Specifics of road convoy security support during movement through high risk areas

Abstract

Modern road convoys moving through high risk areas need to be protected from attackers who are usually motivated to plunder the goods transported in vehicles of the convoy, as well as to kidnap the participants of the convoy. The paper focuses on the specifics of private security support of a road convoy in high-risk areas. The results obtained in the research show that the employees of private security support service in high risk areas are to use adequate measures to deter and prevent attackers and protect their assigned road convoys on specified routes of movement. The scientific justification of the research and this paper lies in the fact that a comprehensive, objective and integrative understanding of capabilities of private security support agencies in the protection of the road convoys in high risk areas is impossible without an insight in the current situation in this domain, with the facts and specificities from the field included. The social justification of the research lies in introducing the professional community with the importance of timely and organized planning and implementation of activities that make the potential operators of private security support in the protection of road convoys in high-risk areas more efficient. The conclusion of this research is that a special system of security measures is needed, which are adjusted to the situation in the field, and which will reduce the risk of attack to the lowest possible level, or most efficiently respond to attacks on road convoys in high-risk areas.

Keywords

• road convoy
• private security support in high-risk areas
• elements of a road convoy
• leader of the convoy
• vehicles equipped with machine-guns