The instructors stress low profile protec- tion. Here you have to look twice to see the protection officers.
One of the instructors playing the attacker. He has taken cover behing a “broken-down” car, awaiting with an a weapon in his hand the VIP car. Will the team recognize the ambush?
Sometimes the students are given group tasks, which they have to solve and present in front of the instructors and the other participants.
Before making practical exercise, students learn different techniques with mock-up.
A protection officers evacuates the VIP, who
has been attacked by demonstrators, to the limousine.
One of the instructors, a former UK military bomb disposal officer, demonstrates devices used in the past by terrorists.
Students train the use of medical equipment.
Students learn also quick shooting drills from the side with one hand. Later they will learn shooting with the weak hand.
Students train the evacuation of the VIP in
small and large teams. During the course students train mostly working as a one or two member team, as this is a number which is realistic for private security.
After leaving the office the VIP is attacked by some aggressive demonstrators.
At the limousine, the VIP is attacked again by demonstrators.
The VIPs leave the restaurant and go to the limousine waiting to drive to the next destination.
