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Mannes & Associates - Technical Advisors

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About Me

Mannes and Associates is a consulting firm composed of a team of current and former federal, state, and local law enforcement officers who provide valuable expertise in technical advisory services to the following industries. • Entertainment Industry (to include film, television, and theatrical production, creative/writing, directorial, wardrobe, location/set design, and prop master staff) • Manufacturers and systems integrators specializing in the public safety market • Non-profit organizations and associations serving or working with the public safety community • Government contractors focused on federal, state, local, and transit law enforcement, homeland security, and infrastructure protection missions .. Our purpose is to guide our clientele through the intricate maze of the U.S. law enforcement community, advising clients on current practices, procedures, trends, regulations, jargon, and other important information that helps their projects, practices, business strategies, and productions. Our consultants are assembled from a wide variety of public safety agencies, throughout the U.S. and Canada. Most of our consultants are currently employed as law enforcement professionals, and therefore can provide our clients with specialized insight into the region or type of agency they are staging their project in; with a constantly updated perspective on trends, issues, and regulation changes effecting the law enforcement community. This gives our clients a far greater degree of knowledge then if they were to employ a retired law enforcement officer, as their information is dated to before they retired as well as to the agency they were employed with. When a customer employs Mannes & Associates, they go into business with a team of consultants working anywhere their production or business plan takes them, and gets the most up to date and realistic advisory services available anywhere.Whether your needs call for a top-flight technical advisor, production consultant, or strategic business consultant with a strong public safety background; Mannes & Associates provides the services you require with an unparalleled degree of professionalism, expertise, discression, and efficiency.Our advantage is that we are an organized firm, with over 25 consultants, with field expierience with over 44 law enforcement agencies & various task forces, and over 385 years of combined experience. These consultants are organized into teams in several geographic regions in the U.S. and Canada, giving a local perspective to a widely fragmented and compartmentalized area of expertise.Please check out our Website: www.MannesandAssociates.com for more information...

My Interests

Television, Film, Journalism, Stage, and Literary endeavors. We are avid associates and lend support to writers, directors, producers, prop masters, wardrobe designers, location scouts, and set designers to give a "real feel" to their production or story.We have an especially strong connection to the news media as our experience reflects many of the hot issues seen in current events, and can speak as subject matter experts on news broadcasts, or be a valuable point of reference for story editors and the print media.

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We assist writers and creative development staff in providing them with detailed information, dialogue assistance, and other assistance on the public safety environment in the furtherance of their creative vision. We assist them in finding and developing stories related to law enforcement as well as giving their dialogue and background the ‘real feel’ that reality-driven audiences crave in today’s entertainment market. These services include: Consultation sessions with creative teams on television projects Script collaboration to ‘punch-up’ dialogue, plot (to include spec scripts) Dedicated writing team contracts on television or film projects On call technical advisors to assist writer’s if they are stuck on a beat Classes on structures, practices, and common slang pertinent to the law enforcement officer in the agency where their story takes place. - For the production and directorial staff on a creative project, we assist with all aspects of developing a strong law enforcement background to their creative project. These services include: Pre-production and On-set coordination with location scouts, wardrobe, prop masters, on making the on-screen aspects of the production as real as possible. Location scouting and blocking assistance with production staff Hands-on instruction with on-screen talent on dialogue, physical technique, firearms, driving, motivation, speech, etc. Tactical consulting On-set firearms/weapons safety coordinators and armorers Safeguarding usages of restricted use props or wardrobe (real police badges, firearms, etc.) Liaison with local law enforcement agencies in regards to the production. - And for Journalists the News Media, we offer: Expert Commentary on news stories, to include last minute bookings on breaking news events Research assistance and briefings on issues to include: the criminal justice system, terrorism, corrections & rehabilitation, public corruption, political and policy issues, supreme court rulings, and any other news story involving the law enforcement, corrections, or homeland security sectors

Music:

Anything from classical to hip hop, with rock in between.

Movies:

We assist any films, studio or independent, with any part of their story related or dedicated to crime, terrorism, protection, or law enforcement; in technical advisory or production consulting for any facet of the production.

Television:

With television, we offer short and long-term technical advisory services for both creative and production staff. Please see our website at www.MannesandAssociates.com for more information.

Books:

We have an accomplished staff, to include a published author as well as an advisor to a published author whose information led to a series of fiction novels. Our resources in technical consulting is unparalleled and should be considered for your literary research.

Heroes:

The hundreds of thousands of men and women in federal, state, local and specialty (transit, housing, port authority, protective service, etc.) law enforcement agencies, military, and other public safety professionals who risk their lives on a daily basis to keep us safe.I also like to recognize the professionals in the entertainment industry who do their best to portray these people in an accurate light when their creative vision comes to fruition.

My Blog

D.C. vs. Heller  A Look at Local Gun Control From All Angles

The Public Safety Perspective, March 21, 2008..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   D.C. vs. Heller  A Look at Local Gun Control From All Angles by A. Benjam...
Posted by Mannes & Associates - Technical Advisors on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:09:00 PST

Public Facility Protection  Another Reason to Keep Up With the Joneses

The Public Safety Perspective, February 15, 2008..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   Public Facility Protection  Another Reason to "Keep Up With the Jonese...
Posted by Mannes & Associates - Technical Advisors on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:12:00 PST

Seeking event locations in the NYC, Phila, and DC areas

M&A Production Consultants is requesting your assistance in finding a location (that will be paid) for a 2 to 4 day special event I have am working with at Scion motors (AMCI corporate marketing o...
Posted by Mannes & Associates - Technical Advisors on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:19:00 PST

Happy Holidays

Dearest Friends & Associates,  The Holiday Season is a time for reflection, love, understanding, and sharing.  It is in my sincere hopes and wishes that you are having a wonderful holid...
Posted by Mannes & Associates - Technical Advisors on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:06:00 PST

The Wire: How it should be.

If any of you were as self-loathing as me, you probably sat through a little of the Emmy awards last week to watch Keifer Southerland and '24' win for best drama and best actor in a drama.  Now a...
Posted by Mannes & Associates - Technical Advisors on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:03:00 PST