Certified Protection Specialist, CPS

TRAINING DATES 2008

The Executive Protection program is an integrated academic and practical training curriculum consisting of a 28-Day (230 hours) 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 shifted its training philosophy to 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 every other training organization in the world.

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 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.

Special Operations Program also contains nine Distance Ed courses while the Security Specialist Program contains eighteen. Upon completion of any of the three Core Programs, the student is awarded a Certificate of Completion and depending upon whether the student achieves a Grade Point Average of 80% or above, a Credential is awarded as Certified Protection Specialist, C.P.S, Certified Protective Intelligence & Investigation Specialist, Certified Special Operations Specialists and the highest award as a Certified Security Specialist.

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."

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

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. Second, 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

For Student Enrollment Forms GO TO: ENROLL ON LINE

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.

This program is designed to provide professional protection specialists with a wide range of skills to enter into careers in executive protection. Students who successfully complete the course will be certified by ESI. In order to achieve CPS Credential, ESI students must complete the Distance Education Program as well as the 15-Day Resident Program; it is strongly recommended that the Required Academic Courses be completed prior to arrival for Resident Training.

Includes: Principles of Protection; Protective Detail Operations; Defensive Shooting Tactics; Unarmed Defensive Tactics; Bomb Search and Identification; First Respondent Medicine; Electronic Security; Operational Intelligence; Stalking and Dangerous Human Behavior. The price of the program includes all necessary equipment and ammunition. Food and lodging is separate, but ESI negotiates the best room rates available.

 
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

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	Denver Post Article on ESI Graduates: Barry Wilson-Trip Wynn

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