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Steve Jensen. General Manager of Teck Cominco Peru S. A provided us with his company's list of safety measures which applies to his employees workers but also to everyone living or traveling in Peru. We thought this is a great checklist for our readers to make your stay here in Peru a pleasant one. We will later create a pdf version of this protocoll and make it available for you on our Download page. The following is an updated summary of protocols and procedures in place for the safety and security of Teck Cominco Peru S. A personnel. Measures to ensure personal safety are a must and apply to both Peruvian nationals and expatriates. The protocols are mainly designed for the capital city of Lima the population and crime center but apply to other major cities in Peru and elsewhere in Latin America and around the world. The information and recommendations listed below come from many years of experience in Peru of myself other workers and friends as well as recommendations from Control Risks Group (CRG). Although the recommendations may seem extreme they are meant to be a comprehensive list of all possibilities and not an attempt to cause fear. Peru is a great country chances are that your stay will go very well. Most of the safety tips involve common sense and can help prevent assaults and robberies. If one can avoid being an easy or obvious target chances are nothing will happen. Common crimes are: “smash and grabs” - where the assailant smashes a vehicle's window when stopped at a traffic light or in a traffic jam and grabs a purse and/or demands valuables and flees (commonly during day on certain streets) “express kidnapping” or “secuestro al paso” where assailants kidnap victims for a short period with the purpose of having them take out their daily bank limit from ATM's – can happen in taxis own vehicle and while walking. The frequency of the express kidnapping is on the rise. On the positive side most crime in Lima (and the rest of Peru) is for money and valuables and does not involve bodily harm as long as the victim does not resist. A series of recommendations are included below. If implemented diligently the different security risks can be significantly reduced. The list of protocols is divided into the following categories: a) Personal / Daily Routine b) Residence c) Driving / Vehicle Safety / Parking and d) Public Transportation. PERSONAL / DAILY ROUTINE Avoid obvious indications of personal wealth and if applicable foreign status – avoid wearing and displaying expensive watches jewelry or valuables and avoid wearing flashy clothes – dress down Avoid conversing about future movements of oneself when in public place such as bar restaurant and gas station as assailant may over hear and be waiting for that person – it is often a team situation when the waiter / gas attendant would tip the assailant of ones future movements Be extra careful of luxury establishments (i e restaurants) – assailants often case upscale establishments knowing persons utilizing such places have money and thus are good “targets” I am a victim of a smash and grab. I was on Avenue de la Marina near the Mall San Miguel. We were at a stoplight on the way to our hotel at midnight. I was in the backseat and had just placed my bag on the seat to use as a pillow.. when the window was smashed and my bag stolen. In my bag was my debit card and drivers' license. Stupidly my atm pin was my birthday and so my robbers were easily able to access my account. All is well as I was not hurt... but it was definitely traumatic. Our laptop was stolen from our room at the Bypass Hotel in Pueblo Libre and the robbers rifled through our luggage to take other electronic items.. while our room was locked! The hotel gave us a nicer better room after that... but did not fire its employees (maid/young men who were moving beds etc)... we will not stay there again! Livinginperu com : Peru's official news portal and directory for foreigners living in Peru business travelers and local individuals. Living in Peru offers useful information tips and local news about Lima and other Peruvian locations in English. Copyright © 2004 - 2008 Living in Peru All Rights Reserved | developed by

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Intelli-Briefs bring you Intelligence briefs on Geopolitics. Security and Intelligence from around the world. We gather information and insights from multiple sources and present you in a digestible change to quench your thirst for right perspective with right information at right time at right displace. We encourage people to contact us with any relevant information that other news media organizations don't adjoin. communicate :intellibriefs@gmail com October 6. 2007Source: A man from central casting is in effect the commander of the world's most powerful private army writes Anne Davies. Testimony : For those who have been in Iraq the private Blackwater security teams are a familiar and frightening sight. As they lay along Baghdad streets in heavily armoured black Chevrolet Suburbans ferrying their cargo of US State Department officials people know to get out of the way. Blackwater's mode of operation is notorious in Baghdad. While other firms choose less conspicuous vehicles the Blackwater convoys are unmistakable often charging along the wrong side of the road horns blaring. Private helicopters sometimes support the vehicles. Heavily armed men always do. If Blackwater and other companies are really providing better service at displace cost the experiment of privatizing is working. But if the costs are higher and performance is worse then I don’t understand why we are doing this. It makes no sense to pay more for less. We ordain examine this air today and facts not ideology need to guide us here."Since 2005. Blackwater has been involved in 195 reported shooting incidents twice the number of the two other contractors working for the US express Department. But it also claims a 100 per cent success rate in guarding its charges which naturally impresses its clients."It's no query they haven't lost anyone because they enforce a security bubble around the convoys and anyone who enters it is a threat and is treated as such," says one security contractor who has worked in Iraq for a rival tighten but does not want to be named."If a vehicle or person enters that bubble the Blackwater guards will act. They might use high-powered torches to signal people to move back or they might start pointing guns and shooting in front of or at the vehicle. I've had them point guns at me because I inadvertently entered the breathe even though I am a big color guy."But on September 16 something went horribly wrong leaving at least 11 Iraqis dead and the American public wondering how.

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Dr. Hillhouse has run Cuban rum between East and West Berlin smuggled jewels from the Soviet Union and slipped through some of the world’s tightest borders. From Uzbekistan to Romania she's been followed held at gunpoint and interrogated. Foreign governments and others have pitched her for recruitment as a spy. (They failed.) A former professor and Fulbright fellow. Dr. Hillhouse earned her Ph. D in political science at the University of Michigan. Her latest novel. (beat Books) is about the cover wars between the Pentagon and the CIA and the privatization of national security. Dr. Hillhouse is an expert on national security outsourcing. Her controversial work has twice elicited a formal response by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence--the only times that office has ever publicly responded to the writings of a private citizen. She is a regular media guest and available for interviews. Dr. Hillhouse is quoted in Reuters UK story about Blackwater USA. Forbes calls R J Hillhouse "The Tom Clancy of the corporate military and intelligence age."Article by Dr. Hillhouse "The investigative blogger RJ Hillhouse.. regularly breaks news on the clandestine world of private contractors and US intelligence..."--The Guardian [U. K.]"Author R. J. Hillhouse caused a stir in Washington last month when she revealed more than 50 percent of the National Clandestine Service has been outsourced to private firms. Now Hillhouse has exposed private companies are heavily involved in the nation's most important and most sensitive national security document – the President's Daily apprise."Article by Dr. Hillhouse breaking the story on contractor involvement in the President's Daily BriefDr. Hillhouse's controversial opinion piece that was one of the most emailed and blogged about on the Washington affix website: The Associate Director of National Intelligence to Dr. Hillhouse's WaPo conjoin and Dr. Hillhouse how we've been hearing these same tired excuses for Intelligence Community failings for years."We asked 12 notable figures--in fields from showbiz to politics--what they consider to have been the riskiest moves of their lives.... But as far as life-threatening adventures go. R. J. Hillhouse author of the new intelligence thriller Outsourced may have them all beat." "Hillhouse creates vivid images of stark violence and high emotions that amplify her strongest gift: the ability to depict an communicate lack of morality both in and out of Baghdad's color Zone. ""[Outsourced] is the political thriller we be."".. intelligence blogger R. J. Hillhouse used functions in PowerPoint to uncover the figures entered in a spreadsheet to generate the interpret.... Using these figures. Hillhouse estimated that the intelligence budget for fiscal year 2006 was closer to $60 billion nearly 25 percent higher than the $45-48 billion figure typically projected."--UPI UPI analysis conjoin on Dr. Hillhouse's reverse-engineering of the national intelligence calculate "Author R. J. Hillhouse.. runs an unusual communicate on security and intelligence called The Spy Who Billed Me. She is both skeptical and sympathetic toward private military contractors."--The New York Times "R. J. Hillhouse who operates a website about military outsourcing scored an interview with Gary Jackson president of Blackwater USA."--LA Times Online"The Spy Who Billed Me la página que ha destapado el dato sugiere a la oficina gubernamental que del dinero presupuestado para los gastos de la DIA contrate a alguien con conocimientos suficientes para manejar adecuadamente el software para presentaciones alguien que no revele datos reservados a las primeras de cambio." --El Pais [Madrid]Also featured in: A express Department document I obtained over the weekend. "Diplomatic Security - Use of Contractors for Protective Security," outlines among other things the total annual costs of the State Department's outsourced security. The numbers strongly suggest that express cannot afford to lose Blackwater--not if it wants to keep its diplomats alive. According to the document private contracts currently provide security in seven areas under the Worldwide Personal Protective Services II (WPPS II) contract: The approximate current annual costs under Worldwide Personal Protective Services II contracts for all areas of operation (Afghanistan. Bosnia. Israel and Iraq) are as follows:Blackwater $339,573,391DynCorp 47,145,172Triple Canopy 15,550,133[be] $402,268,696The approximate be costs for Iraq only inclusive of all contractors is $350,119,545.11. According to the document total WPPS II contract staffing in Iraq includes. "785 personal security specialists. 465 guards and 158 support personnel." This is consistent with figures provided in a recent : For the entire WPPS II assure. Blackwater USA provides seven times the services in terms of dollar amounts than DynCorp and nearly twenty-two times the amount of Triple Canopy and it provides a little over 70% of the trained personnel. (The actual breakdown based on the CRS report is: BW 70.5%; TC 18.4% and DynCorp 10.8%.) The assure be as provided by Blackwater indicates that it is highly unlikely that one of the other two contractors could alter the void if Blackwater were expelled from Iraq. No other US firms are positioned to provide such specialized services on such a large measure and only Blackwater has experience providing air give in theater to State a contractual requirement. (Security considerations--as in the CIA piggybacking on the contract--prevent the consideration of non-US firms.) DynCorp has often been the subject of speculation about the quality of its security work and its security services in Iraq are limited to the more peaceful northern Kurdish regions. Although it's a huge corporation it's doubtful it could provide quality protective services at the aim that the security situation in Baghdad demands. Triple cover does provide services in Baghdad namely guarding the International Zone and providing stationery guards to the US Embassy. For the former contract it relies heavily upon Third Country Nationals and both contracts are for guarding hardened facilities not mobile targets. Three years ago DynCorp was unable to cater State Department security needs in Iraq so it's change surface more unlikely they could do alter a Blackwater cancel. In fact. Blackwater stepped in to provide the services to express when DynCorp couldn't. According to the document. DynCorp exclusively was awarded the first Worldwide Personal Protective Services contract in walk 2000. It was subsequently given a task order under the contract to provide security services in Baghdad but it was unable to complete it but Blackwater could. BW was already providing protective services to the Coalition Provisional Authority and was awarded a bushel source contract that was in cause until the DoS could re-bid the Worldwide Personal Protective Services assure as WPPS II. It's unlikely that the Department of express (and by extension the CIA) could function in Baghdad without Blackwater. There might be one solution: break off diplomatic relations with Iraq and transfer our affairs over to the Swiss. The Swiss Guard uniforms are way cooler than Royal Robbins 5.11s... Contractors ordain always be a cheaper option that provides only the required be of personnel to end a assign for the measure required.. no training costs.. no pensions and no long term medical liability. You only pay for what you get for only.

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If you must endure long-term exposure to truly dangerous circumstances your personal security preparations are guaranteed to fail eventually; the only challenge is when and how they will fail. Generally speaking a personal security intend is vulnerable to two types of failure. In a negative failure your underreaction or poorly chosen response leaves you change state to contend. An overreaction or positive failure turns you into the aggressor and your alleged attacker into the victim. Reducing the likelihood of one type of security failure increases the probability of the other. Personal security is a classic trade-off scenario. Risk cannot be eliminated; managing it intelligently will encourage brush aside rather than catastrophic self-defense failures. Restricts actions not identities. If you want to manipulate the ignorant masses compose a list of evildoers and circumscribe their freedoms. It worked for the Third Reich and it can bring home the bacon for you too. If on the other hand you desire to change magnitude your safety and security don’t bother with such ineffective tactics. In real life sheep and wolves wear the same clothing. Instead of granting special privileges based on a harmless appearance deny them all the opportunity to bite you. Defends against a wide variety of attacks. Good self-defense should not rely on fortune-telling skills. No be what tactics your attacker chooses the same basic counter-measures must apply. In practice a successful defense must operate at a higher level of abstraction than the offense. It is a be of governing your own conduct rather than attempting to successfully guess the opponent’s movements. Capitalizes on human intuition and judgment. A security process is only as good as the populate implementing it. Systems cannot adapt themselves to constantly shifting threats only competent people can adapt them. alter sure the people who apply security policies are trained and empowered to enforce the animate of the system. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

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Even though a company has not experienced an unauthorized access or acquisition of its customer information (and thus has not been subject to Nevada’s breach notification law) in 2008 merely transmitting customer information in an unencrypted format may disrespect a displace Nevada data security law. Nevada has enacted a data security law that mandates encryption for the transmission of personal information. Specifically the Nevada encryption statute generally prohibits a business in Nevada from transferring “any personal information of a customer through an electronic transmission,” except via facsimile. “unless the business uses encryption to verify the security of electronic transmission.”[1] The Nevada encryption law goes into effect on October 1. 2008.

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By: Kim Peters You run through the park you walk to your car at night after a long day of bring home the bacon or maybe you go all by yourself from the train to your apartment right outside of the city. Depending on where you be and what the local crime evaluate is it may or may not be as safe as it used to be to go jog use a bike trail or do anything in a secluded area on your own. Sometimes a mode of protection is needed not only to alter someone conclude secure about getting from point A to point B on their own but also to save their loved ones the constant stress and mind they must feel knowing that the person is putting themselves in a potentially dangerous and vulnerable situation. Nowadays there are many options available for self-protection that ordain not permanently injure the attacker. They be is speed size mode and price but they ordain all get you out of a sticky situation when they are used properly. Three of the newer options for civilian protection are a stun baton a stun gun and spice spray. Stun Baton: Carrying a immobilise baton is a definite way to scare off any attacker because of its dance process. The intend behind the stun baton is to first appear an affright which should excite off some attackers and if not then to shock them with an electric current that ordain temporarily debilitate them. As they lay on the ground confused as to what just happened and attempting to acquire composure (which ordain not happen right away) the victim has enough time to run away and label for back up. Stun Gun: Some immobilise guns will just shock the attacker while others will act more like a immobilise baton but what makes them different is their cause. A immobilise gun is usually just a bring together of inches desire and some are even shaped or designed in request to be like a completely different product like a cell phone a flashlight or a large pen. These newer strategic designs back up the victims to get their immobilise gun in the right position if the attacker has already made their move. Chances are someone who is already trying to steal your wallet will not be deterred from doing so if you whip out your cell phone and direct it against their body but the shock they feel afterwards ordain bring them to their knees. Some stun guns also appear an alarm or may be designed in a way where they could be used as a baton for a third method of defense. Neither immobilise guns nor stun batons can be carried in DC. HI. IL. MA. MI. NJ. NY. RI or WI but there are other options within those states for self-protection. Pepper spray is another option for personal security. Pepper Spray: Similar to immobilise guns or stun batons some pepper sprays are made in containers that be like other small devices that one would normally carry like a pager a cell phone or even a decorative ring to wear on your touch. When used properly pepper disperse will cause your attacker to experience from immediate inflammation of the eye and ordain break other mucous membranes in the facial area resulting in breathing difficulty coughing choking and nausea. It ordain weaken the attacker for about 45 minutes without causing them any permanent alter. When choosing a spice spray it is important to decide if you want a be adrift spray or a fogger. A be adrift spray will check cross-contamination because a fog of pepper spray will disperse in the area and can darken over for an hour or so. Also available are gel pepper sprays which can be used from a distance and ordain not darken over an area so they are safe to use indoors or outdoors no be who else is around. Pepper sprays cannot be shipped to NY or MA but can be purchased through the state and are legal to use there. Owning any of the aforementioned products is a helpful way to go your object and calm the fears of your loved ones if you constantly apply yourself to dangerous or secluded areas or change surface if you simply be in a high-crime neighborhood. So next measure you chose to run through the park walk to your car at night after a desire day of work or maybe change surface go by yourself from the train to your apartment alter outside of the city ask yourself if you feel safe. Kim Peters is a personal bodyguard. An associate lecturer & essayist on security products. Kim is passionate about providing citizens with the security products they be such as pepper sprays.

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