Bodyguards Philippines

Bodyguards Philippines

         Among other contents of this blog post is to tender some sort elucidation as to the true nature of works of individuals involved in security protection undertakings, and also to provide tips on the security taken to ensure the safety of the Very Important Person (VIP) or otherindividual who in some other sense highly likely expose to a seeming personal threat due to their political status, celebrity status, wealth, involvement-alliance or environmental site.

   Bodyguards as commonly called here in the Philippines, however, is not true in other countries such as the United States of America (USA) and European Union (EU), the same is professionally called as Executive Protection Detail (EPD) means the elements comprising the security detail, and Executive Protection Specialist is name for every person who comprises the security detail.

         In all modesty and in due respect to those expert in the field of security protection, I humbly tender my centavo know-how about security protection consideration, which the same I’ve obtained through my former work being a civil servant, who once upon a time has the opportunity to serve my country in a way that only a few people have. I share the same in an informal and brotherly atmosphere on how I experienced and on the ideal way of executing the same, which ably gained the same thru trainings seminars and actual engagements.

           Why bodyguards are employed? For years the world and so in particular the business people, personalities and politicians setting in the portals of power in the Philippines have recognized the need and thus employed a competent professionals who can actually deal with multifaceted security issues that threaten to their lives and the assets of corporations, governments, and public and private institutions. As the emphasis on protecting people, property, and information increases, it has strengthened the demand for professional people to take on the challenge.

          Worthy to mention securing INFORMATION as among other works of the Executive Protection Detail in the truest sense of the word and now also extend to information which to include computer security.

              I may humbly say and surprise that some of us got hold of the thinking that the real world of VIP security protection detail or fondly called as bodyguards are often depicted in the movies as the muscular build. Carrying pistolize machine gun and endowed with martial arts talent in the like of Bruce Lee, Jet Lee or those that  we personally witnessed among the bodyguards of local politicians in the provinces here in the Philippines with “steely eyed looks,” tough and ugly wearing jacket. 

        In the real world, however, they are the “professional paranoids” who keep their VIPs/Clients or their Principals safe and alive more by using their brains more so intuitive mind, and not just brawn. The VIP security people should be experts in both defensive and offensive weaponry.  However, their primary weapons should be their wits and the ability to exercise fine judgment on the spur of the moment during dangerous situations.  They must have high level of poise, intelligence, and flexibility to enable them to blend into some advanced social situations, thus avoid being annoyances and source of embarrassment to their VIPs/clients/Principals.

          Simply put, the focal undertaking of an Executive Protection Detail resonate to a multifaceted attempt of being a servant and at the same moment a master. This is because in a way that the VIPs/Clients’/Principals per se control the movements such that on where to go and what will he/she do--but as an Executive Protector in simple term and reverence will thereby insist on how the VIPs/Client’s/Principal to get there at the meeting site/venue/rendezvous in all respect with safety and security consideration, and within the terms of the domain of the Executive Protection Detail. The member of the Executive Protection Detail/Security Escort is a servant because primarily employed to defend the very person of the VIP/Client/Principal, to his immediately family to include the family home. Moreover, the Executive Protector/Security Escort is therefore obligated to further keep up to insist that the VIPs/Client’s/Principal will obey to the letter of the instructions/orders without hesitation in view of the security and safety considerations.  

  

   On the other hand, Protector/Security Escort is a master in a sense that the same is obligated to insist upon the person of the VIPs/Client’s/Principal on where and on how to go in arriving on the desired directional route and on what security mode of transportation best suited vis-à-vis security consideration.

   

         So here we can decipher that there is a presence of a delicate balance of attempt in the domain of the Executive Protection Specialist. And in attaining a smooth working relationship and as an inherent order of things to be done, and it should be as a matter of process that the very person of the VIPs/Client’s/Principal should be ready to take orders/directions directly from the Executive Protection Detail/Security Escort.

          It may sound illogical that the VIPs/Client’s/Principal should take orders/direction from someone he/she employed! Really, it may sound illogical and revolting to the conscience in view of the natural course of employer-employee relationships. However, in the engagement of the Executive Protection Detail and undertaken in its strictness and truest process, the same is not illogical.

     Moreover, for the Executive Protector/Security Escort it somehow requires the skills of a military specialist, but above all the one in most situations endowed with the talents and skills of a diplomat, thus has a mind. The same does not necessarily to become the best yet must learn the most. 

      

      The Executive Protector/Security Escort people should not only be able to physically counter life threatening acts, but more importantly, be able to “read” people and situations.  They should be able to expect possible avenues of attack and then act to avoid places and cut the times where and when their VIPs will be vulnerable. Be it known that assassins and kidnappers are themselves professionals. Their planning is meticulous and their execution of plans precise.  Capitalizing mainly on the elements of secrecy, surprise and superior intelligence, they will only manifest themselves during the real strike. Their identities, however, will remain unknown for sometime.

        In this juncture we can simply deduced and from the time-honored saying which to say that it takes a pro to counter a pro, it is therefore necessary for ExecutiveProtector/VIP Security Escort to beprofessionals themselves.

         I assumed that in view of the foregoing shared-input, one has the opportunity to learn the difference between “bodyguard” work and professional personal protection. In due adherence to providing effective tips on security while balancing multiple responsibilities and some sort of things to consider to those tasked to defend/protect the VIPs/Client’s, hereunder are points to ponder, which I assume significance in Bodyguards Philippines:

·        Never promise your hands:In a situation which we have to project: three men were bunched together in front of a door, while the VIP/Principal is inside of the room, let us just assume. The first escort had his hand in his pockets. The second inhaled from a cigarette, while the third sipped a cup of hazel nut premium coffee. Accordingly, the three were the “bodyguards” of a politician.

Further, to describe the physical appearance of the three “bodyguards”: they were built like football players, their suits too tight for their bullish necks and cheeks. They’d be intimidating to a non-professional, but their bulk made them too conspicuous to blend with a crowd, and they looked too muscular-bound to beable to respond instantaneously to a crisis.

·        Professionally Deal with Privilege Information: Any information/remarks or in a way getting to know the virtual attitude of the VIP/Principal, which the same obtained in line with the security engagement all are just confession, and every members of the security detail/team is like a Priest with respect to the information thus obtained.

·        Avoid huge windows whose draperies are open: In this scenario it give an enemy assassin/kidnappers an unnecessary advantage, inciting easy invasion with telescope, microwave-beamed listening probes, and most crucial, sniper bullets.

·        Proper way to Dress Up: Wear clothes to match your surroundings, but never choose a suit/attire that’s more elegant than your Principal/VIP. Clothes that can really blend the area crowd of real engagement.

      Be that as it may, in the security protection domain, the Executive Protector/Security Escort may never know how many attacks he has repelled in the effect of complying the job within the letter and spirit of doing the same. Nevertheless, mistakes serve as clear reminders of the things to happen when Executive Protector/Security Escort team failed to do in a way it should to be. Be it reminded also that mistakes happen, that is why they put erasers on the ends of pencils. It’s not the end of the world. Let’s learn from the errors of the past and move on for the future.

   

        

       

   

        

Digital Privacy and Security

Digital Privacy and Security

Privacy is a simple word to hear and to define the same in one virtual understanding. In the Philippines no less than its constitution ordained and pronounced the protection to privacy viz security of every person. And reading the topic in the 1987 Philippine Constitution, it can be gleaned that persons protected therewith applies to all persons, whether accused of a crime or not.

The right of the people to secure in their persons, that to say the least even of P-Noy, the President of the Philippines wants to enter your house and it happens you refuses, there and then, P-Noy can’t force nor endowed with legal basis to go into your abode.

Additionally, not only your houses are thus protected but to include papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. All of these long been reflected and among the laws and statutes displayed in every bookstores shelves. For an advice, every person/person including an alien tourist should also try to know thy rights while living and sojourning in the archipelagic place otherwise known as Philippines. [If ever you wish to get hold of this law just log in www.supremecourt.gov.ph]

Accompanying statement or phrase embodied in the aforesaid constitution is the same should not be violated in whatever nature and for any purpose. By and large, all things/stuffs mentioned above are fact indicating that privacy and security have place in the heart of every governmental organ of the state.

So now how secured are we if we talk and seemingly thresh out about Digital Privacy and Security? Maybe one can stop; look and listen thereby ponder a moment to consider the query, and I hope so it has relevance and materiality in view of those who always visit and thus live in the digital or virtual world.

Digital Privacy and Security so are complicated concern to deal with in the domain of digital or virtual world otherwise fondly called as Electronic Highway. Even books/ebooks and resources abound thereat whether in physical library or in a virtual one, eloquently and in detail tapped and discussed personal privacy and security in the age of the Internet. However, in its finale, privacy and security is personal, and the comprehensive answer in the above-cited query depends largely on YOU, the person involved.

Nevertheless, it is crystal clear that the virtual concept of privacy and security, the threats to it, and the means to make it, are immensely changing as a resultant quest of man vis-à-vis computer based-lives. One may surely asked why is this so/or how it works in our everyday lives?

We should rehearsed, shall we say thirty years back or in the Philippines in just only twenty (20) years, therein privacy and security used to be achieved thru the pure friction of everyday life. That is to show, the time, the distance, and the lack or inaccessibility of records. Information didn’t travel so well, and most the populace who wanted to escape their personal past could simply move to a new area without a trace sometimes. That is to say then, greater part of activities or things people did then produced no trace or paper trail and records, and if ever there were records existed on paper, the same was hard to find, insurmountable face to duplicate, moreover, the same was then subject to being place in the dash-bin of nowhere, faded or if not beyond the commerce of man as my former professor fondly mentioned the same.        

In today’s contemporary realities viz digital era, the picture has change relative to privacy and security. One can escape thru the net, however, in the same time your actions and words can easily catch up with you, in the same breath thru the Net. And to say the least, it’s not exclusively the Net yet it’s the electronic toll roads--- how it works: exactly one knew when you leaved on the conference/meeting/venue; know what hotel you went to--thru your credit card transactions; thru vendor databases on what book you bought, mobile phone records--whom you called, and there are plenty of things or shall we called it working module just to track you in. Even at work, your arrival and departure time now is simply recorded.

For now and years to come, data collection made easy in every angle of living and scary it may seem since it has the capability to combine. And I may tender my sense of thought that someday someone might put the right or wrong collated information together to seek out information or in similar passion of knowing more than you want them to know.

And so we may know surely on what will be then the best solution via-a-vis digital privacy and security in the Philippines digital or virtual world residents or sojourners? Does it need a correlative legislation in addressing the same? Or some sort of virtual knowledge on Digital Privacy and Security?

Note Well: If ever you wish to place your relative advice, please don’t hesitate to tender your comment in whatever tune and form.

Moreover, the writer of above written article wishes and asks your kind try if you wish to edit in its syntax is encourage. Thanks

     

Seven Aids for Employer's Admin Intelligence & Security

• 1. Screen new employees carefully. Check their references and keep a complete personnel profile, which includes a recent photo.

• 2. Avoid answering the phone yourself. Instruct your office workers or house-help not to volunteer information about you or your whereabouts.

• 3. It is better to open ATM accounts for your workers so you don’t have to have a big payroll transported to or kept in your office.

• 4. If ever in a given situation that any suspicious individuals are loitering in or around your place of business, as much as possible take photos on them, and the said situation/scenario should be reported to an appropriate government security sector particularly on the Intelligence enforcement unit. Keep the police emergency number tapped to all your phones.

• 5. Always Use two people to open and close your business for the day, to handle or transfer money. Do not have affixed schedule when going to the banks.

• 6. Install and keep lights on outside the gate of your business establishment at night.

• 7. Among the basic behavior during a robbery, avoid any action that will alarm and/or anger the criminals. At much as possible don’t panic and also make them feel at ease.

SocietasLex: The Eight (8) Ingredients Success Motivators

SocietasLex: The Eight (8) Ingredients Success Motivators: Motivators can be said as an essential element-ingredient for attaining an ultimate success in every human endeavor. It is said by weight of...

SIX BASIC SAFETY NETS WHILE IN THE STREETS

1.  Beware of the people who approach you asking for directions; keep a polite and safe distance.

2.  When carrying a purse, place only a few bills inside. If you carry a bag, don’t wrap the strap around your shoulder, neck or wrist. If your bag is grabbed, a strong strap will not yield easily and you may be injured.

3.  At night, travel only on well –lighted streets. Avoid taking short cuts in narrow side roads when driving alone.

4.  Familiarize yourself with the route you take in getting home. If you feel someone is following you, run to the nearest store, gas station, police outpost or building with guards for assistance.

5.  When going home, particularly after dark, do not linger at the entrance of your residence. Be sure your house key is already before you reach the gate/door. If you feel something is strange, don’t enter but move/go elsewhere and call police assistance.

6. Walk on the side of the street to the oncoming traffic. If accosted by someone in a car, run in the direction opposite to where the car is headed.

The Eight (8) Ingredients Success Motivators

Motivators can be said as an essential element-ingredient for attaining an ultimate success in every human endeavor. It is said by weight of authority in the field of academe and as by way of research both are unison in attributing the probability of success upon utilizing the same in the pursuit of every human existence. More so if the same be supplemented by other theoretical undertaking or better known as laws of men embedded in today’s world, which have been tested among great men and women in human history.  Quoted hereunder are the so-called eight success motivators which in incorporates the aforementioned laws of men:

1.    FAITH-  accordingly and as provided for by reliable men and women in history, there is no certain future for the individual who lacks faith; faith in himself; faith in others; faith in his community and faith in Heavenly Father. Faith therefore believes in the invisible forces of our Heavenly Father. It is the inspiration behind al great works of man. Above all, faith believes that ‘works of good’ will come to pass no matter what the obstacles.

If one believes that you are old enough to muster any problem and have total faith in your own capacity and ability to overcome the same, success is not far off. Strategic planning-maneuvering and set goals, and believes in them and you will accomplish if not able to pull off in the quandary.

A well known Psychologist William James declared, “There is but one cause of human failure and that is man’s lack of faith in his true self”. Faith gives power and actions to any desire you man have. The practice of faith in very self; faith in others; faith in your community-society and faith in Heavenly Father, brings health, joy-happiness and affluence. Faith is an attitude of mind, a special way of thinking, a deep inner conviction. Faith or lack of the same, is the determinant factor on whether or not success or failure of any endeavor.

The soundest wisdom to be found is in the famous quotation which indicates that faith moves mountains. That is to say, when you really believe and not just wish or hope for, your remove inner mountains of fear, frustration, tension and anxiety and leave the way clear for creative accomplishment.

So then, there’s no use of talking about success, hoping for it, dreaming on it, you have to apply real faith in your life and then, and only then, will you see your desires, dreams and aspirations bear fruit. Be it reminded that YOU are the product of your own belief. When you believe yourself to be inadequate you are telling your subconscious mind that you are a failure. When you believe I CAN, I WILL, then you do the same.  

   

2.    ENTHUSIASM- As the feeling of poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson: every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it. Enthusiasm is a magical world meaning keen interest. Lack of the same has kept many a man from achieving success. It then also implies the difference between caring and not caring, between interest and disinterest. Many great speakers in the like of Pastor Quiboloy and Brother Eddie Villanueva to include Villarde, who captive audiences by injecting enthusiasm into everything they do.

Psychologically, enthusiasm is energy motivated. Energy is the capability for doing work. When a man works and plays he draws upon energy stored within his body. Apparently and as we then experienced on the same to the effect that as the degree we succeed in our individual work is measured by the amount of energy we then exerted.

Simple logic coupled with indigenous scrutiny indicates that energy that makes organizations move about, the same depends upon individual enthusiasm. Leaders with bright ideas and the ability to inspire high thought and action in others are the main generators of energy. Their individual brand of enthusiasm rubs off onto other people and inspires them to greater works.

Cosmic law has manifests that there are untapped sources of energy within a human being-in all of us. It said that when we tap our energy supply we become more dynamic, more productive and consequently more successful. That psychic energy combined with physical energy is a gigantic-mighty power that can elevate your present position in life and bring your increased income through expanded personal production and creative accomplishment.

Lord Thomson, the British press tycoon, says that any young man who wishes to become a millionaire today must have a complete determination and be enthusiastic about his desire to be rich and successful. Enthusiasm can be the turning point of nay idea. Once a task is backed with enthusiasm, that task is half done.

3.    DISCIPLINE- this motivator is a most important character trait to possess. Individuals need it as well as nations. Lack of discipline the world would totter. One of the evidences that discipline is a must to possess holds bearing on the armed flock  of Alexander the Great, as history said so, wherein they have successfully attained the primordial objective at that time and condition obtaining. Remember this; no army could march unless it was under discipline. Without discipline there is disorganization, confusion and failure.

More importantly, in possessing trait of discipline vis-à-vis human endeavor, you must do one thing at a time. Some of us seem to accomplish anything under the hottest sun. Work on many projects but all seem to falter and fail, this is due to the very fact that they do not tackle one undertaking at a time and see it through, which manifest lack of discipline.

In a humble submission, get your life organized in such a way that your time is used to the strategic advances which best and suitable in your end. Simply put, do the important jobs now, the trivial things later on since the same can wait. Handle and carry each job to completion, and to do this is to avoid confusion. Moreover, back your organized effort with faith, enthusiasm and integrity. And will remind you of the very fact that you will accomplish your goals twice as fast and you will be establishing a success pattern for future goals. Do one thing at a time and do it right.

4.   INTEGRITY- be it reminded that there is no short cut to success, considering that the same has a high price tag. The opportunities are there and the rewards are there but so are the demands.

In so stating success, and to succeed it requires getting along with people. It is a must to be working in a job-endeavor you love and to have knowledge to perform your work at top efficiency, and importantly you become involved in every facet of the said job-endeavor. Success practically means hard work, to work in excess-extra mile; the same is earned and is not a charity as any successful person will tell you. That, there is no such thing as something for nothing.

Unmindfully, some people attempt to attain riches by devious methods. While dishonesty might seemingly work advantageously for some for a while, it can never bring lasting success. You achieve success through the diligent application of your talents in an honest and fair way. Reminded that to do this is to ardently show that you have a sense of integrity.

Experienced will tell us that integrity is the key to a man’s character. To have a greatest character trait of all is to have integrity, which means you can be trusted, you can be counted on to come through in the clinches, you are honest in all your dealings and transactions, and above all there is purity and moral soundness about you as an individual.

Important is the very fact vis-à-vis employment, an employer wants to know that he is hiring individuals who are honest. If you cannot be trusted then you will never make it on the top. Surely as what we have had experienced, when others find that you lack integrity they will not deal or make transaction with you now and even in the future. Worth to note, you can control the attitudes and actions of others only if they respect you, and they respect you only when they know you have personal integrity.

No alternative for integrity, as it is the key to man’s character and essential for success. Plain scanning onto the lives of successful human creatures, the resultant effect will be that integrity coupled with knowledge and desire, equals success. Useless is the fact of having all of tons of attributes that make for success if in the end you lack integrity, for sooner or later this lack in a character of man will transport him to his knees and destroy all chance of greater things. That is in line with an antic quotation which says the wise man is the man who realizes early in life that honesty is the best policy, which he can go far with personal integrity but nowhere without the same.

With due recognition, I quote in here the statement of A.P. STANLEY: “Give us the man of integrity, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend; who will stand firm when others fail; the friend, faithful and true; the adviser, honest and fearless, the adversary, just and chivalrous; such a one is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.”    

  

5.    Strategic Mind Setting- war or any kind of conflict is waged and won through strategy. Think of strategies as a series of lines and arrows aimed at a goal: at getting you to a certain point in the world, at helping you to attack a problem in your path, at figuring out how to encircle and destroy your enemies, however, you must direct them at yourself.

Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and urgency, will create strategies that will always miss the mark point.

Biblically, in Job 7:1 it says that “The life of man upon earth is warfare”. This war exists on several levels. Obviously. We have our rivals on the other5 side. The world has become increasingly competitive and nasty. In politics, business, even the arts, we face opponents who will do almost anything to gain an edge.

And to face up this all seemingly insurmountable life struggles to live up to, and the confusion that brings us, we need are not impossible and inhuman ideals of peace and cooperation but rather practical knowledge on how to deal with conflict and the daily battles we face. This knowledge is not about how to be more forceful in getting want or defending ourselves but rather how to be more rational and strategic when it comes to conflict viz competition, channeling our aggressive impulses instead of denying or repressing them.

Be it informed that strategic men operate much differently. They think ahead their long-term goals; decide which fights to avoid and which are inevitable, know how to control and channel their emotions.

According to Helmuth Von Moltke, Strategy is more than a science: it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of thought capable of modifying the original guiding idea in the light of ever-changing situations; it is the art of acting under pressure of the most difficult conditions.

Buy a book containing strategic guide and a similar literature which a distillation of the timeless wisdom contained in the lesson and principles of warfare. Better still read them all, absorb them, allowing them to become part of your mental arsenal.

6.   Conceal Your Intentions- it is easy and natural to always want to talk about one’s feelings and plans for the future. It takes effort to control your tongue and monitor what you reveal. Also many believe that by being honest and open they’re winning people’s heart and showing their good nature. They are greatly deluded. Be it reminded that honesty is actually a blunt instrument, which bloodies more than it cuts. Your honesty is likely to offend people; it is much prudent to tailor your words, telling people what they want to hear rather than the coarse and ugly truth of what you feel or think.

Strategically, by being unabashedly open you make yourself so predictable and familiar that it is almost impossible to respect or fear you, and remember this power will not accrue to a person who cannot inspire such emotions. 

By attaining success it is but necessary to seemingly apply if not follow some sort of established guidepost vis-à-vis strategies, and so quickly lay honesty aside, and train yourself in the art of concealing your intensions. Master the art and you will always have the upper hand.

Hide your intentions not by closing up (not with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals- just not your real ones.

 

7.    Win through your Actions; Never through Arguments- is any triumph you think you have gained/win through argument is really a meaningless victory. The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any passing change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate. 

The Arguer does not understand the words are never neutral, and that by arguing with a superior he impugns the intelligence of one more powerful than he. He also has no awareness of the person he is dealing with. Since each man believes that he is right, and the words will rarely convince him otherwise, the arguer’s reasoning falls on deaf ears. When cornered, he only argues more, digging his own grave. Once he has made the other person feel insecure and inferior in his beliefs, the eloquence of Senator Meriam Defensor-Santiago could not save the situation.

It is not simply a question of avoiding an argument with those who stand above you. We all believe we are masters in the realm of opinions and reasoning. You must be careful, then: Learn to demonstrate the correctness of your ideas indirectly.

8.   Plan All the Way to the End- you then know that ending is everything. Plan all the way to it, taking into account all the possible consequences, obstacles, and twists of fortune that might reserve your hard work and give the glory to others. By planning to the end you will not be overwhelm by circumstances and you will know when to stop. Gently guide fortune and help determine the future by thinking for ahead.

Most men are ruled by the heart, not the head. Their plans are vague, and when they meet obstacles they improvise. But improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.

There is a simple reason why most men never know when to come off the attack: They form no concrete idea of their goal. Once they achieve victory they only hunger for more. To stop---to aim for a goal and then keep to it---seems almost inhuman, in fact; yet nothing is more critical to the maintenance of power. The person who goes so far in his triumphs creates a reaction that inevitably leads to a decline. The only solution is to plan for a long run. Foresee the future with much clarity as the gods 0n Mount Apo and Kitanglad, who look through the clouds and see the ends of all things.

The words of Cardinal Richelieu has find resonance, logic and applicability: “Experience shows that, if one foresees from far away the designs to be undertaken, one can act with speed when the moment comes to execute them.”

More significantly, action without planning is aimless but planning without action is fruitless.