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20 Tips For International Travel
When thinking about an international business trip or summer vacation , WPG recommends that you spend 1-2 hours to develop a security plan. Below are 20 tips for international travel: Register your trip on the US State Department web site. Review the latest...
Navigating Security Checkpoints in Mexico
One of the biggest threats when traveling in Mexico is exposure while driving on the highways. Specifically, there have been a number of attacks by drug cartels on vehicles traveling on highways on the east and west coasts of Mexico. The major problem to the traveler...
The Protective Advance
What is an Advance? It is a security survey of all parts of an itinerary to include hotels, restaurants, vehicles, other transport, hospitals, doctors, & routes of travel. The Advance is done by Executive Protection Agents prior to the arrival of the protective...
General Aviation Airports Present a Weak Link in Security
This article is not a terrorist plot and is only written for the purpose of creating security awareness and preventing the potential scenario described in this article. A Cessna jet with three passengers leaves a local Los Angeles-area airport for a VFR flight...
The World’s Most Dangerous Countries
Travel and Leisure have put together a list of the Top 15 most dangerous countries complete with the allure, the warning and a Go/No Go summary. To read the article click here. The countries that make the list, in order, are: Pakistan Sudan Georgia Lebanon North...
Kidnap For Ransom: On the Rise
An excerpt from a Barron’s article in the Dow Jones News Services (5.21.2011) titled Protecting Yourself Against Kidnapping describes one woman’s harrowing experience with kidnappers and how she was able to save herself: ‘When Gert Boyle, the octogenarian chairman of...
Mexican Police Chief and Bodyguards Killed by Cartels
The police chief of Minatitlan-Cosoleacaque Inter-Municipal police force, Juan Moreno Lopez, and his body guards Alvaro Chagala and Moises Ramous were killed in Veracruz, Mexico at the end of April during an attack by cartel gunmen. Although army soldiers and local...
Impersonation of a Police Officer: Bad Security!
Two security guards, who escorted rapper Lil Wayne to a nightclub in Indiana, now face charges of impersonating police officers. The two men led a caravan of tour buses in a car with sirens and flashing red and blue lights while also wearing police-like uniforms and...
Border Security
Janet Napolitano in a recent interview said, “the border is as secure now as it ever has been”. I believe that this is not good enough and here is the reason why: when we provide protection on someone’s estate, office or facility we have failed if we let one bad-guy...
Superbowl Security
Many of us will enjoy the Super Bowl today and will not realize the security preparations that will be in place to keep the stadium and the area around the stadium safe. The planning and preparation for security starts when one game finishes for the following year. ...
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