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It has been more than 20 years since the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen. The roadside bomb that killed Herrhausen changed the way protection was looked at. In the late 80’s surveillance detection had become part of the protection plan but it was not given the attention that was needed. It was unorganized, and most of the time the surveillance detection team had no idea what it was they were trying to detect. At that time most training was reactive in nature, basically protection teams were trained to ram or shoot their way out of a problem. This attack and another roadside bomb that occurred in Bogota made surveillance detection a top priority with companies working in high risk area. But, as time moved on, it seems we have gone back to the reactive approach to training. This is an article that appeared in Wired Magazine a few years back. The author highlights an article I wrote for Security Management Magazine in 1990, a year after the incident took place.