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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for close protection operation.
   • Review operational information and instructions to ensure compliance with legal rights and responsibilities and workplace policies and procedures when performing close protection tasks.
   • Assess planning information to clarify protective arrangements including known threats, vulnerabilities and risks and contingency measures.
   • Select and organise resources and equipment to meet work instructions and check to ensure correct operation.
   • Liaise with members of close protection team to exchange and report operational information in accordance with chain of command.
2. Search and secure premises.
   • Confirm authority to search premises to be used by principal in consultation with persons on site.
   • Use search methods and procedures to identify potential threats, vulnerabilities and risks, and implement necessary controls to ensure premises are secure.
   • Report problems and request specialist assistance as required to maintain security of premises.
3. Provide close protection escort.
   • Monitor the environment to maintain situational awareness and avoid hazards while implementing protective arrangements.
   • Exchange information with principal to ensure safety and security, and balance principal’s needs with operational needs.
   • Use communication equipment and non-verbal methods to convey information and to receive instructions from members of close protection team.
   • Perform safe debus and embus of principal following workplace procedures.
   • Carry out foot escort formations that avoid or minimise risks and threats to principal following standard procedures.
4. Respond to threat and protect principal.
   • Identify source of threat and assess risk to safety and security of principal.
   • Use immediate and decisive response actions that extract principal from threat and minimise use of force.
   • Give clear and concise instructions to the principal and close protection team members within limits of own role and responsibilities.
   • Use defensive techniques that are reasonable in the circumstances to defend principal, self and others.
   • Remain alert to multiple threats and identify and respond to secondary or subsequent incidents to maintain safety and security of principal, self and others.
5. Finalise and review close protection operation.
   • Fulfil close protection services in accordance with work instructions.
   • Record operational outcomes and incident observations using workplace documentation.
   • Participate in review and debrief of close protection outcomes to identify procedural improvements.