What makes a good close protection officer?

What makes a good close protection officer?

I'm often asked, "What makes a good close protection officer?". My simple answer to that is that there are two basic ingredients to a good close protection officer: the hard skills, and the soft skills. The hard skills you can get virtually anywhere, but it's the soft skills that make all the difference. And the soft skills involve not only protocol and deployment, but how an individual can convey themselves; whether they're communicating with household staff - the principal's driver - or talking to the board of directors for a major corporation. A good close protection officer is someone who can blend in; who can look like a corporate executive, but at the same time, shed that shell if they need to; if they're faced by aggression.