We offer a half-day training seminar designed specifically for members of a corporate Crisis Management Team (CMT). Guidance is provided as to the appropriate composition of the CMT and the management of key elements of a successful hostage recovery or extortion response. Among topics discussed are the handling of the notification of a kidnapping or extortion, relations with the victim’s family, liaison with law enforcement agencies, dealing with media, strategizing the negotiation, and organizing the ransom delivery and hostage recovery. The training also includes a simulated kidnap case that participants are tasked with resolving. This seminar is critical to ensure corporate procedures are effective and that the CMT is prepared to respond to emergencies in conjunction with our experts.
International Travel Security Awareness Training:
It is neither possible nor necessary to provide protective details for the vast majority of executives who travel or reside overseas, so we place a major emphasis upon personal security awareness training. This half-day seminar surveys terrorist/criminal methodologies and explains "gray" — anonymous — travel, airline selection strategies, airport safety guidelines, ground transportation alternatives, hotel security tips, tactics for avoiding street crime, means of protecting sensitive information and other countermeasures. The seminar is typically a half-day program but its length, as well as the countries and associated risks covered in the training, can be tailored to specific corporate requirements.
Personal Security/Kidnap Prevention Training:
This half-day classroom seminar trains expatriates and local nationals who live and work in high-risk environments to take personal responsibility for their security. It prepares them to bolster arrangements at their residences and workplaces to move safely between them. It addresses behavior-modification techniques, means of detecting hostile surveillances and effective emergency response. The seminar is tailored to the specific environments in which participants operate. Training can be conducted in English or the local language.
Hands-On Assault Survival Training:
This half-day program is presented in conjunction with International Travel Security Awareness or Personal Security/Kidnap Prevention training and adds an important element of live-action training in assault response. It features a combination of classroom instruction and “hands-on” training scenarios designed to expose trainees to techniques for increasing their chances of surviving assaults, including express kidnappings, carjackings, ATM muggings, armed robberies and restaurant- and home-invasions. Practical tips are provided for the use of verbal and body-language responses to mitigate the potential for violence. Again, training can be conducted in English or the local language.
Workplace Violence/Active Shooter Training:
The seminar includes a review of a standard WPV Management Plan (a draft of which is provided prior to the seminar) and consists of two training modules. The first is a three-hour seminar for members of management and the organization’s WPV Prevention Team. The second is a one-hour block of training to be provided to an “all hands” audience. The content of these seminars consists of WPV prevention, employee awareness, shared responsibility for preventing WPV, reportable behavior, reporting and reporting mechanisms, the WPV Prevention Team and threat recognition, stalking, persons of concern and a review of WPV/active shooter incidents. WPV training should be held for all employees at least once a year or as part of orientation training for new employees.
Protective Driving Training:
Executives and/or their drivers are briefed on the conceptual basis of security-driving methodology and instructed in techniques. We also conduct "hands-on" driving exercises both domestically and overseas.
