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REGISTRATION
(why we need to register partners and members)
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR PARTNERS AND MEMBERS

After many serious thoughts, we'd decided instead to write some nice words about this issue, to publish a part of the lecture of our President about the topic of Registration.
Also, by reading all lecture bellow, you will understand completely the mentality of our networks and Group.
There is always the chance for new serious people to enter in our network.
There is always possibility any of the members of our network to go out.
But there is no chance at all, to those they entered and left (or kicked out), to come again in.

Again, please keep in mind that the document below is an exact copy of Chief's speech:

Dr. Nick (*) Bas Santer (Ph.D.)
President of the Group
Chief of WBA

(*) As all of you know very well, the "Bas Santer" is Chief's nickname for identity protection reasons.
His first name and his academic title are both real.

First of all, I would like kindly to ask your attention to all I'm about to mention.
Don't take anything personally, because it's not for the 99% of you.
I will deal more with the 1% of those they are between us, with the identity of a client, of a member, or a partner, of a director or of a promoter. I will deal with a few bad people who probably are already between us, or who will try to enter.
We are a big society. And every society, unfortunately, includes also bad people. Fortunately, in our Group the amount of these bad people is way smaller than in other societies, maybe because around me are many good people, who are giving their best this Group to be and remain in the top.

All of you know very well that my main vision is to take out of the security industry people who don't belong in it. To be in this industry and to break laws (financial crimes, fraud, labor laws, etc.), is like a corrupted police officer.
We are dealing with people's lives and properties. People trusting our badge, our uniforms, and our jobs. How is possible for us to have people with the target to profit funds or fame that it doesn't belong to them?

Do you want some real-life examples from my personal experience?

SECURITY COMPANIES LEAD BY FRAUDSTERS
You do know at least one case of security company owners who are common thieves. They steal taxes, they steal social security's money by not registering all or a part of the work of their employees, and the same time they steal part of salaries of their employees by making "special deals" with them to take less than what the law commands.
Also, they are stealing their clients, by issuing twice a month an invoice, attempting like this to get paid twice for the same month's services (and if the accounting department of their client works well and they find it, then they blame their accounting dept. for a "human-made" mistake. Security Companies like these aren't few, but still are the exception to the rule (Thank God).

BODYGUARDS-CRIMINALS
You also know that exist some "bodyguards" who when they understand that their client is ready to fire them (because they aren't professionals and their client found out that they are useless and dangerous as they have contacts with convicted criminals), these "bodyguards" organising "attacks" against usually their client's property (i.e. they ask from someone to put fire to their client's car, or even someone passes out of the client's house at night and start shooting), in order to make their client to be scared and keep these bodyguards for more (and usually then, these "bodyguards" asking for more money, because "after the attack their job is more dangerous than before").

CLIENTS-CRIMINALS
But also exist "clients" who are common criminals. We have "clients" who used the services of good security companies, in order to create a "nice vitrine". To create a fake image of a properly operating company, and with the help of corrupted employees of a Bank, they take a very big amount money as a loan, or they find a real investor (usually from abroad) and soonest the investor pays the money, then these "clients" they dissapear, leaving behind everything and everyone unpaid (their recently hired employees, suppliers of furniture, computers, lights, carpets, cars, etc. and also company's building owners, and of course also the security company.

SALESMEN-CRIMINALS
Also, we have "intermediates" between the "clients" and the security company, type:

"I'm the person who will decide which security company will take the project of the total protection of some very rich people, of their families and their businesses. My assistants already checked your company and we found that it is a very good company, so we don't need to take offers from more companies, as the price reduction it's not the issue in this project".

And then, when the first part is accepted by their victim, they proceed to the second part of their plan:

"But, because I'm not an employee of the client, I'm a business partner of him and I'm also a businessman, I want from you a commission for this project".

Then you think "ok, in some countries they work like that. I will add the amount of the commission in the cost calculations and nobody will get hurt, especially when my intention is to not have a very big profit and stay in the price-range of the market. Instead to give a commission to my sales guys, I will give it to him".

Then it comes with the: "because I don't sign contracts and risk the client to find out that I took a commission and then I will lose these so valuable clients to me, I need my commission in advance".

And when you deny, he says: "ok. then in order to see that you have the financial ability to provide me the commission, you can bring in an appointment -with one of my guys- the amount of my commission, my guy will see it and be sure that you have the money and then he will go without to take it".

Then you realise that you are dealing with criminals that probably believe that they are smarter than you and not with any real project, and if you are so naive to do that, they will kill you and take the money and go (by the way, the amount of the requested commission it was some hundreds of thousands of Euro).

And then you think: "Should I call the police now to arrest them? Yes. I must. BUT, do I know who is behind this? Common criminals, or terrorists? Should I open a war with an unknown enemy?" And what it will be my suggestion as a forensic expert if someone else asks my opinion for this case?: "No. Just go away and pray these criminals do not use the data you provided them to their official request for the project, in order to scam other under your name".

CONCLUSION SO FAR
All above of course are not the rule, but the exceptions to the rule.
But even in this case and in order to eliminate future similar problems, we had to find a solution.

I'm sure you do know about the registrations we do. This is any way noted even to our badge ("Registered Executive Bodyguard").

Now we extend the registrations we did so far to WBA & ISA Members, to all implicated parties.
We initiated this program in order all of us (and mostly the final users of our services: the clients) to be protected from actions of bad people, no matter if these bad people are CPOs, Instructors, Agents, Promoters, Partners and also to protect our CPOs and their companies from the bad Clients.

So, no matter if someone is a member, a partner or a client, we will check him/her and this needs money that the applicant must pay.
By the way, a full background check costs much more than the registration costs we ask, so keep in mind that we are paying the rest. Also the payment of the registration fees by itself, it is a part of the background check we do. Always someone can make a Bank account by using a stolen ID, that's why the payment it is only a part of the check we do.

If now you are one of our partners (i.e. a Promoter) and you want to undertake the complete responsibility for someone (in example a student and/or a new member), there is no problem with us, but you must sign a contract and guess what? With this contract you will undertake solely the responsibility (legal and financial responsibility), if "in one in a million" the member, the partner or the client you suggested, suddenly turned to be a "bad person" (if for example, the client doesn't pay, you will pay. If the CPO is a convicted criminal and destroy our reputation, you will pay all the cost to recover our name, etc.).

As you must never accept to sign a contract that gives to you the complete responsibility of actions of other people, we also aren't able to sign contracts with unknown people and keep in mind that even a regular membership for us, it is a serious contract.
Someone he/she will go out calling himself/herself a WBA Member and if this someone is arrested because he is a convicted criminal and this goes to the news of the TV, guess who I will take to the court. Not the criminal of course, but the person who took the responsibility of the criminal, instead to enforce the new student, or the new member, or the new client, etc., to make first a registration.

To be the best it is very nice and very productive.
You know well what WBA is, but WBA doesn't know who you are unless you are Registered officially.

Do you think this is bad? Is it bad to show that we don't trust someone unknown to us?
We trust only our family members because we know them very well and because we can trace their past.

The registration is the only way for someone to be a part of our family and is a "take it or leave it" procedure.

To make it more clear:

We are serious people and we must learn from our mistakes. This is actually what we do, as is very bad to make the same mistake twice. This for serious people it is unacceptable.
All rules and regulations of our Group, are made in order to eliminate possibilities bad people to use us, or to give the chance to good people in the way to make bad decisions that they will lead them even to prison (for example, to hide funds that belongs to our Group, as it happened with an Agent of WBA in Malesia, few years ago. He stopped to scamming people when one of them called us and complained about he didn't receive his badge and then we called the Police HQ of his country. He was keeping the money members paid to him for a membership and after our report to the police he lost his security license and his company bankrupted). We didn't take him to court, because our satisfaction came by the bankruptcy of his security company.

Now allow me to present you some more problems we faced in these 20 years from our foundation:

So far -except fake clients-, we faced:

1. WBA Members "of a day" as I call them. The reason I call them like that is they became members only to get our reputable badge and when they managed to get it, they disappeared.

Sirs and ladies: We don't sell badges. Do you want to get a badge in order to pretend the professional bodyguard? Go to eBay, to Amazon or to Alibaba and buy a fake one with few dollars. Is better to carry a fake one, than to hold a badge which is a property of WBA. Then you will face double charges: 1. Because you mislead the public, as your badge is recalled and you kept it illegally, and 2. Because you acted as a common criminal, by stealing something which is not your property (as clearly announced and is engraved also in our badge, that in membership cancellation you must return it ASAP because remains always WBA's property).

They thought that we will not go to their homes to take it back, and even if they know that the only obligation they have in order to keep WBA's property (as is the WBA Badge and ID), it is only to be active members, simply by paying their membership fees without us to call them or email them to do so.
Why all our members must pay an expensive membership department with tens of secretaries to remind to CPOs the only obligation they have in WBA or in ISA?
We did that in the past, but the membership fees were almost the double.
Is a shame for a real CPO to say "I forgot to pay".
If you forget your basic obligations, then it means that you aren't a CPO, so send our property back my friend and stay away.

Until few year ago, we were accepting all skilled professionals as WBA members, giving like this an opportunity to serious CPOs to grow their skills and their reputation.

Today we know who are real professionals and who must be avoided, because we accept new members only our students, or after a serious exam. This left out countless new members, but we aren't targeting quantity, but only quality. I'm sure, that if we keep quality at a very high level, sooner or later we will have also a big quantity of a very good quality.

Those they kept illegally our property, they know very well that to keep something that it's not yours without the agreement of the owner, it is a crime and poor excuses type "I lost it", or "I forgot to pay my membership" are not working in the court!
And for those they believe that we will not make a court case for 80€, I have bad news:
We are willing to make one court case for all those they did that, and we will ask all unpaid membership fees, plus our property back, plus the court expenses. We will see, who will laugh at the end.

And I said to myself: "Something we did wrong! We accepted people who willingly canceled their membership by not paying its fees of less than 7 € a month, in order to keep our badge and prove to their clients that they are top professionals?"
We need to kick ASAP out all those fake CPOs and keep and support all those they respect the rules of the only brand that is made for their professional progress.

None of these gents (plus one "lady" that I kicked personally within days after the initiation of her membership) call me ever, to ask me to not pay (for example because he doesn't have even to eat -and this also bad because it proves that their professional status needs help urgently-), because in such a case PERSONALLY I will do my best to find them a job, removing the payment obligation for our membership fees until they recover.
Do you understand now why we will not provide again our badge and ID to "unknown" people? (and in order to know well someone we need a valid membership for minimum 3 years before we provide our ID & our Badge).

WBA it is a place only for serious professionals. For those who don't wait for WBA to call them to remind them to pay their membership. Serious people they know: Between December 1st and January 31st, every year, they need to pay their membership and they do so.
If we need to hire someone to call our members and they enforcing us to do so, THEY will pay the salary of this person/people (you do remember that the membership fees was more than 100€ (120CHF) plus 100€ for the registration fees a year ago). Now, in the payment of the registration fees, it is included for free the current year of membership. ATTENTION: All members from now and after they must pay for the YEAR. Not for 12 calendar months. The first membership is free, so no matter if someone is registered January or November, as the first membership is free. Registrations from 1st of December are considered as the next year (valid until the end of the next year).

Anyway. Let them keep a piece of metal to remind them not what they got, but what they lost. They kept a badge of WBA and they lost WBA and its Group.
We will change completely our credentials and we will ban all previous badges.

2. Scammers.
People who tried to get in their hands our credentials, in order to go out and sell training courses "created according to WBA regulations". Training WBA or ISA courses without to be announced to our dedicated website for this are... fake.

Also, it is very important to clear to our Agents, Promoters and Executive Directors that, even if we give jobs to many CPOs, they must NEVER PROMISE ANYTHING THAT THEY AREN'T ABLE TO PROVIDE! If they do so in order to attract more students and trainees, there is a serious possibility for them to end up in prison (and be sure, WBA will be against them in the court).
We kicked out already a Special Agent who did that.

What you CAN promise is that we will have new clients and we will hire CPOs (our Group or the client) and maybe with a good salary, IF the specific CPOs are highly trained, well educated accordingly to their position and referenced.
But DON'T promise that we will hire any of your students or trainees (anyway, usually students and trainees, are young an inexperienced. So, how we can trust them the life of the Principal and the fame of WBA? So, it is possible for the best students with previous experience, but again, DON'T promise this, because this is an exception).

3. "Low-level competitors".
Those they came to take our partners, network, and members.
Those they came with these intentions so far, maybe they took some fame, but soonest we kicked them out, nobody remembers them and knows them anymore.

They became our members, then they convinced my people to suggest them to me to be our new Executives or Partners, they tried to steal our network and of course, they failed.

But sirs, this is stupid. WHO will go away from us and why? People don't go when a bit better financial proposal is there. They can go only because they see no future, as it will happen to them if they go from us and come to you because what our Group provides equally to all is this exactly: a better future!
What our network paying to us, is what you want to pay them. Our network makes the business here. Not us. So, you try to convince them to work for you for peanuts? Let's laugh!
It's stupid from you to believe that you can convince them by promising a bit higher income. First of all, this is impossible. Nobody can invest as our Group did for many years now. Money for me it's not the point and I'm the ruler of this family.
Nobody believes what I'm doing and this is my strongest weapon against all our low-level competitors.
"We don't make business here Sirs. We make history"!

And who are you my friend that you present yourself as the future boss of my brothers and sisters? I'm a CPO with 30 years parallel experience. Parallel, because the same time I provided scientific work, social contribution, and business. I'm not just a good CPO. Neither just a good businessman. I'm an Engineer, highly educated in security and safety sciences and I'm a System's Architect, with a serious contribution to science and much more to give still. I existed a proud team member of a scientific team that designed a high-end solution for borders protection, by protecting borders of countries from the space by using advanced technology of SAR Imagery and Ground Stations, I was a Team Member of the program of the European GPS (Galileo) and recently I accepted the honour to be the Vice President of an amazing Forensic University abroad.
So, keep in mind that I'm not the boss of anyone. I'm a visioner with followers. I'm leading this family to a better future, having an ONLY dream to make a better world. Not to make a bigger wallet. Your wallet will melt when you die and its money will be taken by others. My work will never die and people will remember that once it was a crazy bearded guy who dreamed to make all lawful forces of the planet to keep evil away.
Of course, I need also to survive in order my dream to be fulfilled and I will never accept by anyone to steal what it belongs to me. Because is unfair and because is a crime and this is what I'm fighting.

What I did in WBA and to ISA, is to create a platform for scientific research and professional work, with the main purpose to provide higher education to Executive Protection Operatives and the same time to exceed the limits of a simple training business.
I work 16hrs a day, 6 to 7 days a week and I get no salary from WBA, from ISA, from CC-VU, and from ISO-SEC.
I'm the President of Kingston and I can cover my "down-the-earth" expenses, providing like that a proper financial profit to my network to grow strong. If our Group is a cow, I'm the one who created the farm and now there is milk enough for all our network.
Others in my position they will eat all beef alone or they will sell the milk at a very high price.
It's my choice which I never regret and I can accept next to me only "farmers" like me.
Not wolves, not greedy businessmen and for sure not thieves and criminals.

I created a network of TOP executive protection professionals, from the private and the public sector and NOBODY can compare our Teams with any other.
We have also CPOs which are active Police Officers from the VIP Protection Division, active Secret Service, etc.
Many of them they're getting their retirement early and they will move to the private sector, and WBA it is already their home.

Those they want to take our network in order to have financial benefits, without to spend a dime and a not even drop of sweat, they will keep trying by promising fake dreams to our people and they will keep fail. Different scumbags every time, and even from different countries. It's a long story that many will try to repeat it again and again and always they will fail.

If at the end they manage to get one or two from us, for us it will be a great happiness and I would like to say a big THANK YOU to these scumbags, because someone like them with fake (or temporary) promises managed to take out someone, who -anyway- sooner or later I will kick. People who weren't able to see that under their nose it was pure gold, it's good to go out ASAP and I'm happy every time that this happens.
People with less brain material are more dangerous than the insane ones.
We need only smart people between us. Stupid people are dangerous.

So? What these scumbags wanted, is to use and then destroy the ones who will go with them. They want to use them, to take from them at a very low price what they took from me for free, and then they will change their cooperation rules and fees. We know their game. Like the other one who came and when he found out that he isn't able to reach out our level (and because of this we were ready to kick him out), he created a fight with the person who suggested him to me, and then he went to social websites and tried to defame us (our lawyer make him delete everything of course, simply because it was lies).
A few days later he created his "training services company" and he used also another one in his level (none of us follow him). So all these "gentlemen", they tried and of course, they failed. And the specific "boss" today he is a security guard and nobody knows how his partner surviving.

As a brother told me once: "sometimes I'm thinking that maybe we have a magnet that makes some evil and stupid people to approach us", but my answer is "what these evil people see here, is a "good business opportunity" for them, but what they don't know is that the only secret of success we have here is included in one simple word: "family". What they will be able to take is only those who aren't members of this family and those are the ones I don't want to see their face anyway".

4. Fake family members.
Sometimes, some people believe that by using their nice face, making me believe on them and they will be able to convince me to forgive them, if or when I find out that they are common thieves. What they don't know about me, is that I'm using also my nice face because I'm a positive person, until the day that things will turn very ugly. Even when I'm sleeping, I remember all these scumbags they passed from my life, in 30 years of business experience and sometimes I wake up very angry with myself, because I left some of them to get away without to pay the price of their actions. How is possible for anyone to believe that I will allow myself to do the same mistake ever ever? No sirs. If someone in the present or in the future try his "luck" with me, I will don't deal with the case at all. My lawyer will. No matter if I will lose money or fame, I will take it to the court and I will announce in public the results of the court.

They don't know probably, that as a person I give opportunities. To be kind, it doesn't mean that I'm stupid and my personal history proved that at the end "a stupid" it's not what people remember from me, as even those I let get away with their actions, I managed their actions to be known in our industry.

I say "I'm a farmer. If you sre also a farmer like me and you want to work, here is the cow. Feed it first (work for it) and "milk it" (get as reward fame and money)". Then I wait and see. What will the person do? Will he take the milk and feed all implicated parties? Or he will do his best to take the milk and a small piece of beef for home? What is beef? For example to take money which belongs to me and hide it from me (and this also a serious financial crime and I guarantee prison 100%, no matter WHO can be the person. Even if it was my own father and I believe this example cannot be more clear about my actions in such a case).

It doesn't matter if I personally worked with him that day or not. In order him to use our brand and make money, I worked a thousand times more than him, and also for him, and is well known that I have no close friends because I have no free time even today.
Sometimes the only profit our Group gets is only a good fame. Some people, they try to take away also this. They try to keep company's data like names and details of the trainees and members. Why? Maybe because they don't want us to find out that they took money for us that they never send?
But every single membership or certificate that does not exist as a copy to our offices in Switzerland, IT IS as fake copy. FAKE.
By taking beef and all the milk, he doesn't betray only my trust and friendship. He commits a serious crime and unfortunately when things come up, he will not be able to go back in time and change what he did, in order to avoid prison. And when he will understand that my friendship and mercy are completely gone and my lawyer will undertake the rest, with my order to not stop by any "nice or crying face". Those they commit crimes against me are simply my enemies and they don't belong to a lawful family. We aren't a gang here. We fight crime and criminals.

Nobody is willing to do what Group of Kingston did. It was impossible anything to survive and grow in the status it is today, without the financial support of Kingston (and who is Kingston? Me, as its main shareholder and decision maker. This is Kingston). So, when someone "hides and eats" money that belongs to Kingston, to WBA or to ISA, thieving me mainly. And this is not an act of a friend and a gentleman. No gentleman can be a common thief.
Who did this, must go to the mirror and spit his face, because I will not spend even my saliva for him.
What will I do? Nothing in person, except that I will give the issue to my lawyer, with one order only: "put him behind bars", no matter how much this can cost in time and money and in lawyer's fees and court expenses, and make a court case in Switzerland and with the verdict in hand do also one in his country.
So, anyone can try his/her luck, but sooner or later I will find it out.

TROUBLEMAKERS
Here is another type of people that we experienced. These people they try to convince me that they care about me, by pointing and exaggerating, the possible negative sides of the character or actions of others, in order them to gain my trust and probably a better position. A position that will allow them to take money from every business which is taking place in their country.
The problem for them it starts when they understand that probably I'm smarter than they thought.

At the other hand, because I'm a lawful person, if someone informs me that an unlawful action it takes place, I must research about it and collect evidences for all my research and if I find that the actions were targeting to harm others, then I must kick the person and be ready to make a court case if needed. The problem starts when the trouble-maker finds something negative in his target-person, as nobody is perfect and sometimes people making mistakes.
As the "father" of this family, I can forgive once but not forget and if something happens again, then I will turn to be the worst nightmare anyone can dream.

About the trouble-maker? From the moment I will understand the intentions of the person, the countdown procedure for the trouble-maker it starts and finishes to the first opportunity I will find, because my intention is to not harm our family, by doing it "in a day".
But for sure, the days of the person between us, are over.


NEW YEAR - NEW DAY
From 1st of January 2018, everything will change.
If I find out that there are people who took advantage of my kindness and friendship, soon will be kicked out badly (all pieces of evidence will be provided to the court and the court's decision will be announced publicly).

In order to make impossible for someone to make fake training certificates, all valid certificates of training and memberships from 1st of January 2017 and after, will be announced publicly.
Let's see how many people will call me to ask me why their membership or their training certificate it's not announced between the original ones.

Until the end of February 2018, all Country's Executives must communicate with all expired members of their region and ask them to pay their membership or to return their membership credentials (IDs & badges).
All the members who they will not do anything from both will be massively prosecuted, as we will give the issue to lawyers to make one court case for all in each country.

And guess what it will happen if some of these expired members prove in the court that he paid and the money never reached me.

NEW WAYS OF CROSS-CHECK
In order to avoid every possible misunderstanding, all Promoters within 3 days after the end of every training, they are obligated to send me a list of the following:
1. The name of each Trainee
2. The topic and the code of the training
3. The name of the instructor/s
4. The amount of money each Trainee paid exactly, and next of this number must not the 10% our Group will receive for the specific trainee, in euros.
5. The Certificate Number
6. The date the meeting started and the date it finished
7. Total hours of training
8. The grades of each trainee.
9. The total income and next of it, the total amount they must send to Switzerland.
In this way, even if a human mistake takes place, we can see that the Promoter didn't want to hide any amount because he noticed all names of the trainees.
10. We need a photo of all trainees posing together with their Instructor/s, in the graduation ceremony, holding their certificate.
If someone for any reason didn't get a certificate but attended the course, he/she must also be in the photo.
In the graduation ceremony, students and instructors must be presentable.
Keep in mind that the specific photo will be in the archive of the trainees, for the rest of their lives and we all must look the same serious as we are.
If we go for a picnic we can wear blue jeans, but not in the graduation ceremony.
Also, the pictures within the training must provide an image that it will be equal to the importance of the topic of the course.
It means that is not acceptable to make a course for micro facial expressions and the participants to be with flip-flops.
We mustn't destroy our so serious image. Our competitors wait to find something to make us look like fools and with a wrong image they will succeed and nobody will be able to say anything.

Also, the instructor must provide me a copy of the final tests of each trainee, or he/she must keep it for 12 months in his/her archive, for possible re-evaluation request by the trainee. For minimum 12 months from the final exams date, we must have the ability to prove that our grades were fair and correct.
To the final exam's grades, prohibited any correction/erasing/etc.
If you make an error, just make two crossed lines and note next to it the correct grade. We must be able to see the wrong grade the examiner wrote by mistake.

Thank you for your time to read this (just to know, it took me 12 hours to write it and check it and is for the good of all),

Keep the excellent work,

Regards,

Chief.

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