Dignitary & Executive Protection Specialist Course

Executive Protection Training Ohio

Seven-Day Executive Protection Training | Up to 84 Hours

Dates: October 12th – October 18th, 2026
Location: Bethesda, Ohio
Training Site: Bethesda Police Department Training Center
Sponsor/Host: Bethesda Police Department
Tuition: $1150.00 – $2300.00

Registration is open for the ISA/EPTraining.us Dignitary & Executive Protection Specialist Course.

This is ISA’s complete seven-day executive and dignitary protection program for personnel currently performing protective duties, preparing for a protective assignment, or entering the executive-protection profession.

Register Now:
https://www.eptraining.us/training-registration/

Review the Full Course Syllabus:
https://www.eptraining.us/executive-protection-training-courses-master-list/dignitary-and-executive-protection-specialist-course/

Agency and Group Information:
[email protected]

Approved and Recognized Executive Protection Training

Employers today require applicants to have completed training from a recognized, approved, or accredited executive protection program. ISA/EPTraining.us meets that training requirement.

The ISA Dignitary & Executive Protection Specialist Program is approved in both Virginia and North Carolina for executive-protection licensing purposes. In Virginia, the program satisfies the training requirements for the 32E Personal Protection Specialist license. In North Carolina, it is approved for Close Personal Protection licensing.

The program has also been accredited, accepted, or recognized for law-enforcement in-service training in multiple states and for civilian adult-education credit.

ISA has trained personnel from federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies as well as private-sector protective professionals. Agency and company executive-protection leaders have selected ISA/EPTraining.us to train personnel assigned to protective duties.

Program at a Glance

Course: Dignitary & Executive Protection Specialist Course
Length: Seven days
Training Hours: Up to 84 hours
Format: Classroom instruction, facilitated discussion, practical exercises, field application, medical training, written evaluation, and live capstone protective operation

Students should expect extended training days, practical assignments, field exercises, team responsibilities, and changing mission conditions throughout the week.

Who Should Attend

The program is designed for personnel currently performing, supporting, or preparing for protective assignments.

This includes law-enforcement and other public-safety personnel; active-duty, Reserve, and National Guard military personnel; veterans transitioning into civilian protective work; licensed or otherwise qualified private-sector protective personnel; and investigators or private detectives whose professional duties include personal protection.

Students may be preparing for assignments involving public officials, judges, visiting dignitaries, candidates, corporate executives, high-net-worth individuals and families, public figures, or other persons requiring professional protective services.

For Law-Enforcement and Public-Safety Agencies

Some states and law-enforcement training systems maintain their own dignitary or VIP-protection programs. Those programs may be appropriate when they meet the agency’s needs and are available when the officer requires training.

ISA provides another option for agencies seeking a broader seven-day protective-services program, particularly when officers may be expected to help plan, establish, and operate a protective detail rather than simply augment an existing team.

The program is especially useful for agencies that do not maintain a permanent executive-protection unit but may still be required to protect an elected official, judge, candidate, visiting dignitary, or other at-risk person.

ISA’s executive-protection program was originally developed for law-enforcement personnel facing exactly that type of assignment.

What Students Train To Do

Students are introduced to the procedures, methods, and hard and soft skills protective agents use every day in operational assignments. Training includes the threat-assessment and protective-intelligence process, mission and emergency planning, advance work, site assessments and physical security, transportation and movement, public-event and daily protective operations, hostile-surveillance awareness, legal and ethical responsibilities, and medical response.

The course is designed to immerse students in practical exercises that require them to apply the procedures and skills they have learned. Student performance is evaluated during a live capstone protective operation, where they must demonstrate their ability to perform as part of a protective detail.

For an in-depth description of the individual courses, training objectives, practical exercises, and program requirements, review the full Dignitary & Executive Protection Specialist Course syllabus:

Full Course Syllabus:
https://www.eptraining.us/executive-protection-training-courses-master-list/dignitary-and-executive-protection-specialist-course/

Practical Training and Capstone Evaluation

Executive protection cannot be learned through classroom instruction alone.

Throughout the week, students move from instruction and facilitated discussion into planning assignments, practical exercises, field application, team problem-solving, and scenario-based training.

Students should expect conditions to change. Information changes. Schedules change. Routes change. Assignments change. Protective personnel must recognize what has changed, understand how it affects the mission, communicate with the team, and adjust the plan.

The program concludes with a live capstone protective operation requiring students to apply the procedures and skills developed throughout the course.

Students must plan, brief, communicate, coordinate, move, adapt, and perform as part of a protective detail.

Medical Training

Medical response is part of the protective mission.

The program includes:

• CPR
• AED
• Stop the Bleed
• Basic First Aid

Protective personnel may be the closest trained person when the protectee, a family member, employee, guest, or member of the public suffers a medical emergency or traumatic injury. The ability to recognize the emergency, begin immediate care, communicate effectively, and support the transfer of care is an important protective skill.

Admission and Eligibility Requirements

The ISA Dignitary & Executive Protection Specialist Course is an open-enrollment professional training program, but admission requirements apply.

Students must:

• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Be a United States citizen or legal resident alien of the United States.
• Possess a valid state driver’s license.
• Be physically capable of participating in practical training, movement exercises, field activities, and the live capstone operation.
• Meet applicable criminal-background and security requirements.
• Disclose applicable criminal convictions, military court-martial history, or current protective orders as required by ISA enrollment procedures.
• If attending as an active-duty, Reserve, or National Guard military member, provide appropriate military identification or documentation.
• Veterans claiming veteran status or veteran tuition must provide appropriate documentation.
• Law-enforcement personnel attending under agency status may be required to provide agency identification or verification.

Additional admission, licensing, equipment, or documentation requirements may apply to individual course offerings or students seeking state licensing or professional credit.

Tuition

Standard Tuition: $2300.00

Law-Enforcement / Military / Veteran Tuition: $1150.00

Agency / Group Tuition: CONTACT ISA

IFPO Member Tuition: $1300.00

Lodging is not included unless specifically stated in the individual event announcement.

Agency, company, and organizational groups should contact ISA regarding available group rates and registration arrangements.

Agency and Group Information:
[email protected]

Phone:
315-486-7854

Executive Protection Training: Frequently Asked Questions

Is this only for law enforcement? No. The program was originally developed for law enforcement protective assignments, but it also supports military, veterans, corporate security, private security, investigators, and qualified protective personnel.	Is this a basic bodyguard course? No. The program is structured around professional protective operations. Students learn threat assessment, advance work, mission planning, movement, communication, medical response, and legal considerations, and capstone performance.
Does the course include medical training?  Yes. The course includes CPR, AED, Stop the Bleed, and basic first aid training.	Does this course support licensing or continuing education? Eligible students may meet or support certain state licensing, in-service, or continuing education requirements depending on their status, jurisdiction, employer, and current regulatory rules. Students should confirm requirements before enrollment.
Is the course physically demanding? Yes. Students should be prepared for long training days, practical exercises, field movement, scenario-based training, and professional performance under time constraints.   Does the course include practical training? Yes. Practical exercises, planning assignments, field application, movement training, team activities, and the live capstone protective operation are integrated throughout the program.	Is prior executive-protection experience required? No. The regular seven-day program is designed for personnel entering protective work as well as experienced law-enforcement, military, and private-sector personnel seeking formal executive-protection training. Those new to the industry are eligible to apply for the J.T. Brown Scholarship   Can an agency or company register several students? Yes. Agency, company, and team registrations are accepted, and group tuition may be available.

Contact [email protected] for current information.

Register 

Seats are limited for each seven-day program.

Students and agencies should register early when travel, lodging, agency approval, licensing documentation, or other administrative arrangements are required.

Register Now:
https://www.eptraining.us/training-registration/

Review the Full Course Syllabus:
https://www.eptraining.us/executive-protection-training-courses-master-list/dignitary-and-executive-protection-specialist-course/

Agency and Group Information:
[email protected]

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