Tag: safety
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Body Armor and Protective Clothing
Body armor is an item or piece of clothing that is designed to protect the wearer against a variety of attacks. They can be made to stop different types of threats, such as bullets, knives and needles, or a combination of different attacks. There are two types of body armor – soft body armor, which [...]
PPSS Body Armour’s CEO Gets Shot Testing New Body Armor
“In the world of executive protection it is of great importance to see how quickly you could become fully operational again after being shot from close range”, Robert Kaiser says after personally being shot, testing their new covert bullet proof vests. A high definition video has now been made available on YouTube, highlighting the CEO [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Visual Screening for Concealed Handguns, Firearms and Weapons
Bail enforcement agents often face dangerous situations in the performance of their work; there is no doubt that the greatest risk comes from concealed weapons and firearms in the possession of those who would do us harm. The reality of our work is that there are evil people out there who will kill us if [...]
Deterring Unfriendly Dogs While on Assignment
We all know that encountering dogs can be a problem while working in the field; I’ve had many unfriendly canine confrontations while working bail enforcement and private investigation assignments and while process serving. In many rural areas, you just cannot avoid dogs on the loose altogether. Stephanie Mitchell wrote an excellent article about preventing and [...]
Is Process Serving Dangerous?
Stephanie Mitchell wrote two very important articles on Process Server Safety and dealing with and preventing dogs bites while serving process but the basic question still remains, “Is process serving dangerous?” Unfortunately, there have been several recent instances where process servers have been attacked and / or killed while serving court documents. While it is extremely rare, [...]
Internet & Cyber Crime Terms and Definitions
Address Munging: the practice of disguising, or munging, an e-mail address to prevent it being automatically collected and used as a target for people and organizations who send unsolicited bulk e-mail address. Adware: or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is [...]
