True Security Design (TSD), a leading school security consulting and training firm headquartered in Bay Shore, NY, was selected as a Double Platinum Award Winner in American Security Today’s 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program.

The two categories TSD was recognized for, were Best Student Threat Assessment Team Training and Best Law Enforcement Education Program.

True Security Design (TSD) specializes in conducting complete and thorough Threat Vulnerability and Risk Assessments (TVRAs) for schools, municipalities and businesses, and is at the forefront of delivering live action role-play training simulations and classroom-based instruction to better prepare school staff in an emergency.

In response to the continued Active Shooter threat in schools, TSD developed a formal student threat assessment program for schools to implement and identify potential threats before they commit violent acts.

Led by Joseph Pangaro, a veteran police lieutenant and experienced school security director, the True Security Design team is uniquely qualified to find the gaps in a school’s security profile and then create a road map to mitigate any deficiencies found in a way that respects budgets and missions.

(Learn More. Hear from Joseph Pangaro, a retired Police Lieutenant, as he outlines the Parkland Florida school shooting and the subsequent post incident report in this three part series. Courtesy of DisruptED TV and YouTube.)

Their law enforcement training programs are centered around supporting today’s modern professionals’ by teaching them vital skills through courses designed to engage and empower its participants.

True Security Design’s Law Enforcement & Emergency Response Training

The average police officer is active for over 20 years in law enforcement and experiences a diverse array of situations and confrontations during their career.

How do your first responders train to react to complex and compounding situations during their patrol, investigative, and supervisory duties?

True Security Design teaches today’s modern professionals’ vital skills through courses designed to engage and empower its participants.

For example, Pangaro Training’s “Advanced Street Interviews” course which teaches various techniques to enable the officer to gain information and determine the accuracy of it during hurried roadside interviews, to uncover criminal activity.

This course is for patrol officers and detectives to effectively deal with the challenges of a roadside interview.

Skills taught will enable officer to manage and control the environment and deal with time constraints. Practical exercises will reinforce instruction.

Highly-experienced instructors teach how to:

• Identify common criminal behaviors and signals
• Interview management
• Detect deception by analyzing verbal and nonverbal cues
• Developing short-term rapport and conversational skills to extend interview
• Recognizing defense mechanisms and emotional and stress responses
• Ways to overcome denials
• Giving Miranda application, ensure the admissibility of statements and constitutional requirements
• Effective law enforcement recording

Also Pangaro Training’s “Supervision, Leadership and Mentoring” 2-day course designed to prepare the newly promoted Sergeant or Lieutenant to better serve the officers in their command.

This course provides concepts and tactics of solid leadership and mentoring practices:

• The Critical Shift
• The rigors of leadership
• Leading as an executive
• How to help employees overcome deficits
• Dealing with a difficult employee
• Interpersonal relationships
• Setting standards
• Enforcing guidelines with compassion
• Setting and monitoring standards and expectations
• Leading and managing crisis situations and critical incidents

The course emphasizes situational analysis as a supervisor.

• Supervisors will also be instructed how to handle: shift responsibilities, citizen complaints, uniform inspections, documentation practices, employee reviews.
• Segments will be given on presentations, training, conducting a proper briefing and MOI practices and public relations.

(See a list of law enforcement courses offered and a list of law enforcement agencies trained by TSD over the last year at bottom.)

The goal is to transform security training from the tiresome requirement it has too often become into engaging and productive learning through interactive sessions and real-life, role-playing exercises.

While TSD provides the core classes necessary to excel at their profession, True Security Design has also developed courses that bring the officer, investigator, and supervisor to the next level.

Unique classes that focus on response to Domestic Violence, Human Trafficking, Sexual Assault, Narcotic Investigation, and skills that develop an officer to become a leader in the law enforcement community.

Officers learn effective methodology of de-escalating a potentially violent situation using U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), adopted techniques.

Components of the training True Security Design provides span the human aspect of policing by training the officers to understand not just the law, but the community that they serve with an appreciation of the responsibility that must be performed with compassion and empathy.

The officers are trained to respond to the culture of the individual environments, lifestyles, and living conditions of the people they are sworn to serve.

The settings that officers operate in produce psychological stresses and our courses and instructors teach them how to effectively respond to these stresses making them more effective partners safeguarding of our society.

Many police departments rely on True Security Design to provide their officers with tools that would otherwise not be at their disposal, while giving them HIDTA (High Interdiction Drug Trafficking Area, partnership between federal government and local law enforcement) sponsored credits.

Reports from officers of their successes in the field are often credited to their course training.

Surveys are conducted at the end of every course to maintain quality control and measurement of effectiveness, which includes questions that reflect the knowledge of the material from the instructor, curriculum relevance in real life applications, the trainer’s presentation skills, and the opinion from the officers on the impact the course had on their ability to perform their duties.

Results from the surveys are over 95% “Excellent Rating” overall.

The team that True Security Design has chosen to instruct our police force is hand-picked from the leadership of the active duty and retired law enforcement community.

Trainers range from detectives, active undercover officers, and include executive level personnel from every rank such as Sergeants, Lieutenants, Captains, and Chiefs.

TSD seeks out specific qualities and temperament that captivates, engages, and connects with the officers attending our courses.

The company’s specialty courses are taught by unique instructors who can convey their subject matter expertise to the officers in ways that make the material understandable and accessible.

Specific instructors are chosen for specialty courses and convey their subject matter expertise with proven track records of bringing criminals to justice.

True Security Design’s training curriculum includes Threat Vulnerability and Risk Assessments (TVRA’s), which are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and municipalities, utilities, healthcare facilities, school districts and leading universities to mitigate risk while protecting people and properties.

A TVRA, is comprehensive review of a school or businesses buildings, policies, protocols, staff training and practices, that includes on-site visits, interviews and observations of all aspects of safety and security preparedness.

Following the completed evaluation, True Security Design reports offer a complete detail of findings and a “Road Map for Action” so the client knows exactly how and where to begin to corrective measures and allocate resources appropriately.

“We are honored to be recognized for our student threat assessment and police training achievements in American Security Today’s distinguished 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.” Stated Joseph Pangaro President of True Security Design.

“As a trusted partner to schools and police stations we recognize the difficulties and challenges these professionals face on a daily basis and have designed our training programs to better prepare them which helps alleviate some of the occupational stresses they endure.”

True Security Design Scores Two Platinum in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program

True Security Design

• Best Law Enforcement Education Program

Law Enforcement & Emergency Response Training

• True Security Design teaches today’s modern professionals’ vital skills through courses designed to engage and empower its participants.

• Providing core classes necessary to excel at their profession, True Security Design has also developed courses that bring the officer, investigator, and supervisor to the next level.

• Best Student Threat Assessment Team Training

• Student Based Threat Assessment Team training

• A train the trainer program for school personnel to create a Student Based Threat Assessment Team.

• The team will review, evaluate and respond to any threat with the purpose of identifying the student involved and the potential for danger as well as to intervene before violence erupts.

• Training information is presented in a step by step process to ensure all attendees understand the purpose of the skill taught and how it applies to the over-all assessment process.

• Real Life examples are used to provide background for the training and to help the attendees connect the classroom learning to the real-world activities of actually conducting a threat assessment.

• True Security Design was also recognized in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.

The 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program surpassed expectations with a record number of nominations received from industry leaders and government agencies, and drew over 200 attendees to the ‘ASTORS’ Awards Presentation Banquet – an exclusive gourmet luncheon and networking opportunity which filled to capacity, before having to turn away late registrants.

The event featured an impassioned and compelling keynote address by William J. Bratton, former police commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD) twice, the Boston Police Department (BPD), and former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), as he walked attendees through 50 years of American policing history, the impacts on the communities, and the evolution of critical communication capabilities in our post 9/11 landscape.

Commissioner Bratton, one of the world’s most respected and trusted experts on risk and security issues and Executive Chairman of Teneo Risk a global advisory firm, was recognized as the ‘2019 ‘ASTORS’ Person of the Year’ for his Lifetime of Dedication and Extraordinary Leadership in Homeland Security and Public Safety.

Why the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program?

American Security Today’s comprehensive Annual Homeland Security Awards Program is organized to recognize the most distinguished vendors of physical, IT, port security, law enforcement, and first responders, in acknowledgment of their outstanding efforts to ‘Keep our Nation Secure, One City at a Time.’

Over 200 distinguished guests representing Federal, State and Local Governments, and Industry Leading Corporate Firms, gathered from across North America, Europe and the Middle East to be honored among their peers in their respective fields which included: 

• The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
• United States Marine Corps
• The Federal Protective Service (FPS)
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• United States Postal Inspection Service
• DHS S&T 
• United States Marshals Service (USMS)
• The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Police (PAPD)
• The Department of Justice (DOJ)
• The New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (NYS DHSES)
• United States Border Patrol
• AlertMedia, Ameristar Perimeter Security, Attivo Networks, Automatic Systems, Bellevue University, BriefCam, Canon U.S.A., CornellCookson, Drone Aviation, FLIR Systems, Hanwha Techwin, HID Global, IPVideo Corp., Konica Minolta Business Solutions, LenelS2, ManTech, Regroup Mass Notifications, SafeLogic, SolarWinds, Senstar, ShotSpotter, Smiths Detection, TCOM LP, Trackforce, Verint, and More!

Why American Security Today?

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

American Security Today is uniquely focused on the broader Homeland Security & Public Safety marketplace with over 75,000 readers at the Federal, State and local levels of government as well as firms allied to government.

American Security Today brings forward a fresh compelling look and read with our customized digital publications that hold readers eyes throughout the story with cutting edge editorial that provides solutions to their challenges.

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The AST Digital Publications is distributed to over 75,000 qualified government and homeland security professionals in federal, state and local levels.

‘PROTECTING OUR NATION, ONE CITY AT A TIME’

AST Reaches both Private & Public Experts, essential to meeting these new challenges.

Today’s new generation of public safety and security experts need real-time knowledge to deal with domestic and international terrorism, lone wolf attacks, unprecedented urban violence, shifts in society, culture and media bias – making it increasingly difficult for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Military and Private Security Professionals to implement coordinated security measures to ensure national security and improve public safety.

These experts are from Government at the federal, state and local level as well as from private firms allied to government.

AST provides a full plate of topics in our AST Monthly Magazine Editions, AST Website and AST Daily News Alerts, covering 23 Vital Sectors such as Access Control, Perimeter Protection, Video Surveillance/Analytics, Airport Security, Border Security, CBRNE Detection, Border Security, Ports, Cybersecurity, Networking Security, Encryption, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Campus Security, Security Services, Corporate Facilities, and Emergency Response among others.

AST has Expanded readership into integral Critical Infrastructure audiences such as Protection of Nuclear Facilities, Water Plants & Dams, Bridges & Tunnels, and other potential targets of terrorism.

Other areas of concern include Transportation Hubs, Public Assemblies, Government Facilities, Sporting & Concert Stadiums, our Nation’s Schools & Universities, and Commercial Business Destinations – all enticing targets due to the large number of persons and resources clustered together.

To learn more about the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners solutions, please go to the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Championship Edition Fully Interactive Magazine – the Best Products of 2019 ‘A Year in Review’.

The ‘ASTORS’ Champion Edition is published annually and includes a review of the ‘ASTORS’ Award Winning products and programs, highlighting key details on many of the winning firms products and services, includes video interviews and more.

It is your Go-To source throughout the year for ‘The Best of 2019 Products and Services‘ endorsed by American Security Today, and can satisfy your agency’s and organization’s most pressing Homeland Security and Public Safety needs.

From Physical Security (Access Control, Critical Infrastructure, Perimeter Protection and Video Surveillance Cameras and Video Management Systems), to IT Security (Cybersecurity, Encryption, Data Storage, Anti-Malware and Networking Security – Just to name a few), the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS EDITION will have what you need to Detect, Delay, Respond to, and Mitgate today’s real-time threats in our constantly evolving security landscape.

It also includes featured guest editorial pieces from some of the security industry’s most respected leaders, and recognized firms in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.

True Security Design’s national client base is served by a network of certified trainers and consultants, who are former law enforcement and homeland security trainers.

For further information on our Student Threat Assessments and Police Training Programs, visit www.truesecuritydesign.com or call 631-675-2285.

True Security Design Current Police Training Courses Include:

• 1st Responder Interactions with the Special Needs Community
• Advanced Street Interviews to Uncover Criminal Activity
• Bomb Threat Awareness and Response
• Concealed Compartments
• Conducting Investigations for the Road Cop
• Conducting the Pre-Employment Background Investigations
• Criminal Courtroom Procedure and Testimony
• Crisis Intervention & Verbal De-Escalation
• Domestic Violence: Understanding Abuse Dynamics and Conducting Investigations
• Effective Police Response to Traumatized Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
• Field Training Officer
• Human Trafficking: Understanding the Mindset of the Trafficker and Victims
• HyperDrive-Narcotics Investigation Training
• Internal Affairs Investigations
• Interview and Interrogation
• Juvenile Investigations
• Liquor License Investigation
• Patrol Response to Sexual Assault on College Campuses
• Patrol Tactics
• Planning the Active Shooter Drill
• Police photography
• Sexual Assault Investigations
• Street Gang Recognition and Identification
• Supervision, Leadership and Mentoring for the New Sergeant/Lieutenant
• The Wounded Officer: The Aftermath of a Shooting
• Working Undercover and the tools of the trade
• Working with Informants
• Writing Search Warrants and Affidavits

Law Enforcement Organizations Trained by TSD in the Last Year:

Asbury Park Police Department
Atlantic City Police Department
Barnegat Police
Bayonne Police Department
Beach Haven Police Department
Bergen County Sheriff’s Department
Berkeley Heights Police Department
Berkeley Township Police Department
Bernardsville Police Department
Brick Police Department
Brick Police Department
Brick Township Police Department
Bridgewater Township Police Department
Carteret Police Department
City of Burlington Police Department
City of Long Branch Police Department
City of White Plains Police Department
City of Yonkers Police Department
Clark Police Department
Cliffside Park Police Department
Cranford Police Department
Department of Corrections, NYC
East Hampton Town Police Department
Edgewater Park Township Police Department
Edison Police Department
Elizabeth Police Department
Emerson Police Department
Essex County Department of Corrections
Essex County Sheriff’s Office
Fanwood Police Department
Flemington Borough Police Department
Galloway Township
Galloway Township Police
Garwood Police Department
Hanover Police Department
Hazlet Township Police Department
Hillside Police Department
Hillside Police Department
Hoboken Police Department
Holland Township Police Department
Hudson County Sheriff’s Office
Hunterdon County Police Department
Hunterdon County Prosecutor
Jefferson Township Police
Jersey City Police Department
Kearney Police Department
Lacey Township Police Department
Lakewood Police Department
Linden Police Department
Linden Police Department
Lopatcong Township Police
Manchester Township Police Department
Maplewood Police Department
Marlboro Police Department
Millburn Police Department
Monroe Township Police Department
Morris Plains Police Department
Mount Olive Township Police Department
Nassau County Police Department
Nassau County Sheriff’s Department
New Brunswick Police Department
New Jersey Department of Corrections
New Jersey State Park Police
New Milford Police Department
New Providence Police Department
Newark Police Division
NJ Department of Children and Families or Protective Services
NJ State Park Police
NJ Transit Police
North Bergen Police Department
NYC MTA Police
NYPD
Ocean County Sheriff’s Department
Ocean Township Police Department
Parsippany Police Department
Passaic County Sheriff’s Department
Pemberton Police Department
Perth Amboy Police Department
Plainfield Police
Plainsboro Township Police Department
Point Pleasant Police Department
Pompton Lakes Police Department
Quogue Village Police Department
Rahway Police Department
Readington Township Police Department
Riverhead Police Department
Robbinsville Police Department
Rockville Centre Police Department
Roselle Park Police Department
Rutgers University Public Safety
Secaucus Police Department
Ship Bottom Police Department
Somerset Prosecutors
South Plainfield Police Department
Southampton Village Police Department
Spring Lake Heights Police Department
Suffolk County Police Department
Tenafly Police Department
The College of NJ Police Department
Township of Union Police Department
Union County Prosecutor’s Office
Union County Sheriff’s Office
Union Township Police Department
Utica Police Department
Village of Kings Point Police
Warren Police Department
Waterford Township Police Department
West Milford Township Police Department
West Orange Police Department
Westfield Police Department
Westhampton Beach Police Department
White Plains Police Department
Woodbridge Police Department
Yonkers Police Department