According to a January survey in USA TODAY which measured the safest places to live inthe world, the United States ranks at 129th with a score of2.44, marking the country's score "low." Just above the U.S. isAzerbaijan, and just below is Brazil.

“Civil unrest continues to be the primarydriver of the deterioration,” the GPI report says about the U.S., noting risesin the political terror and political instability categories. “However, there werealso significant improvements in indicators across all three domains, withlargest being in the UN peacekeeping funding indicator.”

Born and raised in England, Simon C. Osamoh isthe founder and CEO of Kingswood Security Consulting, a Minneapolis basedsecurity risk management firm. Simon first moved to the United States to HeadCounter Terrorism at Mall of America, Minnesota.

The largest shopping and entertainment complexin North America where he oversaw counterterrorism and the internationallyrecognized behavior threat assessment team. He quickly established himself asone of the country’s leading experts on security at soft targets where his workgained national media attention. He spent 14 years as a Detective in Englandworking serious and organized crime.

One of his notable cases includes working withthe British Security Services during the investigation of the “liquid bombterrorism plot” against the U.S.A in 2006, which changed aviation securityregulations worldwide limiting the amount of liquids that can be taken ontoplanes. Simon is a former Director of Risk and Compliance having worked forthree of America’s largest financial institutions that include Wells Fargo, USBank, and Equiniti Trust Company.

Where he oversaw programs that included riskmanagement, business continuity, crisis management, anti-bribery andcorruption, regulatory compliance, testing programs and third party risk. He isthe author of three books, 10 Powerful Strategies for Verbal De-Escalation,Securing Church Operations and Church Safety Responding to Suspicious Behavior.

Simon’s work on conversational interviewing isfeatured in the award- winning book How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic by Dr.James Densley and Dr. Jillian Peterson of the Violence Project. Simon is awriter for the Worship Facility online publication sent to 30,000 organizationseach month and serves as a member of the editorial advisory board.

He joined me this week to tell me more.

For more information: https://www.kingswoodsc.com/

Email: simon@kingswoodsc.com