Protection Response Tactics®
Defensive Tactics For Protection Professionals
Protection specific training for professionals responsible for protecting others. Build judgment, communication, movement, control, and appropriate response around the client, environment, and mission.
Why PRT Exists
Protection Is A Different Mission
A protector is not trying to win a contest or remain in a prolonged fight. The responsibility is to reduce client risk, manage the environment, create movement, and use the lowest reasonable level of force that resolves the problem.
Use awareness, positioning, communication, and environmental control to prevent unnecessary physical engagement.
Protect the client, create movement, control the immediate problem, and keep evacuation available.
Recover awareness, account for the client and team, and explain the response with professional clarity.
Two Ways To Train
Choose Your Path In Protection Response Tactics
Instructor Development
Get Certified
For protection professionals and instructors who want a structured pathway through the PRT system and the responsibility of teaching it.
Organizational Training
Train Your Team
For agencies, corporations, and security organizations that need training built around their people, environment, equipment, and mission.
What The System Develops
Core PRT Capabilities
Technique matters, but professional protection requires the ability to read conditions, select an appropriate response, and preserve the mission under pressure.
Communication And Deescalation
Use presence, language, boundaries, and tactical communication to reduce escalation before force becomes necessary.
Protective Positioning And Movement
Organize the protector, client, team, and environment so movement supports safety and evacuation.
Soft Control And Proportional Response
Apply the lowest reasonable level of force that creates control, movement, or separation.
Environmental And Vehicle Awareness
Adapt decisions to confined spaces, vehicles, bystanders, obstacles, equipment, and changing lines of movement.
Ground Survival And Recovery
Protect the mission when balance, position, or mobility breaks down, then recover to a safer operating position.
Instructor Judgment And Integration
Teach principles, manage training risk, observe performance, and connect methods into a coherent protection response.
Instructor Development
A Progressive Three Level Pathway
Each level builds judgment, technical responsibility, and teaching capability through structured development. The work progresses from foundational protection response into integrated professional application.
Foundations And Assault Level Tactics
Establish the protection mission, professional decision standards, communication, movement, and foundational control.
Firearms Integration And Vehicle Centered Tactics
Study protective response around equipment, constrained spaces, vehicle problems, and higher consequence decisions.
Ground Survival And Advanced Integration
Integrate recovery, environmental problems, complex pressure, and advanced instructor responsibility.
Meet The Founder
Experience Shaped Around The Protector’s Mission
Alan Baker developed PRT through decades of studying, teaching, and building training systems across martial arts, defensive tactics, executive protection, and personal security.
The program grew from a practical question: what does a protection professional need when avoidance and evacuation are no longer enough?
Professional Perspectives
Why The Work Matters
Listen to experienced professionals describe the relevance of protection specific training, instructor development, and accountable decision making.
Jerry Heying
Executive Director, Executive Protection Institute
Antonio Alfonso
Sergeant Retired, New York Police Department
Nathan McKnight
Founder, ClearWater Protection
Build The Right Capability
Choose The Next Step That Fits Your Mission
Develop yourself through the instructor pathway, or bring PRT to the team responsible for protecting your people and organization.
The PRT Field Briefing
Stay Connected To The Work
Receive professional training insights, program updates, and practical considerations for protection focused development.
Questions
Start With Clarity
If your organization has a specific training need, the PRT team can help you determine the right next step.
What Is PRT?
Protection Response Tactics is a defensive tactics system built around the responsibilities of professionals who protect other people.
Who Is PRT Designed For?
PRT serves executive protection professionals, private and corporate security teams, instructors, training directors, and organizations responsible for personal safety.
Do I Need Protection Experience To Begin?
The instructor pathway supports committed professionals at different stages of development. The PRT team can help determine the most appropriate starting point.
Should I Choose Certification Or Team Training?
Choose certification when you want individual instructor development. Choose team training when your priority is building shared capability inside an agency, company, or security organization.
