Close Personal Protection
Specialist Training Course
19th - 30th November 2009

The Close Protection School - a department of the Todd Group - will conduct a Specialist Intensive Close Protection (Bodyguard) course (12 Days duration) at its Dunedin Headquarters in November 2009.
The Course and Chief Instructor
The course will be the most current and specialist practices and will appeal to motivated realists with a commitment to personal improvement.
Tank Todd the course chief instructor has over thirty years experience in CQB and CPP.
Assistant instructors on course are highly experienced CPP operators and former military elite forces personnel.
The Training
This course will include all the required basic specialist close personal protection modules, as well as extensive training in work in close protection in hostile environments (war zones).
The training will include every necessary aspect to be a confident basic level operator and team member, worldwide on land, air, rail or sea, armed or unarmed. You will learn how to plan, prepare and operate under extremes, prevent, detect, avoid, and as a last resort, counter or combat all threats to your principle.
These threats will include ballistic, edged weapon, unarmed, explosive or breach of privacy or security. The training will comprise of extensive theory and practical including a practical exercise phase.
Course applicants must be a minimum of 21 years of age, male or female of sound health, physically capable, responsible, self-motivated and meet our background requirements criteria available on initial application.
Having undertaken Todd Systems CQB training or attending the International Close Combat course is a definite advantage.
This is a limited position course and the only one such course we will be conduct in 2009.
The Todd Group has a headquarters facility at Dunedin, New Zealand, as well as a hundred man camp and training facility and satellite training facilities.
Only serious applicants need apply.
This is a training course and does not provide post course employment. We are specialist training providers, not recruiters.
To avoid missing out and for further information in regards to costs etc send your details to:
Todd Group
coms@toddgroup.com
Phone/Fax: +64-3-477 8902
PO Box 5579
Dunedin 9058
New Zealand
Course Subjects
- Etiquette and protocol
- Duties, roles, and responsibilities of a close protection specialist
- Operational planning
- Constructing a close protection command centre
- Clothing equipment and health considerations
- Surveillance, counter and anti surveillance
- Intelligence gathering, assessment and utilization
- Immediate action drills
- Chain of command
- Threat recognition and assessment,
- Vehicle selection - accessories and security
- Vehicle searches
- Evasive, offensive, and 4WD driving
- CPP in a hostile environment (war zone)
- Electronic aids
- Human aspects
- Hard target training
- Layers of security
- Land-sea-rail-air related close protection
- Contract negotiation
- Weapon recognition and familiarization
- Explosive device searches, identification and safety procedures
- Specialist close protection related close combat
- Pedestrian escort detail training
- Tactical embus/debus, motorcade training
- Firearms training
- Ammunition and weapon accessories considerations
- Impact weapons
- Ambush drills
- Planning preparation practice and performing a wide range of close protection duties under the conditions of a training exercise.
- ...And more
