ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the general guidelines for protective security detail operations. The protective detail must always provide and maintain a 360 degree security bubble around the client. The type of security detail provided and the number of personnel and vehicles in the detail will depend on the mission, the threat, and the availability of manpower and resources. Members of the protective detail either in the vehicle or during foot movement should not be looking at the principal or at distractions in the vehicle but should always be facing outward. Protective detail members should be looking at people’s hands when viewing personnel in crowds during foot movement and during vehicle movement. A private security detail’s job is to protect and then evacuate the principal away from a threat incident. It is not to engage or pursue these threats. This is something many security details forget; the cowboy in them takes over.
