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Security Consulting Firm Offers Schools
Free Security Plan Summary

(August 2006) School administrators are faced with a new concern that is more challenging than providing students with the best possible education. That challenge is protecting students, faculty, staff, buildings and grounds. In the wake of violence such as the recent shooting in Tennessee, administrators are searching for help to identify potential threats.

From 1999 and 2002, the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education conducted a study of school shootings and other school-based attacks. The studies provide school districts with information that could help prevent school shootings by assessing potential shooters' pre-attack behavior. The report defines how the lessons learned from the study can be implemented at any school district.

Business Protection Specialists (BPS), a Canandaigua-based international security consulting firm, has written an executive summary of the study and its findings, and is offering copies to school administrators at no charge. A copy can be downloaded from www.securingpeople.com/threatassessment.asp. BPS president Frank Pisciotta says the Secret Service's complete 150 page report can be downloaded from www.ustreas.gov/usss/nat_ssi.shml.

Pisciotta believes that only one school district in New York State has fully implemented this program. "It's free and easy to implement," he says, "For a school to not implement it is unconscionable. That's why Business Protection Specialists summarized the lengthy report and is making school districts and the public aware of this free resource.”

Since 1990, Business Protection Specialists has been working with public and private sector organizations to prevent security incidents and crime. The firm, whose offices are at 250 Gorham Street in Canandaigua, has clients around the world.

For further information, contact:
Duane Pancoast, APR
The Pancoast Concern, Ltd.
27 Maple Avenue
Victor, NY 14564
T: 585.924.4570
F: 585.924.2929