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Custom Courses

In large part, VDI’s reputation for delivering world-class training to secure transportation professionals and executive protection practitioners across the globe is driven by our team’s ability to design, develop, and deliver highly customized courses tailored to their operational needs and training requirements.

In fact, the vast majority of the 50 – 60 training courses VDI typically delivers in any given year are customized to meet a client’s specific needs and requirements.

Included among those clients who prefer VDI’s custom training solutions that meet their specific needs are:

  • Domestic, International, and Multinational Corporations
  • UHNW Family Offices
  • Government Entities
  • Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Specialized Military Units
  • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  • Independent Service Providers

The foundation for the unmatched success of our custom training courses is our highly refined instructional system design process, which allows for the incorporation of specific standard operating procedures (SOPs), specific tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and operational priorities into a cohesive, comprehensive training curriculum.

The proven ability to integrate these, and other essential components, into our training ensures participants in these courses gain the knowledge, skill, and ability needed to perform at their best where it counts most…in the real world. Another contributing factor is that VDI has built collaborative working relationships with some of the most recognized and highly regarded training providers in complementary domains, such as firearms, defensive tactics, close protection, and tactical medicine.

In turn, those longstanding relationships afford our team opportunities to provide the same high-impact, world-class training experience that our clients and students have come to expect from VDI, regardless of the focal points of a given course.

Examples of just some of the functional areas and operational domains which VDI’s custom training courses have encompassed include:

  • Motorcade/Convoy Operations
  • Unimproved Surface/Rough Terrain Driving
  • Immediate Action Driving Skills (Offensive Driving, PIT/Counter-PIT, Ramming, etc.)
  • Surveillance Detection Strategies & Tactics
  • Protection Strategies for Solo Practitioners & Small Protection Teams
  • Vehicle Centric Defensive Tactics (VCDT)
  • Vehicle Centric Firearms Tactics (Defensive and Offensive)
  • Medical Skills (AED/First Aid/CPR, Tactical Medicine, etc.)

To learn more about VDI’s custom courses, and to discuss your specific training requirements and needs, contact us at: info@vehicledynamics.net or call (732) 738-5221.

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Surveillance Detection a Practical Perspective

Surveillance Detection: a Practical Perspective

Recognizing that while the Solo Practitioner approach – where one protection practitioner is responsible for managing the wide range of risks their Principal may face – is not the optimum approach to doing so, it is in fact being effectively implemented far more often and successfully than many in the profession would care to admit, it’s worthwhile to take a closer look at the strategies and tactics which contribute to the effectiveness of the Solo Practitioner paradigm.

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