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Today: Church Security is challenging. Most of the time it’s a retired cop or military veteran that volunteers to lead the security team. They my not be the best for the job, but they maybe very good. It takes a different mind set to run security. It takes even more care to run security at a church. This podcast has a bunch of tips on general security and special considerations for a church.
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Podcast Outline:
Threat Assessment:
- Most Likely thing to happen because of your church and people that attend
- Pull Crime Stats
- Talk to other churches in the area
- Talk to local law enforcement
- Things a lot of people don’t think about
- Traffic accidents in the parking lot or in front of the church
- Kid missing
- Kid abducted
- Domestic Abuse
- Child Abuse
- Medical Emergencies
- Heart Attack
- Bad Cut
- Seizure
- Someone Passing Out
- In the Parking lot, lobby, or during the service
- Fire
- Power Outage
- Drug usage or drugs found
- Pastor assaulted
- Major disruption of services
- Explosive detection
- Mass Shooting is what we all think of
- Number of shooters
- Shooters intent
- Secondary Devices or Attackers
- Explosives
- Mind Set
- Avoidance
- Deterrence
- Harden your target so they go someplace else
- Not prevention
- Not arresting
- Prevention
- Get everyone involved
- One of the best ways is early detection
- Best early detection is customer service/ helping people out
- Talking to people and asking questions gets avoidance and early detection
- Minimal Training needed to find something wrong
- Procedures for investigating everyone knows about
- Someone with more training that can do more investigation and talking needs to be brought in
- Start an intelligence gather procedure
- Who is a danger
- Who may be a danger
- Local law enforcement if you can
- Federal if you’re a huge church
- Make a way to pass information about individuals and suspicions things. Word of mouth doesn’t cut it.
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Stay Safe,
Ben
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