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    Bodyguards: How to Protect Others - Part 2.1 - Threat Analysis
    Bodyguards: How to Protect Others - Part 2.1 - Threat Analysis
    Bodyguards: How to Protect Others - Part 2.1 - Threat Analysis
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    Bodyguards: How to Protect Others - Part 2.1 - Threat Analysis

    By Michael J. Franklin

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    This book is designed to help bodyguards, security personnel and others how to properly complete threat analysis. It covers several different kinds of threats. It teaches threat profiling, threat analysis, understanding threat, threat modelling, target selection, advantages of the attackers and The Herrhausen Factor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael J. Franklin
    Release dateMay 31, 2010
    ISBN9783941101074
    Bodyguards: How to Protect Others - Part 2.1 - Threat Analysis
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    Michael J. Franklin

    Michael J. Franklin is a graduate of the Canadian Forces School of Intelligence and Security (Protective Services), The Royal Military Police Close Protection Wing and The German National Police (BKA-Personenschutz) Close Protection School. Over the past 25 years he has taught Close Protection Skills, Tactics and Planning, International Law, Security Related Technologies, Vulnerability Studies, Threat Assessments, Weapons, Explosives, IED Searching Techniques, Offensive, Defensive and Tactical Close Protection Driving Skills. He has been personally involved in protecting the world‘s elite for over 35 years

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      Bodyguards – How to Protect Others

      Part 2.1

      The Threat Analysis

      By Michael J. Franklin

      ISBN: 978-3-941101-07-4

      Published by Michael J. Franklin at Smashwords

      © 2010 Michael J. Franklin

      Cover and Interior Design by Irmgard Walter

      Michael J. Franklin

      BODYGUARDS

      How to protect others

      The Complete Guide

      International Security Protocol in the 21st century

      The World of Close Personal Protection

      Part One The Players and their Roles

      Part Two The Threat Analysis; Advance Security; Manners, Protocol and Etiquette

      Part Three Close Protection Psychology; Law, Legal Issues and Emergency Medicine

      Part Four Weapons and Equipment; Embus and Debus Points; Vehicle Security Techniques; Route Selection and Planning

      Part Five Improvised Explosive Devises; Walking, Driving and Emergency Drills

      Part Six Security-Related Technologies; Video, Alarm and Fire Fighting Systems; Physical Security

      Contents

      The following topics are covered in detail in this book:

      Chapter One

      Targeted attacks

      Advantages of the attackers

      Target selection

      Target profiling

      Understanding the threat

      Threat profiling

      Threat modelling

      Obtaining information

      Chapter Two

      The Herrhausen Factor

      What’s the message

      The Alfred Herrhausen Attack

      Herrhausen’s situation

      Herrhausen’s last day

      How the attack took place

      Threat assessments

      Security counter-measures

      The Attackers

      The inevitable criticism

      Chapter Three

      Scenario analysis

      Security counter-measures

      Analysis of different attacks

      Attacks that have taken place in houses and apartments

      Attacks that have taken place when people have left buildings

      Attacks using IEDs on parked cars

      Attacks on vehicles

      Attacks in government building – restricted entry

      Attacks at events – un-restricted entry

      Attacks in open areas

      Attacks during walks or in parks

      Attacks using letter or parcel bombs

      Chapter One – Threats and Dangers

      Targeted Attacks

      In Close Protection the terms threat and danger describe the possibility of intended or targeted attacks from assassins, terrorists, kidnappers and people running amok. If you add organised crime to this list, it’s the threat coming from anyone who wants to kill, hurt, kidnap, extort, embarrass or terrorise the Boss.

      Most of the contents of this chapter will pertain to terrorism and organised crime. Therefore it is important to put definitions to these violent acts and to the people who commit them. Many people have misconceptions about terrorists and organised criminals that should be cleared up.

      Most terrorists and organised criminals are not poor, uneducated or oppressed, nor do they have long hair and wear military uniforms. Many of these people come from middle or upper class families. They might be children of doctors, lawyers, big businessmen and engineers. On the most part they are younger, however, the terrorists who survived the 60s, 70s and 80s, if they are still active, are getting older. Theirs is a very stressful life and even the best-known master terrorists, such as CARLOS have been caught and imprisoned.

      Adu Nadal, the ex-leader of the PLO-PFLP has died. Many of the old gangs are still with us and create havoc from time to time with their local systems, such as, PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army - Provo’s), IRA (Irish Republican Army), and PLO - Hamas. Many terror organisations worldwide continue their activities, their numbers are growing and Al Qaeda under the leadership of Osama bin Laden seem to be elusive and unstoppable. They have brought violence to an incomprehensible level by involving an enormous number of innocent people. However, their ideals and beliefs, political persuasion, financial motivation or religious ideology don’t matter.

      A bodyguard’s job is to keep the Boss clear of any threat. Terrorists may be motivated by political or religious reasons or be motivated by a cause, such as the Green Peace „Save the Whales" campaign. However, as a general rule, different motivations tend to get mixed together. Criminal terrorists are motivated strictly by financial interests, but they often operate under the disguise of political or religious causes. Many terrorists finance their own activities through criminal activities such as robbing financial institutions. Politically motivated terrorists who may start out with pure objectives are apt to turn to violence or a combination of violence, power and making money.

      Terrorists may have been good law-abiding citizens once who have gone wrong for all the right reasons. They may be members of an environment organisation or a number of other groups with a cause. Don’t misunderstand; terrorists with a cause are as serious a threat as religious terrorists. International terrorists have

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