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Security & Risk Consulting Services - National Service - Security Consultant Team

Thomas Lekan, C.P.P.
(Certified Protection Professional)

Senior Vice President, Security Consulting & Investigations

Tom is the primary security consultant delivering high level security consulting services from Search First to organizations around the U.S. He is a leading security practitioner and consultant who is locally and nationally known in the professional security field. Tom appears with some regularity on radio shows, in trade magazines, and in newspapers – featured in U.S.A. Today, for example. In addition, he teaches college courses and lectures on security and safety issues, economic crime management, crisis response, and many other topics.
Drawing upon his in-depth experience as Director of Security & Safety for all of the Nestle Corporation operations, Chief Security Officer for KeyBank, N.A., and as Security Consultant for Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, he delivers high quality consulting and results. At KeyBank, Tom developed and managed an investigative and security staff of 150 providing services in this 25,000 employee organization with over 1,000 locations, responsible for all critical investigative and security functions. Please see additional background below and briefs on expertise of the security consultant team.

Expert Witness: Expert witness in and consultant on matters of allegations of negligent security and liability, security in general.
Investigative Support: General investigative support for law firms and individual attorneys and other organizations.
Security Risk Assessment: Identifying weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and providing for plans and application of countermeasures proven to reduce risk and liability. Plan and security plan consultant.
Physical & Electronic Security: Security system and protection design consultant, with consulting for buildings, corporations, and executive homes, from alarms to access control and more.
Employment Security Issues: Executive level investigative expertise for employment issues relating to harassment or discrimination, as well as general ethics, white collar crime, fraud, and business conduct. Expert in planning and training in workplace violence. Planning for difficult or potentially dangerous terminations and other employee matters.
Training & Education: Conducting workshops and seminars for industry groups, individual companies, and clients regarding security, investigations, managing economic losses from crime, identity management, and protecting consumer information. Accomplished speaker for industry, legal, human resource, or boardroom level presentations regarding economic crime management, loss control, and vulnerability and liability mitigation.

Executive & Family Protection: Protection services ranging from design of systems to providing family information and coaching, the main purpose being to reduce exposure to harm and prevent loss to wealthy or highly recognized individuals and families.

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We serve:

Businesses, institutions, organizations in diverse industries - small to Fortune 500
Human Resources - Personnel Depts.
Law Firms, Attorneys, CPAs, Professionals
Security Pros & Depts.
Utilities, Electric, Gas, Water, Critical Infrastructure Organizations
Banks, Credit Unions, Finance, etc.

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Product Tampering: Security consultant and consulting on product tampering, investigations, and applications of countermeasures.
Physical Security & Security Personnel: Strike and crisis planning and event management services. School safety and security planning and consulting. Consultant on other security measures, safety, fire protection, or critical incident management matters. Due Diligence investigation services and employee background services, with consulting on the use and application of security officer and guard services. Special security services consultant.
Security Management Services: Security consultant and consulting on setting up comprehensive security programs, methods, and measures across the entire range of security applications to prevent loss, reduce risk and liability, and protect assets.
Security Coach for Executives, Law Firms, Security Managers, or Security Directors - Coaching and Consultant Services: If you are an executive who finds that responsibility for "security" functions has been placed in your charge as one more important hat to wear, we can help you substantially. Reinventing the wheel can be costly in the extreme, and it is all too easy to unknowingly take an action that ends in damage or disaster, both large and small. If you're the executive that has placed someone in that position, we can help them navigate what is actually a very specialized area that is fraught with pitfalls, dangers, and liability when security functions aren't performed to standards or with insufficient documentation. With more aspects to security emerging than ever before in American business, even security managers and directors run into problems and areas that are foreign, not in their experience or training, new areas of risk where the right actions aren't sure or known. Tom Lekan has coached many new business and security executives, senior executives, and board members with great success, using experience and methods that decidedly make a difference. With the experience of creating security programs from A to Z in three major corporations, including helping a law firm establish their own security protocols, this level of security coaching can save a huge amount of time, money, and prevent considerable loss that at present may seem unforeseen. However, loss may loom on the horizon. Unwise actions and errors of judgment and mistakes of magnitude are documented in the newspapers and in balance sheets.

SECURITY CONSULTANT TEAM

Thomas Lekan, C.P.P.
Senior Vice President, Security Consulting & Investigations

Tom Lekan is the primary security consultant and security consulting manager for Search First. See his background and areas of expertise above.
To arrange any and all consulting services, contact Tom directly.

Tom > Office, HQ: 1-888-807-3272

- SECURITY CONSULTANTS -

Thomas Lekan, CPP
Robert Tempero
Charles Patten

Note: Partial list - not all consultants appear here - listing just begun

Robert Tempero

Brief: 30 years experience in all phases of corporate security, including bank, financial, insurance, and other facilities and operations

Physical Security – Risk based assessment for all aspects, from construction to alarms to security designs to video to terrorist threats

External Fraud Investigation – Assessment of potential threat and vulnerabilities - development of risk-based solutions for external fraud, policies and procedures, law enforcement liaison, staff development, interaction with foreign governments and court officials.

Internal Fraud Investigation - Development and implementation of risk based policies and procedures to reduce potential for internal fraud, Development of investigative staff and support group

Executive Protection - Training for executives at all levels, from Board of Directors to front line staff, from a risk based perspective, secure sites, offices, clear and workable policies and procedures

Facilities - Facilities construction and management, including branch offices, primary data centers, cash vaults, home and regional offices, project management , design development, negotiations

Insurance Risk Management - Management of insurance and risk transfer program using a risk based approach; management of brokerage firms and direct negotiations with individual underwriters, most all types of insurance.

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Charles (Chuck) Patten

FACILITY SECURITY AND FIRE/LIFE SAFETY CONSULTANT

Charles (Chuck) Patten is a US Navy Veteran, Former US Secret Service Agent, Chief of Police and Corporate Security Executive with over 30 years of experience including Corporate Security and Life Safety management, Contract Security, Security Investigations, Background Screening, Special Event Security and Law Enforcement. Mr. Patten has a proven track record of developing innovative Security and Emergency Response strategies for a wide variety of property types and business models.

Chuck Patten:

MAJOR POSITIONS

Chief of Police:

As a Chief of Police for a small, developing department, Chuck instituted a full-time officer recruitment program, developed professional, internal training programs and policy and procedural guidelines, established a bureau of investigations, upgraded uniform standards, added tactical response equipment, opened the department to community action response by establishing patrol speed and traffic safety zones and was a key player in the Safety Patrol education program in the local schools. Chuck was a leading member of the area Chiefs of Police Association and helped to develop a program that provided a coordinated, multi agency emergency response and mutual aid program to insure quick, local action to critical incidents.

Special Agent:

As a Special Agent with the US Secret Service, in addition to assigned criminal investigative and undercover duties, Chuck served as a detail agent for two Presidents and a President Elect. He was a member of an Agent advance team for an “around the world tour” of a USSS protectee. He served as a lead advance Agent during two Presidential campaign tours, coordinating area law enforcement response teams, providing threat assessment and logistical guidelines for a safe security environment in a variety of facility types: High Rise buildings, airport hangars and terminals, schools and university campus areas, light and heavy manufacturing plants, outdoor stadiums, inside arenas, flat land event sites and developed parade route security plans through heavily populated urban environments.

Security; Special Events:

As a business owner and security consultant Chuck has provided expert security advice to multiple facility types, delivered event staff security teams and advisors to concert venues throughout the US. Chuck served as the security advance coordinator for, and traveled with, the Cleveland Orchestra on a world tour. Chuck has provided professional security advice and planning for multiple, large outdoors concert events and festivals and served as the primary security consultant for MCA/Universal and its many outdoor concert facilities throughout the US and provided security consulting to House of Blues concert venues.

Security, Fire/Life Safety; High Rise, Commercial / Manufacturing Facilities:

As a Director, National Security for a Fortune 500 company with over 700 high rise facilities throughout the US, Chuck established and developed portfolio wide, regional exception, emergency response plans, security officer deployment strategies, first- responder /on-site security interaction protocols, standardized security equipment guidelines, security contract training and performance standards and a central security incident, review and after action report process. This “corporate” experience has provided Chuck with the personal tools and insight to understand and work in and with a corporate directed team environment. Chuck also served as the Director of Security and Fire/Life Safety for the largest high rise developer and property management company in Los Angels with direct authority for two of the largest high rise projects in LA, including the signature, Library Tower. After 9/11, Chuck served as a consultant for Vance International providing threat assessments and security enhancement advice to high-rise properties, bank operation centers, private airport hangars, and other critical infrastructures facilities throughout the US. Chuck has also designed security systems: CCTV, alarms, DVR’s, for regional bank branch locations and central operations areas. Chuck has developed over 40 original security related forms to guide, audit and evaluate security operations in a variety of facility types.

Chuck is skilled in facility threat assessment, process improvement and management of vendor contracts with strong skills in communicating safety and security needs and gaining consensus and buy-in from business leaders. He is detail oriented, an excellent communicator, highly motivated and able to make decisions in high-pressure situations. Chuck holds a Top Secret clearance and is a contract Special Investigator for The Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

EXPERTISE, FOCUS

Expert in Conducting Site Surveys and Vulnerability Assessments: Specializes in evaluating security force operational preparedness for both emergency response, including fire life/safety and day-to-day activities. Has surveyed and assessed over 700 class “A” high-rise buildings throughout the US.
Security and Concert Event Consultant: Developed a pre-concert briefing sheet, including an evacuation plan for all staff, a pocket-style post description pamphlet, the "Safety Team" approach to event staff positions, temporary command centers for extraordinary events; law enforcement/security coordinated training & response teams; certified, four level, event security training courses with certificate award programs.
Audit of Security: Audits security contract against services being delivered; establish an RFP for new security proposals, develops and designs security reports and scenario training formats, prepares emergency procedures, evaluates and critiques the procedures and manuals in use and will evaluate, and make recommendations related to, the electronic security tools being used by security at the facility including; cameras, video recorders, access control, alarms, communication tools, etc. Will also evaluate and make recommendations regarding the policies, procedures, and training programs in place for the use and maintenance of such security tools.

Professional Affiliations and Accomplishments:

American Society for Law Enforcement Training
International Security Management and Crime Prevention Institute
International Association Counterterrorism and Security Professionals
National Criminal Justice Association
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association
Association of Former Agents of the U.S. Secret Service
State of Florida, State of Florida Class C & G License and Concealed Weapons Permit.

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