Body guard

bitslice said:
So was Conan the Barbarian once, he turned out OK.
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:D:D:D


On topic, there is a lot of money to be made working as gaurds on shipping through Somalia these days, a bloke I went to school with who I keep in touch with does this though he has the backing of being and ex Marine. BLinking loaded he is off it.
 
kwerk said:
Google image searched "G wagon"... DO WANT!

Searched autotrader... nearest one is 500 miles away, $130,000 USED :( 12 MPG city lol.

I could buy a Land Cruiser AND a Range Rover for that.
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There was a CP team in Iraq with a few of them... in silver - custom armoured ones.. Allegedly theses vehicles could survive an RPG.
 
You'll need SIA CP certification to start with, preferably be ex-military or civvy Police and have proven experience, which can obviously be very difficult to do without being in one of the former.
 
Castiel said:
You'll need SIA CP certification to start with, preferably be ex-military or civvy Police and have proven experience, which can obviously be very difficult to do without being in one of the former.
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I know a few ex police officers from here in northern ireland who are involved in this type of work as well. The salaries payed seem to be pretty high, but theres also the aspect of this drawing experienced soldiers out of the armed forces, therefore draining the pool of experienced troops. My friend told me that this was very common in his old unit.
 
My Grandpa's first job after retiring from the army (he was a Major, training Gurkhas) was to work in Tblisi, Georgia, protecting high ranking UN officials.
After his contract ended, 9 months later, he returned home to Hong Kong, then moved to Cyprus so he could get shorter flights to the Middle East, Russia & N.Africa, as he was offered work training CP squads for foreign government officials, business men and Saudi royal family members.

Most of his preferred teams were ex SAS/SBS, Israeli Mossad and Spetznatz players, all average looking, non-descript types, but all were given further intensive refresher training in small arms, counter terrorism (suicide bomber-spotting), advanced driving techniques and Krav Maga.

An experienced 6 person team (4 CP, 2 driving or advanced recon) can ask upwards of $35k per day, with minimum contracts upwards of 3 months.
The best CP teams you won't even notice. After all, if they have to be obvious, it's because something bad is about to happen.

@OP, forget "bodyguarding" as a first career choice, as the skills and experience the best paying firms demand are only really achieved through forces training. Unless you've many thousands of pounds to spend on training, shooting thousands of rounds, weeks of constant takedown drills so the moves are committed to muscle memory etc. etc... you'd be best off joining the military and letting them train you, then consider CP work as a 2nd career...
 
Why's everyone assuming he means going to hostile nations and defending officials from lunatics with guns

Maybe he could start off small doing something like guarding drunkards from beating uponst joey Essex type celebs or custard pieing lib dem politicians
 
RedMogg said:
My Grandpa's first job after retiring from the army (he was a Major, training Gurkhas) was to work in Tblisi, Georgia, protecting high ranking UN officials.
After his contract ended, 9 months later, he returned home to Hong Kong, then moved to Cyprus so he could get shorter flights to the Middle East, Russia & N.Africa, as he was offered work training CP squads for foreign government officials, business men and Saudi royal family members.

Most of his preferred teams were ex SAS/SBS, Israeli Mossad and Spetznatz players, all average looking, non-descript types, but all were given further intensive refresher training in small arms, counter terrorism (suicide bomber-spotting), advanced driving techniques and Krav Maga.

An experienced 6 person team (4 CP, 2 driving or advanced recon) can ask upwards of $35k per day, with minimum contracts upwards of 3 months.
The best CP teams you won't even notice. After all, if they have to be obvious, it's because something bad is about to happen.

@OP, forget "bodyguarding" as a first career choice, as the skills and experience the best paying firms demand are only really achieved through forces training. Unless you've many thousands of pounds to spend on training, shooting thousands of rounds, weeks of constant takedown drills so the moves are committed to muscle memory etc. etc... you'd be best off joining the military and letting them train you, then consider CP work as a 2nd career...
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Is this game available on Steam?
 
dowie said:
Obvious route would be join military police: RMP, RAF Police etc... serve for a bit... apply for CP course. Do a fairly chilled tour where you drive a general about in a merc G wagon... ponce about in camp a lot sporting some H&K variant... leave military and do lucrative civilian CP work.
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This! My older brother has spent most of his life in the forces and is currently a CPO in the Army. Before this he was in the RMP (or Mickey mouse police as he calls them), Para's and Queens regiment, so a military background definitely helps. Last year he was guarding some commanding officer in Afghanistan I think.
 
"andy" said:
Why's everyone assuming he means going to hostile nations and defending officials from lunatics with guns

Maybe he could start off small doing something like guarding drunkards from beating uponst joey Essex type celebs or custard pieing lib dem politicians
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I have to agree, it is not all about going SAS style abroad. Sure he would not get those types of contracts anyway. I would say try big security events companies like I did after working with them a while doing door work then festivals, back stage security then book signings etc realistically even after doing sia you would need some sort of experience in security in a real setting.
 
"andy" said:
Why's everyone assuming he means going to hostile nations and defending officials from lunatics with guns

Maybe he could start off small doing something like guarding drunkards from beating uponst joey Essex type celebs or custard pieing lib dem politicians
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Points still stand regardless... if one guy's CV is ex bouncer who's paid for a course from t'interweb and another guy is an ex police officer who's previously served in some from of CP role then their possible employment opportunities and rates of pay will likely vary considerably.
 
A friend from school does it. He was a bouncer first and then got into the bodyguard industry through people he met. Not ex-police/army but he's a seriously beefy guy.

Most of his job seems to be keeping paparazzi away from minor celebrities.
 
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