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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Clarify roles, responsibilities and close protection requirements.
   • Review work instructions, associated workplace and client’s policies and procedures to clarify principal’s close protection requirements.
   • Clarify roles and responsibilities, with relevant persons, of self and others in the close protection team and chain of command.
   • Review legal rights and responsibilities of self and others in the close protection team and apply to work instructions.
2. Gather and assess protective intelligence.
   • Source background information on principal from multiple sources, and verify accuracy and relevance to work instructions.
   • Source and verify information to define and clarify operational parameters including the principal’s itinerary, routes, venues and contacts.
   • Assess and record information in a manner that can be used to analyse potential threats, vulnerabilities and risks to principal.
   • Protect confidentiality and privacy of gathered information to comply with legal responsibilities.
3. Select routes and perform reconnaissance.
   • Analyse maps and other route information, and select primary and secondary routes to meet work instructions.
   • Perform reconnaissance of routes and venues based on work instructions and information.
   • Identify suitable embus and debus points, vulnerable areas and other factors that might compromise the safety and security of the principal.
   • Locate available safe areas that can be used in emergency situations.
   • Record reconnaissance findings and recommend changes to operational instructions to anticipate and avoid foreseeable risk situations.
4. Assess threats, vulnerabilities and operational risks and plan protection arrangements.
   • Evaluate factors that could influence threats, vulnerabilities and operational risks to assess and determine level and nature of potential threats, vulnerabilities and risks.
   • Identify resources and equipment required to protect principal from potential threats, vulnerabilities and risks.
   • Consult with principal and close protection team members to report potential threats, vulnerabilities and risks, to explain resource requirements, and to agree suitable protection arrangements.
   • Record details of planned protection arrangements using workplace documentation.