REACTIVE VS. PREEMPTIVE INTERVENTION By Graciela Casillas, M.S., C.P.S.
Reactive vs. Preemptive Intervention
More than four decades have passed since I first met Bob Duggan, my Hwa Rang Do instructor in the 70's. In 1980, I attended the formative 10-Day training program for protection agents in Aspen, Colorado. I recently revisited the now 28day close protection program that evolved into a very different training regime than what I experienced in the original course 42 years ago. I was curious to know how the program had progressed. As I sat through the first lecture, I realized that not only had ESI's focus changed dramatically, but
their teaching philosophy had taken on an entirely different trajectory with a focus on Intelligence Based Close Protection (IBCP). In my interview with Duggan, he explained the evolution of training concepts that affected the transformation of Executive Security International (ESI) into one 79
