Route Mapping for Executive Protection Professionals

This is most likely the one skill that you did not learn in your executive protection course and is also the biggest life-saver. 

You will learn our step by step method, developed after years of travel to conflict zones, semi & non-permissive environments as well as high risk regions of the world. 

You can develop this skill at home with nothing more than your own laptop. 

Online training and the importance of mapping your routes when traveling in high risk environments

We have included an older map and a newer map to show how our system has progressed and give participants an idea of how mapping can benefit them

This is a demonstration only. We go through it quickly. No notes need to be taken during this demonstration. This is just to allow participants to see the workflow of a basic mapping session.

We break down the most basic route mapping to build a solid foundation before moving to more advanced digital platforms.

We took a brief video of hard map assembly from a hotel in Kazakhstan before a detail. Additionally, we cut together video of map use on the ground to give you an idea of how you can keep track of your location using basic terrain association

After the basic instruction above, we move onto another useful mapping platform that offers layering and finally exporting to get the cleanest map sections. This can be accomplished utilizing many different methods, and we show students what can be done with free tools available to everyone with an internet connection.

This is your first of four (4) assignments to be completed in order, and each must be graded and passed before moving onto the next. Each assignment will take participants 1-2 hours to complete. The assignments must be completed in order. You can build your map using PowerPoint (or similar) and then save it to a PDF file. If optimized for web viewing, the file will be small and not take up too much space. 
To let us grade you map, you can email the PDF file to secfor360@gmail.com. Please make sure the size is small enough to easily transfer via email. (optimize for web viewing). Yoiu may also send us a link via DropBox, Google Drive or other online storage or file sharing system. Since we have to download it on our end, once again, make sure the PDF is small enough to easily download.
Your first map is basic just to make sure you have the general system and map-look down. Once your Mongolia assignment looks right, there will be some additional instruction and then the final three (3) assignments. Let us know if you have any questions and good luck.

Now that you have successfully completed your first assignment, here are some tips for your next three maps

We will place any additional information here

Here we will p[lace lessons learned from our actual details. Our two latest conflict zones, Karabakh (October 2020 - November 2021) and Syria (May - June, 2021) will be the first two that we cover. Both trips validated why we use hard-maps and also forced us to use some offline resources we listed in our Resources Section. Stay tuned!