Residency Certificate Programs

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(COVET) for Veterans Education and Training Benefits.
ESI is also eligible for MyCAA - Financial Assistance to Military Spouses

The Close Protection Residency Programs consist of an integrated academic and practical training curriculum that contain four Modules: Module-1 is a 20-Day Corporate Security and Threat Management Program; Module-2 is a 28-Day Executive Protection curriculum in executive, dignitary and celebrity protection; Module 3 is a 28-Day PSD Protective Operations course designed for protective operations in high risk combat zones; Module 4 is a 28-Day Tactical 1^st Responder Medical Program. The Residency Certificates provide a fast track to a professional career and they are equivalent to our combined Distance Education/ Resident Training format.

The Resident Programs are an intelligence-based curriculum with a special emphasis on preparing protection specialists to operate in corporate, celebrity and close personal protection in international and domestic venues. The PSD program incorporates civil police and military protocols in the principles of personal protection in high risk combat zones, including third world environments of Iraq and Afghanistan. The career objective of this training is to prepare the ESI graduate for a professional occupation as a close protection agent in a wide range of security environments. What distinguishes ESI from practically every other security training organization in the country is that ESI teaches to a Standard, meaning that students must demonstrate understanding and competence in each component of the training modules.

Laptop Computers are required in all ESI Resident Classes

For Program Tuition and Enrollment GO TO: ENROLLMENT FORMS

For information on student financing GO TO: STUDENT FINANCE PLANS

Module 1
CORPORATE SECURITY

ESI’s Corporate Security and Threat Management Program deepens and broadens the Close Protection agent's training in protective intelligence as the core competency of personal and corporate security. ESI's teaching philosophy is that these skills are indispensable to any Protection Specialist.

The Corporate Security and Threat Management module includes: Predictive & Proactive Intelligence, Case Studies of Corporate CEO Stalkers, Behavioral Intelligence and Clues to Dangerousness, Interview & Interrogation Detection of Deception; Criminal & Social Network Analysis; Threat Assessment and Management, Structured Analytical Techniques, Computer Intelligence Collection and Computer Security; Field Handwriting Analysis, Legal Use of Force, Workplace Disruption & Violence, and Airport Security.

For a complete description of the individual courses in intelligence and investigation: Click Here

Module 2
EXECUTIVE PROTECTION

Practical and academic components of the RESIDENT TRAINING in personal protection and intelligence include:

Principles of Protection; Advances; Protective Detail Operations; Operational & Behavioral Intelligence; Defensive Shooting Tactics; Weapon Disarms and Client Management; Client Maneuvers; Bomb Threat Assessment and Response; EP Medical Response; Corporate Security and Disaster Response; Stalking and Dangerous Human Behavior; Surveillance Detection.

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ESI Close Protection Drill, Aspen Airport 1980

Module 3
PSD PROTECTIVE OPERATIONS

PSD Protective Operations in High Risk Combat Zones include:

Protective Operations; Battlefield & SWAT Tactical 1st Response, Insurgent Theory & Tactics; Counter Insurgent Theory & Tactics; Improvised Explosives, Advances and Site Surveys, Technical Surveillance & Counter Surveillance, Terrorist Cell Exercise; Close Quarter Battle Shooting, Carbine & Handgun Operations in Protective Details; Motorcade Ambush Response; Weaponless Combatives.

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Module 4
TACTICAL 1^ST RESPONDER MEDICAL

This Residency Program prepares combat zone Contractors, civilian EMT’s, Paramedics, Nurses and physicians, Close Protection Medical Specialist, SWAT Paramedics or First Responders in a natural or manmade disaster to operate in the austere, hostile world of tactical operations. Whether the situation is a convoy under assault in the Third World, Forced Entry in an inner city or Close Protection Specialist faced with sudden medical emergency, this program is designed to meet the highest standards of protection and response to medical emergencies. The Program exemplifies the “unity of purpose of the Protector and Medical 1st Responder. The four-week Program can be taken in Stand-Alone Blocks of study.

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	SWAT Article on ESI's Protective Intelligence Program
	"The Harvard School for Bodyguards", Interview with Bob Duggan in Combat Handguns
	Executive Protection