CIRCUIT MAGAZINE ISSUE 59
Keeping Your Edge: An excerpt from Introduction to Executive Protection By Elijah Shaw & Dale June
Challenges of International VIP
Keeping Your Edge: It is a very natural phenomenon to go abroad making the same assumptions about how people act, and things work that you would find in your domestic environment.
Action vs. Reaction
But these assumptions can get both you and your client into trouble. Each part of the world presents its own unique set of challenges, and a protector who travels internationally will do well to always keep this fact in the forefront of their mind. For example, you may know that 122
By Elijah Shaw
in the United Kingdom, firearms are hard to obtain, and even the police traditionally do not carry them, instead opting for a variety of nonlethal weapons like the ASP baton. However, when the threat level is elevated, let’s say for a major sporting event hosted in the UK, you will see law enforcement armed with a variety
