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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify threats
   • Identify threats for risk management purposes
   • Consult with stakeholders to confirm operations, goals and objectives
   • Review sufficiency and validity of existing threat assessment to understand current context
   • Identify threat assessment context through researching good practice, alternative options and expert opinions
2. Analyse threats
   • Determine the nature of the threat to support risk management
   • Determine confidence and desire of threat to assess indicators of intent
   • Determine resources and knowledge of threat to assess indicators of capability
   • Analyse indicators of intent and capability to determine likelihood of threat
   • Record levels of threat for monitoring and accountability purposes
3. Evaluate threats
   • Critique information to determine relevance
   • Appraise corroborations, plausibility and consistency of source to grade credibility
   • Examine access, objectivity, motivations and history of source to rate reliability
4. Report threats
   • Critically assess threat level and vulnerability factors to inform prioritisation
   • Determine importance of threat to identify urgency
   • Synthesise findings to present report on opportunities and vulnerabilities
   • Present and disseminate threat assessment to inform risk management strategies
   • Monitor circumstances and environment for changes in level of threat and harm
   • Evaluate threat assessment to appraise limitations and impact on clients and stakeholders
5. Consult with stakeholders to confirm operations, goals and objectives
6. Review sufficiency and validity of existing threat assessment to understand current context
7. Identify threat assessment context through researching good practice, alternative options and expert opinions
   • Determine the nature of the threat to support risk management
8. Determine confidence and desire of threat to assess indicators of intent
9. Determine resources and knowledge of threat to assess indicators of capability
10. Analyse indicators of intent and capability to determine likelihood of threat
11. Record levels of threat for monitoring and accountability purposes
    • Critique information to determine relevance
12. Appraise corroborations, plausibility and consistency of source to grade credibility
13. Examine access, objectivity, motivations and history of source to rate reliability
    • Critically assess threat level and vulnerability factors to inform prioritisation
14. Determine importance of threat to identify urgency
15. Synthesise findings to present report on opportunities and vulnerabilities
16. Present and disseminate threat assessment to inform risk management strategies
17. Monitor circumstances and environment for changes in level of threat and harm
18. Evaluate threat assessment to appraise limitations and impact on clients and stakeholders
19. Support risk assessment
    • Communicate limitations and impact of threat assessment to clients and stakeholders
20. Articulate to clients and stakeholders how biases and perspectives may have influenced findings
21. Respond to client and stakeholder requirements to refine response options
22. Manage operations, goals and objectives to respond to risk assessment
23. Initiate referral to investigation and operational threat assessment
24. Determine need for further action in response to risk factors

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment. Non-essential conditions may be found in the POL Police Training Package Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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