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- Protective Intelligence Cycle
- A six-stage process of direction, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and feedback that converts raw information about threats into usable protective decisions.
- Advance Work
- Pre-event reconnaissance of routes, venues, medical facilities, and evacuation points, documented before the principal arrives so the detail operates from known facts.
- Threat Assessment Triad
- Capability, intent, and opportunity. Risk exists only when all three converge, so removing any one element reduces the likelihood of an attack.
- Layered Defense
- A design in which outer access control, inner screening, and close protection each assume the previous layer has failed, so no single failure compromises the principal.
- Protective Formation
- The arrangement of bodyguards around a principal, such as diamond, box, or wedge, chosen based on crowd density, corridor width, and required evacuation speed.
- Principal Profile
- A structured assessment of a protectee's exposure, wealth, controversy, prior threats, and residence accessibility that sets the baseline level of protective effort.
- Access Control Triad
- Identify, authenticate, authorize. Identification alone is not access control; a system that skips authentication grants entry on unverified claims.
- Post Orders
- Written instructions defining duties, authority limits, reporting lines, and emergency actions for a specific post; they take precedence over general training when the two conflict.
- Security Log Entry
- A contemporaneous record containing date, time, location, persons involved, action taken, and signature, written at the time and never altered afterward.
- Random Patrol
- A patrol pattern with unpredictable timing intended to defeat an adversary's observation of routine, used alongside fixed patrols for deterrence and coverage.
- Alarm Response Sequence
- Verify, assess, dispatch, contain, and report. Verification reduces false-alarm cost but must never delay a life-safety response.
- Key Control Register
- A signed log of serialized keys showing issue and return, supported by periodic inventory and immediate rekeying when a key is lost or unaccounted for.
- Evidence Export Hash
- A cryptographic value computed when CCTV footage is exported, allowing later verification that the recording was not altered after export.
- Post Handover Briefing
- The transfer of post responsibility covering incidents in progress, outstanding tasks, equipment status, and pending visitors, confirmed by both outgoing and incoming officers.
- Span of Control
- The number of subordinates one supervisor can effectively direct, roughly six to ten depending on task complexity and geographic dispersion of the team.
- Risk Treatment Options
- Avoid, reduce, transfer, and accept. Each residual risk is documented with an owner and a review date so acceptance is a conscious decision.
- Unity of Command
- The principle that each person receives orders from one commander only; a supervisor must not task personnel already assigned by the incident commander.
- Staffing Calculation
- Posts required multiplied by hours per post, divided by available hours per officer after leave and training, giving the headcount needed to cover the schedule.
- Delegation Accountability
- Delegation transfers task authority to a subordinate but not accountability; the supervisor remains answerable for the outcome of the delegated work.
- Audit Versus Inspection
- An audit tests compliance against a defined standard over a period, while an inspection observes the current physical condition at a single point in time.
- Performance Management Cycle
- Set standards, observe performance, document it, give feedback, and follow up. Undocumented feedback cannot later support disciplinary action.
- Citizen's Arrest Authority
- A narrow power held by private persons, varying by jurisdiction; security officers generally possess no greater arrest authority than any ordinary citizen.
- Proportionate Force
- Force that is necessary, reasonable, and no greater than the threat requires; it continues only while the threat persists and stops when it ends.
- Lawful Detention
- Holding a person on reasonable grounds for a lawful purpose, informing them why they are held, and transferring them to police promptly.
- Consent Search
- A search permitted by voluntary agreement. Employer consent covers workplace property but does not extend to searching a person's body without lawful basis.
- Chain of Custody
- A record of every transfer of evidence showing who held it, when, and why, so that its integrity and admissibility can be demonstrated later.
- Confidentiality Duty
- The obligation to disclose client, principal, and incident information only to those with a need to know or when legally compelled.
- Objective Report Writing
- Recording observed facts rather than conclusions, and clearly separating what the officer personally saw from information reported to them by others.
- Life Safety Priority
- The rule that evacuation and medical treatment come before protecting property or preserving a scene during an emergency response.
- Evacuation Decision Rule
- Evacuate when the hazard is imminent and escape routes are safe; shelter in place when moving occupants would expose them to greater danger.
- Incident Command System
- A structure with an incident commander and operations, planning, logistics, and finance sections, in which the commander sets objectives for the response.
- Assembly Point Accountability
- Checking a roster or visitor log at the assembly point to identify unaccounted persons and reporting them immediately to the incident commander.