PROTECTING A PRINCIPAL
Jim (in red), playing the role of a principal, is being protected by a law enforcement officer on a live-fire range.
SERGEANT JIM WAGNER
Jim was the Team Leader of the Orange County Sheriff's Department on the Dignitary Protection Unit (DPU) from 2000 to 2002.
FROM AIRPLANE TO MEETING
Jim, and his team, protecting a principal coming off of a private jet, which requires knowing the aviation enviornment and Executive Protection.
EVACUATION UNDER FIRE
This photo was taken during a Black Belt Magazine photo shoot for a book that Jim wrote titled Protecting Others.
EVACUATING THE AMBASSADOR
In Caorle, Italy Jim teaches Italian law enforcement and military personnel how to evacuate a dignitary from a hostile country (a realistic scenario).
MILITARY BODYGUARD
Sergeant First Class Wagner teaching his soldiers a technique called Shielding at Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos California.
CELEBRITY PROTECTION
Not only has Jim trained many bodyguards in several countries, but he has been a bodyguard on countless Executive Protection details.
MOTHER SHIELDING HER CHILD
Jim's Dutch student learns the Shielding technique as an unarmed hostile aggressively approaches her and her child. There are several more techniques for this.