Tips for VIP security detail clients

1. Do be frank about your security expectations and recent security anomalies. Even a threat by phone or email should be evaluated by your security detail.
2. Never ask your security detail if you can see or even horseplay with their weapons.
3. Never argue with your security detail if they tell you a particular route is unsafe. If you were the expert-- you would not be hiring security yourself.
4. Ensure that no one else besides your family members and security detail knows the exact times of departure and arrival or even flight numbers and airports.
5. Ensure your security detail is low key-- that is blended into your specific environment. If it is a business trip, the security personnel would be in business suits and so on for less formal events.
6. Never argue with the Mission Commander when he says there will and should be a mix of overt and low key (covert) security personnel in the mix. Situations warrant it.
7. Do bear with some inconveniences-- such as a decoy convoy ahead or after yours and waiting after the appointed times or arriving way in advance for trips. Its all for your safety and security.
8. Lastly, do not boast to clients and associates that you have this and that for security. It makes for gossip and our job as security detail personnel much harder.
9. If possible when landing in third world nation states for just a few hours-- use your executive jet or the airport as a meeting place in a private boardroom. Why risk security travelling from the airport to some hotel you are not familiar with?