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experts on that organization should be taken into “the fold” to assist in
making a determination as to the most appropriate level of protection.
Let us use the following scenario as an example of the decision-mak-
ing process. A recently arrested inmate at the local county jail is heard
over the jail phone indicating he wanted the prosecutor of the case killed.
This information is passed to the prosecutor’s ofce, which begins to rev
up the “panic alarm.” The law enforcement agency tasked with protect-
ing the prosecutor’s ofce, not wanting to look as though they are not
taking it serious, quickly assigns a multiperson protective detail to the
threatened prosecutor. This includes a motorcade of some congurati