ABSTRACT
This chapter is not intended to provide a step-by-step approach to executive protection. Dozens of books have been dedicated to the “art of executive protection.” Hopefully, this chapter will arouse the practicing professional’s thought process and help in changing the image of the personal protection specialists in the eyes of our clients as well as the public. For every step forward by such professionals as Robert Oatman, Doug Parr, Tom Quinn, Des Howden, and Dale June, there are ten steps backward by the image of a heavy-handed, brass-knuckled, hulking bodyguard on the cover of
Time Magazine
. The approach we will use in explaining our concepts will be better served by
examples of actual cases.
