Threat Assessment Training and Education
Threat assessment training and education addresses a comprehensive spectrum of topics, specifically designed for personnel responsible for identifying, investigating, assessing and managing threats. It’s essential that these key personnel be focused on better understanding the motivations and behavior of persons with the interest, capacity and willingness to mount an attack before they approach a target. The training brings processes and procedures aimed at identifying and preventing persons with the means and interest to attack someone and, when possible, reducing the likelihood that they would decide to mount an attack. The curriculum focuses on the four critical functions of threat assessment:
- Identification of persons who might pose a threat
- Investigation of persons who are identified making a threat
- Assessment of persons who are identified as a potential threat
- Case management of persons deemed a threat
While establishing a threat assessment program may, on paper, seem straightforward, developing one that truly is functionally capable requires time and practice. Since by their very nature, threat assessment teams are designed to be interdisciplinary, many of the team members may not work together on a regular basis. For this reason, conducting a thorough orientation and training program is very important. Hillard Heintze’s training programs:
- Develop skills in the areas of identifying, investigating, assessing and managing threats
- Enhance and fine-tune participants' organizational strategies to managing threats and begin to pinpoint and problem-solve possible obstacles to successfully dealing with threats
- Explore "real-world" actions in applying the learning to developing a systems approach to dealing with threats
The final design of our behavioral threat assessment training is ultimately tailored and designed around your selected attendees – particularly with respect to factors such as the evolution of your threat assessment process, the degree of your understanding and comfort with the process, the current state of your policies and procedures and the degree of experience and training that your threat assessment team members may or may not already have.
