Manage guard force competence, supervision and performance on close protection programmes.
Planning and Delivering Close Protection Programmes for Senior Figures
A practical programme in close protection programmes for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Security arrangements around close protection programmes are tested by adversaries, not by auditors. Most security failures involving the wider corporate security practice agenda exploit a process gap rather than a technical one. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about this strand of corporate security practice in their own setting. What blocks progress on close protection programmes is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The course covers the corporate security practice capability at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. The professional literature on this area of corporate security practice converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on close protection programmes are used deliberately. Participants finish able to explain the corporate security practice discipline to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this area of corporate security practice broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Adapt recognised practice on close protection programmes to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Anticipate the objections that close protection programmes will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Balance security requirements in close protection programmes against operational practicality.
Design surveillance coverage for close protection programmes that supports investigation.
Set a realistic target state for close protection programmes and a defensible route to it.
Exercise and test arrangements for close protection programmes under realistic conditions.
Who Should Attend
Guard force supervisors delivering close protection programmes.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over close protection programmes.
Contract managers overseeing outsourced security in close protection programmes.
Information security staff whose remit overlaps close protection programmes.
Quality staff verifying that close protection programmes performs as designed.
Security managers and officers responsible for close protection programmes.
Course Modules
Close protection programmes: layered controls — deter, detect, delay, respond
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making the investment case for close protection programmes
- Build the threat picture for close protection programmes from sources relevant to this site and sector.
- Set out the decisions in close protection programmes that require sign-off and by whom.
- Protect sensitive information relating to close protection programmes from casual disclosure.
- Check that close protection programmes still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Session 2Supervising the guard force on close protection programmes
- Review surveillance coverage for close protection programmes against likely approach routes.
- Verify six months later that changes to close protection programmes have held.
- Define the trigger that would require close protection programmes to be redesigned.
- Exercise the plan for close protection programmes under realistic conditions and record failures.
Close protection programmes: threat assessment and intelligence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of close protection programmes honestly
- Identify vulnerabilities in close protection programmes and rank them by consequence, not ease of fix.
- Check guard force instructions for close protection programmes are current and understood.
- Report on close protection programmes in terms that support an investment decision.
- Benchmark the organisation's close protection programmes against comparable operations.
Session 2The first fifteen minutes of an incident involving close protection programmes
- Arrange the handover of close protection programmes so capability survives staff changes.
- Coordinate arrangements for close protection programmes with civil defence and police in advance.
- Record what was learned when close protection programmes did not go as planned.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around close protection programmes are understood.
Close protection programmes: procedures, access control and identity
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Coordinating with external authorities on close protection programmes
- Assess contractor and third-party exposure within close protection programmes.
- Assess insider risk in roles with privileged access to close protection programmes.
- Verify identity checks applied at entry points relevant to close protection programmes.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for close protection programmes.
Session 2Surveillance on close protection programmes that supports an investigation later
- Anticipate the objections close protection programmes will raise and prepare the answers.
- Agree what will be standardised in close protection programmes and what will not.
- Review close protection programmes after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
- Map the handovers in close protection programmes between functions and secure them.
Close protection programmes: surveillance, monitoring and control rooms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support close protection programmes
- Confirm vetting standards applied to staff and contractors in close protection programmes.
- Review whether close protection programmes is aligned with the objectives of the protected site.
- Close out actions on close protection programmes rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Identify single points of dependency in close protection programmes and reduce them.
Session 2Closing out close protection programmes and capturing what was learned
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in close protection programmes.
- Supervise and spot-check performance on close protection programmes rather than relying on reports.
- Confirm access control on close protection programmes cannot be routinely bypassed.
- Confirm recorded material from close protection programmes is retained long enough to be useful.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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