It has been more than 20 years since the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen. The roadside bomb that killed Herrhausen was a game changer. In the late 80’s surveillance detection had become part of the protection plan but it was not given the attention needed. It was unorganized, and most of the time the surveillance detection team had no idea what it was they were trying to detect. At that time … [Read more...]
Carjacking By Mark James
April 30, 2013 by 4 Comments
This is an article by Mark that has been sitting on the Security Driver Site for two years. It’s about Carjacking. Carjacking’s in the New Jersey area are coming back to life, and after some quick research I found that Carjacking’s are occurring more often in other areas of the US. These are two articles from a New Jersey … [Read more...]
The Assassination Attempt on the Syrian Prime Minister
April 29, 2013 by 2 Comments
A roadside bomb was used in the attempted assassination of the Syrian Prime minister. News reports are saying that there are multiple fatalities. An excerpt from a news report “At least 19 people, including one of Halqi’s bodyguards, were killed and 25 others were wounded in the attack, local correspondent Abdullah Mawazini told RT. Syrian media reported that up to 10 people may have … [Read more...]
You Can’t Be Average
April 29, 2013 by 8 Comments
We (VDI) do a lot of research on driving - training - anything that will help us be better at what we do. While conducting the research we notice the word we see most often is “Average”. As an example the “average” driver needs 2.5 seconds to react to a problem. The “average” driver can use only 50 % of the vehicles cornering capability The “average” driver will use x … [Read more...]
Stupid Car Tricks
April 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’m sure that some of you reading this know somebody who did bad or dumb ass things in- a rent a car, company car, patrol car, armored vehicle etc. If you do I would like to hear about it. I think it would make for interesting reading. If we get enough we could come up with an award for the dumbest thing someone has done with or in a car. I will start it off with a story I heard about this … [Read more...]