A Deeper Dive into PreFense®

Protection professionals live by the mantra: “If you need to reach for the lifeboats, you failed.” Although highly trained in a wide variety of use of force options the pros view the use of such hard skills as a last resort, like needing a spare tire for your car or the lifeboats on a cruise liner. Should you need to know how to use the lifeboats if needed? Yes. However, should the lifeboats be your first course of action? No. How about being on the lookout for icebergs and avoiding the threat altogether? Or if you see an iceberg, go around it? If you failed to look for an iceberg, and you failed to see the iceberg, and you failed to go around the iceberg, and because of these multiple failures you crashed into the iceberg, then should you reach for the lifeboats? Yes. Actions like looking, seeing and avoiding are considered preventive measures.

In the world of protective services, there are six reasons why the pros consider preventive measures to be paramount.

First and foremost is that preventive measures help you prevent a threat as opposed to react to a threat.

Second is that preventive measures are employed 98% of the time versus relying on your hard skills 2% of the time. The better your preventive measures (soft skills), the greater your chances of solving a problem and staying ahead of the action-reaction power curve.

Third is that preventive measures are a viable use-of-force alternative.

Fourth is that soft skills are non-physical and incur no bodily injury. Reactive measures, on the other hand, are hard skills requiring physicality, with a potential for injury. You are always at the lowest potential for physical injury if you apply your soft skills.

The fifth is that, in the world of threat avoidance and mitigation, either you control the threat, or the threat controls you. Preventive measures empower you to both take and keep the initiative.

Lastly, sixth is that preventive measures work in high-threat areas internationally. When applied, they work anywhere and anytime for you at home, at work, or traveling with friends and family.