Protection Response Tactics®

Defensive Tactics For Protection Professionals

Prepare professionals to protect people, manage force, and make defensible decisions under pressure. Choose instructor certification or bring Protection Response Tactics to your team.

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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.

Before Contact

Use awareness, positioning, communication, and environmental control to prevent unnecessary physical engagement.

During Contact

Protect the client, create movement, control the immediate problem, and keep evacuation available.

After Contact

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

Choose the training path that fits your mission.

Professional Outcomes

What PRT Develops

PRT prepares protection professionals to make better decisions, use defensible responses, and operate effectively in the environments where protection work actually happens.

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Better Decisions Under Pressure

Read changing conditions, select an appropriate response, and preserve the protection mission when time and options narrow.

02

Proportional And Defensible Responses

Use communication, movement, control, and force in ways that are appropriate to the threat, environment, client, and mission.

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Training Built For Protection Environments

Prepare for vehicles, confined spaces, bystanders, equipment, team movement, and the realities of protecting another person.

Alan Baker, founder of Protection Response Tactics

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.

Your information is used only to deliver PRT updates and professional education.

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.

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Protection Response Tactics®

Begin The PRT Orientation

A professional introduction to protection-based defensive tactics.

Protection Response Tactics® is not recycled martial arts, law enforcement defensive tactics, or military combatives. It was built from the ground up for the realities of protection work.

Join the PRT Orientation Email Journey and begin learning the mindset, design standards, force continuum, and instructor development philosophy behind the system.

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