GLOBE RISK INSTITUTE
Water Park Place, 20 Bay Street Suite 1205 Toronto, ON M5J-2N8 Tel.: 416-368-4118 Fax: 416-214-2043

CLOSE PROTECTION SPECIALIST TRAINING COURSE

The Close Protection Specialist (CPS) course is designed to qualify individuals in the duties and responsibilities of a CPS team member. This program covers all of the organizational, practical and theoretical elements of VIP protection through a combination of classroom and hands on training. The course is an integrated academic and practical regime intended to bring the graduate to an operation level as a CPS team member

This course is challenging both physically and mentally and will produce a high quality Close Protection Specialist on successful completion.

Instructors Course Details Course Content Weapons Training

Our Clients Employment Certification Caution

Instructors

Globe Risk instructors are former members of military Special Forces units or Tactical Teams, including the British Special Air Service (SAS) and the Canadian Airborne Regiment. Each has extensive training and internationally operational experience in the field of Close Protection and Security. The Chief Instructor (CI) for the course has provided security for Presidents, Prime Ministers, Royal families and Pope John Paul II.

Globe Risk instructors combine operational and instructional experience to form one of the best operational and training teams in the industry. Our instructors are operationally skilled in: Close protection, Counter terrorism, intelligence gathering and tactical operations.

Globe Risk works on a team approach for delivering each training course. This ensures that the best experience can be directed in the most cost-effective manner to each course curriculum. The most technically competent instructors are used at each stage of the training, whilst at the same time ensuring that programs are devolved to the lowest practical staff level to ensure cost effectiveness of the overall training package.

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The CPS course is conducted over a seven-day period, not including weapons training. In order to train and familiarize each student with the realities of CP work, the training takes place over the full 24-hour period each day of the course. No exceptions. All training needs are covered during the course including lodging, meals, weapons, ammunition, vehicles and insurance.

Training will take place in the classroom, in the local area and in major cities during the exercise phase. Great care has been taken to place the student in an atmosphere, which will permit them to experience the stresses of close protection work while challenging them to perform at their best.

Our training program is intended to make the student operationally ready upon graduation. As such, stress levels are slowly increased during the progress of the course to evaluate personal character, teamwork and overall performance. This manner of instruction is utilized by elite Special Forces units to select and train operational personnel and as such has been adopted by Globe Risk as its preferred method of training and selecting Close Protection Specialists.

Students are expected to arrive by 1200 hours on the day before the course commences and are expected to arrive prepared to give a 100% effort at all times. Evaluation of each student is conducted over a 24-hour period each day.

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Close Protection work can be both glamorous and exciting but the true satisfaction comes from planning and executing a complex itinerary and keeping the principal safe and secure while successfully overcoming a variety of unexpected challenges. Due to this reality, Globe Risk focuses its' course content and attention on preparing each student for the realities associated with close protection work by giving them the tools necessary to operate effectively on a close protection detail.

A significant portion of the course will include practical exercises that have been designed to expose students to the realities of close protection work while instilling in them valuable lessons that will assist them in keeping themselves and their principal's safe.

The Close Protection Specialist course will include the following subjects:

Close protection theory CP & the law Dress, deportment & etiquette     CP equipment CP team duties SOP development

CP team organization CP orders Vehicle & foot drills Evasive Driving Convoy procedures Vehicle Anti ambush drills

Principal profiling Threat, risk, vulnerability assessment   Venue security planning Security advance planning Bomb recognition Unarmed Combat Weapons training

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The weapons training portion of the course is a three-day option which students may elect to take. Weapons' training is conducted on site utilizing state of the art facilities and advanced Special Forces techniques. Canadian students are required to hold a valid Possession and Acquisition License (PAL) prior to engaging in advanced weapons training. International students, who do not hold the above Canadian Certificate, must demonstrate prior to attendance on course, their previous firearms training and experience.

Subjects covered include but are not limited to:

• Concealed carry and drawing from same.
• Weapons selection.
• Instinctive shooting (live fire).
• 360 % multiple target acquisition.
• Vehicle considerations.
• Use of body armor.
• Live CP team drills.

Possession / Acquisition License (PAL)

For Canadian students who do not hold a valid Canadian Possession and Acquisition License (PAL). If required Globe Risk offers this training prior to the commencement of the CPS course.

Previous Firearms Experience

It should be noted that the use of firearms while operating as a close protection specialist is not always an option due to strict firearms laws in specific countries. Keeping this fact in mind, there are many other skills, which are significantly more important to the close protection specialist other, then the use of firearms.

Globe Risk actively encourages individuals without previous firearms experience to contact us if they are interested in the field of close protection. Our training methodology and techniques are based on the realities of close protection work and not the perceived realities observed in Hollywood movies. We have found that individuals without previous weapons training have benefited greatly from our experience driven instructional program.

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• Canadian Law Enforcement Agencies
• Foreign Government Security Agencies
• Corporation Security Agencies
• Protection Teams of Royal Families
• Nuclear Facility Tactical Teams
• International Law Enforcement Agencies
• International Airlines
• Department of National defence
• Diplomatic Protection Agencies
• Canadian Senate

Students who successfully complete the Close Protection Specialist course will receive a Globe Risk CPS Certification. All graduates will be placed on to the Globe Risk database and will be used as referrals for future operations or employment both regionally and internationally.

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Caution: We must caution all prospective Globe Risk students to carefully investigate claims made by companies offering Close Protection Training and Employment. "If it sounds too good to be true it usually is"!

Globe Risk is an internationally operational firm and as such is prepared to provide each student with verifiable instructor credentials.

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