Relationship with the principal.

Came across this article on the internet. It highlights the importance of creating a good working relationship with the principal. It also shows how easily this is ruined, and once this has happened your career could potentially be ruined.

The close protection field is a small, enclosed circuit. What comes around, goes around.
The moment you violates a client relationship, whether it will be by talking to the press or writing a book, e.tc. is the moment you can put your SIA badge and all your qualifications up on the shelf, cause quite frankly, you are burnt bread..

We all remember Beckhams BG, who got so carried away that he rocked up at VIP clubs, telling people that he is David Beckham...

From the Daily telegraph:

Sir - I retired from the Metropolitan Police in November 2001 and for the last 22 years of my police service I worked closely with the Royal Family and the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace. Between 1982 and 1999, I held the privileged position of being the personal protection officer to the Duke of York.Over the past two weeks I have watched the ruthless marketing of Ken Wharfe's book on Diana, Princess of Wales with disgust. I don't feel it is appropriate for me to comment on the effect this may be having on Prince William, Prince Harry or anyone else, but I have a view from a protection perspective.As a retired police inspector (the same rank that Mr Wharfe held), I am well qualified to comment on what he has done. Without going into the mechanics of protection, one of the most important objectives for a personal protection officer is building a professional working relationship with the principal. The closeness of the role requires a trust and confidence similar to that between "partners".Effective personal protection can only work by consent and co-operation; therefore, the chemistry between a protection officer and the principal is of paramount importance.Mr Wharfe has harmed the potential relationship between a protection officer and principal more than anyone can imagine. Private matters should remain private; confidences should not be betrayed and protection secrets must remain secret.This episode casts a cloud over one of the most professional protection departments in the world. I am sure that all Royalty Protection Officers - serving and retired - would also be saddened by Mr Wharfe's actions.Mr Wharfe's time as a protection officer is over, and reflecting on his decision to write this book, this is undoubtedly a very good thing. His motivation to "kiss and tell" was, most likely, to make a lot of money.My message to him is simple: if, as he has said in recent interviews, his real motivation to write this book was to "tell the truth about Diana", then he should prove it by pledging to give all profits from the book's sale to charity. This would go some way towards redeeming him.
From: Geoffrey Padgham, Bromley, Kent