CPO Training (Close Protection Operative)

To build skills in organizing and conducting team protective operations, improve protection tactics, and develop accurate assessment of the operational and tactical situation.

• Current and aspiring close protection officers
• Security company personnel
• Security detail personnel
• Professionals working in extreme conditions

• 01Professional ethics, the role and responsibilities of a CPO
• 02Local legal aspects of personal protection
• 03Communication, risk and conflict management, operational analysis
• 04Strategy, tactics, and personal protective equipment
• 05Operational, episodic, and long-term planning
• 06Technical protection equipment (home, office, hotel), surveillance and counter-surveillance
• 07Organizing the movement of the protected person; forming foot-escort teams
• 08Vehicle escort: pick-up and drop-off, close and outer perimeter
• 09Search of vehicles, buildings, and people
• 10IEDs — search procedures and actions upon detection
• 11Repelling armed and unarmed attacks
• 12Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and special firearms training