- Executive Protection
(C.P.S)
The Executive Protection program is an integrated academic and practical training curriculum consisting of the 450 hours in Distance Education and a 15-Day (150 hour) Resident Training in executive protection, dignitary and personal protection and celebrity security.
While honing traditional hard reactive skills, ESI's training philosophy includes Pre-Emptive Intervention skills with an emphasis on Behavioral, Predictive and Proactive Intelligence.
- Special Operations
(C.S.O.P.S.)
CQB Shooting
ESI offers a Special Operations Protection Program consisting of nine Distance Education Courses and a 15-Day Resident Training. This program follows federal agency protocols of Personal Security Details (PSD) in high risk environments and incorporates the experience of operators who work in combat zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia.
The course will focus on Protective Operations in High Risk Areas, Principal Briefings, Surveillance Detection and Countermeasures, Formations while working the Principal, Response to Assault on Principal (AOP), Explosives Recognition and Improvised Roadside Bomb Attacks.
- Security Specialist
(C.S.S.)
The Security Specialist Program combines the core programs of High Risk, Executive Protection and Protective Intelligence & Investigation. It affords the student the flexibility to design a course of instruction that is organized specifically to the student's needs.
Security Specialist combines 18 elective Distance Education courses with a choice of at least one 15-Day Resident Training in Executive Protection and Special Operations or an 18-Day residency in Protective Intelligence & Investigation.
- Residency Programs Certified Protection &
Intelligence Specialist
(C.P.I.S.)
The Personal Protection & Intelligence Resident Program is an integrated academic and practical training curriculum consisting of three Modules.
The Residency Modules offer the same Certification as the combined Distance Ed/15-Day Resident Training Programs.
Module 1 is a 28-Day Executive Protection Residency; Module 2 is a 28-Day Special Operations Residency; and Module 3 is an 18-Day Protective Intelligence & Investigation Residency.
- ESI Alumni Association

After nearly 30 years of training professionals in Executive Protection and Intelligence, a large number of ESI graduates have formed their own security companies and built impressive careers as protection specialists. The ESI Alumni Association continues the work of education and networking for the next generation of graduates. The Alumni organizes annual training seminars and operates a large global Network for posting of jobs and security industry partnerships.
- Anti-Kidnapping /
Anti-Secuestro
ESI-Mexico offers an Anti-Kidnapping / Anti-Secuestro Protection & Intelligence Program it´s a custom designed curriculum taught in Spanish throughout Mexico and Latin America.
The Anti-Kidnapping staff is an international group of ESI's renown American, Mexican and Colombian intelligence officers who have incomparable experience dealing with terrorist and mercenary attacks on private and public families.
Unlike the Programs offered in the U.S., the Spanish language training is not Open Enrollment to individuals. ESI's Program is offered exclusively to corporate and governmental agencies by contractual agreement after consultation with the needs of the client.









