Training and Professional Development

PCI offers courses related to Homeland Defense and Predictive Analysis to agencies at the federal, state and local levels. Our trainers are subject matter experts and have years of experience in both course instruction and real-world operations. These trainers have provided instruction to agencies and governments throughout the U.S. and the world, and their students have included civilian, military, and law enforcement personnel at every echelon and of many nationalities.

Our training is fully compatible with common, approved analytical doctrine, and is applicable to both sworn law enforcement officers and analytical/administrative personnel.

PCI offers a variety of courses that may be combined as desired to produce a custom curriculum that fits your organizational needs, schedule, and budget. Standard courses offered by PCI are listed below. If you do not find the exact courses you are interested in, we will be happy to tailor an existing course or develop a course specific to your needs.

Certain courses have prerequisites. Courses may be combined to produce instructional blocks of 8 hours or more. We can perform training at our facilities in Southern Arizona or are happy to travel to yours.

Key Benefits / What You Will Learn
Identify and analyze the terrorist threat(s) to a particular location, event, or facility, and quantify/qualify by group their specific capabilities and intentions.
Detect and define friendly vulnerabilities to the specific identified threats.
Provides sufficient and appropriate written documentation for briefing the political decision makers.
Produce formal written threat assessments outlining specific countermeasures, with emphasis on predicting and preventing terrorist attacks.
All training is UNCLASSIFIED.

Classes Offered
Title Hours Description
1. Legal Aspects of Terrorism Analysis 1.5 Applicable federal and state definitions
Effects of Privacy Act (5 USC 552a) on information gathering and maintenance Effects of Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552a) on maintaining information and intelligence files
USA Patriot Act Applicable local, state and federal laws concerning terrorism
2. Historical Perspective on Terrorism 1.0 Implementation of impact of terrorism from historic to present
Trends, development and changes in terrorist tactics and strategies Terrorist thought process and rationale
3. Common terrorist Internal and External Organizational Structures 2.0 Various cellular and non-cellular internal organizational structures, their operational advantages and disadvantages, and their impact on terrorist operations
Typical structure and uses of terrorist external support structures and the operational impact of those external structures; recognition factors for terrorist external structures.
4. Terrorist Target Selection Process 1.0 Impact of terrorist objectives and desired outcomes on the terrorist target selection process.
5. Preliminary Assessment of Terrorist Group Capabilities and Intentions 1.0 Impact of various types of governmental support on terrorist group capabilities and intentions.
6. Weapons and Tactics 3.0
Terrorist use of “conventional” tactics:
Bombing (types of explosives, types of devices, methods of delivery).
Shooting (assassination/murder).
Kidnapping.
Hostage taking (stationary and hi-jacking/sky-jacking operations).
Assault operations.
Terrorist uses of WMD:
Chemical (tracking terrorist acquisition/fabrication/use of chemical agents at the sub-national level).
Biological (tracking terrorist acquisition/fabrication/use of biological agents at the sub- national level).
Environmental sabotage (terrorist infrastructure and environmental attacks).
Very large IED.
7. Chronology of Terrorist Operations 2.0 Pre-cursor events and activities which terrorists must accomplish prior to an attack, and how those activities and events may be detected and evaluated
8. Terrorist Financing 2.0 Sources and uses of terrorist financing. Discussion includes, but is not limited to:
Sources of terrorist funds: Fund raising, charities, diversion of funds, criminal activity (counterfeiting, smuggling, drug operations, etc.), governmental support.
Terrorist money movement (Hawalla, Islamic banking, commodities manipulation, physical currency smuggling, stored value cards, impact of the Bank secrecy Act).
Uses of terrorist funds (recruiting, training, operational expenses, living expenses, bribes, payment to families of martyrs, etc.).
9. Information/Intelligence Collection Management 2.0 Identifying priority information and intelligence requirements; determining appropriate methods and Management sources for acquisition of required information and intelligence.
10. Analytical Methods used for Examining Terrorist Groups 12.0 Manual (pencil and paper) methods for pattern and link analysis to determine a terrorist organizations capabilities and probable intentions. (5 hours instruction, 7 hours practical application)
11. Analysis Automation 6.0 Use of CrimeLink software to automate and network the analytical process. (3 hours instruction, 3 hours practical application)
12. Threat Assessment Process 10.0 Application of the Threat/Vulnerability process to produce a written threat assessment for the “decision makers.” Includes formalizing the threat analysis, profiling the area/event/place to be protected, determining specific vulnerabilities, and designing/recommending appropriate, legal/affordable countermeasures. (3 hours instruction, 7 hours practical application) 
13. Visual Investigative Analysis 6.0 An analytical technique used to identify in detail specific operational precursor events and patterns (Optional) of activity to determine a particular terrorist group’s modus operandi and accurately identify and predict the groups future operations. (3 hrs instruction, 3 hrs practical application)
14. Management of Confidential Informants Variable Techniques for identifying, acquiring, and managing confidential informants. (May include Informants(Optional) practical application)