Threat Investigation Services
Investigate an individual's potential for violence and prevent an attack – well before a law is broken and the justice and law enforcement system has the legal standing to take action.
Critical clues and crucial opportunities for intervention can often be detected early in an individual's path toward violence. Yet uncovering this information and developing mitigating strategies require domains of expertise that criminal investigators and traditional law enforcement personnel are not trained to understand or authorized to apply.
Hillard Heintze's acclaimed threat investigators and specialists conduct overt and covert investigations of individuals who may represent a threat to others. The team helps prevent acts of violence using the same 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.
Threat Investigation — Comprehensive investigation of a subject’s life, including both current and past events, to determine if subject poses a current threat. Led by a primary investigator, this highly collaborative effort includes input from law enforcement, mental health and social services, and family, friends, neighbors and coworkers, as applicable.
Mental Health Evaluation — Analysis by a clinical psychologist with decades of experience in support of the U.S. Secret Service and other federal agencies. Contributes vital pieces of the puzzle in determining dangerousness when aligned with facts uncovered in the investigation.
Development of Countermeasures and Mitigation Strategies — Guidance on options to contain a threat, reduce risk and protect individuals in harm's way. Detailed recommendations on various tactics, control measures and security policies and procedures, as well as timing considerations and thresholds for key actions, dependencies and likely results.
Case Management — Execution of approved strategies, including ongoing monitoring of the subject, cultivation of a "circle of observation" around him or her, coordination with critical federal, state and private advisers on the team, and timely communications and reporting.
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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