Immigration Enforcement Training
Behavior Analysis and Observational Techniques
Passenger Security Risk Assessment
Cayman Islands
November 7 – 11, 2011
Immigrations Officers from the Cayman Islands Immigration Department will participate in the Observational Techniques and Behavior Analysis course. This training course is part of the Homeland Security plan for the Cayman Islands, and is focused on Immigration Enforcement to prevent Illegal immigration and Terrorism. The course emphasizes Deceptive Indicators that can be observed by the officer while performing their duties, and is a crucial piece to the overall security program that also involves Customs, Police, and Aviation Security.
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Cayman Islands Immigration, Cayman Islands Nov 7-11, 2011
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Turks and Caicos Immigration
Turks and Caicos Island Immigration Department
Immigrations Officers from Turks and Caicos Island completed the Basic course on Observational Techniques and Behavior Analysis course. This training course is part of the new Homeland Security plan for the Turks and Caicos Island, and focus on Immigration Enforcement to prevent Illegal immigration and Terrorism.
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Behavior Observation Techniques and Passenger Screening
The Observation of Behavior and the Techniques necessary to analyze Behavior during the Passenger Screening Process at airports, Cruise ship, and public transportation terminals require specialized training that can discern between the nervous but innocent traveler, and the subject that is trying to gain illegal access, the one that is attempting to bypass a restricted item through security, or the one that is travelling with altered documents.
Behavior Observation Techniques for officers responsible for Airport Security, Port Security, Bus and Rail Security requires an understanding of Human Behavior in a Transportation Terminal Setting, the ability to select passengers out of a line in the screening process based on Deceptive Behavior, known as “Behavior Profiling,” and an understanding of the current rules and regulations that guide the security of the transportation system.
Transportation Security and Behavior Observation Techniques
Understanding and knowing how a perpetrator behaves in a bus, train, sea port, or airport terminal is the first step towards passenger security screening. When we consider that 99% of the traveling public is not involved in an illegal activity that requires action on the part of the officer, Security Interviewing Techniques play a crucial role on How “Deceptive Behavior” or “Tell Tale Indicators” are recognized, identified, and communicated across all groups responsible for the security Screening of the passengers. “Behavior Profiling” defines the ground work for Behavior Observation Techniques. This process requires a common terminology between the Airline Security, Airport Security, Port Security, Ground Security, Transportation Security, and Law Enforcement. This concept has slowly gained the acceptance and inclusion into the regulations and codes that guide Transportation Security.
Behavior Observation Techniques require a common language based on “Deceptive Behavior” for all stake holders in Transportation Security Screening, taking in consideration communication among Law Enforcement and non Law Enforcement groups. Behavior Observation Techniques in a Ground, Port, and Airport Terminal Setting can improve screening of Passengers at Security checkpoints, and expedite Passenger Screening. Ultimately, it is the constant adaptation of the Transportation Security codes and regulations to include and recognize the application of Behavior Observation Techniques in Transportation Security. More info
Improving Border Security
Cayman Islands Government – 30 November 2007
Border security in the Cayman Islands has been strengthened with the training of 23 officers in the use of observational techniques and behavioural analysis. A group of 18 immigration officers, three members of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, and two officers from HM Prisons Northward have been trained in the science of utilising observational techniques and behavioural analysis to identify passengers who could pose potential security risk at the island’s port of entries.
Chief Immigration Officer Franz Manderson said that such training is relevant in a time of heightened security globally. He said that in today’s environment officers had to be routinely prepared to respond to potential threats to border security whether at the Islands’ airports or at the seaports. The training is effective in “streamlining passenger inspection flow by identifying with increased speed and accuracy that minute percentage of individuals who may require closer scrutiny, detection and apprehension.”
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Border Security Training For Law Enforcement
Radio Cayman - 06/12/2007
Border security in the Cayman Islands and many countries utilize the techniques routinely to combat drug smuggling, terrorism, and illegal immigration; to strengthen airline and airport security; and in general law enforcement procedures. Mr. Ellis said the system is currently being used by the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the US Department of Customs and Border Protection to assess and evaluate passenger behaviour and to determine appropriate actions.
The Deputy Chief Immigration Officer in charge of Border Security, Mr. Bruce Smith, said that the intensive five-day course will assist officers involved in border security to be more effective in carrying out their functions of protecting the territory’s borders.
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Airport Security training at Tocumen
by Tomás García A.
The Panama News – July 2, 2005
On June 17 Tocumen Airport witnessed the closing ceremony and distribution of certificates for the successful completion of a seminar entitled “Basic Observation Techniques and Behavior Analysis” by members of various entities involving airport security, including the Security Department, Customs, Immigration and several airline companies.
The seminar, which had been taking place since May 16, involved the training in detection and identification of behavioral profiles common among terrorists, drug traffickers, smugglers and other international lawbreakers. This identification is done solely through the observation of individuals, in particular searching for hints of deception in their physiological and psychological responses to external stimuli such as the regular questioning done in the Immigration area. “It’s common sense, but the idea of detecting drug traffickers through such a method is a breakthrough,” said Khadhir Tuñon. “I feel a great satisfaction after understanding how to use these observation techniques in an organized and methodical way.”
The seminar was sponsored by Tocumen SA Panama, with the collaboration of the Narcotics Affairs Section at the US Embassy in Panama and the US Department of Homeland Security. The final ceremony consisted of an initial discourse by Doug Dupre, Homeland Security attache at the US Embassy, a speech by the Tocumen SA’s CEO Carlos Garcia Molino and the final presentation of certificates to the last of four groups that have taken the courses throughout the four weeks.
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Cayman Immigration Staff Members Receive Training
Cayman Islands Government – 30 July 2002
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Transportation Security Training and Security Administration
Mass Transit Security / Bus Terminal Security / Rail Security / Train Terminal Security
Since the bombing rail-attacks (Madrid, March 2004 and London, July 2005), vulnerability of passenger rail systems to terrorist threat has called for changes in the security of Surface transportation systems such as railroads and mass transit.
Designed to cover areas with the highest risk and threat to rail and transit security systems, and focused on surface Terminal Access, passenger check in areas, Security check points, food courts, lobby, in-transit and passenger boarding areas. This specialized Training for Rail, Bus, Ground Terminal personnel, and Law Enforcement Authorities responsible for security at Bus Terminals, Train Terminals, and Multimodal Transportation Terminals, complements Customer Service, Ground Transportation Security, Safety, and Emergency Response training programs.
Behavior Analysis and Observational Techniques - Focuses directly on the Human factor. Considered the greatest risk to the security of the rail and mass transit transportation Industry, the common element in the security screening of passengers, and crucial in the detection of Deceptive Behavior displayed by a terrorist, a drug smuggler, or criminal as they attempt to gain access to buses, trains or to sensitive areas of terminals and the transportation system.
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