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Certified Protection Specialist, CPS

The Executive Protection program is an integrated academic and practical training curriculum consisting of a 28-Day Residency or the 450 hours in Distance Education and a 15-Day (150 hour) Resident Training in executive protection, dignitary and personal protection and celebrity security. Whether the student takes the Executive Protection Program as a month long Residency or the combined Distance Education and 15-Day Resident Training, he or she will receive the finest and most intense training available in the private sector.

The program is an intelligence based protection program with a special emphasis on corporate and international protection specialists; the program also covers civil police, and military protocols in the principles of personal protection. The career objective of this training is to prepare the ESI graduate for a professional occupation in corporate, executive, celebrity and dignitary protection. Other career alternatives include chauffeur, courier services, hotel and casino security, industrial and private estate protection.

ESI's hallmark as a training academy in protection is its emphasis on Operational Intelligence as the basis of comprehensive personal and corporate security. In its incipient first decade, ESI placed an inordinate focus on Reactive Skills: protective formations, evasive driving, martial arts and shooting. As ESI enters its third decade of training, we continue to believe in the importance of well honed martial skills, but ESI’s training philosophy stresses Pre-Emptive Intervention skills with an emphasis on Behavioral, Predictive and Proactive Intelligence.  Our second Core Program: Protective Intelligence & Investigation deepens and broadens the protective agent's training in higher levels of personal and corporate security. ESI's core philosophy is that these skills are indispensable to any protection program, and is what distinguishes a Protection Specialist from a Bodyguard. Moreover, it is what distinguishes ESI from practically from every other training organization in the business.

Executive Protection Resident Training

CORPORATE PROTECTIVE OPERATIONS
Included in Both 28-Day and 15-Day Residencies

This course will cover the logistics of protective details. The student will understand the elements of advance work, follow-up and limousine procedures, deployment of personnel and team detail organization, working the protectee, protective intelligence, communications, and protective hardware for the professional bodyguard. The basic concepts of this course are taught from the point of view of former Secret Service personnel who have taken into consideration the special limitations confronting private security professionals. Field drills will include practical advance work as part of a team assignment, followed by a group critique.

This course focuses on Low Profile Protective Operations in Corporate Security. This course emphasizes the role of Predictive, Protective, and Proactive Intelligence as the basis of security in the corporate environments. The course will teach the student how to develop a Risk/Threat Assessment process for gathering intelligence on individuals and groups that may pose an active threat against the company and its executives. The Intelligence model will help understand the behaviors that are a risk to your client or employer. The end goal is to equip the Protection Specialist to devise protection plans in the face of increasing uncertainty in the global security and business environments.

INSTRUCTION:

BEHAVIORAL INTELLIGENCE and
CLUES TO DANGEROUSNESS
Included in Both 28-Day and 15-Day Residencies

ESI has taught this course for 30 years, and believes it an essential skill set to any Protection Specialist. Starting with an archive of film clips of assassinations, attempted and successful, this course will train the student to identify the precursors of assault. The goal is to enable the student to replace casual observation of generalities with the study of detail, to recall it systematically and to develop the capacity to make accurate descriptions.  The Human Behavior and Dangerousness course will concentrate on the identification of facial expressions with the primary emotions based on the research of Dr. Paul Ekman and other behavioral scientist. A Protection Specialist that is capable of identifying facial expressions and body gestures as the precursors of assault or aggression is armed with the capacity to Anticipate, and Preempt the Attack on Principle.

STALKER EXERCISE AND PROTECTIVE DETAILS
Six-Days
Included in Both 28-Day and 15-Day Residencies

The Stalker Exercise is a unique teaching platform designed to present the student with an immersive, stress induced, Team Building Mission with different “Plug-Ins” that we introduce to the program in order to give it thematic coherence and a connection to the client. The client might equally be a corporate CEO, family member or celebrity.

Training at ESI – The Stalker Program
By Tony Scotti

The student is given a client itinerary and expected to determine a route destination, reasons for selection, and describe vulnerabilities. The Protective Detail is required to organize client itineraries and carry them out as a team. The teams are assigned to do advances for hotels, restaurants and the airport, produce a plan, give a presentation before ESI instructors, and then carry it out. These assignments are done in large and small protective details, on foot or in mobile convoys in an urban environment.

In the end, the individual student and the team must produce a Threat Assessment, a Management Plan and complete a FTX in the field. According to ESI’s tradition of “Teaching to a Standard” there are consequences for failure.

Counter Surveillance and Covert Security: The central focus of this component is to understand the importance of Counter Surveillance and Covert Security of any professional bodyguard. Coming out of this course the student will understand the difference between High Profile Protection and Covert Protective Operations, various protective formations, static and mobile surveillance.

Senior Instructors

DEFENSIVE SHOOTING: HANDGUN BASIC & TACTICAL
Five-Days
Included in Both 28-Day and 15-Day Residencies

ESI's Basic, Tactical and CQB Shooting Courses are designed with the objective of preparing Protection Specialist as well as the amateur shooter with the special skills and judgments demanded by professionals. Tactical Shooting or CQB courses are organized into Basic and Advanced Blocks that require passage before the student is permitted into the higher Blocks or Level 2 Shooting Course.

ESI has long advocated realistic training which means students will train on a “Hot Range” where students carry their weapons in their holsters ready to fire on command at single or multiple targets. We have also been advocates of Reactive Steel Targets, Stress Induced Shooting, Force on Force, Movement and Shoot, Movement with Client While Shooting

The 5-Day Executive Protection Defensive Shooting course is an integral component of the Executive Protection Program. It is also a Stand-Alone course with Open Enrollment, which allows for non-professionals to enroll in just the EP Defensive Shooting Course. The course of instruction includes the following:

ESI’s Senior Instructors:

TONY PAGNI	RICH KLUCK	JOE BANNON	JOEL HODGES	TODD HALLER

MADISON WEBB	GLEN BOODRY	SHELDON MAXWELL	TWAIN WILKINS	BRANDON DELCAMP

WEAPON DISARMS AND CLIENT MANAGEMENT
Included in Both 28-Day and 15-Day Residencies

The working assumption in this course is that the Protection Specialist has “Just Two Seconds” to respond to an assault. The techniques taught here stress Time and Distance Drills that underscore the time compression in Close Quarters. Students are drilled repeatedly in an endless variety of Attack On Principle drills that instill simple, aggressive responses to assault, and managing client evacuation techniques. A unique system of Standup Grappling is taught at ESI that emphasizes explosive entries, seizure and control techniques are taught to non-martial artist.

After 30 years of teaching a Close Quarter Weapon Disarm, the technique taught at ESI is one that evolved after of putting to test traditional methods that failed to account for “Intent to Kill” mind-set of the person holding the weapon. Old solutions to the close quarter disarm had to be modified in order reduce the failure rate, and result in incapacity of the assailant.

ESTATE SECURITY
Exclusive to 28-Day Residency

The Estate Security course describes the depth of security issues that accompany the protection and maintenance of large trophy estates. The course will include a review Patrols, Detection Systems, Response Forces and Liaisons with Law Enforcement Agencies, Intrusion Alerts and Delays, Staff Training and Integration into Security Plan, Legal Issues Governing Lethal Force, Report Procedures, Fire Alarm Systems and Evacuation Plans, Inventory and Documentation of Property and Items of Value, Visitor Logs, Confidentiality Agreements, Client and Guest Protection and Accommodation.

USE OF FORCE
&
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
Exclusive to 28-Day Residency

Analysis of the Application and Justification in the Use-of-Force by Security Professionals – In the course and scope of their work, protection agents may have to deploy verbal and/or physical force upon others. In so doing, modern agents must be mindful that whatever action they take in any particular situation, their conduct may face scrutiny by both district attorneys and private lawyers. Like their law enforcement counterpart, security operatives must assess their conduct and its consequences in as little as a few seconds. This program will provide a pragmatic scaffolding to make those assessments.

Topics covered are:

• The legal possibilities of using force on others
• The medical consequences of physical force
• The tactical application and impact of force
• The ethical considerations in the deployment of force
• The administrative aspects of using force consistent with corporate policy

Workplace Violence Management – This course provides the Protection Agent with an alternative perspective towards the workplace, namely, how to be a ‘protector’ of the many employees and not just the singular executive. The Agent learns how to apply his/her exotic protection skills to the wider occupational environment and not just members of the Boardroom. From this point of view, modern protection agents will increase their chances of long-term employment as today’s workplaces witness increasing violence that is escalating in both frequency and severity.

Topics covered are:

• The theoretical root causes of violence as an acceptable form of expression
• The typological recognition of the sources of occupational violence
• The four primary levels of threats and hostilities to employees and invitees
• The five metrics to assess the probability of violence at work
• The three trigger stages of violence as it manifests along a predictable path
• The three phases of a formal Workplace Violence Prevention Program (WVPP)

BOMB SEARCH & IDENTIFICATION
Exclusive to 28-Day Residency

This course consists of a careful collection of documents from government agencies and private sources that analyze a wide variety of terrorist deployment of improvised explosive devices. ATF documents the application of VBIEDs and IEDs by Al Qaeda worldwide, their targets of attack and the means of delivery. The course discusses the wide spread use of shaped charges and land mines by Al Qaeda and Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan that account for more than 50% of American troop fatalities. The course covers the use of suicide bombers, their motivations, recruitment and sacrificial suicide.

FIRST RESPONDER CPR
Exclusive to 28-Day Residency

The Tactical First Responder student will be trained and possess the confidence to demonstrate the skills necessary to save a life while under enemy fire. In addition, the student will be tested on their understanding of non-emergency wounds, self-treatment techniques for burns, heat related illnesses and musculoskeletal injuries. The course incorporates lectures, discussions, hands-on skill stations, and individual instructor feedback. Upon successful completion of the training and demonstration of mastery of the skills, each student will receive a certificate of completion in addition to their First Responder, CPR-AED Certification.

"Students don't care what you know until they know you care.
We care both before and after you train at ESI."

TRAINING FORMAT OVERVIEW

Considered as a single curriculum, the Executive Protection Program consists of an intensive study of executive, dignitary and celebrity protection. On the average, it requires one to nine months to complete the program, depending on whether the student enrolls in the 28-Day Residency Program or combined Distance Ed courses and 15-Day Resident Training. If the student is enrolled in the Distance Ed format, the Program will move at the rate that the student invest time in their studies, and it can be completed in a much shorter period than the average. The student should complete the nine Distance Ed courses prior to arrival at Resident Training. If the student enrolls in the 28-Day Residency, the academic curriculum is completed in classroom or evening study.

Upon completion of any of the three Core Programs, the student is awarded a Certificate of Completion. An ESI Credential is awarded for Certified Protection Specialist, C.P.S, Certified Protective Intelligence & Investigation Specialist, Certified Protective Operations Specialists and the highest award as a Certified Security Specialist upon achieveing a Grade Point Average of 80% or above.

COMPLETION TIME

You may register in the program at any time and work as rapidly as is consistent with your schedule and satisfactory scholarship. Each course contains one Lesson and is designed to be completed in 30 days.  However, there are two factors that determine completion time. First, how fast you study, because our courses will move at the speed that you move. The second factor is the finance program that you choose. ESI is approved by Sallie Mae, a federally approved student tuition loan company

For information on student financing GO TO: STUDENT FINANCE PLANS

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We recommend that you work at a steady pace to complete each course approximately within the time frame allowed; on the average it will require 15 to 20 hours per week to complete the course on schedule.

The cost of administration and initial registration is separate from the cost of the individual courses which are itemized.

The New Executive Protection Bible,the 800-page textbook used by major corporations and government agencies, can be ordered through ESI Education Development Corporation at 970 925-3630.

CD ROM CONVERSION

ESI is converting many of its copyrighted text books and printed manuals into CD Acrobat format. Both the VIP Protection Manual and Telephone Eavesdropping & Countermeasures texts print into 500 page documents.  The CD Rom format facilitates student mobility and shipping to ESI's growing international student body.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL MILITARY AND 
LAW ENFORCEMENT VETERANS!

ESI WILL ACCEPT EQUIVALENT PRIOR TRAINING AND WORK EXPERIENCE TOWARDS ACADEMIC CREDIT FOR UP TO SEVEN DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES.  A PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE MADE UP OF RETIRED MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ESI GRADUATES WILL EVALUATE EQUIVALENCY OF PRIOR TRAINING AND WORK EXPERIENCE.  APPLICANTS WILL BE CHARGED $25 PER COURSE WHICH WILL BE PAID TO THE PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE TO EVALUATE CONTENT COMPARISON. A $300 DISCOUNT WILL BE AWARDED FOR EACH COURSE ACCEPTED AS EQUIVALENT TO AN ESI DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE.

Effective November 1, 2003

Cary Kern and John Grauer, 2007 ESI graduates in Protective Detail with Governor Dean

"It was amazing how many people in the Security Industry are familiar with the Outstanding reputation E.S.I. has!! I am convinced that I would not have made it this far without you and E.S.I."

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