A bodyguard is a type of security guard, government law enforcement officer, or servicemember who protects a person or a group of people — usually witnesses, high-ranking public officials or officers, wealthy people, and celebrities — from danger: generally theft, assault, kidnapping, assassination, harassment, loss of confidential information, threats, or other criminal offences. The personnel team that protects a VIP is often referred to as the VIP's security detail.
Bodyguards with President Ronald Reagan moments before he was shot in March 1981
U.S. Secret Service agents guarding U.S. President Barack Obama
Walter B. Slocombe, the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy with his bodyguard in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996. The bodyguard is armed with an M-16, a 5.56 mm, magazine-fed, select-fire rifle.
A team of bodyguards protecting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff during her inaugural ceremony.
A security guard is a person employed by a government or private party to protect the employing party's assets from a variety of hazards by enforcing preventative measures. Security guards do this by maintaining a high-visibility presence to deter illegal and inappropriate actions, looking for signs of crime or other hazards, taking action to minimize damage, and reporting any incidents to their clients and emergency services, as appropriate.
A United Nations security guard at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland during COP26
Bodyguard protects Members of Parliament during public visits by visitors in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2015.
Private guard escort on a merchant ship providing security services against pirates.
Mall parking lot security guards (Satpam) in Jakarta, Indonesia
