A Quick Guide to Proper Event Contingency Planning

A Quick Guide to Proper Event Contingency Planning

From conferences to festivals to parades and major sporting events, large gatherings can be challenging to plan and manage. From the perspective of compliance, safety and security professionals; proper planning and handling is crucial to preventing potential...
To Act or Not to Act: The Status of Incident De-Escalation in 2019

To Act or Not to Act: The Status of Incident De-Escalation in 2019

De-escalation has become a somewhat controversial term in a law-related context; it makes up a body of techniques which have fallen under scrutiny as the discipline of public safety, as a whole, has become “inundated with public criticism, political posturing, and...
SRO’s and School Security

SRO’s and School Security

Amidst the myriad of mass shootings and violent attacks taking place every month, an increasing amount of districts are turning to armed school security and or police school resource officers (SRO’s) as an additional layer of protection. These officers are not...
Pre-Trauma Training Approaches for First Responders

Pre-Trauma Training Approaches for First Responders

Though they receive proper training and are generally expected to be composed, focused, and situationally aware in moments of crisis, first responders remain susceptible to consistent — and sometimes elevated — psychological trauma. Much of this effect is discussed in...