The Huntin' Game

Security Expert Asset Protection International Skills

Security Experts are advising business owners not to be fooled by the latest crime figures which demonstrate a small increase in crime, because a third of all violent cases have been dismissed as ‘no crime.’

Every security expert is aware that theft, burglary & robbery has increased during 2009. The most chilling crime statistic is that UK gun crime increased 89% in the last decade. This is bad news for business asset protection.

Security experts advise it’s time for business directors to sit up and take notice because the current recession is attacking businesses in a way that many business directors are unprepared for.

Economic hardship is hitting the criminal fraternity in a big way. Historically crime always increases during a credit crunch and this recession is proving no different except for one further unwelcome statistic.

The number of reported firearms incidents in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/1999 to 9,865 last year. This is a phenomenal increase of 89%. Some UK business regions have witnessed a five – fold increase and in eighteen different UK police regions gun crime has doubled.

Add a sharp rise in burglaries, theft, robbery and street muggings also up by 12,000 cases in the UK during a three month period, and it makes sad reading for any business director. No more so than a director or business owner tasked with the provision of security and close protection security for any business asset protection.

Asset protection international is one of the growth areas of the security industry and we are seeing a rise in the appointment of an individual threat expert into various companies. Business directors often misunderstand what constitutes assets requiring protection.

Many confuse high monetary value assets with assets that don’t appear to have a monetary value. I was once contracted with an American security expert working for a Russian business director who dismissed his senior management team and rank and file employees as no value assets. In reality these were key employees who were the most valuable asset his business possessed.

The fact that several of these employees had been targeted for kidnap for ransom by the Russian Mafia should have given the business director a strong indication of how valuable an asset they were. When I pressed the director about how his business would cope if two of his senior management team were kidnapped, he responded that his business would probably never recover. Every security expert working with clients from the former Soviet Bloc countries knows that once these Mafia groups kidnap business victims for ransom then simply paying the Mafia off is not the final solution. These Mafia groups are run by astute business owners who frequently tie in what they call a profit tax payments from all future business earnings.

In the west we call it extortion payments, however I’ve heard a security expert compare profit tax in the East to commission payments in the West. The real difference is that you often have no choice about paying it in the Eastern Bloc, and the only alternative is to hire full time close protection officers and security from some of the former KGB officer’s business corporations.

I once worked closely with an aviation business in the Southern Ukraine whose managing director flatly refused to pay any profit tax to the Ukrainian Mafia. He and his immediate family, and his extended family were targeted for assassination by this Mafia group. This director’s airline was flying extensive cargo missions for the UN into war zones and his cargo was deemed as valuable assets.

I was asked to provide a security and close protection plan for the director and his family. The subsequent threat assessment indicated the Mafia were asking for a whopping 70% of the aviation companies gross turnover.

The Mafia identified the business as an excellent vehicle for money laundering and the air transportation of illegal narcotics, arms and other valuable assets.

Asset protection international figured very highly on the threat management plan. This particular director made a conscious decision to pay for full time VIP close protection services. This was not an easy decision as the protection team would be required for the rest of his life.

About six months into the security contract during a little downtime I was chatting to the director’s wife. She was very angry at the Mafia for taking away her conventional lifestyle and for forcing her and her children and husband into a life full of life threatening risks and gross intrusion.

She mentioned she was really despondent about their future business development after speaking to a Russian security expert witness who provided evidence against the Mafia only to see his wife executed as an example to him and others considering opposing the Mafia.

I have to say that all security experts understand the risks and unfortunately these risks extend beyond the hiring of close protection and asset protection international specialists.

Hiring security from any Eastern Bloc close protection security company is fraught with security problems. Every threat expert is aware that the Mafia have infiltrated these security companies with the same success as they’ve demonstrated in infiltrating the police, military and intelligence agencies.

Security Expert Asset Protection International Skills #1

Identify your true valuable assets. i.e. goods and products can always be replaced if adequately insured. Whereas key personnel can never be replaced if they are kidnapped and executed.

This is a fact recognised by the UK Midlands telephone company whose workers were kidnapped and decapitated in one of the independent states of the former Soviet Union after a botched rescue bid.

Security Expert Asset Protection International Skills #2

Conduct extensive due diligence on the security close protection security company and personnel you hire. Don’t jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. It is critical to identify the key partners in any security company you retain.

Security Expert Asset Protection International Skills #3

Ensure all your corporate Insurance policies are up to date and fully compliant. I’m not just talking about your insurance policies covering your assets for theft, fraud, product tampering, vandalism and hi-jacking. I’m also talking about your company directors manslaughter liability insurance policy.

i.e. if you are a company director and you send one of your company representatives overseas to represent your business and they are kidnapped and executed and you haven’t proved adequate security and counter kidnapping training then you and your fellow directors will be charged and you could be jailed.

Of course you will also be subjected to an expensive civil case.

Security Expert Asset Protection International Skills #4

Protect your personnel assets as much as you protect your fixed tangible assets. i.e. Ensure you have adequate kidnap for ransom or K&R insurance for every company representative travelling as one of your business representatives. K&R insurance is not as expensive as you might think.

Security Expert Asset Protection International Skills #5

Hire the services of a professionally recognised security expert. If your assets are based in the UK then utilise a proven British security expert. If the assets are based in North America then utilise an American security expert. If your assets are being transported or travelling internationally then consider retaining an International security expert.

About the Author

Dr. Mark D. Yates the Security Specialist has 20 years experience delivering his security expertise to numerous governments, Intelligence security agencies & businesses worldwide. He specialises in close protection bodyguard services & asset protection. Sign up for his FREE 52 security tips then visit him at =>http://www.securityexpert.biz e-mail him at drmarkdyates@aol.com

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Saddle Ring $65.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A saddle ring is a metal ring attached to the receiver of a rifle or carbine allowing it to be tied to a saddle or used with a special sling. Saddle rings could be attached directly to the firearm, or in some cases to a saddle ring bar, which allowed the saddle ring to slide along the action, such as on the British Enfield P1856, a short cavalry version of the Pattern 1853 Enfield used in the American Civil War. Virtually every carbine-sized weapon used in the Civil War was equipped with a saddle ring and/or saddle ring/bar. Saddle rings are most commonly found on lever action rifles and other firearms of the late 1800s and early 1900s that were suitable for use on horseback. The muzzle of the rifle was placed in a carbine socket or boot. The idea behind using the saddle ring, and its carbine sling, is to allow the mounted soldier to never be separated from his weapon.

Savage Day $20.04 New – Action and blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it’s like to fight a dirty war, he’s had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn’t haven’t any choice, if he wants his freedom back he’ll have to conquer a new battlegroung!

Savage Day $17.36 New – Action and blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it’s like to fight a dirty war, he’s had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn’t haven’t any choice, if he wants his freedom back he’ll have to conquer a new battlegroung!

Savage Day $40.42 New – Action and blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it’s like to fight a dirty war, he’s had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn’t haven’t any choice, if he wants his freedom back he’ll have to conquer a new battlegroung!

Savage Day $62.12 New – Action and blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it’s like to fight a dirty war, he’s had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn’t haven’t any choice, if he wants his freedom back he’ll have to conquer a new battlegroung!

Savage Day $17.36 Used – Action and blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it’s like to fight a dirty war, he’s had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn’t haven’t any choice, if he wants his freedom back he’ll have to conquer a new battlegroung!

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Slave Emancipation and Colonialism $112.99 Presbyterian missionaries willing to stop the slave trade penetrated a remote part of Africa in the 1870s. They became enmeshed in a political arena in which European firearms and trading goods attracted Africans more than the Gospel. Missionaries soon became entangled in local warfare with groups which were involved in slave trade. When the safety of the Scottish missions was seriously threatened by slave raiders, missionaries asked for a British military intervention. Evangelists and military officers were often at odds. Whereas missionaries expected their African converts to become independent farmers producing goods for the export market, colonial administrators strove to turn Africans into workers at the service of plantations or the distant mines of South Africa. Some Africans, on the other hand, formed alliances with the new overlords and others embraced Western education in order to deal with a changing political world that had significantly transformed their lives. Therefore, colonialism appears to be a multifaceted process in which opposing forces converge in a contentious environment.

Slave Emancipation and Colonialism $71.1 New – Presbyterian missionaries willing to stop the slave trade penetrated a remote part of Africa in the 1870s. They became enmeshed in a political arena in which European firearms and trading goods attracted Africans more than the Gospel. Missionaries soon became entangled in local warfare with groups which were involved in slave trade. When the safety of the Scottish missions was seriously threatened by slave raiders, missionaries asked for a British military intervention. Evangelists and mil

Slave Emancipation and Colonialism $117.54 New – Presbyterian missionaries willing to stop the slave trade penetrated a remote part of Africa in the 1870s. They became enmeshed in a political arena in which European firearms and trading goods attracted Africans more than the Gospel. Missionaries soon became entangled in local warfare with groups which were involved in slave trade. When the safety of the Scottish missions was seriously threatened by slave raiders, missionaries asked for a British military intervention. Evangelists and mil

Special Forces of the People’s Republic of China: Special Forces of Hong Kong, Special Duties Unit, Snow Leopard Commando Unit $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Special Forces of Hong Kong, Special Duties Unit, Snow Leopard Commando Unit, Vip Protection Unit, People’s Liberation Army Special Operations Forces, Police Tactical Unit, Airport Security Unit, Immediate Action Unit. Excerpt: The Special Duties Unit (Abbreviation: SDU; Chinese: , nicknamed Flying Tigers ) is an elite paramilitary police Special Forces unit of the Hong Kong Police. Established in July 1974, it is a sub-division of the Police Tactical Unit (PTU). Its primary functions include counter-terrorism, anti-narcotic raids, hostage rescue and other crimes (usually involving firearms) which are deemed too dangerous for local police to handle. The unit holds regular training exercises with similar units from around the world and used to be trained by the British SAS before the handover of Hong Kong to China. The arm-patch of the SDU, pre-’97. Note the “Royal” pre-fix.The establishment of the SDU can be traced back to an incident on March 13, 1971, when a Philippine Airlines flight was hijacked and was forced to land at Kai Tak Airport. Though the incident was resolved peacefully, the Hong Kong Police Force became concerned that a similar incident would occur in the future. A “marksmen squad” () was assembled in 1973 and later reorganized into the Special Duties Unit in 1974. The unit is modeled after the British SAS. When SAS personnel came to Hong Kong in 1978 to refine their CQB techniques as well as training syllabus, SDU received their training from the SAS. Reports of a proposal to slash down salaries of SDU operators were shot down in a press conference to disprove the said reports, saying that the people “can rest assured that the high level of anti-terrorist capability and readiness will always be maintained.” It consists of a… More:

Specialist Firearms Officer $60.13 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Specialist Firearms Officer (SFO) is a British Police officer who has undergone training in the use of police firearms, and therefore is authorised to carry and when necessary use a firearm to prevent an immediate threat to life. All SFOs first train as Authorised Firearms Officers (AFOs) which crew armed response vehicles. SFOs receive a higher level of traini

Specialist Firearms Officer $43.04 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Specialist Firearms Officer (SFO) is a British Police officer who has undergone training in the use of police firearms, and therefore is authorised to carry and when necessary use a firearm to prevent an immediate threat to life. All SFOs first train as Authorised Firearms Officers (AFOs) which crew armed response vehicles. SFOs receive a higher level of traini

The British Home Guard Pocket-Book $7.88 The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, and enemy who dares to set foot on out shores. Formed by men not eligible for active service who were expected to resist a German invasion of England with any available resources, the Home Guard was the embodiment of plucky British resolve against the odds. That”s the spirit evoked in this small, nostalgic book, based on the author”s experiences and memory. It”s full of sound advice on training, organization, discipline, firearms, the proper position to adopt for surviving a dive-bomb attack–and even how to set a trap for an unwary advancing German cyclist!

The Lee Enfield Number 1 Rifles $10.95 Alan M. Petrillo,Paperback,Series: British Firearms Series, English-language edition,Pub by Excalibur Publications

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The R.L. Wilson Official Price Guide to Gun Collecting, 3rd Edition $10.34 Used – The Official R.L. Wilson Price Guide to Gun Collecting covers more than 32,000 prices — from Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles and shotguns to German Lugers and British sporting rifles and game guns — and much more. This reference also features a history of arms collecting from Renaissance to modern times, a selected bibliography of important firearms reference works, a complete international listing of collector clubs and organizations, and a lavish full-color insert highlighting th

The R.L. Wilson Official Price Guide to Gun Collecting, 3rd Edition $9.46 Used – The Official R.L. Wilson Price Guide to Gun Collecting covers more than 32,000 prices — from Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles and shotguns to German Lugers and British sporting rifles and game guns — and much more. This reference also features a history of arms collecting from Renaissance to modern times, a selected bibliography of important firearms reference works, a complete international listing of collector clubs and organizations, and a lavish full-color insert highlighting th

The Savage Day $27.1 New – Action and blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it’s like to fight a dirty war, he’s had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn’t haven’t any choice, if he wants his freedom back he’ll have to conquer a new battlegroung!

The Savage Day $19.07 New – Action and blood-thirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it’s like to fight a dirty war, he’s had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn’t haven’t any choice, if he wants his freedom back he’ll have to conquer a new battlegroung!

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