SPECIALIST CLOSE PERSONAL PROTECTION CPP
Specialist Close Personal Protection Courses of instruction
The Todd Group formerly the Baldock Institute was established in 1927 by the late Harry Baldock and has been European military close combat and military self-defence specialists for longer than any other private specialist training provider in our European military CQC/MSD trade-craft.
The trade-craft includes wide ranging military armed and unarmed combat as well as military self-defence , defensive tactics and close protection schools of instruction.
We have been Army CQC/MSD instructors since WW11 to regular and elite forces.
Our CPO training courses lineage and trade-craft expertise has a collective line of military close protection pioneers and next generation experts in the CPP field that include Harry Baldock Col Rex Applegate Lawrence Jordan and others.
These experts in the close protection field were responsible for high level high risk war time close protection roles including the protection of leaders of countries government officials and high ranking military officers.
In my early days I was involved as a minder looking after clients that were not well known but were under threat of assault were victims of domestic violence and the like.
Our close personal protection training packages include all required industry trade craft skill sets and have a very unique history from war time through to the present where they have been used to train close protection teams for Royals, diplomatic protection the rich and famous and high profile sports persons.
Course Content
- Etiquette and protocol
- Duties, roles, and responsibilities of a close protection specialist
- Operational planning.
- Establishing 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 vehicle 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.