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The Protective Advance
Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky
once, you will have to be lucky always.
Irish Republican Army
Whenever possible, before every protective operation, be it for the street-
level prostitute providing information on a local drug dealer, a judge over-
seeing an organized crime trial, even the president of the United States,
an advance site survey of the starting and ending locations along with
primary and secondary routes must be performed. In order for the sur-
vey to be conducted correctly, there are some critical items of intelligence
information that need to be obtained beforehand. This includes who the
principal will be, what the nature of the threat is (if known), the duration
of the operation, ...