Threat Assessment Resource

From the U.S. Secret Service:

Training in Threat Assessment was provided in the year 2000 at the IACLEA conference in Boston in a program conducted by MIT Police Chief Ann Gavin and the US Secret Service. They produced a law enforcement guide by the title of "Protective Intelligence & Threat Assessment Investigations." If you go to the Secret Service Web site -- http://www.treas.gov/usss/index.htm?ntac.htm&1 -- then enter the section "National Threat Assessment Center" go to the end of page and you should be able to download this booklet, as well as others.

A strongly suggested resource is Gavin DeBecker's book, "The Gift of Fear." This book should give the reader immediate ability to recognize "pre-incident indicators" of violence, etc. His company also has a website and a computer program (several versions) for computer assisted predication. Go to http://www.gdbinc.com. Make sure you check out his "Mosaic" computer program. For training in this area we can also contact the local chapter of the school Service Resource Officer Association, the Tactical Officers Association, Police Chief Association, or go to http://www.officer.com - once there go to the training section.

Once again, for counsel concerned with assessing threats of violence on campus, the resources of the United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, available at:

Once into the home page scroll down to the "National Threat Assessment Center" link.

There are several informative documents, including the Secret Service Safe School Initiative. Although that particular report was in response to K-12 violence, many of the issues apply to the college and university setting as well.

Another excellent site provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation is found at:

This accesses the FBI's National Security Awareness Program or "ANSIR" the acronym for Awareness of National Security Issues and Response (Program). It is the "public voice" of the FBI for espionage, counterintelligence, counter-terrorism, economic espionage, cyber and physical infrastructure protection and all national security issues. The program is designed to provide unclassified national security threat and warning information to U.S. corporate security directors and executives, law enforcement, and other government agencies. It also focuses on the "response" capability unique to the FBI's jurisdiction in both law enforcement and counterintelligence investigations.

If you encounter difficulty access either of these sites through Netscape it is recommended that the sites be accessed through the MicroSoft Internet Explorer.

Some other interesting sites related to workplace violence and threat assessment:

http://www.fsu.umd.edu/admin/policies/fsupolicy/3097.pdf

http://www.princeton.edu/hr/policies/conditions/528.htm

http://www2.ucsc.edu/police/

http://www2.ucsc.edu/comp/policies/violence.htm

http://www.umt.edu/hrs/
(then click on Human Resource policies, specifically the Termination policy)

http://www.doli.state.mn.us/violence.html

http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/workplaceviolence/

http://hr.osu.edu/policy/705pol.htm

http://www.theiacp.org/pubinfo/pubs/pslc/pslc1.toc.htm

http://www.ineoa.org/violence.htm

http://www.gdbinc.com/