{"id":8819,"date":"2014-03-05T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3rg.co.uk\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:19:12","slug":"close-protection-threat-and-risk-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3rg.co.uk\/close-protection-threat-and-risk-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Protection Threat and Risk Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Close Protection Threat and Risk Assessments<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Determining on-going specific threats, risk and vulnerabilities is a complex task. On one hand, a terrorist threat could be present and necessitate counter-measures in a country that is otherwise at a relatively low security state level. Conversely, there may be some countries at very high security levels that may not, at least in the short term, face a major terrorist threat.<\/p>\n

Overall, the conduct of Risk Assessment processes will fall into one of three categories:<\/p>\n

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  1. General risk assessment \u2013 this involves the analysis of all the activities commonly undertaken, in this case, by the Principal as part of his\/her job role. It will define overall risk, consequences of threat(s) materialising and likelihood of a threat happening (from intelligence information as well as from the current and historical political landscape).In this area of assessment mitigation of risk considerations would include:\n