Behavioral Threat Assessment Services
Identify individuals who have the interest, motive, intention and capability for violence.
Then quickly assess and manage the threat through a coordinated set of preventive actions.
When an individual threatens to hurt someone or harm an organization, a complex array of challenges – and a surprisingly wide range of prevention-oriented options – quickly emerge.
Which steps should be taken first? What are the most critical issues? How can violence be prevented in the workplace or at school – and the risks properly managed and contained?
Hillard Heintze's nationally recognized threat assessment experts help clients assess an individual's dangerousness and prevent incidents of violence. This analysis and counsel is based on the protocols established by the
U.S. Secret Service to protect the U.S. President
and other national and international leaders.
Scope of Services
Automated Real-Time, Open-Source Threat Detection and Analysis — Continuous use of the most advanced real-time, open-source data search and mining enterprise technology to find, select, acquire and analyze actionable security intelligence on direct or indirect threats to leaders, employees, assets, operations or reputation.
Assessment of a Specific Threat — Highly technical, methodology-driven pre-attack pathway analysis to identify behaviors and characteristics likely to foreshadow an act of targeted violence. Includes background examination; interviews with family and key contacts; review and analysis, if relevant, by clinical psychologist; liaison and facilitation with law enforcement and protective intelligence authorities; and counter-threat recommendations and assistance.
Monitoring and Surveillance — Ongoing monitoring of the subject's activities, communications and behaviors directly through surveillance or indirectly through liaison with all parties likely to hold information about the individual.
Threat Assessment Program Development — Guidance, support and training in creating in-house, multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment teams composed of representatives from management, HR, legal and security as well as external specialists in law enforcement, mental health and targeted violence prevention.
Expert Testimony and Litigation Support — Direct and indirect support to counsel on civil and criminal matters related to threat-related incidents, including investigative services and expert testimony in court.
Primer on Assessing the Potential for Violence
Preventing workplace violence requires action on many different fronts. One of the most critical – and least understood – is behavioral threat assessment.
Applying Experience and Best Practices in Managing a Stalker Incident
When someone began stalking one of the company’s receptionists, local law enforcement was called. But after a flurry of initial reports and filings, progress petered out. How did this company help protect this employee?
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Assessing a Former Employee's Potential for Violence
Stalking is one issue. Inappropriate behavior or mental illness - while sometimes though not always related - are others. What's the difference? And how should an employer be prepared to change tactics quickly if rapidly changing circumstances threaten the safety of an individual?
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Investigating an Anonymous Tip that a Company Employee Had Just Posted a Threat of Violence to the Company on Facebook
It's a new world. And employees are finding new freedom in the explosion of social media channels and outlets for personal expression. But what if that new platform suddenly revealed a threat to kill your company's executives?
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