What is or not professional in the profession of security?

The Security Consultant that advises immediately without gathering sufficient and reliable information from the people on the ground is suspect. Any adviser that suggest solutions without a full diagnostic are not experts. It is the responsibility of the security consultant to ensure that they are gathering sufficient and reliable information. Uncovering information, they may encounter staff not providing them all and reliable information because we know that staff could lie, hide or share information for their own agenda. Any solution suggested on unreliable information could lead to collateral damage. Therefore. be aware of the security consultant that has no concept of deception detection and investigative interviewing and rather select the security consultant that has certification for such or proof of continuously learning of such.

The professional security manager is a master negotiator. They negotiate services and rates with clients, suppliers, and security labor unions. Most importantly they try to sell non-security professionals on the fact that security is relative and worthwhile to motivate funding as other professionals have no idea of the capabilities of security professionals and believe that security is an expense. When the professional cannot negotiate masterfully - they land up compromising more so than they should.

The negotiator that can read the other better derives more out of the negotiation, therefore, the security manager that masters the skill-craft of deception detection and investigative interviewing delivers better results in negotiations than others.

Hostage negotiators cannot afford to loose the negotiation as the collateral damage could be devastating.

The security professional advisers HR department not to employ people that could become the insider threat and causing ciaos if they are racist or bias to other workers in order to reduce workplace violence or issues leading to conflict management intervention. Today, one has to ensure that staff are not radicalizing or becoming xenophobic therefore specific skills related to deception detection and using investigative interviewing methods can assist in reducing the unnecessary horrific outcomes.

Investigators may have done interviewing or perhaps have studied interrogation methods years ago that may not be suitable for current challenges. Some investigators acknowledge the fact that there are criminals that can read them better than they can read the criminal. Secondly, the investigator may think they can interpret others through body language but may be misinterpreting cultural gesture response and may be wasting time and effort and perhaps barking up at the wrong tree.

Interviewing the close protection professional. They may flash their expertise on close combat skills or weapons handling. When the principal is from abroad or locals that are of a different culture and especially religious, then do consider specific skills inscribed in their portfolio. Reason being, is that you would not like the client to offended or embarrassed by the smallest of actions which you may find innocent but in their beliefs being highly offensive.

The professional CP masters deception detection and investigative interviewing for a number of reasons to profile the clients as they do lie or hide information besides vetting the entourage, pre-check and assessing visitors. The professional must be able to identify deception within seconds. When the professionals expresses that they are skilled in body language then test them with deception to validate their intelligence and ability to gather all, usable and reliable information.

The MD or Security Manager that succeeds in security have a few things in common with the medical fraternity.

Security professionals know that they could handle life impacting or life & death situations, therefore, they conduct themselves as other professionals any other profession under the same conditions. A fine example is the surgeon who holds the life of a person literally in their hands whereas a security professional could hold the lives of many in their hands.

The security professional being Intellectually Arrogant. The TRUE professional actually invests the necessary time and resources into continuous training, just as a surgeon has to. The security professional has to. because, the security industry is the most fluid facility with new daily challenges impacting with collateral damage on lives of many.

The intellectually arrogant security professional that has no proof of deception detection and investigative interviewing skill development is over evaluating their status which you will be able to deduce from the reasons laid out below. Those that have undergone any form of skill development such as just body language without investigative interviewing techniques displays that they are trading on insufficient and unreliable data.

Diagnostics: The Security Professional has to diagnose the situation as thoroughly as a surgeon. The wrong diagnoses could be life impacting or life threatening. How would you feel if your surgeon had to misdiagnose your ailment?

Diagnostics in Security is The X Factor. Not knowing what is going on the ground under the nose of the MD or Security Manager as staff are not forthcoming with information and do lie, hide or share information could lead to collateral damage. Not knowing the nature of the threat makes for the professional unaware of the collateral damage that could take cost them their business, own life and the lives of others.

In negotiations, the security professional that is unaware of the clients true situation could experience the displeasure of loosing their business.

When we state that security success depends on the level of situational awareness of the decision maker and their reaction speed. How could the security professional be situational aware if they have no idea that there is a situation that could be have been going on for a long period of time, or is just beginning?

When selecting or partnering a security professional then consider if they are true criminologists and focused on skills related to human behavior as it is not the weapon that commits crime and terror - it is people.

If they make decisions based on insufficient and reliable information then how could you trust them with your assets or lives?

Do ask the professionals what they believe is their critical job function is. They may say that they mitigate risk. Furthermore ask what they believe is their critical core skill-set in order to do so. When they cannot state any particular skill-set any skill related to deception detection and investigative interviewing - then do not consider them as professionals. True professionals know that decisions and any action taken based on insufficient and unreliable information is the epitome of being unprofessional as it would lead to collateral damage

The point is, as the surgeon knows that new methods have been discovered and it is not the case of reinventing the wheel. Since the wheel has been invented so to has other methods of transportation, such as the hovercraft, hang-glider, helicopter and aircraft that do happen to break the sound barrier that are functioning as they too are designed by other professionals..

The only solution and the most important skill-set and to master is deception detection and investigative interviewing.

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