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Assassination of public leaders has occurred, and been written about since Biblical days. Political murder, assassination and other targeted violence is a never ending threat in every country.

Still, there is almost no literature written from a law enforcement perspective.

To make things worse, these planned, targeted attacks are not confined to those involving prominent public officials and celebrities.

Tragically, such attacks are a frequent feature of interpersonal violence in our country today.

Cases involving stalking, domestic violence, workplace violence, and bias-motivated criminal activity involve planned— often violent—attacks on intentionally selected targets.

For example, how do attackers select their targets?

What are their motives?

How do they plan their attacks?

How do these persons assess the security barriers that face them?

What communications, if any, do they make before their attacks?

To what extent do symptoms of mental illness affect their actions?

From 1949 to 1996, 74 attacks and near-lethal approaches occurred. Six attacks were carried out by 16 individuals who were members of groups. Sixty-eight of the attacks and near-lethal approaches were carried out by 67 individuals acting alone.

This course helps law enforcement and security professionals throughout the United States reevaluate their methods of investigating assassinations and kidnappings, formulating protective strategies, and gathering protective intelligence.

Ideas of assassination develop over weeks, months, even years, and are stimulated by television and newspaper images, movies, and books

From our webpage:

Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment Training:

A training course for individuals in law enforcement and criminal justice communities.

Course Objectives:

• Explain Vital Information About Assassins and Assassination Behaviors
• Identify the Components of an effective protective intelligence system
• Describe the specifics of specialized threat assessment investigations

 

This is a 6-week online course which consists of the following Modules:

 

Module 1:  What is Threat Assessment?  How to recognize a threat.  Case studies and assignments in recognizing threats. Targets of Modern American Assassins, Attackers and Near Lethal Approachers.

Module 2:  Assassins and Assassination Behaviors.  Myths vs. Facts regarding assassinations.  Key Observations in Cases.  Possible Reactions by the potential attacker.  Past Events.  Motive and Attacker. Case Studies and Exercises.

Module 3:  Elements of a Threat Assessment Program. Define the Problem.  Conceptualize the program.  Establish Objectives.  Physical Protection.  Protective Intelligence.  How to complete an Assessment.  Strategies and Tools.  Case Management.  Corroboration.  Building a database and sharing information.

Module 4:  Conducting a Threat Assessment Investigation.  Opening a Case.  Inappropriate or Unusual Interest in a Protected Person.  Why people make threats.  Elements of Investigating a case.  Purposes of an Interview.  Interviewing the Mentally Ill.  Protective Intelligence Investigations vs. Police Investigations.  5 Areas of Inquiry. Target Selection.

Module 5:  Evaluating a Threat Assessment Case.  Targeted Violence.  Principles of a Protective Intelligence Evaluation.  Elements of an Assassination.  Questions to ask in a threat assessment.  Case Study.

Module 6:  Managing a Protective Intelligence Case.  Managing, Controlling and Re-directing the subject.  Ending Monitoring.

Certification

 

Once you complete the 6 Modules of the online course, you will be given an online quiz to take.  Once you pass the quiz, then you will be given a certificate of completion.