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Meeting Security in Hostile Environments

Meetings should always be treated with caution as they are an easy way to set someone up for kidnapping, assassination, sexual assault or robbery!
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Hostage Rescue – De-escalation, Discipline, Distraction (Videos)

If dealing with hostage situations, you must understand how to communicate with the hostage takers and to de-escalate things. If working with others, you must train together and be able to work as a disciplined team.
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Hostage Negotiations – “If they pay once, they’ll pay again”

In a kidnapping situation it could be up to you to deal with the hostage negotiations, here are some very basic guidelines for dealing with a very complexed situation. Hostage negotiations is something everyone working in the emerging markets or dealing with VIP clients should have a basic and realistic understanding of.
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Kidnap & Ransom Prevention Training

While our three-day kidnap and ransom prevention courses are aimed at the individual, who travels internationally, for either business or personal reasons; these courses are also relevant for people who are concerned about the safety issues in their daily lives.
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Threat Assessment & Risk Analysis Services

We supply threat assessment and risk analysis including country and regional reports focusing on criminal, terrorist and geopolitical threats.
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Being Arrested

These days if you travel internationally or you are going to be working in the emerging markets, you are running the risk of being arrested for some reason.
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Express Kidnapping and Being Kidnapped

Express kidnappings are safer and more convenient for criminals, who do not need to be highly skilled and connected to pull them off.
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Personal Security & Close Protection in Crowds

Over the years I have been caught up in several situations with crowds where things could have gone very bad, very quickly. Crowds are best avoided at all cost when providing close protection / bodyguard services to say journalists, but some clients’ want to be, or need to be at the center of the party…
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Hostage Negotiation for Dummies – NATO’s Retreat From Afghanistan

I wrote this article during the disastrous and chaotic NATOs retreat from Afghanistan in 2021. There are many basic points on how not to conduct hostage negotiations, that can be identified from this whole fiasco, which led to the needless deaths of thousands of people.
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