HOMELAND
SECURITY
Terrorism Liaison Officer
Community
Information Networking
Anti-Terrorism
and Threat Assessment
Business
Continuity Planning
Contingency
Planning and Emergency Preparedness
Terrorism Surveillance Detection
Community
Early Warning of Terrorism
Infrastructure Liaison Officer
STRATEGIC RISK
MANAGEMENT
Terrorism Liaison Officer
The Terrorism Liaison Officer, or TLO, acts as the lead coordinator in a government organization on matters related to terrorism. The TLO role compiles a mixed list of duties such as interagency representative, de facto terrorism intelligence analyst and collection manager, in-house subject matter expert, and all around terrorism “go-to” person. It is designed for law enforcement, fire, health, intelligence specialists, and investigators who need to effectively network within their community or key segment(s) of that community in order to develop indications and warning of potential threats and suspicious behavior. Taught throughout California, the key components in KIPP’s POST TLO course include:
- Transnational Terrorism
- Domestic Terrorism
- 4th Generation Warfare and Modern Conflict
- Terrorism Intelligence
- Community Information Networking
- Federal, State and Local Counterterrorism Networking and Infrastructure(s)
- Officer Safety and Stress Management
- TLO Roles and Responsibilities
- Stress Management and Operational Security
- Analyzing the Threat in an All-Hazards Context
- Liaison with Critical Infrastructure and the Private Sector
KIPP has co-developed a five-day course to certify or train TLOs in a cross-disciplinary manner at the request of The California Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST). KIPP also provides a core-level two-day section called Community Information Networking or CIN. CIN defines how TLOs develop and maintain critical human networks throughout the community that can provide early warning for terrorist activities.
Community Information Networking
Community Information Networking (CIN) provides the critical intelligence tools for highly effective community policing but is oriented toward the threats posed by terrorism and terrorist groups is designed in order to develop indications and warnings of potential threats and suspicious behavior. CIN is a benchmark human information networking system involving training and management that focuses on organizations with jurisdictional authority and a responsibility for public safety. CIN is currently a key component of the curriculum for California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) sponsored Terrorism Liaison Officer Certification course and is certified by POST and the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI) Terrorism II course.
CIN is designed for law enforcement, fire, health, intelligence specialists, and investigators who need to effectively network within their community or key segments of that community.. It is not a program of developing or using confidential informants or spies, but instead community-oriented networking with people like the best practices often found in business, industry and small-town policing. CIN addresses many of the domestic “human intelligence” shortcomings found in the best selling 2004 9-11 Commission Report. It is an integrated, and very much interagency and multi-disciplinary, approach that fits into the larger Homeland Security intelligence architecture providing that crucial human intelligence input from the local community, noted as tragically lacking in the past. Currently, CIN is taught in blocks of 8 or12 hours, and covers topics that include training in cross-cultural communications, behavior assessment, detecting deception, transnational terrorist networks and support, community information flows, conversational intelligence skills and incorporates scenario-based ‘wargaming’ for practical application.
Anti-Terrorism and Threat Assessment
KIPP teams with
key experts in terrorism and all-hazards threat assessments for both
public and private sector concerns, to include critical infrastructure
protection and business continuity planning. Deliverables can include written
reports, presentations, training, scenario-based planning and executive
wargaming, and even full field exercises. KIPP also provides much needed
intelligence integration services to support anti-terrorism and threat
assessment decision makers and managers, whether in how to develop such a
program or refining an existing architecture.
Business Continuity Planning
Contingency Planning and Emergency Preparedness
KIPP principals and associates have been involved with a long history contingency planning and emergency preparedness activities, from operational planning teams. KIPP brings in various subject matter experts in scenario planning along with a broad approach that fully appreciates the macro or indirect effects, such as what so many businesses and entire industries experienced in the fallout of the 9-11 attacks. KIPP’s deliverables include written assessments, training courses, tabletop and practical application or field exercises, and executive wargaming, along with consultative support.
Terrorism Surveillance Detection
Originally developed for a high profile national security facility, KIPP and Ascendancy Strategic Consulting have developed a training course that amalgamates best practices in surveillance detection by having participants comprehensively understand detecting such terrorism intelligence collection activities. This highly interactive, hands-on one-day training event is aimed at supervisors, managers and other personnel responsible for site security, counterintelligence, law enforcement or investigations. Terrorism Surveillance Detection is a three part building block program that starts with learning terrorism pre-operational intelligence gathering and surveillance practices (to include citing real-world examples), then has participants "role playing" terrorists conducting these activities, and finally is capstoned by a thorough review of lessons learned for development of both soft and hard deliverable results for incorporation into their site's anti-terrorism and security or force protection program. Participants are taught "tools" that can be used to not only harden their sites against terrorism surveillance, but also dramatically improve their ability to develop indications and early warning of such threat operations. Terrorism Surveillance Detection training is aimed at critical infrastructure, transportation, public event venues, government or corporate facilities, schools and universities, shopping centers and stores, historic symbols, or just about any site that could potentially be surveilled and attacked by terrorists.
Community Early Warning of Terrorism (CEWT)
Community Early Warning of Terrorism (CEWT) is a three-part program covered in 3-5 days for developing a strong intelligence indications and warning program in communities, whether these are extensive facilities (i.e. military bases, tribal areas, large-scale facilities, etc.), major neighborhood areas, cities, counties or regions. CEWT's three-parts are best described as students or participants becoming enabled to sequentially:
1) Understand the Terrorists
2) Be the Terrorists
3) Find the Terrorists
Understand Terrorists: Participants initially get a solid understanding of terrorism, terrorist groups and networks, and terrorist planning, intelligence, logistics, financing, structure and operations. This block of training is oriented towards the threats and terrorist groups that a particular community is realistically facing.
Be the Terrorists: Participants role-play terrorists and terrorist cells by selecting targets, method of attack, resources and intelligence needed, and then how they will put all this together for conducting threat operations in their community. This could include individual field work based on client's desired level of interactivity.
Find the Terrorists: Combining all that the participants have learned, community specific terrorist operational signatures, activities, requirements and transactions are identified. Then these are synthesized for developing a community specific terrorism intelligence collection plan that provides priority and direction along with indications and warning of these community specific threat activities. Often this will include an executive style wargaming session to further identify or validate the intelligence collection plan.
In 2004-2005, key developers of the California POST sponsored Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO) course curriculum, such as KIPP, were asked to work on a similar training concept aimed at the private sector, particularly those industries ascribed as Critical Infrastructure or likely venues of potential terrorist attack. The private sector position was called an Infrastructure Liaison Officer or ILO. It was noted that private Security, Counterintelligence and Risk Management officials from corporations or quasi-private entities were increasingly becoming involved with not only improving their own internal terrorism early warning capabilities for their own company sites, supply chains and facilities, but also reaching outside their corporate bounds. This meant knowing how to build and manage other kinds of early warning “intelligence” networks across the private and public sectors, even global, and then how to communicate this to senior management. From a corporate risk management standpoint, having trained Infrastructure Liaison Officers focused and knowledgeable about terrorism and counterterrorism networking was seen as a prudent and cost-effective practice exhibiting due diligence by that firm in trying to prevent or mitigate potential threats. This training course is currently designed for delivery in a two day or three day format, and customers can be private sector companies, corporate consortiums, critical infrastructure cooperatives, quasi-public/private firms or any sponsoring public entity. ILOs are seen as the private sector “plug-in” for local, state and federal Homeland Security departments or interagency coordinating organizations, or any other terrorism related entity. ILO course covers:
- Transnational Terrorism
- Domestic Terrorism
- 4th Generation Warfare and Modern Conflict
- Terrorism Intelligence and Business Risk Management
- Community Information Networking
- ILO Roles and Responsibilities
- Managing Risk from Terrorism and Terrorism Early Warning
- Business Continuity Planning and Terrorism
- Analyzing the Threat in an All-Hazards Context
- Private Sector Terrorism Strategic Approaches and Initiatives
- Liaison with Local, State and Federal Homeland Security Programs and Entities
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