'So now we know...' Using intelligence analysis to understand the risk context

Friday, 13 January 2012


secau is pleased to invite interested members of the public to a special presentation on strategic deception by Paul Angus at the Mount Lawley Campus.

Strategic Deception
Date: Thursday, 16 March 2012
Time: 1.00pm-2.00pm (presentation) with a light lunch provided from 12.30pm
Venue: Mount Lawley Campus, Building 17, Room 17.103
RSVP: Lisa McCormack on 6304 5176 or l.mccormack@ecu.edu.au

Presentation Outline

Courts operate in a volatile environment. Legal processes, budget realities, changing offender demographics, legacy physical security concerns, and systems and processes all impact on the ability of security professionals to identify and control existing, emerging, and changing threats.

Courts are not always under sustained security pressure. They all, however, have ‘pressure points’. How do we know a pressure point exists? What is it and how will it materialise? How much pressure can it withstand before the controls fail?

Intelligence analysis is a proven methodology that can be used to detect changes to the risk context that may create a pressure point and stress existing controls. It can provide the necessary time and space to Prepare and Prevent an incident, avoiding the Response and Recovery parts of a PPRR model.

Paul Angus will discuss how Court Security Directorate planned its intelligence capability and integrated it with operational and security risk management processes. This system, The Security Risk management Framework, provides an integrated approach to identifying and understanding if, when, why, and how any court may come under such stress as to require additional protection; and how that understanding is at the centre of Courts security risk management.

Speaker Biography

Paul Angus has over 30 years military, training, and risk management experience and manages the Strategic Security and Plans Branch of the Court Security Directorate in Western Australia. Paul joined Court Security Directorate in 2006 to implement an intelligence led Security Risk Management Framework to identify, assess and control security threats to any of the 127 courts that operate in Western Australia.