GLOBAL SECURITY AND SAFETY

Criminal Justice Reform

GSS’s criminal justice reform department conducts extensive research into its clients’ criminal justice systems, seeking out their strengths and weaknesses. GSS has conducted numerous criminal justice reform projects in Central and South America, in the Caribbean, as well as in Europe, and has provided best-in-field practices on how to make criminal justice systems more effective and transparent. GSS then presents its findings to its clients, carefully explaining each aspect of the data. GSS helps its clients decide the direction in which to enact the necessary changes. With GSS’s extensive experience, its clients have much deeper insight on how to positively reform their criminal justice systems.

Physical Security

GSS’s physical security department provides its clients with an unbiased initial consultation which highlights their security needs. With this assessment, GSS is able to provide an objective outlook on security issues, and respond to them accordingly. Clients receive detailed understandings of their present threats and vulnerabilities with best-in-field practices, as well as with methods to reduce them. GSS develops solutions which will effectively mitigate risk, while also keeping in mind the client’s budgets.

Threat Assessment / Risk Mitigation

Critical Infrastructure/Facility Security & Safety

A strong commitment to safety protects lives and property and pays financial dividends by minimizing liability and reducing insurance costs. Conversely, the failure to properly address security issues heightens the human, property, and financial risk.

The GSS team helps clients effectively address security/life safety planning at all stages, from design to implementation to day-to-day management. Whether the client is a foreign government working to secure its growing critical infrastructure, an international corporation seeking to provide secure and fire safe working facilities for its employees at home or abroad, or a major university trying to create a more secure campus environment for its students, GSS employs state-of-the-art technology and industry leading standards to identify risks and mitigate threats.

Our expertise in executive protection, personal security, and obtaining the latest and most accurate intelligence with regard to a region or event assists executives in making informed decisions to protect their entity’s most critical asset –its people. Most importantly, GSS fulfills every engagement in a manner that recognizes cost, practicality, and the underlying essence and purpose of the property being secured.

Emergency Management

An institution’s ability to respond swiftly and effectively to emergency situations and to keep its operations running without interruption can be the difference between overcoming a short-term situation and confronting a long-term crisis. Whether responding to a criminal incident, act of terrorism, fire, or natural disaster, governments and corporations require comprehensive and integrated plans, clear protocols, and highly trained employees to respond to the wide variety of health, safety, and economic issues that can converge during an emergency situation.

The GSS Team employs a holistic approach to crisis management. It integrates the practices and strategies developed and successfully deployed throughout the Giuliani Administration with those of its network of law enforcement/life safety experts and consulting architects and engineers to assist organizations in properly planning for, and responding to, crisis situations. From developing rapid response plans and protocols, to advising on the proper design and function of a state-of-the-art Emergency Operation Center, to planning and coordinating table-top exercises and live action simulations, GSS works collaboratively with its clients to ensure that regardless of the contingency, the client is prepared, the response is effective, and the disruption is minimized.

Services include:

Emergency Response Plans & Protocols Development
Crisis Communication: Procedures and Technologies
Fire Safety/Evacuation Planning/Life Safety Corporate Facilities Design
WMD/Biological/Chemical Terrorism Prevention and Response
Management/Employee Training
Business Continuity Planning
Independent Advice on “Best in Class” Security/Life Safety Technologies, Solutions and Products

Investigations

In today’s global business market, corporations, government entities, and law firms often find themselves without the resources to gather essential intelligence or conduct comprehensive investigations into critical and often highly sensitive matters.

GSS offers highly trained consultants with expertise that include investigative strategies and techniques, legal practice, forensic accounting, and international intelligence. GSS professionals are adept at utilizing their unique backgrounds and access to a wide variety of data sources—domestic and abroad—to provide clients with critical information that is comprehensive, cohesive, and discreet.

Investigative Due Diligence

The failure to uncover critical information prior to an acquisition or other business transaction can have enormous consequences on a business’s viability, reputation, and brand. GSS’ global network of investigative experts provides information not found in a company prospectus or balance sheet.

Due diligence efforts include the deep and intensive data mining of public records, corporate filings, media reports, online databases, and other information sources for information pertaining to:

Financial History
Criminal History
Civil Litigation
Corporate Structure, Physical Presence, History, and Background
Professional Reputation
Regulatory Issues
Political Affiliations
Character and Integrity of Board Members/Executives
Newsworthy Events/Media Reports

Upon request, GSS investigators will complement and expand conventional data mining efforts by accessing industry experts, performing site visits, and interviewing government, regulatory, or corporate representatives and other pertinent individuals including customers, employees, and industry competitors. Upon completion of the analyses, all relevant information is synthesized into a comprehensive report designed to arm the client with the facts required to make informed decisions.

Internal Investigations

In today’s environment of ever-increasing litigation and potentially expanding liability for corporations and their principals, the need for access to timely and accurate intelligence has never been greater. Whether the issue is corporate fraud, sexual harassment, or theft of intellectual property, corporate managers and their legal representatives are finding they need independent, trained fact-finders to properly gather and synthesize critical evidence and data.

With decades of experience, GSS consultants are adept at conducting in-depth, thorough, and exhaustive investigations to determine the scope, severity, and best response to the issue or incident at hand. Areas of expertise include, but are not limited to:

Criminal Acts/Civil Wrongs
Management/Employee Misconduct, Theft and/or Fraud
Claims Concerning Unfair Employment Practices, Discrimination, Harassment, Wrongful Termination
Theft/Misuse of Intellectual Property/Computer Systems/Technology
Conflict of Interest Inquiries
Corporate Compliance with Legal/Regulator/Ethical Standards
Computer Forensics
Employee/Vendor Integrity Screening

The GSS team works closely and collaboratively with senior managers to ensure comprehensive and confidential inquires. Emphasis is placed on the proper gathering of admissible evidence and providing practical advice on the best steps to address the matter at hand and best approach to prevent recurrence.

Civil Litigation Support

Legal experts agree cases are won and costly litigation is avoided in the preparation phase, when crucial data is gathered and strategies are devised. The Giuliani Team’s global expertise in investigative practice, law, and the latest technological tools make them a critical ally to law firms and legal departments. Services include:

Witness Location—Background Due Diligence
Asset Tracing & Recovery
Incident Site Security—Evidence Collection
Computer Forensics—Analysis, Electronic File Recovery
Investigating White Collar Crime/Money Laundering/Internal Fraud

Forensic Accounting

The growing sophistication of today’s businesses has made forensic accounting an indispensable component of the investigative process.

The GSS Team provides in-depth financial investigative services and advice to help companies mitigate losses from corporate frauds, criminal investigations, shareholder/partnerships disputes, mediation and arbitration, and business interruption.

Services include:

Analysis of Fraudulent Financial Reporting
Investigation of Defalcations, including Misappropriation of Assets
Investigating Improper/Unauthorized Expenditures and Self-Dealing
Performance of Internal Control and Fraud Risk Assessments
Providing Investigative Support with regard to Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
Investigative Support and Advice regarding SEC Inquiries

Investigation and Analysis of Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) Matters including Accountant Malpractice Defense

Testimonials

During President Juan Manuel Santos’ visit yesterday to the System of Metropolitan Emergencies and Security in Medellin, which followed a teleconference with Police Commanders from ten main cities in the country that analyzed cell phone theft, President Santos highlighted the results of the pilot “Hot Spots” intervention project that was conducted in the City of Medellin.

President Santos stated that the pilot “Hot Spots” intervention project was put into place after former New York City Mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani’s visit to Colombia in March. Mayor Giuliani helped design the “Hot Spots” strategy in the areas that City Hall and the Police focused on.
A study was conducted by the Universidad de los Andres on the impact of the “Hot Spots” pilot program, and their results were submitted to President Santos yesterday. President Santos indicated that the conclusion of their analysis highlighted that there was a reduction in all criminal activity, specifically stating that there was a 70 percent reduction in criminal activity in the “Hot Spots” zones and filed complaints increased from 30 percent to 67 percent. There was an increase approximately by 20 percent in the perception people had in regards to police presence, due to the police doubling their amount of patrolling from 55 minutes to 101 minutes, and theft of vehicles had a 46 percent reduction. Due to the success of the pilot “Hot Spots” program, this plan will be implemented through the rest of the country.

Cell Phone Theft
President Santos stated that the strategy to combat cell phone theft began on August 20th.

In 2014, Colombia had over one million stolen cell phones – an illegal business that generates more than four hundred million dollars per year.
President Santos made a statement, “Today, after coordinating with the Police, Prosecutors, Dian, Ministry of Tics, Mayors and the private sector, we have obtained the following results: Theft has fallen by 15 percent, sixty-nine thousand cell phones have been recovered, twenty nine [illegal] organizations have been dismantled, and ten thousand five hundred people have been prosecuted for having committed this crime. One thousand sixteen hundred businesses have been intervened with, and in each city they look to capture the 18 most wanted for this crime, whom have already been identified.
President Santos explained that any phone with a suspicious origin will be turned off. He continued to say, “Up until now, they have [turned off] more than four hundred thousand and from here until June of 2016, they will tum off at least two and a half million more … ”
The Mayor of Medellin, Mayor Anibal Gaviria said that it is very clear that there are twenty-nine illegal networks, and that a strategy has been put into place and that the leaders of these networks have been identified.

Juan Manuel SantosColombia President

First of all, let me express to you my deep respect and sincere gratitude, Mr. Giuliani, for finding time and opportunity to visit Kharkiv city in November 2017, as well as for the expert support which you and the representatives of Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, chaired by the Chief Executive Officer John P. Huvane, have made for Kharkiv in the sphere of security.

Today the examination of international experience is the most significant direction of work for city authorities. In this connection, I am grateful to you for such a detailed analysis of the situation, as well as for your recommendations on how to make Kharkiv a safe city.

I am convinced that the report which you have provided, “Kharkiv – Safety and Security”, will become a new strategy for ensuring security in our city and will also initiate more effective interaction of the municipality with all city services in order to create comfortable living conditions for the residents of our city.

Sincerely,

Gennadiy Kernes

Mayor of Kharkiv

Gennadiy KernesMayor of Kharkiv