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TITLE: Close Protection - A Closer Observation of the Protection Equation | Revised & Updated Edition - Hardcover
Synopsis
The most relevant and accurate interpretation of one of the world’s most unusual and secretive professions, this book provides a no-holds barred depiction of Close Protection containing specialist advice and guidance gained from operating at the pinnacle of both government and private sector CP operations around the world. Compelled to write a book as a result of his abhorrence of the standards imposed by the British Government regulator, the author scathingly criticises the United Kingdom’s Security Industry Authority and the Home Office, and outlines the travesty bestowed on not only those new to the industry but those who have operated in the role on behalf of the Government in their capacity as members of the Royal Military Police Close Protection Unit, Royalty and Specialist Protection and UKSF.
In 2012, author and subject matter expert, Richard Aitch, published his first book, Close Protection, A Closer Observation of the Protection Equation, as a result of experiencing first-hand the blasé attitude towards Close Protection by the SIA, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), Awarding Bodies and other assisting organisations together with a combination of both a frustration of the deplorable commercial training and operational standards on display, other publications on the subject and a passion to strive for industry excellence in this elitist role. The book subsequently went on to become the internationally leading publication on Close Protection, having been ordered by government protection units responsible for the protection of Presidents, Prime Ministers and Heads of State throughout the world, security departments of Embassies & Consulates and NATO HQ, Central Security and Protection Division/Centre for Knowledge & Expertise, The Hague, commercial training providers for use as their training manuals and student reading. It has been used as a referenced textbook by degree academics in the fields of criminology and security & risk management, ordered by academic, public, government, corporate and specialist libraries including the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in addition to being translated into Arabic with publication rights being acquired by The Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research.
A decade later, in 2022, as a result of research and lobbying the Government throughout the previous 16 years, the author confirms the SIA as being merely a vehicle to rationalise the obscene imposed by the United Kingdom’s Home Office with their focus and priority of protecting the revenue in taxation the private security industry generates and to reduce the payments made by the Welfare State. He also confirms, that contrary to the instructions dictated by the Private Security Industry Act 2001, the SIA is a servant of the Home Office and by design, must fully comply with its demands and remits. This book unearths the closed door response when challenged, of both the Home Office and the SIA, the failings of getting people into work using a specialist occupation as its mechanism, the reprehensible approach to the selection and training of private sector Close Protection operatives and the disastrous recognition of prior learning of those who conducted the role within a government service.
As a direct consequence, this book has been written to provide the investigation into the restrictions and limitations imposed on operational performance and the workaround solutions for best practise. From the lack of private sector industry entrance benchmarks to poor training, to poor contract service providers, to laws, to budgets, to Governments’ prying eyes, this book will unearth and highlight the problems, difficulties, complications and underhanded practises of the commercial Close Protection world, whilst providing the necessary solutions to maximise CP operations to an effective, workable and professional state. The aim of this book is to right the wrongs, to correct the methods of ‘best practise’ contrary to those stipulated by industry authorities, organisations, training/ service providers, and online/ offline commentary; to provide realistic, practical and effective advice concerning methods of operation and tactical doctrine to detect, confirm, identify and thwart any hostile action whether the nature of it be technical, physical or socially engineered from tactics, techniques and procedure that have been both personally tried and tested in most countries and in all threat regions throughout the world. The book is less concerned with those requirements of a red-carpet celebrity nature or those so often used as a ‘life-smoother’, but more aligned to the high-level international corporate world where real threats to life exist both direct and environmentally generic, and where the presence of UK and foreign government interest invokes operational practise not required or experienced at the lower end of typical CP provision. It is written from the perspectiv...
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