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Executive Protection - Course Detail

The Executive Protection course Is composed out of the following two weeks:
  1. The first week concentrates on firearms training and essential hands-on security skills.
  2. The second week covers the fundamentals of professional executive protection methods and skills.
Executive Protection Course topics include:

 

Week 1 – Firearms training

The overall goal of the first week: To gain the specific motor skills necessary to handle and use firearms. Executive Protection Course topics include:

  • The essentials of firearms weaponry:
    • Knowing your weapon – disassembling and reassembling. 
    • Weapon safety and security: carrying, gripping and using.
    • Ballistics fundamentals – internal, external and final.
  • Gripping and aiming: one-handed and two-handed.
  • Drawing and cocking: one-handed and two-handed. 
  • Running and halting techniques.
  • Clearing a weapon jam under pressure.
  • Firing from behind cover – doors, windows, walls, etc.
  • Using the complete personal toolset - drawing and cocking
  • Hands-on gun-fight scenario: real-time decision-making
    • Choosing the right path under fire
    • Defining real-time priorities
    • Taking the initiative: how to gain the crucial advantage during a confrontation.
  • Hand-to-hand combat
  • Urban warfare principles

 

 

 

Week 2 – Executive Protection Operational training

 

  • Planning and evaluating a typical client itinerary and conducting a threat assessment
  • Securing client in all situations – while walking, at the client’s home, while attending public events, while driving, etc.
  • The aggressor’s modus operandi
  • Counter-surveillance techniques and covert security
  • Working in pairs - the partner approach
  • Preparing for a public event
  • Protective detail advances
    • Securing the area prior to arrival
    • Searching for explosives and suspicious articles
    • Planning emergency evacuations and readying escape routes
  • The principles of First Aid
    • Treating shock and minimizing trauma
    • Treating common injuries and special wounds
  • Codes of behavior with clients: do's and don'ts
  • Equipment – what you need and where to get it

 

Who should attend?
The course is designed for highly motivated, sharp-minded individuals, early in their careers, and in good physical shape. The course is perfect for members of both the private and the governmental sectors.

  

Where is it?

At Max Security’s corporate training facility in Israel

 

 

What are the prerequisites?

  • Basic English – The course will be taught in very basic English
  • No prior weapons experience
  • Good physical fitness (see administrative details)
  • Must be over 21 years old
  • Clean police record
  • Ability to travel to Israel (valid passport, visa, etc.) 

 

To complete the training successfully, attendees will be expected to pass a practical certification exam covering course contents