Executive Security International

Presents

Aggression Management for Protection Professionals

TRAINING DATES

Dr. Johm Byrnes, D.Hum., President Center for Aggression Management		D. Anthony Nichter, CPP, CPS Forensic Expert, ESI Lecturer

In a time when newspaper and electronic headlines increasingly announce one violent and deadly tragedy after another, protection professionals must stop and assess current methods and technologies used to provide security for persons and property. This is an age when criminals storm unhindered into churches and gun down parishioners, or shoot helpless shoppers in malls or defenseless students on high school and university campuses. This is also an age when elite protection professionals need to rearm themselves with new tools and re-calibrate their tactics with new strategies. To that end, this cutting-edge workshop is being offered as a strategic alliance between two seasoned training organizations focusing on early-stage indicators of agitation, aggression and violent assaults.

The marketplace is currently proliferated with many quality seminars dealing with the management of aggression both in and out of the workplace. As good as these programs are, they only address the issue of aggression when the aggressors� behavior has already escalated to an unacceptable, and sometimes unmanageable, level. Regrettably, taking action at this point is usually too little, too late.

The Aggression Management for Protection Professionals (AMPP) identifies and distinguishes Cognitive (intent-driven) Aggressors that are missed in the programs currently utilized, and does so in a culturally neutral manner.  AMPP�s Primal and Cognitive Aggression Continua provide measured indicators that enable referencing, recording, evaluation and documentation all needed to achieve legal defensibility and counter potential law suites by civil libertarians.

AMPP runs parallel and synergistically with existing security programs.  AMPP will accurately identify terrorists (murder/suicide), can significantly reduce false positives and can be legally defendable from civil libertarian claims due to stereotyping.

This ESI Aggression Management for Protection Professionals Workshop differs from others in the market in that it will provide participants with the insights and skills to recognize agitation and aggression well before it is obvious and apparent to everyone else. The hidden symptoms of aggression in its early stages or the not-so-apparent signs of violence when it is deliberately being concealed are not easily detectable using standard assessment methods. Knowing WHAT to detect and HOW to discern aggression under these conditions is vital if protection professionals are to proactively intervene upon such deceptive aggressors. The next step is to understand the proper degree of force one is legally capable of imposing upon another as a preemptive countermeasure. The legal dimension of force utilization is the second component of this workshop.   

ESI has assembled some of the finest authorities in the field of violence assessment and intervention. This ESI Workshop will be the first in a series of national training programs to certify protection professionals in the Detection and Management of Predatory Aggressors. The workshop will be an essential pre-requisite to a new and contemporary ESI certificate program, Aggression Detection and Preemptive Intervention.  The faculty for this program has devoted their lives to the clinical, physical and legal management of aggression and extra-ordinary violence.

In 1993, Dr. John Byrnes, a successful businessman, author and lecturer, became interested in the subject of aggression management. His research revealed that conventional approaches dealing with conflict and violence were only minimally effective. Dr. Byrnes has worked with the US Army, helping them distinguish between and innocent civilian and combatants or terrorists.  Dr. Byrnes was selected by the US Department of Labor to represent the United States at the Violence as a Workplace Risk Conference held in Montreal Canada. This conference is a joint effort by the United States Canada and Mexico through the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), the NAFTA labor side agreement. Dr. Byrnes�s unique system has demonstrated to employers and professionals that they can prevent violence rather than merely react to it.

D. Anthony Nichter has spent 25 years of active service involving research, writing, teaching, consulting and protecting. Nichter is Board Certified as a Certified Protection Professional. He has taught at the college and university levels as an adjunct staff instructor for over ten years. Nichter is also a state of Nevada P.O.S.T. Instructor teaching classes at the Advanced Training Academy for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Mr. Nichter is a lecturer and teacher for ESI from which he graduated in 1982. Nichter provides expert testimony as a forensic analyst on matters of security due diligence, training, competency and adequacy of protection. He also serves as an expert witness in both state and federal courts regarding issues of security and use-of-force. Nichter�s objective for this program is to enhance the competency of participants to understand and apply relevant legal issues governing the application of physical force and preemptive protective intervention when the precursors of violence are evidenced.

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