Category: Security
Armada Global Unveils a Mobile Unmanned Surveillance Platform for Private Investigators
Armada Global, Inc., a Central Pennsylvania-based high-tech surveillance and security firm, has developed a tool that is changing the way companies conduct their investigations. Owned and operated by former operations officers for CIA’s National Clandestine Service, Armada Global insisted on a more covert approach to their surveillance, breaking the mold of using the stereotypical dark [...]
Americans Strongly Urged to Carry their Firearms in the Days Surrounding September 11
All Americans are strongly urged to carry their firearms in the days surrounding September 11, 2011 in defense of their country and its citizens. This Sunday marks the ten-year anniversary of the tragic events that we now simply refer to as 9-11 in the United States. Ten years ago, on September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists [...]
Protecting Celebrities – Understanding the Anti-Paparazzi Law in California
Assembly Bill 2479 made changes to California Civil Code Section 1708.8, which embodies California’s “anti-paparazzi” legislation. These changes included a criminal law that prohibits the act to interfere with the driver of a vehicle, to willfully follow another vehicle too closely, or commit reckless driving in pursuit of “any visual image, sound recording or other [...]
Security & Risk Analysis Terms and Definitions
Anti-terrorism: Defensive measures used to reduce the vulnerability of individuals and property to terrorist acts, to include limited response and containment by local forces. Anti-terrorism Awareness: Fundamental knowledge of the terrorist threat and measures to reduce personal vulnerability to terrorism. See also anti-terrorism. Asset: Any potential target of terrorist attack, most commonly people, equipment, a [...]
The Psychology of Kidnapping and Abduction
I was startled to read that in 2010 the United States was ranked sixth in the world for “kidnapping-for-ransom” crimes according to the available statistics (after Columbia, Italy, Lebanon, Peru, and the Philippines). In June 2010, Senator John McCain stated that Phoenix, Arizona was the “Kidnapping Capital of America.” With 370 cases in 2010, Phoenix [...]
Evidencing Professional Expertise – A Model Approach for Enhanced Employment Resiliency
Amongst the many difficult adjustments experienced by security professionals during this country’s most recent economic downturn, few if any have proven more challenging than the loss of job security or worse yet, actual unemployment. For those who survived this crucible of uncertainty, the pathways to sustained employment were often facilitated by the degree to which [...]
Homeland Security Announces New National Terrorism Advisory System
Office of Public Affairs U.S. Department of Homeland Security Public Affairs Guidance April 20, 2011 BACKGROUND For federal, state, local, tribal, territorial and private sector communicators: On April 20, 2011 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will announce the implementation of the National Terrorism Advisory System or NTAS. This DHS Public Affairs Guidance (PAG) provides [...]
Background Investigation or “Reputational Due Diligence Model?”
An article in the last edition of a popular print-based magazine for private investigators called, “Evolving Background Checks into a Reputational Due Diligence Model,” while severely over-titled, is a fairly comprehensive outline of how to start a standard background investigation. The very idea of trying to market something called a Reputational Due Diligence Model to [...]
