Gloria is a Close Personal Protection Operative specialising in personal protection as well as risk consultancy to help create secure, compliant and resilient organisations working across disciplines, technologies and geographies. This ‘control risk’ provides the client with the insight to focus resources and resolve issues and crisis that occur within organisations, projects or delivering live events.
Gloria Garcia was born and brought up in Cicero Illinois. She became a Cook County Chicago Police Officer where she was posted to Cook County Prison in the RTU Men’s division. Gloria was asked within her first year of being an officer to train the incoming potential candidates through their physicals at the Police Academy, an honour that is bestowed on a very select few.
It was during this time she also began to Bodyguard clients from Chicago, Mexico City, New York, L.A., London and Paris. With 20 plus years of experience she is now one of the most privately hired individuals in her genre. Known in her circle as ‘The Blackbird’ her success is underpinned by her ability to profile individuals in order to communicate more effectively and develop trust in high pressured environments. Having countless hours in surveillance and counter surveillance she is also hired by individuals and companies for intensive research and wherewithal in order to gather information to gain knowledge.
Gloria is fully SIA Licensed and combative trained. She is an honorary member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars in America due to her contribution to society as a Female Bodyguard and Businesswoman .