SECURITY AWARENESS, AND PREDICTIVE PROFILING™

"What we need to do better is be predictive. We have to be proactive. We have to develop the capability to anticipate attacks. We have to develop the capability of looking around corners. And that is the change. That is the shift in focus particularly at [FBI] headquarters."

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
May 30, 2002

"Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

James Thurber

SECURITY AWARENESS
PREDICTIVE PROFILING™

Director Mueller could have been writing a press release for the Acme Group's system of anti-terror and security assessment and training. Unfortunately, he, and the rest of the U.S. security community came to this conclusion too late to stop certain events.

The most important lesson in making mistakes is, of course, learning not to repeat them. Unfortunately, American government officials still do not understand what they missed, on that fateful day and for the months and years before it... they failed to identify that there was a threat, they failed to identify from where and whom the threat was coming, and most significantly, they failed to identify who was carrying out the threat scenario. Sadly, to this day, this ignorance continues on a national level. They are always looking for the "bomb", when they should be look for the bomber.

"FIND THE BOMBER, NOT JUST THE BOMB".

The terrorist attacks on September 11th illustrated once more the importance of focusing security techniques on the intentions of people, rather than on the destructive tools being used by them. Knives, bombs, firearms and other devices are triggered by people, and "Predictive Profiling™" is a method by which you can expose the human trigger of a potential or planned terrorist or criminal act.

Acme Group personnel understand well the importance of creating and implementing techniques designed to expose the intentions and behavior of terrorists and criminals, to stop their intended destructive activity in advance, and not just mourn, and clean up, after the fact.

In the United States, the idea of "profiling" itself has lately been regarded as an unconstitutional method of dealing with the public, and there is great resistance to its use by privacy advocates and those concerned about government intrusion in private lives. The two methods of profiling that people are concerned about are commonly known as "racial profiling", and "criminal profiling". "Racial profiling" is using race and ethnic background, among other criteria, to identify potential perpetrators purely on that basis. "Racial profiling" most often results in false identifications, false accusations and wasted effort, and has been specifically banned from use by government entities. In "criminal profiling", after a crime or series of like crimes have been committed, a "profile" is created which purports to identify specific and general psychological, physical and behavioral traits and characteristics expected to be found when the right suspect is apprehended. The profile thus created is used as an investigative tool to identify a suspect. Both these profiling techniques may identify individuals who may fit the "profile", but who have no criminal or terrorist intent.

Thus they are both useless tools in many circumstances, especially when we are in the category of preventing terrorist and criminal activity in general.

These are definitely not the "profiling" techniques that are the subject of our seminars and training programs.

The Israeli-derived technique of "Predictive Profiling™" is based on making assessments of people and property, asking questions, getting answers, and then asking follow-up questions, all the while observing demeanor, response, and other factors, which, taken together, are designed to expose future intentions, recent behavior and activity, and psychological condition.

The techniques of "Predictive Profiling™" are extremely effective at identifying individuals who have the intent to perform a terrorist or otherwise destructive or disruptive act, and then providing time to put into play procedures to thwart or deter their intended behavior.

The Acme Group offers a series of courses, lectures and workshops designed to instruct and familiarize security professionals and law enforcement personnel with true predictive profiling techniques, methods and procedures.

Our profiling experience is drawn from years of work with Israeli security forces and agencies that base much of their security framework on Predictive Profiling™ procedures.

Our investigative expertise together with our extensive, real-world, practical security experience makes our predictive profiling knowledge and practical application training programs ever more in tune with the daily needs of commercial establishments, law enforcement agencies, public spaces, and entire communities.

Please click on the links below to see details of the two main anti-terror training programs conducted by the Acme Group.

SECURITY AWARENESS

PREDICTIVE PROFILING™