SafeWatch Team™
Discretion. Collection. Actionable Information.
Since 1995
Field-based protective intelligence support for threat assessment and management teams during credible threats of workplace violence, providing timely, actionable insight to support informed decision-making. Core team members have successfully worked together for more than 12 years across numerous complex and sensitive assignments throughout Southern California.
The SafeWatch Team™ is comprised of qualified full-time field practitioners with deep experience in discreetly gathering information in complex, high-sensitivity situations⎯always in full compliance with legal and ethical standards. Information is immediately analyzed and the intelligence product provided to the TAMT. The team's historical successes on difficult assignments are largely due to street savvy core team members having worked together over 12 years on high-stakes assignments in Southern California. The client base includes Threat Assessment & Management Teams, leading California universities, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, small businesses and Fortune 1000. The following are a small sample of field-level protective intelligence findings the SafeWatch Team™ has provided Threat Assessment & Management Teams during credible threats of violence on a targeted person, school or workplace: ✔ Video evidence of Person of Concern (POC) violating a TRO. ✔ Identified friends and relatives of POC, which led to TAMT contacting said identified persons for a successful intervention. ✔ Knowing POC's activity and location 24/7, which reduced stress levels of employees working at the targeted employer ⎯ versus not knowing POC's activity and location during the time of a threatened violent attack. ✔ Determined POC’s vehicle and plate number so posted security at the targeted workplace could be on lookout for said POC's vehicle if the SafeWatch element were directed to discontinue watching POC. ✔ POC video recorded by SafeWatch members as POC put up a sign at his residence indicating possession of prohibited weapon, which said evidentiary video was used to help Los Angeles County Sheriff secure a search warrant for POC residence. ✔ Observations of outward behaviors by POCs, to include wearing tee-shirts with violent logos and POC associating with identified persons who had criminal records of violence.
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Knowing a Person of Concern's real-time activity and location should be an important option of a plan to protect a person, workplace or school from a violent attack.
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❝If you are a CEO, General Counsel or Human Resource executive and there is a current threat of a workplace violence attack, you may want to ask the person charged with protecting your employees if she/he knows the current activity and location of the Person of Concern who has made the violent threat. If not, why not?❞
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Consideration of conducting a SafeWatch on a Person of Concern in real time is recommended by ASIS/SHRM WVP.1-2011 as part of official protocol for managing a threat and preventing a violent attack. American National Standards Institute ASIS/SHRM WVP.1-2011 http://ansi.org There are sound reasons not to conduct a SafeWatch on a POC, and there are sound reasons and/or a legal duty why an employer should conduct a SafeWatch. This sample memo template from a Threat Assessment & Management Team to C-Suite leadership provides an outline for employing a SafeWatch to discreetly monitor a Person of Concern in real time: Sample Memo Template
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California employers' duty to protect employees from workplace violence pursuant to California law SB 553
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The SafeWatch Team™ serves as a private-sector option when law enforcement cannot discreetly monitor a POC in real time.

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Video evidence⎯A SafeWatch Team™ practitioner video records evidence of a celebrity stalker violating a Temporary Restraining Order. We are the only known field-level team whose core members have worked together successfully in Southern California for over 12 years.
SafeWatch Team™ conducts counter-surveillance for client en route to Staples Center (now Crypto Arena). Principal was under a credible threat of violence from stalker.
Mike Wolivar took above photo during part of a successful high-stakes private intelligence operation that he and team members conducted, which identified suspects and the location of a large part of $ 7,000,000 in stolen high-technology.

Evidence and suspect names then provided to law enforcement who effected arrests and search warrants, and continued investigation of the alleged organized crime group. Evidence indicated group sought to transport high technology out of U.S.
Video evidence⎯Cash is handed to our SafeWatch undercover practitioner for highly secured not-yet-released to public items. The identification of seller led to identification of inside persons who allegedly committed theft from client, an entertainment company.

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