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Expert Investigations
The country and the world are increasingly becoming a fractious, violent, tumultuous place of unrest.
With the huge increase in false media, false hype, conspiracy theorist and self-appointed unqualified ‘sleuths and hacks’, are the population being led more proactively towards protests and disruptive behaviour.
Organised and established protest groups actively seek the publicity to fuel their cause and many groups have international reach, as well as those more localised protest groups who equally seek local and national publicity.
From ‘Stop the Oil’, ‘Extinction Rebellion’ ‘Plane Stupid’ who are the more recognised organisations but localised protests can cause huge disruption, economic loss and fear for those who are the target of the protestors.
In this series, I will be helping you to better understand the mindset of the protestors. I will look at:
HOOKS
What is the reason for the protest?
TARGETS
Where and what are the targets?
NARRATIVE
What is the message and why?
TACTICS
How do protestors choose their tactics?
RESOURCES
What are the resources available?
What can you do to prevent and disrupt a protest group?
The protests can be any size and be a stand alone protest or be part of a coordinated group of actions. It can be hugely difficult to pre-empt disruption and have a strategy in place to contain the protest.
Clearly the large national organisations as mentioned previously are monitored by law enforcement and undercover reporters, but what about more localised and regional protests? In all protests the methods for:
Prevention
Disruption
Detection
Will include tactics such as:
- Deep data scrapes and harvesting and monitoring for activity, calls to action and data sharing.
- Social media monitoring
- Covert joining of groups, online or in person
- Covert Surveillance
- Data research on individuals
- Process serving of legal documents, including injunctions.
- Covert vehicle tracking
- Security reviews of your premises, employees homes, counter surveillance measures
All business must adopt a business continuity strategy, working from the broad and general to the specific.
Get In Touch
David Kearns, a former Police Field Intelligence Detective, is the Managing Director of Expert Investigations Ltd, one of the countries leading investigation agencies, who has worked with numerous organisations in helping to prevent, disrupt and detect protest activity for the commercial sector. Call me now to discuss any points raised, concerns or presentation to your team on the subject.
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