IBGS (International BodyGuard Skill course)
IBGS is a core education program operated by the International Bodyguard Association (IBA). It is a practice-oriented training course designed to develop professional close protection personnel in accordance with international standards.
The program is based on the fundamental principles of close protection and provides comprehensive training in threat recognition, mobile protection, team formations, situational decision-making, advance reconnaissance, and protective driving concepts. All training is conducted through scenario-based exercises rather than theory-focused instruction, with emphasis placed not only on individual competence but also on coordinated team-level response and operational effectiveness.
IBGS is not a simple completion course.
It is a benchmark program that evaluates an individual’s ability to perform protection duties in line with international standards.
The course structure supports progressive design for both entry-level candidates and experienced practitioners, and serves as a mandatory foundational stage leading into advanced and specialized protection training programs.
VIP Close Protection-Protective Escort (CPO)
Focused training in movement management, positioning, and crisis response for close VIP protection
Developing protection capabilities in accordance with international CPO standards
PSD - Protective Services
Detail
The PSD program is an advanced operational close protection course focused on VIP protection and escort operations in high-risk environments, with emphasis on team-based tactical operations and response to multi-threat scenarios
The program is designed upon the IBGS foundation and focuses on systematically enhancing mission execution capability and integrated team-level response required in real-world operational environments
Tactical Firearms Training
Providing firearms safety, handling, and tactical shooting training based on real-world operational environments.
Emphasis is placed on situational judgment, fire control,
and coordinated team-based tactical integration.
Escort driving
Training in defensive, evasive, and offensive driving within threat environments through realistic, scenario-based exercises.
Mastery of tactical driving techniques specialized for VIP movement and mobile protection operations.
D.A.R.T
Defense and Restraint Tactics
This course is designed around defensive control and restraint tactics for responding to physical threats encountered in close protection environments. Training is conducted progressively, focusing on practical close-contact techniques required to control subject movement and stabilize situations in accordance with non-lethal response principles.
Instruction is based primarily on unarmed response, with emphasis placed on selecting and applying appropriate physical control techniques according to the level of resistance encountered.
The course develops the ability to maintain tactical positioning, minimize unnecessary confrontation, and manage situations effectively to prevent disengagement or escalation into additional threats.
In addition to individual response, the program incorporates coordinated team movement and role-based interaction. Legal and ethical standards applicable to protective operations are integrated throughout the training, ensuring the responsible and accountable application of force in real-world environments.
Sniper Threat Response Course
Counter Sniper
The Counter Sniper course is an advanced tactical program designed to comprehensively train survival, evasion, observation, and tactical movement skills in environments where sniper threats are present.
Training is conducted based on realistic operational conditions and includes threat detection and target identification, use of cover and concealment, observation and disruption techniques, and tactical movement route planning.
This course goes beyond basic evasion techniques. Participants are trained to anticipate sniper positioning and firing patterns, relocate to optimal survivability positions within effective threat engagement ranges, and simultaneously conduct situation sharing and coordinated response at the team level.
The program also incorporates the development of rapid decision-making, observation-based communication, and threat response principles conducted in compliance with legal and ethical standards.
Through this approach, participants build the ability to operate with stability and tactical coherence even in high-risk environments.
Tactical Skills
Tactical Skills is a practice-oriented training domain focused on strengthening the physical and tactical capabilities required for protection operations.
This program is not intended for simple skill acquisition. Its purpose is to develop judgment, movement execution, and team integration that function immediately under threat conditions.
Core tactical elements repeatedly required in real-world environments—including firearms handling, movement control, non-lethal restraint, use of cover, and evasion—are trained and validated through scenario-based exercises and structured evaluation.
All training is designed with real-world applicability as the primary standard, reinforcing not only individual capability but also coordinated team-level response.
Tactical Skills serves as a core tactical training component that leads into IBGS and advanced protection programs, and is a mandatory course for completing field-oriented protection capability.
Threat Response
& Environmental Security
Threat Response & Environmental Security is a structured training course focused on developing the ability to identify threats in advance, control operational environments, and respond immediately to changing situations.
This domain goes beyond reactive techniques. Its purpose is to strengthen protection capability across the full operational cycle, from pre-incident risk identification through active response and post-incident stabilization.
Training is conducted based on diverse operational environments, including aviation, maritime, urban areas, public events, and movement routes. Participants receive practical instruction in threat analysis, route planning, access control, surveillance, and reporting systems grounded in real-world protective operations.
High-risk threats such as improvised explosive devices, sniper threats, and potential terrorist scenarios are addressed through repeated scenario-based training, with priority placed on survival and protection-focused response procedures.
The course evaluates not only individual reaction speed, but also team-level information sharing, decision-making frameworks, and environmental control capability.It is designed as an operationally focused program aligned with international close protection and counterterrorism standards.
Threat Response & Environmental Security is a core capability course for maintaining stable and effective protection operations within complex threat environments.
Improvised Explosive Device Response Training
Improvised Explosive Device Environment &Countermeasures System-I.E.D.E.C.S.
The I.E.D.E.C.S. course is a practice-oriented response program designed to strengthen pre-incident awareness, avoidance, and initial response capabilities in environments where improvised explosive device (IED) threats may be present.
The course trains participants to identify indicators of explosive threats during protection operations, control or disengage from hazardous areas, and make timely protective decisions with priority placed on VIP protection and survivability.
Training is conducted based on real-world protection environments such as movement routes and event venues. Scenario-based repetitions focus on suspicious object recognition,establishment of safe distances, movement control, initial reporting, and evacuation procedures.
I.E.D.E.C.S. is a core environmental threat response course designed to support stable execution of protection duties within counterterrorism and complex threat environments.
Aviation security
Aviation Security & Mobility Environment Response
The Aviation Security course is designed to analyze potential threats within aircraft and airport environments and to systematically train response procedures required for the execution of VIP air travel protection duties.
The program addresses the full scope of aviation movement environments, including airport terminals, boarding and disembarkation areas, and aircraft perimeter zones. Training focuses on threat identification, access control, movement and route management, and security coordination, with an emphasis on practical application.
Instruction is conducted in accordance with aviation security regulations and international standards. Scenario-based training ensures that decision-making and response actions function immediately in situations involving congestion, restricted-area access, or sudden emerging threats, with priority placed on VIP protection and movement stability.
This course is distinct from ILETA aviation counterterrorism and aircraft assault response training that focuses on armed intervention inside aircraft.
Instead, it is structured as a professional close protection response program centered on risk management and situational control within aviation movement environments.
Aviation Security is a mandatory aviation protection course for maintaining stable environmental control and effective response during protection operations involving air travel.
Maritime security
Yacht Security/Maritime security
The Yacht Security course is a professional training program focused on VIP protection and security operations conducted within yacht and maritime environments.
It provides systematic training in analyzing potential threats arising during maritime movement and anchorage, and in establishing response procedures required for stable execution of protection duties.
The program addresses operational environments including embarkation and disembarkation areas, onboard movement routes, marinas, and coastal zones. Training emphasizes access control, movement management, surveillance, and security coordination, with a focus on threat identification and situational control tailored to maritime conditions.
Instruction is conducted in accordance with international maritime security standards and close protection principles. Scenario-based training ensures that decision-making and response actions function immediately during sudden approaches, congested port environments, or threats возника during movement, with priority placed on VIP protection and movement stability.
This course is distinct from ILETA maritime counterterrorism and tactical training that focuses on armed boarding, vessel seizure, or assault operations. Instead, it is structured as a professional close protection security program centered on risk management and situational control within yacht and maritime movement environments.
Yacht Security is a mandatory maritime protection course for maintaining stable environmental control and effective response during protection operations involving sea-based movement.
Counter-terrorism surveillance system training
IBA / ILETA Surveillance Training
Surveillance and Pre-Threat Awareness Training
The IBA / ILETA Surveillance Training course is designed to systematically develop the ability to identify potential threats at an early stage and assess situations through surveillance, tracking, and observation prior to the execution of protection duties.
This course goes beyond simple tailing techniques or information collection. It focuses on building surveillance capability from a close protection perspective, emphasizing the recognition of anomalies within the environment and the early analysis and classification of potential threats.
Training is conducted based on real operational environments such as urban areas, movement routes, and event venues.
Scenario-based instruction covers static and mobile surveillance, behavioral pattern analysis, identification of surveillance evasion, and structured information sharing and reporting procedures.
This course is distinct from tactical surveillance training intended for armed intervention or enforcement operations.
It is structured as a pre-incident, judgment-focused surveillance program aimed at preventing risk and maintaining situational control during the preparatory phase of protection operations.
ILETA Surveillance Training serves as a critical pre-threat awareness and situational analysis course required for the stable execution of protection operations within complex counterterrorism and high-threat environments.
IBA Paramedic
Bodyguard Paramedic
Protective Medical Response
The Bodyguard Paramedic course is a practice-oriented program designed to strengthen immediate medical response capability during protection operations.
This course is not focused on basic first aid skills alone.
It is structured to develop the ability to assess injuries under threat conditions and to make treatment and casualty movement decisions while maintaining VIP protection and mission continuity.
Training focuses on trauma care, hemorrhage control, emergency stabilization, and casualty movement procedures.
All instruction is conducted through scenario-based exercises reflecting real-world protection environments, ensuring that medical response remains effective even under tactical pressure.
Bodyguard Paramedic is a core medical response capability course required to sustain survivability and operational continuity during protection missions.
ILETA Combat Paramedic
ILETA Combat Medic
Tactical Emergency Medical Care
The ILETA Combat Medic course is a practice-oriented program designed to strengthen tactical emergency medical capabilities in high-risk operational environments.
The course is structured to enable rapid hemorrhage control, trauma stabilization, and casualty movement decisions while operating under active threat conditions, ensuring both team safety and mission continuity.
Training is conducted through scenario-based exercises that reflect real-world operational constraints, including limited time, restricted resources, and sustained tactical pressure.
Emphasis is placed on survival-priority decision-making, team-level medical coordination, and casualty evacuation procedures.
ILETA Combat Medic is a core tactical medical response course required to sustain survivability and operational effectiveness during counterterrorism and high-risk operations.
Medical
&
Support Skills
Medical & Support Skills is a training domain focused on strengthening survivability and support capabilities required during protection operations, with consideration for emergency situations and sustained operational environments.
This domain is not limited to basic first aid instruction. Its objective is to provide practice-oriented training that enables protection personnel to maintain and extend the survivability of both the protected individual and the team while operating under threat conditions.
Core medical skills repeatedly required in protection environments—including trauma care, hemorrhage control, casualty movement, and tactical emergency response—are trained and reinforced through scenario-based exercises that reflect real-world conditions.
The program also enhances on-site judgment and support system management capabilities required for prolonged missions, complex threat environments, and situations where medical access is limited.
The course addresses not only individual medical response capability, but also team-based emergency response, protected person management, and support structures designed to sustain operational continuity.
Medical & Support Skills is designed in accordance with IBA and ILETA standards as a practice-oriented program, and serves as a core support capability course that enables both survivability and mission completion across protection operations.
Leadership
&
Advanced Roles
Leadership & Advanced Roles is an advanced program designed to prepare professionals not only to execute protection duties, but to plan, command, and assume responsibility for protection operations.
This domain focuses on strengthening leadership capabilities centered on judgment, coordination, accountability, and communication, rather than individual technical proficiency.
Training is conducted to practical operational standards and covers executive and high-profile protection strategy development, management of complex schedules and multinational environments, team organization and role assignment, and decision-making structures before, during, and after operations.
The program also addresses instructor development for designing and delivering protection training, as well as structural threat analysis and response frameworks required in counterterrorism environments.
This course is not intended for rank advancement or certification alone. It serves as a validation stage for individuals expected to make critical decisions on the ground and take responsibility for their outcomes.
All instruction is evaluated in accordance with international standards and structured for immediate application in real-world operational and training environments.
Leadership & Advanced Roles is the highest-level professional capability program designed to develop core personnel, instructors, and command-level leaders within protection organizations.
Management & Executive Protection
Executive Protection
We train corporate executives and directors in customized protection strategies based on international executive protection standards and real-world operational experience.
Our approach goes beyond close protection techniques.
We focus on risk assessment, movement planning, situational awareness, and decision-making frameworks that function under real pressure.
Each program is tailored to the executive’s role, operating environment, travel profile, and organizational structure—
ensuring protection measures are discreet, effective, and operationally realistic, not ceremonial or excessive.
Security Instructor Course
Instructor Course (IBA / ILETA Specialist)
The Instructor Course (IBA / ILETA Specialist) is designed to develop professional security instructors capable of planning, delivering, and supervising security training based on international standards and operational reality.
This course focuses on training design, instructional methodology, scenario construction, safety management, and evaluation systems, rather than simple skill demonstration.
Participants are trained to assess trainee capability, adapt instruction to operational contexts, and manage training environments where judgment, control, and responsibility are essential.
The program qualifies instructors who can operate not only as trainers, but as educators accountable for outcomes in real-world security and counter-terrorism environments.
ILETA Counter-Terrorism Training
ILETA Counter-Terrorism Education
ILETA Counter-Terrorism Education is designed to strengthen structural understanding of terrorist threats, their methods, and operational patterns, while developing the capability to respond to complex and evolving crisis environments.
This program focuses on threat analysis, attack typologies, decision-making under uncertainty, and coordinated response frameworks, rather than isolated tactical techniques.
Participants learn to interpret indicators, assess escalation risks, and apply controlled force and judgment within legal, ethical, and operational boundaries.
The course develops professionals who can operate effectively in high-risk, multi-variable counter-terrorism scenarios, where misjudgment carries strategic consequences.
Praetorian Camp(IBA/ILETA HQ) – Elite
Praetorian Camp is an elite training program run by the International Bodyguard Association (IBA) and ILETA Headquarters (HQ). It is the HQ course line designed for the highest level of professional personnel among international standard bodyguard and security training courses.
This training system is operated by selecting individuals who have completed international standard basic and advanced courses, including the IBGS, and have demonstrated practical competency and expertise. Its purpose is to cultivate personnel who can perform the high-difficulty missions and meet the level of responsibility required in international security and protection fields.
The Praetorian Camp system includes elite-level, practical training courses based on real-world operational environments, including live-fire shooting, CQB/CQC, team tactics, high-risk scenario response, and understanding collaboration and command structures in multinational environments.
All courses are designed based on competencies required for positions requiring judgment, leadership, and responsibility, rather than simply acquiring technical skills.
This system includes independent HQ official courses with clearly defined purposes and roles, such as Master Class and Instructor Course.
The Master Class is a course designed to provide in-depth training in specific tactical or specialized fields, while the Instructor Course verifies instructors' capabilities to design and deliver training according to international standards.
Each course has a different character and goal, but they are all elite courses operated according to HQ standards.
Praetorian Camp is not a single training program, but rather the highest level of HQ's training system, designed to train and certify elite security and protection personnel to international standards.
This ensures that participants meet the standards of professionalism, judgment, and responsibility required on the international stage.
