Executive Protection: A life-saving service

Executive protection is all about living, working and travelling safely

Executive protection (EP) is the practice of safeguarding a key person, including affluent, prominent families, a senior corporate executive (both local and foreigner) or his/her family members, from assassination, kidnapping, extortion or injury.

An EP specialist is hired to provide protection to a person by constantly safeguarding them wherever they go and predicting and preventing trouble rather than detecting and reacting to it later. Advance work is done by a member of the protection team by visiting the location the executive intends to visit.



Executive protection is not designed to overprotect top executives, but to maintain the company’s ability to operate and to preserve confidence among its employees, customers and investors. A good EP programme costs less than the benefits it produces or the damage it prevents.



Omar Safdar has served in the Pakistan Army for over 20 years and is a certified protection professional (CPP). He specialises in the fields of loss prevention and corporate security. He tweets @omarsafdar_CPP

Published in The Express Tribune, Sunday Magazine, May 10^th, 2015.