FASCO President

Karl C. Poulin, CPOI, CPS, CHS-III

K.C. Poulin is President and Chief Executive Officer for Critical Intervention Services (CIS), a Florida based private protection agency specializing in protective services for high threat and escalated environments. His agency provides services for communities, individuals, and corporations that require a high level of expertise. This includes coordinating risk assessments and anti-terrorism deployments for critical infrastructure and chemical facilities. Mr. Poulin has been interviewed in hundreds of media outlets about terrorism and other public safety issues.

Mr. Poulin graduated from Executive Security International as a Certified Protection Specialist and has received extensive training in the areas of emergency management, critical incident management, terrorism, extremism, juvenile violence and prevention, criminal gang identification and response, executive protection, and workplace violence. Mr. Poulin is certified by FEMA in Emergency Response to Terrorism and has been awarded Level III Homeland Security certification from The American Board For Certification in Homeland Security.

Mr. Poulin often testifies as an expert witness in liability cases that require his expertise in terms of inadequate security and premise liability for the limitation of protective operations. He has lectured on a number of occasions to the Florida Chapter of the F.B.I. National Academy Associates.

As a protection specialist, Mr. Poulin has provided protective services for recognizable figures including Senator Bob Dole, actor Steven Segal, news anchor Paula Zahn, talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael, and civil rights leader Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu. He has helped conduct risk assessments and coordinated anti-terrorism deployments for power plants and facilities that warehouse ammonia. Mr. Poulin and his firm have also coordinated numerous protective assignments for the Florida Department of Insurance.

Mr. Poulin and his team of practitioners developed the premises for two books, Private Security and Public Safety: A Community-Based Approach published by Prentice Hall and The Private Prevention Agency: A Public Safety Model for High Crime Communities in the 21st Century, published by California University of Pennsylvania. Both books illustrate the everyday activities of CIS and its methodology for high-crime communities. The concept called Community and Character Based Protection Initiative (CCBPI) is the main focus of the books.

Mr.Poulin conceived CCBPI and its refinement over the years has garnered the methodology worldwide recognition from media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, The O'Reilly Factor, Germany's Der Spiegel television, and France's Courier International and many others.

Mr. Poulin's leadership of CIS also has been recognized in the book To Serve and Protect by Bruce L. Benson and by academic think tanks such as The Independent Institute and The Foundation for Economic Education. Mr. Poulin also has published essays on terrorism preparedness and high-crime neighborhood victimization.

In July 2003 under the direction of Mr. Poulin, CIS launched a website called SafeTampaBay.org to support a local effort for creating a safer community. The website is a comprehensive source for information and expert advice on critical issues of crime and domestic security. It contains in-depth information about gangs, domestic violence, Alzheimer's safety, and homeland security.