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Law Enforcement, Corrections,
Private Security, and Civilian
Risk Management
Law Enforcement Risk Management Services

LAAW International, Inc. is Your Solution to LERM Services
LAAW's services are customized to meet YOUR needs and fit within your available resources. LAAW provides services to minimize your exposures in the areas of use of force, vehicle operations, false arrest, domestic assault, secondary employment, mutual aid, sexual harassment, ADA, ADEA, Title VII, OSHA, cultural conflict, sudden death syndrome, and many others.

Risk Management Audits
Get a realistic appraisal of your agency's risk strengths and weaknesses. Find out where the holes are and develop a viable plan to minimize the exposures. LAAW's auditing services include Liability Assessment Audits, On-Site Assessments, and Management Surveys.

Policy Services
Even though there is no such thing as a perfect policy, there are ways to "armorize" your policies. Allow LAAW to help you eliminate the errors, do away with the double (or multiple) standards, minimize the scrutiny opportunities of an opposing attorney, and provide for realistic officer accountability. LAAW provides Policy Review and Analysis Services and Policy and Procedure Research and Development.

Critical Incident Analysis
The incident has recently occurred. To effectively deflect community scrutiny, or for risk exposure minimization, you need to know where you stand. Whether the incident involves allegations involving multi-jurisdiction teams, search and seizure issues, excessive force (including deadly force), vehicle operations, pursuits, roadblocks, sudden-unexpected death, failure to protect, detainee suicide, etc, get a timely, unbiased assessment.

Operational Litigation Audits (OLA)
OLAs examine the case in its early stages to determine the strengths and weaknesses; provide research to bolster those strengths and minimize the weaknesses; and to get an accurate assessment to enable you to make a well-informed decision whether to settle or proceed to trial.

Case Strategy and Management Assistance
LAAW Associates can help you make sure that you have an accurate assessment of your case. Don't learn after the discovery cutoff, or at trial, that you have not been given an accurate assessment of the facts in your case. You cannot necessarily rely on the accuracy, depth, or breadth of the information provided to you by individuals who are unfamiliar with the broad range of issues that you may be facing. Learn about nationally-accepted standards, about your opposing expert, about publications that substantiate your position and refute your opposition's arguments.

Expert Witness Services
Since the choice of the right expert is critical to the outcome of the case, let us match your case to the right expert. You must be sure to use an expert who is familiar with the inner workings of the courtroom and who has the depth and breadth of knowledge to be able to competently withstand cross examination. We utilize experts who will be able to demonstrate to the jury the whys and why nots of the officer's actions. These types of demonstrations can be worth a 1,000 words (or a couple of extra zeros on a judgment).

Law Enforcement Information Research Assistance Service *
When you need law enforcement information you can either spend many hours of pains taking unguided research, or you can call and receive information on the who, what, where, when, how, and/or why of the law enforcement industry.

Law Enforcement Risk Management Newsletter Services *
LAAW will assist you in the development and dispersal of a timely law enforcement risk management newsletter for your pool, agency, association, or members. The LERM Newsletter provides a mechanism to keep your agencies apprised of not only what is happening in the area of law enforcement risk exposures, but also on what can you and your agencies do proactively to minimize or eliminate those exposures.

Law Enforcement Article Reprints *
LAAW has numerous law enforcement articles for your organization. Articles covering topics including restraint liability, policy development, ADA, OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens, Oleoresin Capsicum (OC), Sudden Custody Death Syndrome, Secondary Employment, Use of Deadly Force, Deadly Force Standards, and many others. For a moderate cost, these articles are available to your organization as training aids, newsletter articles, and reference materials.

* Service Charge Applies