securitygod
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Does anybody know of close protection officers being used at sea in the fight against pirates, to protect a ship while at sea?
Does anybody know of close protection officers being used at sea in the fight against pirates, to protect a ship while at sea?
Make one thing clear.
Anti-piracy, is repelling the Pirates and preventing them from getting onboard.
Counter-piracy is above, and attacking the Pirates.
Counter-piracy can only be done by those who are trained to do shooting, in reality, that is a Military background.
If you want to fight the Pirates, you need a Military background.
Not that many out there doing it.
Long story short, you will only get hired for counter-piracy ops if you have Military background, no course will make this up.
In general, the " Anti " part can be: full speed, zig-zagging, putting on the search-lights, manning the water-hoses....
" Counter " will be going after for a kill. Purpose is to kill the SOB's.
Like Anti / Counter Terrorism. Anti is more like preventing measures. Counter, you go to take em' out.
This is in general the difference between the two.
The problem is Dodger, that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. People with no maritime experience, ex coppers and soldiers are being placed on ships after doing a brief course. 95% of the time it will be fine. But when the manure hits the fan their lack of experience on ships will be a liability. The companys putting them there are negligent. And sometimes just having done a few trips counts somebody as being "experienced". A person can be a teamleader without having the faintest idea about how radar works or how to work out closest points of approach in his head. A "good number" maybe, but I wouldn´t be encouraging someone to embark on anti piracy duties unprepared.I do both have been for a while and I am ex army. The courses do help mostly it is common security sense and as you get experiance you learn quickly. I have worked with people with little maritime knowledge and some with years of experiance, which obviosly helps tremendously. Its a nice number and a lot of companys do it at the moment as it is in the forfront of news at the moment. Google companys that do SSO courses and security if you want to do it. Its a good number mate
An SSO course of a few days is not preparation.
there is not a single course out there that will prepare you for going to see wether anit or counter piracy. just my opinion cps should stick to what they do best and leave the maritime to us guys that have got the experience and the sea time. but like i said just my opinion. Also dont waste your money on sso courses etc they are good on your cv but not when you are in the aden.