Frequently Asked Questions

When LECMgt LLC was founded in 2006 our name was Law Enforcement Crisis Management. Our principals have over 60 years combined experience in law enforcement and public safety. Soon, however, we began receiving requests for assistance from a wide variety of non-law enforcement clients. As our business expanded we eventually changed to the acronym we currently employ.

Here is a comment from our Vice President Roger Mason.

“We get comments and compliments on our logo all of the time. It was designed by Mr. Jamie Markowitz and the talented marketing team at LTG&A, in Burbank, California. I love the chess piece idea because we want to help our clients make the right moves, using strategies to anticipate and overcome major obstacles or threats to continuity and recovery. Also, it fits our motto of ‘Game On.’ Regarding chess, I have always wanted to become a great player. Sadly, I am a rank amateur.”

We provide consulting and simulation/exercise/war game designs for a wide spectrum of clients. We service local governments, higher education (universities and colleges), the federal government and, recently, our first non-profit corporation. We serve our community by volunteering for projects with the Los Angeles Police Department and donating time consulting for local faith centers.

Most of LECMgt’s clients are in California and Hawaii. We also have undertaken projects in Washington, DC, and overseas in Israel and Europe. Dr. Roger Mason is often invited to speak at international conferences (Montreal 2014, Madrid 2015, Berlin and London in 2016).  Besides travel, LECMgt has an extensive group of colleagues in the United States and internationally that we reciprocally call upon for information and assistance. If you contract LECMgt, we use a combination of site visits and remote communications to meet your needs. Every trip is carefully prepared and planned to keep your project on schedule and to limit the travel costs. 

LECMgt conducts threat assessments using the FEMA Threat Hazard Identification Risk Assessment (THIRA). The purpose of this assessment is to identify your threats and hazards and assess the risks to your organization. A THIRA also identifies what capabilities you have to manage disasters or emergencies and establishes target capabilities for improving or developing them.

In the 21^st century organizations are facing a rapidly expanding and increasingly complex variety of threats and hazards. The THIRA helps to establish a benchmark of what dangers lie ahead, as well as your capabilities to meet the dangers, and establishes targets to improve your capabilities.

The first benefit is our lack of bias. We look at the situation or scenario for the exercise from a neutral bias position, meaning we evaluate the facts as they are presented to us and design them into the exercise. Our mission is to design an exercise to meet a specific challenge or shortfall, not to support a position or defend an initiative. The second advantage is our wide experience in designing exercises. We provide our clients design expertise that we have prepared and best practices from the exercise and simulation industry.

People often refer to “models and simulations.” A model is a representation of something. The “something” can be an idea, a practice, a procedure, a physical location or a specific scenario. A model does not include every facet or detail but enough to represent the real article. A simulation is the manipulation of the model to understand a specific scenario. Here is an example of a simple simulation: You want to examine how to optimize a traffic intersection during rush hour. You draw a scale diagram representing the real intersection. This is the model. You put pieces representing cars on the map and move them in various patterns to see what might be the most efficient traffic flow. That is the simulation.

An exercise is typically used to evaluate a specific scenario (e.g., a type of natural disaster), test a team’s ability to implement a plan or procedure or practice employing a set of plans. A wargame is similar but the topic is more focused, often on a specific situation or opponent. Wargames are often used to develop Courses Of Action (COAs).