Close Protection Training
Close Protection Operatives (CPO) protect principals (Individuals, family, property, business) from physical and psychological harm, un-welcomed attention, harassment, and threats. Including escorting principals securely from venues, and vehicles, to protecting them at home and abroad.
Responsibilities of a Close Protection Operative includes, conducting dynamic risk assessments, strategic planning, surveillance, tactical driving, and defusing conflict management situations. Our main priority and focus is to protect the principal.
CPO roles may include:
- Guarding & Protecting
- Security Driver & Chaperoning
- International assignments
- Asset protection for high-end retailers
- Residential security
Why Choose Vanquish Services
At Vanquish Services, you will be guided by highly experienced staff with decades of comprehensive knowledge and skills from working on the front line in the security industry.
We partner with trusted Training Providers to enhance their accredited SIA qualifications to improve and maintain the standard of training in the Security Industry. The SIA Level 3 Close Protection training qualification prepares you to be successfully equipped with the essential tools and skills required to be a Close Protection Operative.
We offer on-the-job training with real principals in real time, establishing skillful security personnel with the ability to challenge intense circumstances efficiently, for your safety, and the safety of others.
Vanquish Services assists with a hands-on approach that bridges theoretical knowledge with practical application- Featuring continuous learning through immediate feedback from seasoned Security Operatives and Trainers. We provide a psychological understanding from trainers who are emerged in the psychological world and inner workings of the human mind. Our psycho-education helps Close Protection Operatives grasp and anticipate human behaviour, improving their ability to protect principals effectively. This includes techniques for reading body language and understanding psychological cues before others, which assists with managing and interpreting stressful situations.
By integrating psychological insights into our courses, we ensure our operatives are not only physically prepared but also mentally equipped to handle the complexities of their roles.
Elevate your skills with our comprehensive training, ensuring you are not only prepared to meet the demands of the modern security landscape, but you leave the course a better you.
The modules we cover:
- Unit 1: Working in the Private Security Industry
- Unit 2: Working as a Close Protection Operative
- Unit 3: Conflict Management
- Physical Intervention
Course Units Include:
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Law and Legislation
- Threat and Risk Assessment
- Incident Management
- Venue Security operations
- Reconnaissance
- Protocol and Etiquette
- Operational Planning
- Route Selection
- Foot Drill Formations
- Vehicle Tactics
- Embus/Debus
- Search Procedures – (property, people and vehicles)
- Surveillance/Anti surveillance
Other Areas We Cover:
- Developing critical/out of the box thinking
- Your own psychological understanding
- Combat training
- How to overcome challenges quickly
- Knife training
- Shooting
Entry Requirements
As a Close Protection Operative, it is essential to communicate in a clear manner to resolve conflict, as well as making urgent calls to the emergency services if required.
Learners must be sufficiently skilled in the English language to be able to understand and deliver important information and communicate effectively with everyone around them.
Our duty at Vanquish Services is to ensure that employees of any business are skilled with the proficiency of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in English.
Learners will be required to provide proof of address and photographic identification.