The SMSI teams of security consultants are all Board Certified Protection Professionals (CPP) and have Security Expert Witness experience. Together, we have more than 150 years of combined experience in many diversified fields. SMSI leads the industry in such areas as Hospital Security Consulting, School Safety and Security Consulting, Shopping Mall Security Consulting, Healthcare, Hotel Security training, and Apartment Security System analysis, to name just a few of our specialty areas. We provide security audits, design and training. We help protect people and property while reducing liability.

SMSI has a positive approach to the consultation process. Whether our client is a Hospital, a Shopping Mall, an Office Building, a Hotel, Apartment Complex or a Manufacturing Facility, our job is to find out what is right and what is working, and then improve it. An effective program must strike a balance between the need to protect people and the need to protect property. The goal of our expert consultant services is proactive prevention.

SMSI believes in a team approach by helping our customers develop security programs aimed at protecting employees and invitees from criminal acts. This includes mitigating both external and internal threats. Most threats against persons are external. Much of the threat against property is internal. In order to mitigate security threats they must be identified through the security assessment process.

Bill Nesbitt, CPP, President of SMSI, Inc., has been providing his services as a Security Expert, and Security Expert Witness to law firms across the United States for over 30 years and has participated in more than 500 security litigations in more than 46 states. His grasp of current security case law makes him a valuable expert witness of any litigation team. Call now for a case evaluation by one of the most experienced forensic expert witness. Bill Nesbitt, CPP is a Board Certified Protection Professional. He provides his extensive expertise to both plaintiff and defendant counsels. Objectivity is applied equally to all case evaluations.

As security experts, we provide litigation support and expert testimony for premises liability lawsuits where the adequacy of security is in question. Those cases include, but are not limited to, the adequacy of security for: parking facilities, hospitals, nightclubs, schools and universities, apartments and condominiums, hotels and casinos, sports and entertainment venues, and extended care facilities. We also provide expert testimony for intentional tort cases such as claims of excessive force, false imprisonment, and false arrest.

Factors to be considered in the security litigation process include, but are not limited, the application and effectiveness of physical security methodologies such as CCTV, lighting, security patrols, access management, parking control and fencing. Other issues that may be germane may be training, hiring and supervision protocols, pre-employment screening and reasonable foreseeability.

SMSI provides Security Management Support Programs (SMSP). Our service includes: a complete security assessment, scheduled site visits, and unlimited security management support by our expert security consultants. These services will be supported by remote monitoring of all Daily Activity Report entries as well as analysis of all Incident Report activity. This analysis will allow SMSI help keep your security program on track and contemporary. If needed, SMSI will help provide computer based Incident Reporting capabilities for your security officers. Let the SMSI team show you how to improve your hotel, school, mall, hospital or apartment security in this post 9/11 environment while minimizing cost. Call 805-499-3800 today for more information.

SMSI Inc. develops and administers tailored security training programs. We develop Security Awareness Programs that support the notion that safeguarding the organization is the job of every employee, whether they are in hospitals, malls, apartments, schools or hotels. SMSI will develop new employee orientation programs for specific departments. We develop site specific training programs for both security and non-personnel.

SMSI Inc. consultants will evaluate security programs for hotels, malls, schools, hospitals or apartments, including the application of security technology. We provide expert consultants for design support, the development of RFPs, vendor selection support and project management. We provide expert consultants for Security Management support as an adjunct to in-house security management through our Security Management Support Programs and Services.