by Micheal Delamere | Jul 16, 2015 | Related Local Business
The number of violent crimes reported in the U.S. fell by more than 4% last year, compared with the year before, and it’s down almost 15% in the past 10 years, according to the FBI.
Despite the nation’s improving crime rates, and an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras now deployed nationwide, many large U.S. cities are still considered dangerous. Nationwide, 368 violent crimes were reported for every 100,000 people in 2013. Such crimes include murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery. In America’s 10 most dangerous cities, there were more than 1,300 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed violent crime rates among the nation’s cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Based on violent crime data published by the FBI’s 2013 Uniform Crime Report, these are America’s most dangerous cities.
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by Micheal Delamere | May 20, 2015 | Related Local Business
For many companies, their intangible assets of patents, copyrights, trademarks, domain names and trade secrets represent the majority of their value. Entrepreneurs are often proactive and file for domestic and international patents, copyrights and trademarks.
However, after representing entrepreneurs for more than 20 years, I remain dismayed by how frequently entrepreneurs fail to implement procedures to protect their trade secrets and confidential information.
All too often, I receive a call from a panicked CEO concerned about a key salesperson who has stolen the customer list, or about someone who has made inadvertent posts online.
Well-implemented procedures for protecting trade secrets and confidential information may help a company protect their valuable intangible assets. Here are 11 strategies to consider:
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by Micheal Delamere | Mar 20, 2015 | Related Local Business
A chilling phone call highlights some of the techniques that criminals in Honduras use to extort their victims, underscoring the ways in which extortion gangs take advantage of the country’s precarious security situation to instill fear.
In the recording of an extortion call obtained by the Honduran media, a man who identifies himself as “Mafia,” the leader of a gang with the same name, demands that the owners of a bus company pay him around $4,760 and a weekly “war tax.”
“If not,” the criminal states, “we are going to have it out with the owners of the buses and we’re going to burn them alive.”
During the call, “Mafia” tells the victim to meet him the following day at 11 a.m. and warns him not to contact the police or turn off his cellphone. He then describes threats the gang carried out in two of Tegucigalpa’s most violent neighborhoods, La Torre and Flor de Campo.
“We charged [another bus company] rent in Flor de Campo and we killed one of them because they didn’t believe us at the beginning. So if you don’t believe us, listen to me closely, because later I’m going to make you listen…if you don’t believe us the same thing is going to happen to you as happened in La Torre and Flor de Campo with me, get it?”
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by Micheal Delamere | Feb 20, 2015 | Related Local Business
By: Malia Zimmerman
Published February 25, 2015
FoxNews.com
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Michael Delamere, founder of Seattle-based Premier Risk Solutions, built his company largely on training security personnel for Fortune 1000 corporations and providing on-the-ground protection for corporate executives in areas where terrorists and drug cartels flourish.
His teams have faced down danger in Mexico, the Philippines and, more recently, in Nigeria, where the militant Islamic group Boko Haram has carved out a territory of its own in the blood of innocent countrymen. Last month, Premier Risk hosted a delegation of top security officials from Saudi Arabia for a wide-ranging training program that touched on crime, security, communications and emergency management.
Delamere, who has been in the security industry for 17 years, specializes in protecting his clients from terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, Hamas and Hezbollah.
Although Premier Risk has provided training to Saudi clients, it monitors the threat and tactics of terrorist groups mainly to protect clients who must travel into harm’s way. He said companies like his are also in greater demand than ever.
by Micheal Delamere | Feb 18, 2015 | Related Local Business
Executive protection professionals are facing unprecedented challenges—downsizing, layoffs, and a general negative attitude toward senior executives at every level. Training continues to be essential, especially now when executive protection is being asked to do more with less. Whether top corporate executives, wealthy or famous families, dignitaries, diplomats, religious leaders, celebrities, politicians, or military leaders—they are counting on a professional to guide them through the inevitable risk-prone situation!
This comprehensive program is designed to cover the skills and procedures required to provide effective personal protection and meet the needs of a full range of student interest, from entry-level to seasoned practitioners—planning, research, intelligence, networking, and the art of executive protection. Real case studies are used—ones that reinforce these techniques and teach best practices—with less emphasis on the GUN.
Immediate benefits of participation in this program include:
- Learn executive protection’s underlying philosophies and the mindset that drives both the protection specialist and a professional protection program.
- Understand what it takes to succeed in this highly specialized profession and how to prepare for an entry-level position.
- Develop the benchmarks of a thorough advance survey.
- Learn the critical significance of the choreography of protection.
- Review real-world residential and workplace issues.
- Examine transportation security issues—both domestic and international—and bullet-resistant vehicles.
- Learn counter-surveillance techniques and their application to modern protection methods.
Premier Risk Solutions LLC President, Michael Delamere, has attended and successfully completed this certificate program in Executive Protection.
by Micheal Delamere | Feb 18, 2015 | Crime
By one watchdog’s count, about 86 percent of the world’s most violent cities are based in Latin America, a phenomenon that has remained constant for the past four years.
According to the non-governmental organization Mexican Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice (or the CCSP-JP by its Spanish acronym), the world’s most violent cities are predominantly found in Latin America. (The NGO explains its sources and methodology for calculating each city’s homicide rate in a report accompanying the list.)
The CCSP-JP has released this list every year since 2011, and comparing them helps illustrate a few interesting trends regarding homicide rates in the region.
by Micheal Delamere | Feb 15, 2015 | Surveillance & Security
BOGOTA, Colombia — Their names he never knew, but their faces he could never forget. At the end of every month, men using aliases such as “Smelly Feet” and “Grandpa” casually slipped into the backseat of his unlicensed taxi, a rusting 1985 Chevette, to demand their payment.
For years, drivers of pirate cabs in the sprawling slum of Usme, on the southern outskirts of Bogota, had no choice but to pay up. Either that or risk watching extorters set ablaze their cars or hurt their loved ones.
“Whenever I left my house I looked behind my back,” said the driver, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fear for his safety. Eventually, he mustered the courage to denounce the racket to police who, months later, launched an armed sweep.
“They were so sure of themselves,” he said, recalling with fright the terror he lived with. “They never thought they’d be caught.”
For many Colombians, the threat of such shakedowns remains.
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