Close Protection Operative (CPO) Level 3 Course
Date: April 4th – 8th 2025.
This is a five days course designed to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and skills and their effective application as a close protection operator. The main objective is to acquire and develop practical skills such as VIP security organization, short and long term planning, use of weapons, as well as practicing various scenarios and much more. The main focus of the course is on people who work in public, commercial security or VIP security and may be exposed to different types of security activities.
Topics covered
- Regulatory and legal framework
- The concept of close protection
- Roles and responsibilities of the Team Leader (Team Leader
- Roles and responsibilities of close protection operators
- Communication in a close protection team
- Dress code and etiquette
- Short- and long-term planning for security organisation
- Selection and preparation of equipment
- Planning for upcoming events
- Planning routes and stops
- Risk analysis and assessment
- Surveillance and counter-surveillance
- Preventive measures
- Formations when travelling with a VIP
- Tactics of the security team
- Tactics of bodyguards
- VIP security in different conditions: In offices, hotels, public buildings
- Cortege and tactical features
- Escort, organisation and peculiarities
- Tactics of VIP protection at vehicles
- Action in emergency situations, – scenarios and their working out
- Evacuation from under fire
- Rapid response forces
- Provision of first aid during the movement of the vehicle and after a road incident or contact with the enemy.
- Familiarisation with special video surveillance systems that are fitted to vehicles
- Shooting at close range with VIP cover
- Shooting in low visibility conditions
- Practising the exercise according to a given scenario
- Analysis and debriefing