A significant shift is taking place in how protection teams execute the government’s physical security mission today, requiring a new perspective on how human lives are protected in a threat landscape with no perimeter.
Force protection teams, executive protection units, secret service officers, and others serving in a personnel protection capacity for the government have traditionally been characterized as door-kickers, those ready and willing to take a bullet out of service and duty to their leader and country. They are, in fact, trained from a law enforcement perspective, ready to identify a potential sniper operating from a tenth floor or ready to transition tactics when a peaceful protest turns violent. ...read more!
