security detail

Personal protection team

A security detail is a group of personnel assigned to protect a specific person, place, or asset.

The term emphasizes the organized, tactical nature of the protection: The president's security detail swept the building before his arrival.

Detail here means a unit assigned to a particular duty, as in military usage.

personnel

bodyguard

Paid personal security agent

entourage · plainclothes · earpiece · motorcade · close protection · point man · spotter · driver · decoy · handler

tactics

surveillance

Systematic observation of subjects

route planning · threat assessment · lockdown · cordon · checkpoint · extraction · evacuation · counter-surveillance · vetting · screening

equipment

bulletproof

Resistant to gunfire

radio · sunglasses · SUV · armored vehicle · metal detector · weapon · holster · tactical vest · communication device · scanner

Categories
Opposites
protection vs. threat

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Assassination team

death squad · kill team · assassins · kidnappers · enemy combatants

protection vs. vulnerability

security detailvulnerability

Openness to harm

defenselessness · exposure · abandonment

group vs. individual protection

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Family

detail, security, detailed, insecure, secured, insecurity, securing, detailing, securely

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G