Profession bodyguard

Bodyguards offer protection to their clients against injury, attacks and harassment. They accompany individuals such as politicians and actors to various events and gatherings. Bodyguards observe the surrounding environment, anticipate threats and respond to security emergencies. They may carry and use guns.

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Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional
• Realistic / Enterprising

Knowledge

• Security threats

  Types of threats to public and private security such as unauthorised entry, aggressive behaviour, molestation, robbery, theft, assault, kidnapping, murder and public demonstration.

• Check methods

  Procedures used for investigative purposes such as surveillance by physical and electronic means, interrogations of witnesses, collection of objects and data for assessment and analysis and physical and electronic research for collecting data.

Skills

• Stay alert

  Stay focused and alert at all times; react quickly in the case of unexpected events. Concentrate and do not get distracted performing a task over a long period of time.

• Restrain individuals

  Restrain, or control by force, individuals who violate regulations in terms of acceptable behaviour, who present a threat to others, and who perform acts of violence, to ensure the individual is unable to proceed in this negative behaviour and to protect others.

• Provide first aid

  Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or first aid in order to provide help to a sick or injured person until they receive more complete medical treatment.

• Work in shifts

  Work in rotating shifts, where the goal is to keep a service or production line running around the clock and each day of the week.

• Practice vigilance

  Practice vigilance during patrol or other surveillance activities in order to ensure safety and security, to look out for suspicious behaviour or other alarming changes in patterns or activities, and to respond quickly to these changes.

• Liaise with security authorities

  Respond quickly to security incidents and violations by calling the police and keep in touch with other relevant parties involved in the potential prosecution of the offender.

• React calmly in stressful situations

  React quickly, calmly, and safely to unexpected situations. Provide a solution that solves the problem or diminishes its impact.

• Adapt to changing situations

  Change approach to situations based on unexpected and sudden changes in people's needs and mood or in trends; shift strategies, improvise and naturally adapt to those circumstances.

• Execute inspection walkway

  Carry out a route in order to verify if all the doors and windows are closed.

• Protect important clients

  Keep clients safe who have extraordinary level of risk by organising and providing the relevant security.

• Handle conflicts

  Mediate in conflicts and tense situations by acting between parties, such as service users, important others like families, and institutions, striving to effect an agreement, reconciliate, and resolve problems.

• Secure premises

  Search premises for potential insecurities or risks. If insecurities are detected, remove them in order to assure the client's safety.

• Comply with the principles of self-defence

  Observe the principles according to which a person should only use so much force as is required to repel an attack. The use of deadly force is limited to situations where attackers are using deadly force themselves.

• Perform body searches

  Examine visitors by performing a body search, in order to detect weapons or illegal substances.

• Identify suspicious behaviour

  Rapidly spot and identify individuals or customers who behave suspiciously and keep them under close observation.

• Communicate with customers

  Respond to and communicate with customers in the most efficient and appropriate manner to enable them to access the desired products or services, or any other help they may require.

• Control crowd

  Control a crowd or riot, ensuring people do not cross to areas they are not allowed to access, monitoring the crowd's behaviour and responding to suspicious and violent behaviour.

• Detain offenders

  Keep back offenders and trespassers in a certain area.

• Perform security checks

  Monitor and check individuals' bags or personal items in order to make sure the individuals present no threats and that their behaviour is legally compliant.

• Check subjects

  Gather and check all relevant information on a person, company or other subject in the context of an investigation.

• Identify security threats

  Identify security threats during investigations, inspections, or patrols, and perform the necessary actions to minimise or neutralise the threat.

• Manage major incidents

  Take immediate action to respond to major incidents that affect the safety and security of individuals in private or public places such as road accidents.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB