You would think that training each group of security personnel to specialize in a different field of security control is the most effective way to counter security threats; well, Shlomo Aharonishky, Israel’s former police general, argues differently.
“It is like a puzzle, if you do not look at the overall picture of the situation, you cannot put the pieces together” said Aharonishky. It is essential to integrate the different security forces together, not to deal with the problem piece by piece, but as whole-just like puzzle. It is a fourfold approach in looking at security threats: defining the security problem, finding the tools to combat the threat, drawing the boundaries of when to use the force of action, and creating a tactic of operation. 
Simultaneously, a four mode operation should always be in effect. This is termed the ‘cyclical system operation’: First mode of operation is prevention and alarm; without this stage the whole counter procedure would be ineffective, because once an event is defined as alarming the situation is measured with different tools; The second mode of operation is known as destructive reduction, where security professionals must work towards reducing the amount of damage and impact of an attack; this in turn, leads to our third mode of operation- response and action. The response should not be performed by only one sector of the security personnel, but rather integrated efforts of all sectors sharing their efforts and information to counter the threat; the last mode is the rehabilitation procedure, here, not only is this a time for the society to recover from the attack, but also to assess productivity and efficiency performed against the threat in the last attack, and create a better equipped plan for the next one. This is a cyclical system because these different modes of operation should never cease from advancing and renewing their efforts.
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In every mode of operation an action policy must be defined: Who will be involved? What would each do? And how would each do it? Thus, in every field, a module should be built; there should not be one person wasted, each person should be allocated a job. It should not be that one body of security personnel is in charge of one field and the other is not, everyone should deal with each mode of operation, and therefore a strong integration between the different modules should be made.
Besides allocating jobs, a thick definition of commandment, control and coordination framework should be presented. First, who is in command? Every person in the field, especially during an emergency event, must know who is in charge and who has authority to approve or disapprove actions in the moment of action. Such as we see today in Afghanistan and Iraq, private security companies that are supplying aid by bringing in military personnel to help State combat troops have a difficulty determining who is in command? Should soldiers operate according to their commanders or the commands of the private security personnel?
If you cannot generally produce these processes during non-emergency and in emergency situations, the counter efforts are destined to fail at some point or another. These modes of modus operandi and organization of security personnel can be used in countering national threat or a facility or any other body. These circles are often structured around the geographic perception of the field of operation. It is important to remember that an event that just occurred will not occur in the exact same way again, and therefore there is a strong need to train security personnel for the war to come, not for the war that was. Just as we operate within these fourfold paradigm, so is the enemy and therefore he will also prepare himself differently next time.
We must be able to put one puzzle piece before the enemy does.
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