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If you are going hostile environment go with the ronin south africa course, if you only want to work in the UK/Europe then the Greymans Close Protection Course is my advice. I am also a trainer with Greymans and below is a recommendation from Buckingham New University.

"As you will expect, we have seen quite a few external training provider's material, which has always been written with a heavy military bias. It was therefore extremely refreshing to discuss the Greymans approach, which took a new view of CP training, ie preparing the student for working in the civilian sector. We have for some time now felt that too many CP training courses focussed on the 'extreme end of CP', ie Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. This has left quite a vacuum in training for preparing the individual to learn the skills to work in the civilian CP sector. The Greymans course certainly took a very pragmatic approach, particularly with the practical skills being learnt in the typical civilian working environment.
My view is that Greymans will certainly be providing a unique course, which gives the CP student who doesn't want to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, the best opportunity to get a truly civilianised training course in Close Protection. We are therefore very much looking forward to accrediting the Greymans Training Course in Close Protection. I expect that any would-be student for our Foundation Degree who has been through the Greymans training course would have a distinct advantage over other students.

You might remember I told you that successful students from our external training partners are awarded 15 Higher Education credits towards the Foundation Degree. This is in recognition of the 150 hours required by the SIA Training Specification. I have discussed your training course with our Dean of Faculty, who agrees that we should be able to award 'Greymans' students 20 credits in view of your extended programme. These 20 credits represents a full module exemption, or as we prefer to refer to it as Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL). This is another reflection of the quality of your training.

It did also occur to me that the civilian nature of the Greymans training should be attractive to serving CP personnel who could be seeking employment outside the military or police. I would consider it to be the best transition course that I have reviewed for CP training."

I think that speaks for itself

Good Luck

Nick