List of Influences Detrimentally Affecting Close Protection Operational Performance

In short, or evidently not, the following is the list of all of the influences that detrimentally affect Close Protection operational performance and a direct comparative reality to what should be imposed. Whilst a few of the subject matter below is mentioned in both SIA course content and in a few courses that try to better the content, they do so more as a form of 'awareness' as opposed to proper effective training in both content and duration...

Shocking isn't it.

From Training to End Service Provision

Within the context of a serious security provision then, what is the solution, if standards are acknowledged to be poor/ unfit for purpose – to be raised to an accepted workable level whereby risk is actually mitigated and controlled, where the client actually receives the service, he/ she expects and where the operation experiences a satisfactory, effective risk mitigation management? There is of course, no easy answer. Where the fluid processes and benefits of productivity, progress and good morale are often the result of good management dictating conduct within any business or operation, so too are ‘authorities’ that dictate the standards responsible for the same performance on the ‘shop floor’. It has to be said, that there remains a direct correlation between how well the training companies perform and influences the operations perform conducted by those same students. If training is poor then naturally, so too will be the approach to, and conduct of, the service provided by those students as a whole. Unlike Napoleon, and within the context of private sector Close Protection, and specifically, individual skill set competence and effectiveness, the ‘show up and see what happens’ is based on chance, with little or no prior preparation. The conscious decision of General Percival to refuse to build defences is exactly the same as ‘authorities’ refusing to implement any industry entrance standards or any proper training standards whilst sticking their heads in the sand in response to any challenges of their conduct and approach. Unlike Napoleon, in ‘showing up and see what happens’, there is no plan whatsoever. The client will receive the service as dictated, regardless of the lack of effectiveness of that ‘service’. There are 3 main elements concerning the individual UK SIA CP training course for licensing that are detrimental to the end service provision. These are:

Throw into the mix that despite the SIA 'standard' remaining poor after nearly two decades of amendments, surveys, consultations with industry, seminars, Q&As and so-called 'top ups', that it actually remains in a better position than much of the rest of the world!

Now that really is shocking...