‘The more uneasy the country is, the more work we tend to have,’ says an organizer of an industry event in San Diego this month.
There, I corrected the title for the author based on the last sentence of this article. lol If the guys don’t like being called ‘bodyguards’, then don’t call them bodyguards in your title. It would seem that would be the respectful thing to do.
Either way, the statistics in this article are what drew me in. “Growth averaged about 15% from 2001 to 2006 and slowed down to about 5% in the years after” is what jumped out at me. Very interesting, and I am sure the economy and events in Mexico also added to this ‘9/11 fueled’ growth.
As for the guard card and standards in California, that is great. I got a little taste of this stuff when I went through my ITG course in California. Which is another reason why any Californian readers out there should think seriously about going through a course like ITG, because they will certainly point you in the right direction. You might even get some gigs out of the deal. –Matt
By Shan Li
December 18, 2010
When bodyguards around the nation flocked to San Diego recently, the talk was all about paparazzi, terrorists and the latest tech gizmos, with seminars like “Surviving the Kill Zone — Human Factors Are the Key.”Guards trained in martial arts showed the latest techniques for subduing nightclub troublemakers, joked about the challenges of guarding celebrities like Paris Hilton and compared notes on the latest technology borrowed from the military.The 29th annual Executive Protection Institute Conference this month came at a time when demand for bodyguards has soared in lockstep with increasing global unrest spurred by wars and economic turmoil and rising public curiosity about the private lives of celebrities.
