Protective Intelligence Investigations

What is Protective Intelligence ?

Protective Intelligence Investigation is a critical preventative methodology used as a PROACTIVE MEASURE against threat. Protective Intelligence takes an in-depth examination of emerging threats with the intention of preventing an attack. Protective Intelligence MONITORS subjects, groups, situations, and conditions for WARNING SIGNS of escalation and IMPENDING ATTACK.

Surveillance
Investigation
Background Checks
Intervention
Coordination With Law Enforcement

How Protective Intelligence is Employed

Protecting Diplomacy - Our Operational Protective Intelligence Experience

Operational Protective Intelligence Experience...

Our operational experience with Protective Intelligence is derived from the HIGHEST LEVEL of public sector formal protection experience. Our background experience in protecting the TOP LEVEL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE US STATE DEPARTMENT, who routinely found themselves the target of serious and credible threats.

Our real-time operational experience with Protective Intelligence Investigations looked closely at CONCERNING PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR ALONG with the individuals and groups who were demonstrating an increasing propensity for an attack on US STATE DEPARTMENT protectees. These challenges were further compounded and complicated as these protectees traveled internationally in the course of their official duties.

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Historical Founding of Protective Intelligence Investigations

The history of Protective Intelligence Investigations originates from the tragic ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY, where the WARREN COMMISSION determined that a number of active and credible threats were left unexplored.

The Warren Commission determined that investigating threats before the commission of an attack was an indispensable aspect of proper protective posture. The assassination of a sitting US President solidified, the Warren Commission’s findings that the operational premise of proper protection MUST INCLUDE FORWARD-THINKING PROACTIVE MEASURES like Protective Intelligence Investigations.

“A basic element of presidential protection is the identification and elimination of possible sources of danger to the President before the danger becomes actual”.

(Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy)

Warning Signs and Red Flags

Reacting to a credible threat that materializes into an attack should not be the only option. While there is no absolute moment when to employ Protective Intelligence, the presence of WARNING SIGNS and RED FLAG BEHAVIORS SERVE as trip lines when individuals under threat need to shift from a reactive to a proactive posture.

Attacks are routinely preceded by PRE-ATTACK INDICATORS that demonstrate an escalating mindset and determination to attack a target of threat. Any of the following warning signs arising from an individual demonstrating a propensity for attack serves as a STRONG BASIS to initiate a Protective Intelligence Investigation:

Open Threats
Stalking & Proximity Appearances
Fixation Behaviors ( Repeated Calls /Excessive Correspondence)
Pre – Attack Surveillance
Target-Related Research
Concerning Conversations
Threatening Correspondence
Manifestos
Life Shift Changes ( Divorce, Employment Termination, Bankruptcy)
Mental Decline/ Progression or Failure to Manage Mental Illness

Switching Gears Into Proactive Security Postures

Our Protective Intelligence Investigation service is an immediate change in posture from static and reactive to dynamic and proactive. Upon implementing an investigation, we move on the offensive against identified threats against a target. Employing a number of covert methodologies, we monitor an identified SUBJECT looking for clear signs and patterns of escalation and intent. We look for and document the classic trip wires that justify further aggressive intervention and coordination with law enforcement, to include:

Purchase of firearms/weapons
Stalking
Harassment
Placed Packages & Correspondence
Pre-attack surveillance
Drug and Substance Abuse
Arrests/Criminal Activity

The Dynamics of Ideological Threat

The complexities and challenges of this serious issue of escalating threat are exponentially more serious when the threat is ideological in nature. Ideological Threat poses unique characteristics that other forms of threat do not:

Multiple Attackers
Victim Transfer
Geographical Dissemination
Anonymity
Tactical Variation

As the leading experts in Ideological Threat mitigation, Operational Dynamics stands alone in the ability to adjust and provide dynamic security postures in response. Our in-depth expertise on Ideological Threat provides for critical insight into the methodologies and target selection allowing for proper and timely security posture adjustments.

Looking at Threat by Category...

Learn More About Psychological Threat

Psychologically-based threat is a threat resulting from an unsound mind or defective mental process, typically afflicted with mental disorders as outlined under the DSM-5.

Pictured here is Mark David Chapman who assassinated John Lennon on December 8, 1980. Individuals like Chapman, suffering from mental illness, often construct false narratives about an individual that are replayed and revisited in their minds, which become a running grievance and basis for violence. Threats from social media or correspondence from psychologically based threats are a source of grave concern that requires imemdiate attention.

Learn More About Criminal Threat

Criminal threat is typically defined by a motivation for monetary enrichment through illegal means. This type of threat is not typically a strong source of interpersonal or directed threat, but it can become an area of concern.

Typcially the individual or company shares a nexus to the criminal activity where the threat and hostility are lodged in the form of coercion and or retaliation.

Learn More About Greivance Based Threat

Grievance-based threat is a very serious form of interpersonal threat that makes up a robust representation of workplace violence and active shooter incidents.

Pictured here is Christopher Dorner, who went on a 2013 California killing spree in a greivance based retaliation efforts against the Los Angeles PD for his termination.

Grievance-based threats are typically incident-specific, holding a very strong nexus to hostile terminations.

Learn More About Ideological Threat

Ideological or idea-based threat is the most prolific and profound of all categories of threat. It is facilitated by motivated offenders who seek revolution over the status quo or “ideological revolutionaries”.

Ideological threat is the most dynamic of all forms of threats as its targets span a wide range to include positions, titles, brands, operations, projects, industries, events and activities.

Ideological threat is most often represented by entry-level lawful protest, which provides a robust platform for individuals who seek to escalate against their targets.