Site Map - Personnel Protection

09/17/2007 - Firefight in Baghdad leaves eight bystanders dead.

09/12/2007 - A bill (S.B. 1035) under consideration in the Oregon Senate would outlaw workplace bullying. Under the bill, bullying includes derogatory remarks, insults, threatening physical contact, and gratuitous sabotage or undermining an employee’s work performance.

09/07/2007 - Before a congressional subcommittee hearing yesterday, representatives from the leading national police organizations testified on whether Congress should liberalize the ability of current and former police officers to carry concealed firearms.

09/04/2007 - In Nigeria, kidnappings of foreign workers keep increasing. Learn what companies should do to protect their workers from being nabbed in this online exclusive, "Perils Amid the Profits in the Niger Delta."

09/04/2007 - Learn how companies in Nigeria can protect their employees from the country's kidnapping plague. (Online Exclusive)

08/24/2007 - Author James Brown says “the mark of a good bodyguard is that he keeps a level head in a crisis, reassesses the situation, and then embarks on the correct next course of action.” That quote constitutes the thesis of The Bodyguard’s Bible, a well-written book with 38 chapters that flow nicely, informing the reader and maintaining his or her interest. Brown does an excellent job of disassociating “bouncers” from security professionals who protect the rich, famous, and powerful. To that point, he notes that the term Close Protection Officer (CPO) is replacing the term “bodyguard” in the field.  

08/23/2007 - Aid workers, who render assistance to the most vulnerable populations in the least hospitable regions of the world, have long operated with protected status under international humanitarian law. Combatants, nevertheless, increasingly ignore this protection.

08/20/2007 - Aid workers, who render assistance to the most vulnerable populations in the least hospitable regions of the world, have long operated with protected status under international humanitarian law. Combatants, nevertheless, increasingly ignore this protection. From Iraq to Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, aid workers have faced savage attacks when working within conflict zones. This trend was highlighted in a 2006 joint report by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) and the Center on International Cooperation—“Providing Aid in Insecure Environments: Trends in Policy and Operations”—that studied major violent acts against aid workers from 1997-2005.

08/09/2007 - All workers should be given travel security tips, but it is doubly important that female workers be well trained in travel security.

08/09/2007 - Lessons from the field: What an editor learned from a week at an intensive executive protection program.

08/09/2007 - Companies operating in Nigeria face the challenge of protecting staff in a hostile environment.

08/08/2007 - The prospect of peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

07/30/2007 - There may be many paths to enlightenment, but the only way to ensure VIP protection is with solid planning and coordination among all the parties, as was the case when Rutgers University hosted the Dalai Lama.