Course Objectives
Security Incident Management and Investigations - Virtual Learning
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explain and apply the principles of Incident Management to their workplace
- Apply Incident Management methodology and create a plan to recover the business quickly from a threat or incident
- Explain the basic fundamentals of an investigation
- Demonstrate how to conduct a basic internal investigation within their organization
- Conduct a complete crime scene preservation investigation from start to finish
Target Audience
This course is suitable for security managers/supervisors and personnel, company investigators, human resource professionals, site managers, safety and incident response team members, business owners, and anyone involved in incident management and investigations.
Target Competencies
- Incident Management
- Crime Scene Management
- Communication Skills
- Team work
- Critical Thinking
Course Outline
- Introduction to Incident Management and Investigations
- Incident management.
- Differences between an Emergency, Incident and Accident
- Security incidents and safety incidents
- Managing an incident
- Incident response
- Business Continuity Management (BCM)
- Investigation case studies
- Evidence collection and continuity of evidence
- External and internal investigations
- Locard’s Exchange Principle
- The fundamentals of Incident Management
- Initial response
- Incident classification
- Reporting and escalation procedures
- Integrated Incident Management Response
- Site-specific emergency procedures
- 5 Priorities when responding to specific Incidents
- Incident management team requirements
- Conducting debriefs post-incident
- 5C’s to Incident Management
- Application of Incident Management Plan
- What is an Incident Management Plan?
- Constructing an Incident Management Plan for your organization
- Techniques required to implement the plan
- Implement the incident management plan
- Principles of Investigations
- Locard’s Exchange Principle
- Establishing an investigative mindset
- Observation skills
- Rules of Investigation
- Planning an investigation
- Decision making process
- Working with victims and suspects
- Priorities on attending the scene
- Principles and types of search
- Types, value and collection of evidence
- Crime scene preservation
- Crime typology and how it affects investigations
- Common Questions and Answers regarding investigations
- Investigation Methodology
- Conducting an investigation
- Investigation evaluation
- How to deal with Evidence found at the scene
- Dealing with the authorities and Police
- Understanding the legal chain of evidence
- Questioning techniques
- How to conduct a professional Interview