This is an exceedingly important subject in relation to the close protection officer or if you like bodyguard. This subject has no connection with the generally accepted idea that close protection work is all action and adrenaline, but it's a subject around which you'll have to work each hour of your career. Get it right and the working relationship you have with your client will grow into a good working partnership. Get that wrong and once more you'll be looking for a new job.
So let us look at what is meant when we talk about the ethics and customs, re the close protection officer/bodyguard and why it's so important to get it right.
You may by the nature of your job as a bodyguard, spend a great quantity of time in terribly close proximity to your Principal. You'll be with them during their business hours and during their private time. You will see them at their best and at their worst. You will be with them during happy times and at times of stress.
You may become aware of significant business choices and personal circumstances.
PROTOCOLS
When we discuss the protocols concerned with close protection, we are referring to how you'll present yourself when in your Principals presence and during your off duty time.
You must always act in a manner in keeping with the profile of your Principal. A bodyguard must always dress in an appropriate manner. You'll speak whenever needed to do therefore in a respectful and well-spoken manner. If you're asked as you may well be on occasions for your views or to give information on a matter, just give your honest opinion and never contend the point. If not asked to provide an opinion then do not. Never interrupt your Principals conversation with your own perspectives.
Obviously whenever the security of your Principal is a concern, you will need to respond in whatever demeanour required, but don't forget to match the level of reply to the issue.
Extend this courtesy to other members of your Principals staff or business associates. It is very important that you don't antagonize these folks, by showing a bad or distant approach. You have got your duties as a bodyguard to perform; other employees have theirs. You aren't subservient to any other member of staff and you have got a very particular and critical job to do, which in the eyes of others will be a high position. Do not abuse this position you will need the co-operation of these others if you are to perform your role as close protection officer successfully.
To summarise the protocols of close protection. Always dress, act, and present yourself in a manner synonymous with your Principals expectations.
ETHICS
As stated formerly, the nature of your work will bring you into really a convenient position to the events, both official and unlicensed in the daily life of your Principal. You may very well be wise to their business dealings and future plans and you will be aware of the circumstances of his private life.
Always remember it is their way of life not yours, a high spec bodyguard will treat what they see and hear with a professional and confidential approach. Don't debate with any other person what you'll gain knowledge of. You never can say where or to whom this info may find its way, if you or others to gossip. It could end up in embarrassment or a break of security, either way your employment is finished.
Once again the only time you should talk out regarding any circumstances you find yourself in, is if the actions of your Principal place their security at risk.
The job that you perform as a bodyguard will appear glamorous to those who do not know any better. This can provide you with advantages in specific areas. Don't use this advantage in any fashion, in particular to procure a sexual advantage with other members of staff or perhaps worse, members of your Principals family.
Always be conscious of the protocols and ethics of the job you do get them right or your career will be fleeting.
So let us look at what is meant when we talk about the ethics and customs, re the close protection officer/bodyguard and why it's so important to get it right.
You may by the nature of your job as a bodyguard, spend a great quantity of time in terribly close proximity to your Principal. You'll be with them during their business hours and during their private time. You will see them at their best and at their worst. You will be with them during happy times and at times of stress.
You may become aware of significant business choices and personal circumstances.
PROTOCOLS
When we discuss the protocols concerned with close protection, we are referring to how you'll present yourself when in your Principals presence and during your off duty time.
You must always act in a manner in keeping with the profile of your Principal. A bodyguard must always dress in an appropriate manner. You'll speak whenever needed to do therefore in a respectful and well-spoken manner. If you're asked as you may well be on occasions for your views or to give information on a matter, just give your honest opinion and never contend the point. If not asked to provide an opinion then do not. Never interrupt your Principals conversation with your own perspectives.
Obviously whenever the security of your Principal is a concern, you will need to respond in whatever demeanour required, but don't forget to match the level of reply to the issue.
Extend this courtesy to other members of your Principals staff or business associates. It is very important that you don't antagonize these folks, by showing a bad or distant approach. You have got your duties as a bodyguard to perform; other employees have theirs. You aren't subservient to any other member of staff and you have got a very particular and critical job to do, which in the eyes of others will be a high position. Do not abuse this position you will need the co-operation of these others if you are to perform your role as close protection officer successfully.
To summarise the protocols of close protection. Always dress, act, and present yourself in a manner synonymous with your Principals expectations.
ETHICS
As stated formerly, the nature of your work will bring you into really a convenient position to the events, both official and unlicensed in the daily life of your Principal. You may very well be wise to their business dealings and future plans and you will be aware of the circumstances of his private life.
Always remember it is their way of life not yours, a high spec bodyguard will treat what they see and hear with a professional and confidential approach. Don't debate with any other person what you'll gain knowledge of. You never can say where or to whom this info may find its way, if you or others to gossip. It could end up in embarrassment or a break of security, either way your employment is finished.
Once again the only time you should talk out regarding any circumstances you find yourself in, is if the actions of your Principal place their security at risk.
The job that you perform as a bodyguard will appear glamorous to those who do not know any better. This can provide you with advantages in specific areas. Don't use this advantage in any fashion, in particular to procure a sexual advantage with other members of staff or perhaps worse, members of your Principals family.
Always be conscious of the protocols and ethics of the job you do get them right or your career will be fleeting.
About the Author:
The author is a fully qualified, SIA Licensed Close Protection Officer. He has been tasked with the protection of some of the elite of Hollywood and top international industrialists and has been involved within the security industry since 1999.
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