Michael O`Leary said:
Owner,
Perhaps you need to review the posts you have made. You jumped into a thread on a fairly sensitive topic (one in which most experienced professionals do not freely engage in random discussions about their business) with a blunt and frankly, poorly presented, opening statement. You made no real attempt to establish bona fides and you have started with an empty profile and a nickname which could be perceived as pompous.
This forum can be very welcoming to professionals who take the time to introduce themselves and establish credibility through their contributions. We've also had our experiences with walts and imposters and many of the members are guarded when anyone leaps into a thread claiming to be an expert with no substantiation.
It's easy to claim to be a professional, but we have seen that many also have difficulty presenting themselves as one in a text-only environment, where personality, appearance and all of those other clues we normally use in interpersonal interaction aren't there to help the worlds make the points.
Milnet.ca Staff
Fist point - on credentials I won’t bother looking it up as you wrote it. It mentions impersonation of a member of former of serving Canadian or other nations armed forces etc. the tick in the box was acknowledgment of prior military service. My email address was open to anyone; there was no commercial site or advertisement. I had no initial interest in this forum as I was doing a search for a similar site. I read a couple or posts on a subject I am considered a proficient in. So I wrote:-
I hope you don’t mind me butting in, I have been involve in Close Protection training at both a civilian and government level for a number of year and have seen drastic changes in the civilian market mainly a lowering of standards or not knowing what should be taught.
Note the term civilian market
In the UK to protect business from bogus operators the UK government formed a body corporate known as the Security Industry Authority. Its role is to manage the licensing of the private security industry as set out in the Private Security Act 200 .
A PAS is a professional security code of practice. In the UK Close Protection is a civilian qualification. Even a trained military close protection officer leaving the military has to do a fast track SIA course in order to work in the UK. As for it being a sensitive topic. I explained in the first a brief post what I had to offer, a Pas
The PAS is over a hundred pages long it covers briefly the skills that incorporate the latest close protection skills, mainly operational planning. I would have been more then happy to have mailed it to someone who was in the CP role.
I was under the impression that I was on a professional forum that would have appreciated an exchange of information. This is from some of the post I received in return?
business for his "company".
proper grammar and punctuation
certified classroom/trg area trained wannabee.
I need a rest reading anymore of this stuff.
more TI on Ops than you' have been no where.
easy to claim to be a professional
The reason I made the offer is I always believed that any exchange of information will save lives, it seemed nobody replied in any civil form nobody evaluated the PAS or even read it.
I think we all now agree its time to call it a day.
Please except any apologies for the provocation I might have caused.
