Threat Assessment Teams
A Threat Assessment Team (TAT) is a multi-disciplinary group of violence prevention experts, internal organizational leaders, key security personnel, active crisis responders, specialized threat analysts, and other experts tasked with creating, implementing, and optimizing evolving secure organizational postures to best mitigate the risk of workplace violence. A Threat Assessment Team (TAT) plays a critical role in providing direction, setting priorities, and acting decisively when crises occur – which is why organizations look to leaders like Mr. Prince.
Threats arise from many vectors, and a broad range of expertise is required to maximize organizational understanding of, and preparation for, each in a manner consistent with the organization’s unique circumstances.
Building Threat Assessment Teams
Finding leaders for an organization’s Threat Assessment team is no easy task, but there are established leaders with practical expertise who are ready to help. Mr. Prince is one such leader, having spent more than 20 years developing, implementing, and guiding Threat Assessment Teams and associated protocols for a broad range of organizations including sensitive industries, academic institutions, and Fortune 500 companies. Patrick is a standing member of multiple organizational Threat Assessment Teams and provides consultative insights to numerous others.
One of the most useful tools a school can develop… is a multi-disciplinary school threat assessment team. ~FEMA, DHS, US Dept. of Education, FBI
Establishing Threat Assessment Team Protocols
Each organization faces a unique array of considerations and constraints upon which Threat Assessment Teams must incorporate effective, actionable strategies and protocols.
Securing perimeter zones and evacuating non-essential personnel are common examples of threat response tactics, but the implementation of such processes varies dramatically between organizations facing different risk vectors.
Similarly, as the adoption of, and reliance on, digital technologies continues to exponentially increase, cyber threats as well as their physical analogues and enablements are increasingly forming a major risk vector and threat consideration for modern Threat Assessment Teams.
Threat Assessment Team Methodology
Threat Assessment Teams articulate and inform organizational threat response protocols, factoring a totality of scenarios and circumstances from multiple perspectives within a complex matrix of conceptual trade-offs to best ensure that organizations maximize safety while responsibly managing associated expenses and costs. Threat vectors and their associated secondary risks are oftentimes difficult for internal stakeholders to conceptualize and clearly articulate without assistance, but experts like Mr. Prince are able to guide informed forecasting and roadmapping for organizational security postures.
Threat assessment teams also review incidents of threatening behavior by the public, supervisors, students (current and former), parents, employees, individuals and other hostile entities to refine and optimize organizational procedures over time. Patrick has consulted on more than 1,500 such cases of threatening situations or acts of violence in the workplace for clients including numerous Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and government agencies. These cases include a wide array of situations ranging from hostile intimidation, harassment and verbal threats to physical assaults, discharging firearms in the workplace, acts of sabotage, active shooter response, felony stalking, and on-the-job homicide.
Contact Mr. Prince today to strengthen or begin building your organization’s Threat Assessment Team.
