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PIR Management

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PIR MANAGEMENT

[ENGAGEMENT NAME - ENGAGEMENT REF]

PIR Management governs the lifecycle, quality standards, indicator mapping, and stood-up collection plans for the protective detail priority intelligence requirements. Do not assert fictional findings or invent data.

Document Control

FieldValue
Report Reference[REF-YYYY-###]
Date of Report[YYYY-MM-DD]
Reporting Period / As-Of Date[YYYY-MM-DD]
Classification / Handling[internal / CONFIDENTIAL]
Client[CLIENT NAME]
Requesting Party[REQUESTER NAME / ID]
Prepared By[ANALYST NAME / ID]
Reviewed By[REVIEWER NAME / ID]
Approving Officer[APPROVER NAME / ID]
Version[0.1.0]
Distribution[NAMED RECIPIENTS]

Handling & Legal Caveat

Handling: [internal / CONFIDENTIAL]. Access restricted to active intelligence and command roles.

COMSEC: Key PIR configurations are protected to prevent adversary collection matching.

Subject Snapshot

FieldValue
Engagement Reference[ENGAGEMENT REF]
Active PIR Count[NUMBER]
Verification Date[YYYY-MM-DD]
Collection Plan Posture[Low / Moderate / Elevated / High / Critical]

Table of Contents

  1. Purpose and Authority
  2. PIR Lifecycle State Machine
  3. PIR Quality Standard
  4. Indicator Development Method
  5. Collection Plan Matrix
  6. Standing PIR Set
  7. Dissemination Rules
  8. Review, Retirement, and Handoff Spec

1. Purpose and Authority

Instructional tradecraft: Define the role ownership of the PIR set and the approval authority.

  • Ownership: Detail Intelligence Officer owns collection plan management.
  • Approval: Team Leader approves active PIR activations and retirements.

2. PIR Lifecycle State Machine

Instructional tradecraft: Define states and exit/entry criteria.

  • Proposed: Drafted by Detail Intelligence Officer based on initial advance profile.
  • Validated: Checked against client scope and signed off by Team Leader.
  • Tasked: Mapped to active collection assets (scouts, static OPs).
  • Answered: Intelligence gathered resolves the core decision requirement.
  • Retired: Engagement closes or venue is bypassed.

3. PIR Quality Standard

  • Clear and Single-Question: Each PIR must ask a single, unambiguous question.
  • Actionable Decision Connection: Directly tied to a protective change (e.g. route bypass).
  • LTIOV: Each PIR must carry a Latest Time Intel of Value (LTIOV) timestamp.

4. Indicator Development Method

Instructional tradecraft: Decompose each PIR into discrete, observable indicators, then bind each indicator to where it is looked for (NAI), who collects it, by what means, and the threshold that counts as an answer. An indicator must be something an operator can actually see or measure, not a restatement of the question.

Method (apply to every PIR):

  1. Decompose: Break the PIR into 2-4 discrete indicators, each independently observable.
  2. Localize: Assign each indicator a Named Area of Interest (NAI): the specific place, route segment, or channel where it would appear.
  3. Task: Bind each NAI to a collection asset (scout, static OP, driver, open-source monitor) and a collection means.
  4. Threshold: State what observation confirms, denies, or is inconclusive for the indicator, and the LTIOV by which it must be reported.
  5. Feed: Route confirmed indicators to the Collection Plan Matrix (Section 5) and dissemination rules (Section 7).

Worked example (PIR-1, POI activity):

StepValue
IndicatorPhysical presence of a POI-linked vehicle near a principal venue
NAI[Venue approach / residence street / parking structure]
Asset / MeansCovert scout, visual + plate capture
Confirm thresholdSame plate or vehicle at [N] separate NAIs, or matching the EP-008 correlation rule
LTIOV[Before next principal movement]

5. Collection Plan Matrix

PIRIndicatorSource / NAITasked-to RoleLTIOVStatus
PIR-01[Indicator][Coordinates][Operator / Scout][YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM][Active / Pending]

6. Standing PIR Set

These are the standing, doctrine-level PIRs for all protective details:

  • PIR-1: Have there been changes in the threat profile or geographic activity of identified Persons of Interest (POIs)?
  • PIR-2: Are there new or planned public demonstrations, labor strikes, or large assemblies within 1 kilometer of scheduled venues?
  • PIR-3: Have municipal authorities declared temporary road closures, route detours, or major construction on primary transit segments?
  • PIR-4: Is there an increase in criminal targeting of executive travelers or corporate facilities in the Area of Operations?
  • PIR-5: Have local emergency medical services, Level 1 trauma centers, or route safe havens changed their operational status?
  • PIR-6: Are there active hostile surveillance indicators detected at the principal’s residence or primary venue?
  • PIR-7: Has the principal’s public calendar or digital exposure level changed to increase target attractiveness?
  • PIR-8: Are there regional extreme weather warnings or environmental alerts affecting transit visibility and timings?
  • PIR-9: Has an unapproved vendor or contractor been scheduled to access the principal’s private spaces?
  • PIR-10: Have local telecommunications networks or GPS signals experienced disruption or jamming along the primary corridor?

7. Dissemination Rules

  • Immediate Flash (Detail Net per EP-011): Any threat indicator resolving a Critical or High severity alert.
  • Daily Brief (EP-016): General indicator updates and low/moderate road delays.

8. Review, Retirement, and Handoff Spec

  • Review Cadence: Daily at shift change.

8.1 Retirement Audit

Instructional tradecraft: PIRs are retired deliberately, not abandoned. Every retirement is authorized and recorded so the active set never carries stale or answered requirements.

  • Retirement Criteria: A PIR is retired when it is answered and the decision it informed has been made, when the venue or phase it covered is complete, or when it is superseded by a revised PIR.

  • Authorization: Team Leader authorizes each retirement; the Detail Intelligence Officer records it.

  • Retirement Record (per PIR): PIR ID, retirement date, authorizing role, reason (answered / phase-complete / superseded), final answer or disposition pointer, and retention/destruction action per CLASSIFICATION.md.

  • Audit Cadence: At each daily review, confirm every Active PIR still maps to a live decision and every Answered PIR has been retired or re-tasked; flag any PIR past its LTIOV with no disposition.

  • Handoff Spec (ART-pir-set):

    • Schema Format: 
      {
  "pir_id": "PIR-###",
  "text": "string",
  "priority": "Low|Moderate|Elevated|High|Critical",
  "ltiov": "ISO-8601-TIMESTAMP",
  "status": "Proposed|Validated|Tasked|Answered|Retired",
  "last_answer_pointer": "string"
}

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