One of my students for all four days was Roland Flaccus of Rogard Sicherheit. He is the owner and operator of a security company employing 40 people and he has been in business for five years now in the old West German capitol of Bonn. His business centers primarily on business personalities who need protection at various events and foreign travel. Roland has gone through my Knife Survival course and plans on getting his Level 1 instructor certificate through me. Roland told me that his next assignment will be in South Africa.
Klaus Kargetta is another one of my students going through all four days. He is the owner and operator of Sicherheitsdienst Rhein-Main located in Offenbach. He has a small security company of seven employees, but he has been in business now 10 years offering personal protection and on site security. He can be reach through email at k.kargetta@srm-sicherheit.de
Stephan Schuetter works as a bodyguard (Personenschutz) for a large well-known German company in Walldorf, but does not wish for the company to be mentioned. Yet, Stephan is exactly the type of people that this seminar has attracted.
On the final day I gave the students a final test. They were to escort a “diplomat” from the Boker factory to a vehicle parked outside. They could get him there anyway they wanted. They chose to use the elevator, go out a side entrance, and then along a walkway to the vehicle parked on a driveway.
In the factory Tobias Leckebusch jumped out at them and tried to tackle the diplomat. One of the agents shot the attacker two times with his air gun and a second agent opened fire also. They then evacuated the diplomat from the area. I then asked the two agents, “Why did you shoot the attacker? He has no weapons.” They both realized their mistake even though we had discussed the use-of-force continuum many times and practiced shoot don’t shoot situations. One of the agents admitted that he fired on the attacker because the other agent did. I told them that sometimes even police and soldiers make the same mistake, but the only time you can shoot someone is if you have a legal right and he is a legitimate target. “You have to identify your target” I told them.
When the team got outside a sniper, Peter Falk armed with a AK-47 air gun, sent a 6 mm plastic pellet into the helmet of the diplomat. The team had lost their diplomat. However, one agent stayed in the wide open trying to engage the bad guy. I had to yell for this agent to go seek cover and the rest of the agents nearest the building to initiate a building entry. The others were pinned down behind the vehicle.
The agents failed their test. However, it was a learning experience, and protecting others against determined attackers is not an easy job. Everybody left the course with a lot of knowledge and good training experiences.
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