@all I have spoken individually with each of you the purpose of this working group is to fine tune, upgrade and optimize our existing vetting protocol. Once we have a protocol then the work will be to ensure these standards are rigidly upheld across the organizations constituent networks.

The first step is to review existing protocols, which i will post below:

Several months ago, @Victor DE and I began the process of putting to paper some of the "enhanced vetting protocols" that nw9 has implemented with good success. At the very minimum this should screen out undesirables, as well as make a good first impression that we as an organization take our job seriously.

In a few moments I will post the draft materials that we were already working on

these are the notes:

https://mega.nz/folder/VWRmEL4S#IdyZ8_By0D4nEZQA-fApXg

videos of pat down

@Norman AL @Victor DE we need to be proactive and address this subject in a timely manner; we're about to take a lot of incoming (new applications)

I can't stress enough of how important location selection and having your group trained before the interview. I modified the search to just the waistline and pockets to get you off the street and arouse as little attention in public as possible while maintaining safety. @Norman AL do you have anything to add about body positioning should you have to react to hostile action?

@ND - Samuel VA you have used what I put together in the field already have you found anything that needs to be tweaked?

No. I find that the structure of the interview of 1) first contact/pat down, 2) the interactive q/a, 3) turning on the phone to look through his entire phone and 4) doing some activism Ala stickering has worked well.

The key here is to formalize that, get some additional insights from you and @Norman AL on how we can enhance the process, and have the final protocol written to be standardize outside nw9 and throughout the entire org

Getting off the street safely is the tricky part for the whole process. The pat down needs to be practiced until it becomes muscle memory. A workshop would be the best way to teach the ins and outs of it. Unless @Norman AL sees anything I missed I'd say the process is as streamlined as possible. Body language is also something we touched on while filming but this is another thing that would need to be addressed in a workshop.

Agreed

Thank you @Norman AL I'm glad you posted those ideas here I thought they were good ones. Let's keep these ideas coming and then put a time together to have a little meeting

Rgr, I'll be ready 🤝🏻

@ND - Samuel VA given our conversation today passing on some info about the interviewee to at least one other person who will be at the interview will be helpful. It doesn't have to be all the info but knowing something going into it helps catch mistakes should they be lying.

Not everyone can remember all details about a interviewee the main contact could miss something important i.e kids, relationship status, area he's from so on and so forth.

@Victor DE I always share the notes prior to meeting with intermediaries

I mean as a general practice for all networks moving forward.