Course Summary: 

The HRO Course is 5 days in length.  This is a basic to intermediate skill level course designed for the armed professional engaged in p. This course is designed for those serving on corporate executive protection details in high threat international assignments, law enforcement personnel serving on protection details, and individual security contractors conducting high-threat international protective security operations.  The course is broken down into SIX main modules:

1.      Protective Details and Formations

2.      Tactical Medicine

3.      Defensive and Offensive Close Combat

4.      Israeli SERE / Surviving Capture

5.      Israeli Tactical Shooting

6.      Offensive and Defensive Driving

  It culminates in a 12 to 24-hour final exercise that will incorporate everything learned throughout the course.

Next Course Date:  See Training Calendar

 1) High Risk Operator Job Overview

• Introduction to High Risk Operator Close Protection work
• Recruiting & securing employment
• Résumé writing, job search & interview techniques
• Organization of Protective Security Details & PSD Formations
• PSD (Protective Security Detail) role against insurgents
• PSD basic skill sets (Individual and Team)
• Survival Mindset & Combat Stress
• Protective Hardware, Gear & communications
• Combative Arabic
• Surveillance Detection / Attack Recognition
• Vehicle Mounts and Dismounts
• Vehicle Search Procedures
• Vehicle Engagement / Down Vehicle / Bail Out Drills
• Attack Methodology Against Protective Security High and low profile operations  
• Tactics, Special Situations, Overt/Covert operational methods

2) Tactical Medicine

This portion of the course offers the team the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence to meet life threatening and other dangerous situations.  Instruction emphasizes flexibility and adapting medical care to the tactical environment. 

• Tactical Medicine in a combat environment, Care under fire
• HCAPER – Trauma Casualty assessment, body search
• Basic and Intermediate airway management
• Open and Closed chest wounds and decompression
• TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX
• Hemorrhage management including tourniquet use
• Terminal ballistics & blast wounds
• Medical kit development – Equipment for combat
• Patient extrication/movement
• Emergency wound care and communicable disease considerations
• Assessment of chemical, nuclear, biological & Burn wounds
• Non-lethal weapon patient management
• Hands-on skills stations to improve HRO confidence in medical skills

Realistic scenarios will refine Operator ability to provide appropriate medical care AND complete tactical objectives.

3) Suicide Bombers, Car Bombs & IED’s 

• Detection of car bombs and booby trapped vehicles
• Scanning a vehicle for explosives & various types of booby traps
• Personnel searching techniques
• Explosives & Letter bombs basics
• Dealing with suicide bomber's)
• Detecting and stopping a suicide bomber suspect moving towards a vehicle or facility

• Countering suicide bomber tactics
• Terrorist use of unconventional explosives
• Performing bomb searches (vehicle and building)
• Armoring a vehicle
• Booby trapped cars
• Various methods of scanning a vehicle for booby trap explosives
• Scanning a building for booby traps
• Detecting booby traps on the roadways
• Countering car bomb attacks
• Use of dogs and other animals as explosive delivery tools
• Booby trapping a firearm or other weapon
• Israeli method of tripwire detection
• IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) constructing, recognizing and searching for
• New terrorist methods of operation using explosives that CRI has recently uncovered

4) Tactical Team Formations

• Introduction to team formations
• Movements and footwork for individual and team positions
• Arcs of responsibility and tasks for each member of the team for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 person teams
• Counter action drills for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 person teams
• Walking drills, low & high profile operations
• Client education, control and movement 
• Tactical communications
• Communication while under attack
• Contingency planning
• Personal escort section drills
• Tactical movements by foot/vehicle
• Escorting and walking drills

5) Defensive Tactics

• Defensive tactics in Krav Maga  and h’sardout
• ITS (Israeli Tactical Survival) special defensive tactics method developed by CRI that instructs how to effectively deal with severe crime and terrorist attacks in the field of hand-to-hand combat
• Functioning under extreme stress
• Fighting in a professional and devastating way to an aggressor
• Weapons disarmament including handgun, assault rifle and hand grenades
• Disarming an assailant with a knife or sharp object
•  Countering grabs, punches, kicks and choking

• Ground fighting and countering Brazilian Jui Jit Su
• Countering joint locks
• Dealing with tear gas attacks
• Correct timing in a street confrontation 
•  "Trick" fighting tactics and also how to counter them
• Physical attack while you are seated in your vehicle
• Correct timing in a street confrontation
• Improvising/creating weapons
• Handling expert and severe brutal knife attacks from multiple attackers
• Countering injections of foreign substances
• Surviving in a vehicle surrounded by 3 to 4 armed hostile captors
• Dealing with attacks involving axes, ropes for strangulation, etc.
• Fighting effectively after being partially immobilized or wounded
• Physical & mental conditioning
• Developing speed and coordination
• Developing awareness, stamina, strength & flexibility
• Week points in the human body
• Tactical thinking, weapons retention and disarmament
• Final integrated drills

6) Escaping from Captivity Topics

• Escaping from captivity
• Surviving beheading attempts
• Surviving execution attempts by firearms
• Surviving execution attempts by edged weapons

• Releasing from being tied by a rope, duct tape, wire and/or handcuffs
• Improvising/Creating Weapons
• Correct movement around motion sensors
• Taking down enemy guards
• Commandeering a vehicle while escaping
• Crossing fences and other obstacles
•  Professional knife throwing and disarmament during beheading attempt
• Knife throwing techniques
• Handling expert and severe brutal knife attacks from multiple attackers
• Booby trapping an area for deception while escaping
• Multiple firearm disarmament when threatened by more than one captor
• Surviving drowning attempts
• Combative first aid
• Sabotage techniques in order to prevent enemy pursuit
• Weapons disarmament including handgun, assault rifle and hand grenades
• Dealing with tear gas attacks
• Recognizing various types of explosives and devices
• Functioning under extreme stress
• Physical attack while seated in a vehicle
• Surviving in a vehicle surrounded by 3 to 4 armed hostile captors
•  Disabling enemy alarm systems
• Fighting effectively after being partially immobilized or wounded

7) Tactical Shooting

• Tactical Israeli Point Shooting
• Basic & Advanced CQB (urban, rural)
• Dynamic drills using handguns, assault rifle and shotguns (M4, Shotgun, AK47)
• Engaging various targets
• Shooting at moving targets (side, front, diagonal)
• Shooting from a moving vehicle (static and dynamic)
• Shooting in densely populated areas
• Shooting in low visibility (smoke, fire, fog, darkness)
• Shoot/don’t shoot drills and exercises
• Using cover while shooting:  left, right, above, below
• Simulative instinctive shooting
• Procedures for drawing weapons   
• Quick recovery from weapon jams
• Shooting while injured and disoriented
• Gun drawing and operation in difficult situations
• Gun drawing and operation in confined spaces
• Body armor/protection
• High emotional and mental pressure and tension exercises
• Tactically moving within a crowd
• Procedures for tactically exiting a vehicle
• Weapons transition
• Shooting while in motion (running, walking)
• Instinctive and reactive shooting with a handgun
• Foreign weapon use and familiarization
• Force on force shooting exercises
• One hand magazine change
• Final integrated drills

8) Professional Driving Training

• Professional driving skills used by secret service, SF, police and bodyguards
• Braking techniques and skid control maneuvers
• Surprise new off-road recovery techniques exclusively developed by CRI
• Handling multiple vehicles that are attempting to force the vehicle off road
• Understanding over/under steering a vehicle
• Dynamics of avoiding obstacles
• Emergency braking and turns

• Escaping using a vehicle during a high speed pursuit without losing control of the vehicle
• Opening fire at a pursuing vehicle during a high-speed chase
• Maneuvering a vehicle through a realistic obstacle course during an emergency situation
• Evacuating the vehicle from a mob or paparazzi environment
• Evacuation of the vehicle during an ambush
• Performing dynamic J-turns, L-turns, U-turns, and slalom
• Motorcade & vehicle escort
• Situational exercises simulating vehicular attacks
• Correct escaping maneuvers
• Taking control of the vehicle after the driver has been immobilized
• Split-second decision making drills
• Counter roadblocks and illegal checkpoint survival
• Driving under fire
• Handling the vehicle in an obstacle course
• Deceptive terrorist traffic stops
• Correct functioning while in pursuit or being pursued
• Deception on the roadways
• Vehicle emergency procedures
• VIP in/out, vehicle/building
• Vehicle selection and modification
• Final integrated drills

9) Vehicle Formations

• Insertion and extrication of client to/from vehicle
• Seating arrangements for client and team members
• Contingency planning
• Counter actions on attack

10) Security Advance

• Route selections and site surveys
• Restaurant and hotel surveys
• Building surveys  
• Route reconnaissance
• Wall and ground Search  
• Movements by road
• Location security
• Hostile environments in various countries
• Security advance drills

11) Countering Ambushes

• Sharp shooting tactics to eliminate an ambush within 10 seconds
• Enemy sniper detection and elimination
• Counter Assault Team Drills
• Ambushes & Counter/ Anti-ambush tactics
• Location attacks
• Surviving the kill zone
• Assisting a team under stress
• Surviving mob attack
• Controlling multiple individuals
• Techniques for taking down insurgents after the motorcade has been immobilized

12) Room Clearing/ Executive Hostage Rescue

• Introduction to room clearing techniques
• Close Quarter Combat (CQB)
• Basics of stealth and dynamic entries
• 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 person teams
• Clearing in limited visibility
• Clearing under stress
• Tactics and situational awareness
• Single level building techniques
• Multi-level techniques, stairs and multiple entries
• Urban village, multi-building situations
• Use of rifles and pistols in CQB
• Multiple targets, multiple directions
• Vehicle and team movement live fire techniques

 Additional Course Information:

 Duration:  5 days

Course Location:  Las Vegas, Nevada

Course Cost:  $2,800 * per trainee

* future course prices subject to change

Course Cost Includes:

Issued equipment and weapons, ammunition, course materials, lodging and transportation to and from the Las Vegas International Airport.  Students are also responsible for (the) recommended equipment listed below: