How Multi-disciplinary Protection Teams Maximize Client Benefit

Fiction vs reality?

Hollywood has always done an interesting job of taking kernels-of-truth and running away with them without letting sometimes important facts get into the way of a good story. For years this has also been the way of the Instagram bombarded executive protection world with bodybuilder-type men wearing improperly tailored slim-fit suits while sporting Oakley sunglasses and competition style firearms esthetically positioned next to flashy cars and high-priced private jets or million-dollar mansions.?

While these kernels-of-truth exist in the Instagram world of executive protection, they simply lead to the wrong outcomes in the real world. The fact that many protectors service clients with high-profiles or deep pockets is a widely known Kernel-of-Truth that is blasted in the pictures of a small portion of protection agents on their Instagram and other social media outlets. However, this is all marred by the fact that many clients do not need and, more importantly, do not want an overt style of executive protection that places an unnecessary target on themselves, their families, and the companies they represent.?

What is low-profile executive protection and how does it benefit clients??

Low-profile protection is, by definition, designed to be discrete and out-of-the-limelight. This requires a special type and specially trained protector who understands that the needs of the client require them to relinquish the need for flashy attire that directs attention to their presence and their mission: to discretely protect their clients without attention or fanfare.?

Dependent on a client's protection requirements, risk assessment and corresponding threat environment, our team will recommend the deployment of a low-profile close protection team. This will provide the client with an appropriate protective bubble that compliments their personal lifestyle choices or business objectives. During this protection assignment, our low-profile protective agents blend into the environment while still remaining within arm’s reach of the client. This allows our protective agents to maintain the ability to defend the client against a variety of threats or respond to a personal medical emergency.

What is the role of covert protection and protective surveillance??

A covert protection team or protective surveillance unit are a great addition to or substitutes for a low-profile close protection team. These elements can be stacked over an existing low-profile team to provide an additional layer of protection or can be deployed as stand-alone assets to provide clients a more clandestine alternative to protection.

Our style of covert protection and protective surveillance is primary focused on providing the client with a more permissible protective bubble to better allow for them to enjoy greater mobility and access to the world around them in a way that does not telegraph to the public that they are still accompanied by a protective security team. In this context, our covert protective agents still maintain lines-of-communication with the client, but in a manner that does not require direct verbal or physical communication capable of compromising the integrity of the covert protection or protective surveillance in place.?To best achieve this outcome these communications between our teams and the client are often conducted via text message or phone call given the innocuous nature of these communication methods.

How GSPG leverages multi-disciplinary protection teams to maximize client benefit

It is uncommon that security solutions are one-size-fits-all and these solutions become even more rare in the context of executive protection. Different clients and often even the same client require different levels and styles of protection during the course of the service contract. This is because even the most monotonous clients will still eventually have changes in their itinerary or threat level. These clients may have a unique engagement, decide to take a vacation, or need to travel on business to a location that radically ventures far from their "normal" daily, monthly, or even annual routine.?

The ability to provide low-profile, covert, and protective surveillance protection as a suite of services deployable to best match client risk, threat environment, lifestyle preferences or business objectives provides for a more flexible protective solution for our clients. Additionally, our?Global Security & Protection Group?team believes this flexibility is especially important for clients who are reluctant to accept an overtly noticeable protection style that draws unwanted attention that results in greater restrictions as they move through their daily activities. Leveraging multi-disciplinary low-profile, covert, and protective surveillance protection solutions gives the client additional coverage options beyond opting to wave protective coverage all together because of an inflexible protective service posture.

Global Security & Protection Group (GSPG) is a full-service global security company headquartered in Houston, Texas. GSPG provides an array of security consulting and protective services tailored to meet each client's security needs and threat environments. The GSPG team of security consultants leverage industry best practices and cutting edge technologies to keep clients safe and their businesses thriving.