GRIP Digital Threat Assessment®

GRIP Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) teaches participants to establish a Digital Behavioural Baseline (DBR) through a School Safety / Threat Assessment (SS/TA) lens. By engaging with popular social media applications, you will learn how to find and document worrisome digital media content originating from your school community. This training solidifies your under­standing of how to effectively use DTA as a critical part of any modern-day Threat Assessment.

The training will explore the history of youth gangs in BC and the evolution of modern-day recruiting techniques, including social media platforms.

**This training qualifies as a prerequisite for Advanced DTA training and Train the Trainer.

Training Description:

• Applying the principles of Behavioural Threat Assessment to DTA
• Learning about negative peer group social mapping – sociograms and connecting the dots
• Deciphering the myths and realities of concerning images posted online – authentication of online photos and seeing past the stock imagery (reverse image search)
• Key terms for gang-associated identifiers
• Gathering public social media data with geo-locational relevance – what are the most effective ways to identify witnesses in a public act of violence
• Identifying the baseline of youth on the pathway to gang associated behaviour
• Identify online trends of weapon possession and use
• Best practices for online navigation and ensuring privacy safeguards
• Boolean search operators and accessing search engine cache data
• Overview of searching within Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat
• Assessing the language of online threat and gang-related behaviour
• Law enforcement guides to request user identifying information (preservation and production orders)