Active Shooter Expert at the Dubai World Police Summit
Chris Grollnek
Dubai World Police Summit Dubai Police invited Chris Grollnek to speak at the World Police Summit in Dubai in 2023. His keynote address focused on innovative strategies and collaborative approaches to mitigate active shooter incidents globally. As a seasoned professional with extensive experience in law enforcement and security, The session sat within the summit tracks on public safety and emergency preparedness.
Speaking Engagements
ASPP™’s keynote speaker services are delivered on the topics of active shooter and domestic terrorism events. Chris Grollnek and the ASPP team are experienced speakers dedicated to delivering engaging and informative presentations to audiences around the world on these important and timely topics.
Who does the inviting
The Dubai World Police Summit is hosted by Dubai Police. The second edition ran from 7 to 9 March 2023 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, and it brings together senior police leadership, ministries of interior, and public safety agencies from around the world.
That is the part worth paying attention to. A police service does not fly in an outside speaker on active shooter prevention because his website says he is good at it. It does so because the problem is real inside its own jurisdiction and it wants to hear how somebody else has approached it.
Why the subject travels
Targeted violence is not an American export, though the volume of it here means the research and the doctrine are further along. The pattern underneath an attack is remarkably consistent across borders: a grievance that hardens over time, leakage that somebody hears and does not pass on, and a target chosen because it is reachable rather than because it is symbolic.
Response doctrine has to be built around local law, local force structure, and local response times, and it does not transfer cleanly. Prevention does. Recognizing warning behavior, running a threat assessment process, closing the gap between what one person notices and what the organization knows: none of that depends on the legal system it sits inside.
That is why the P.R.O. Model™ is presented internationally as a prevention framework rather than a response protocol, and it is why it is in use at some installations and commands across the Department of Defense, including overseas.
The rest of the international record
The Dubai engagement is one of a series. Advisory work has been carried out for European nations and their parliaments, and a post 9/11 posting as a terrorism analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies led to a briefing of the National Security Council. The MacKenzie Institute in Canada has published his contributions.
Committees and ministries do not book a speaker twice by accident, and they do not book one at all on the strength of a brochure.
