they provide a wealth of knowledge about this unique and exciting field. This book not only explains what it takes to be an executive protection specialist but gives other valuable information as well. This includes, tips on defensive tactics, bomb search, searching for bugging devices, firearms training tips, defensive and evasive driving, and advance reconnaissance. This unique book also covers how to select the area of executive protection that you would like to work in, what you should make, the interview, and stories from real life experiences of an executive protection professional. Philip Holder is the creator of the Six Zone Safeguard System of Self Defense (Sometimes called the Sidewinder System after his "Sidewinder Executive Protection Consultants"). He is also the chief Instructor and Grandmaster of the North American Wing Chun Association and its Ying Gi Ga method of Wing Chun Kung Fu. His many years as an executive protection professional (EPP), his work as an executive protection consultant, and as a personal trainer, along with his 35 years in the martial arts and his experience in full contact fighting all come together to provide a true sense of realism in his classes and seminars. Donna Lea Hawley is a retired lawyer who has written a number of books and articles on law, firearms, hunter education, and self defense. She teaches seminars on sports liability, shooting, carrying concealed weapons, the law of self defense and use of deadly force, and self defense for the past fifteen years. She is a firearms instructor who has taught over a thousand people shooting skills and firearms safety. She holds six NRA Instructor Certifications.
The Art of Executive Protection
This book gets high marks for authoritativeness and relevance. Robert Oatman is a highly regarded leader in executive protection, and the importance of that field becomes more obvious every day. Gianni Versace and Princess Diana are not the only people who could have benefited from better protection. Business travelers, people who are relatively well-off financially, and people who are recognizable to potential wrongdoers . . . all can gain from learning about the advantages of executive protection. Anyone considering a career in providing executive protection should also read the book.
The Bodyguard Manual: Protection Techniques of the Professionals
Although military operations against terrorist forces often garner the headlines, those who protect government, military, and business leaders from assassination or kidnapping are also in the front lines against terrorism. Ready and prepared to place his body between his employer and a bullet, the bodyguard must be able to blend into the milieu around his charge, yet be ready to spring into action instantly to counter an attack. Based on techniques of the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. State Department Security, the Special Air Service, the Royal Corps of Military Police, the Metropolitan Police, the KGB and its successor the FSB, France's GSPR, and other protective units around the world, The Bodyguard Manual details the steps a protective team takes to prevent attack as well as the tactics which are employed when it is necessary to counter an attack in progress. From security aboard Concorde, the Orient Express, or the Queen Elizabeth 2, to protecting a military general officer in combat, The Bodyguard Manual allows the reader to "stand post" with the professional bodyguard.
Bodyguard: A Guide to VIP Protection
Careers in Private Security: How to Get Started, How to Get Ahead
In this straight-from-the-horse's-mouth guide to jobs in the private security field, author Leigh Wade shares what he's learned during 30 years of working all sorts of armed and unarmed positions. With honesty and humor, he describes the hierarchy of private security jobs, starting with unarmed fixed-post positions and moving up through armed guards, bouncers, correctional officers, armed couriers, bodyguards and the top of the field - computer/information security experts. Wade, a Vietnam veteran who served with Special Forces, tells potential security personnel how to find jobs, what kind of training to expect, the pay scale and benefits, advancement potential, the good and bad points of each job and what to expect during a typical workday. Let this knowledgeable guide help you avoid the pitfalls and advance to where you should be in the field of private security.
Introduction to Executive Protection
An Introduction to Executive Protection provides beginners in the occupation of executive protection with the tools they need to know and appreciate the profession; to enable them to realize what is expected when they are placed in positions of confidence and trust; and to understand the implications of being responsible for the safety and lives of others. This guide emphasizes the basic elements of executive protection which are often neglected or overlooked in practical application, even by professional schools of executive protection instruction which sometimes mistakenly assume all enrollees are practiced journeymen. In addition to practical and technical considerations of the profession, "executive protection" means working with people on a personal level. The author draws on his extensive and varied experience in the field to share events that inform and enlighten students of executive protection and teach them how to best avoid endangering those they protect.