Escorts

No, not that kind of escort...  :)

For security guards, escorting employees to their car is done every day. I see it done very poorly all the time.  I see the guard walking and talking with the protectee like it was a date or a walk in the park. They are less effective at your protection than walking with your dog!

Here are some ideas for you to consider for routine employee escorts:

• Watch the whole area: near to far, left to right, 360 degrees and up and down!. 
• Watch for threats to the person you are protecting; do not watch the person you are escorting. They are usually not the threat!
  
• Have plans. If one or three people run towards you, if someone starts shooting, or taking photographs, if the protectee has a heart attack, faints, trips, or drops all their paperwork?
• Be alert and look alert!
  
• When you get to their car, bus or train station you must stay with them, within 2-3 steps, until they are safely in the vehicle. LOOK into their vehicle to ensure it is safe. Look around all sides of the vehicle until they enter.
• Assume there will be an attack or incident!
  
• Be polite but do not start a conversation or put your energy into conversations they start.
• If they dismiss you, it is based upon their amateur threat/risk analysis, embarassment or concern for your time. Carefully and diplomatically suggest you can stay until they are on their way or locked in their vehicle or there are many other 'innocents' standing by in the area.

Security Officers often are required/expected to escort money, people and materials from one point to another to ensure it is not lost, injured/damaged, stolen, adulterated, or suffers "shrinkage".

In executive protection or "bodyguarding", the escort protects the principle from being molested, kidnapped, hurt, threatened or killed.

Escorting valuables protects against loss via theft, sabotage, accident, contamination, substitution or destruction.

Bodyguard work requires specific training available from a few nationally recognized training centers. [Google it.] There are various Executive Protection "Bibles" available from Amazon.

Escorts are all about advanced planning. It is about being alert. It is much less about shooting or martial arts than you might imagine...although those are an important part of it.

Getting the protected items or persons to safety is your #1 concern...not primarily attacking or arresting the attackers.

Assume there are always more attackers than you see initially...get the protected person or items to safety first!

PLAN!