Actions To Show Your Support to #ZTAC
We've heard this from just enough many people and enough many times. But has anyone really told you about 'your role' in making our society a 'Zero Crime Zone' ? I believe not. So here are some TIPS (Tactical Information for Planning Security), Tricks, Suggestions from a subject matter expert. We suggest you take them seriously. I do not need to write for those with deep pockets as they hire security personal. This article is for us. For the citizens who are most affected by such crime.
- Understand what personal security is: We've all seen movies that have a rich guy surrounded by a Bodyguard (Salman Khan flick) or Personal Security Detail (13 Hours). Not just that they were made by 2 different woods, there is a big difference between how each functions.
While the Bodyguard is a single operative in most cases, he is hired based on his gorilla looks (at least in India). While a PSD is hired on his tactical intelligence and knowledge of prediction & deterrence techniques (what we train you on in our Personal Security Training). While the gorilla bodyguard can't see a crime brewing around him or the VIP, a PSD can smell trouble. And this doesn't take super intelligence.
Security is about being able to predict a crime and thinking of a counter to prevent the criminal plan being implemented. It's all about early prediction and preparation. Its 80% Mind Tactics and 20% Physical tactics.
- Securing Live Assets: Live assets are those which breath. Family & Pets fall under this. The threat to live assets is the most common threat faced by billions around the world. To counter this, those with deep pockets - hire a PSD, some hire Gorilla's other common men and women train themselves in Personal Security Tactics (Personal Security is completely different from self defense). Personal Security as per me, should be a mandatory subject. And I seriously question the intent of our education system for not taking this seriously.
But as parents & individuals, it is our responsibility to acquire such knowledge and pass it on to our generations.
Securing Live Assets, includes keeping them secured from attempts of - Kidnap, Physical & Sexual Abuse, Chain Snatching, Physical/Mental/Emotional attacks/blackmail, stalking etc. The only way to secure live assets from such crime is to build them with counter crime smartness and tactics. There is no other way of securing them if you have shallow pockets.
- Securing Tangible and Non Tangible Assets: Cars, house, money, office equipment, cell phone, tablet, laptop, files (physical and virtual data) etc. These are further divided into 2 sets - Low Threat and High Threat. And this is your choice. Depending on your personal security, the threat level of other assets is determined.
You could be some one who is earning $500 (INR30,000) a month but you value your life and that of your family's more than the one who is making $10,000 a month. So your personal security is not really about your monetary worth. Its about how much you value your life and that of your family. Or how much you value your other assets. Its usually seen that those who earn less care for their assets more than those who earn more. Those earning less have a better sense of ownership of what they possess. And this bring us to our next point of knowing our adversary.
- Our Adversary: He/she is one with avg or below avg education but with good IQ and EQ. The reason probably is obvious that education didn't ruin them. They are usually from troubled backgrounds and have a weak or in some cases no moral compass. However, there are a minute percentage of such criminals who are seasoned - fearless of consequences of being caught, hurt or killed in action. To handle such criminals, one has to go through (to be read Grow Through) intensive Personal Security Training and Unarmed Combat. But lets talk here about the petty ones. The Chain Snatchers, Pocket Pickers, Street Robbers, Molesters and Rapists.
To deal with these kind of criminals, you need mind tactics more than martial arts. You need to learn the rules of street engagement. You need to learn how to identify such criminals and how to most accurately predict their possible moves.
Important Note: It is our responsibility to secure ourselves from such crime. With a 1.2 Billion population, expecting the law-enforcement to be omnipresent is impractical.
Most of these adversaries watch their pray long enough (depending on the crime) before they attack. One who is a chain snatcher will have less time to choose their victim, plan and execute while a rapist has all the time in the world to possibly befriend the woman he has chosen as his victim. To deter such criminals, if you could learn the perimeters that they look for in their victim, you stand a chance to alter those qualities/aspects in yourself.
- Bystanders: As a society we suffer from excessive FEAR. And it is this disease that makes us the #1 choice of being the prey. Our adversaries gain their confidence from our fear. They know that we are not trained in Personal Security Tactics. That we fear. That we will freeze if they show us a knife or a gun that probably has never fired a round or can't fire. The adversaries use this fear to implant more fear. They even sometimes kill a citizen who's already dead by the fear just to remind us that they could kill us too.
During my training at Israel, I did things that I once believe could get me killed. And then I had an UNBELIEVABLE realization. It's definitely NOT EASY to die. One has to be a chicken to let someone kill you. Once I had this realization and I knew that in no way I was a chicken, I became fearless. And it is this realization that we impart in our bootcamp and PST at Armored Spirit.
The thought that I acted like a chicken when there was a crime being committed on someone and I could have saved them.....That though will kill me a zillion times and will need tons of courage to live with, than gathering the courage to go and save the victim. Believe me when I say this - None of you are chicken. You just have been made to believe that you are. In reality you are a force that no adversary would want to mess with. Come for our PST and we'll prove it to you.
In my next write, I'll share more in depth about each of the above points. For now, this info is good enough to get to to start thinking !
Until next time, Stay Secured !
While the Bodyguard is a single operative in most cases, he is hired based on his gorilla looks (at least in India). While a PSD is hired on his tactical intelligence and knowledge of prediction & deterrence techniques (what we train you on in our Personal Security Training). While the gorilla bodyguard can't see a crime brewing around him or the VIP, a PSD can smell trouble. And this doesn't take super intelligence.
Security is about being able to predict a crime and thinking of a counter to prevent the criminal plan being implemented. It's all about early prediction and preparation. Its 80% Mind Tactics and 20% Physical tactics.
But as parents & individuals, it is our responsibility to acquire such knowledge and pass it on to our generations.
Securing Live Assets, includes keeping them secured from attempts of - Kidnap, Physical & Sexual Abuse, Chain Snatching, Physical/Mental/Emotional attacks/blackmail, stalking etc. The only way to secure live assets from such crime is to build them with counter crime smartness and tactics. There is no other way of securing them if you have shallow pockets.
You could be some one who is earning $500 (INR30,000) a month but you value your life and that of your family's more than the one who is making $10,000 a month. So your personal security is not really about your monetary worth. Its about how much you value your life and that of your family. Or how much you value your other assets. Its usually seen that those who earn less care for their assets more than those who earn more. Those earning less have a better sense of ownership of what they possess. And this bring us to our next point of knowing our adversary.
To deal with these kind of criminals, you need mind tactics more than martial arts. You need to learn the rules of street engagement. You need to learn how to identify such criminals and how to most accurately predict their possible moves.
Important Note: It is our responsibility to secure ourselves from such crime. With a 1.2 Billion population, expecting the law-enforcement to be omnipresent is impractical.
Most of these adversaries watch their pray long enough (depending on the crime) before they attack. One who is a chain snatcher will have less time to choose their victim, plan and execute while a rapist has all the time in the world to possibly befriend the woman he has chosen as his victim. To deter such criminals, if you could learn the perimeters that they look for in their victim, you stand a chance to alter those qualities/aspects in yourself.
During my training at Israel, I did things that I once believe could get me killed. And then I had an UNBELIEVABLE realization. It's definitely NOT EASY to die. One has to be a chicken to let someone kill you. Once I had this realization and I knew that in no way I was a chicken, I became fearless. And it is this realization that we impart in our bootcamp and PST at Armored Spirit.
The thought that I acted like a chicken when there was a crime being committed on someone and I could have saved them.....That though will kill me a zillion times and will need tons of courage to live with, than gathering the courage to go and save the victim. Believe me when I say this - None of you are chicken. You just have been made to believe that you are. In reality you are a force that no adversary would want to mess with. Come for our PST and we'll prove it to you.
Take care & take charge
Chakradhari Rowe
www.armoredspirit.com
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