Proactive vs. Pre-Emptive: Why knowledge-based decisions lead to better-informed actions.
SDR training and education focuses on proactive prevention of—rather than reaction to—harmful events and security threats. Proactive steps, with foundations in knowledge-based decisions in order to prevent deviant actions, have proven to be far more effective than...
The urban hunter and the bar of normality®
In every environment, there is a standard set of norms upon which we all base our behaviours. There are particular behaviours which would seem out of place in certain environments, and which would cause us to pause, and re-examine what we may be seeing. Search Detect...
Preventing ethnic profiling
SDR Negates Ethnic Profiling In 2003, the Transportation Administration Agency’s (TSA) Screening Passengers by Observation program, SPOT, began to operationally test behavioural techniques to screen air passengers. Once the SPOT program was out of the testing phase...
Searching for abnormalities instead of suspects.
As technology develops and progresses, it is imperative that human situational awareness skills and capabilities not fall by the wayside. Rather, heightened situational awareness needs to be the leading component of public security. To embrace the most effective and...