National Capital RegionVA DCJS License No. 99-613042
Deetz Consulting
TIER I · PROGRAMS & COMPLIANCE

Documents written when existing policies no longer match operating reality.

Drafting and revision of security policies, post orders, standard operating procedures, and incident reporting protocols — for functions whose documentation has aged out from under them.

— I.

The situation

"Our security policies were written four years ago for a different company. They no longer reflect how we actually operate — and they will not hold up under audit."

Drafting or revision of security policies, post orders, standard operating procedures, incident reporting protocols, and the documentation architecture that ties them together. The work draws on direct experience drafting and analyzing private-sector security policies at the corporate level — and managing federal compliance regimes inside the U.S. Secret Service.

Documents are written for the people who will actually use them: the operator at the post, the supervisor at the desk, the executive on the call. Not for the audit binder.

A leadership team reviewing legacy security documentation across binders and screens.
— II.

Who this serves

Security functions whose existing documentation no longer matches operating reality — typically because the function has expanded, jurisdictions have changed, the threat environment has shifted, or the original drafter is no longer with the organization. New CSO or CISO leadership establishing a documentation baseline. General counsel preparing for transactional, regulatory, or litigation review.

Engagements range from a single SOP to a comprehensive policy refresh across an enterprise security function.

In-house counsel and a new CSO working through a documentation baseline together.

What is delivered

Deliverables

Final policy, SOP, post order, or protocol documents — production-ready

Implementation

Implementation guidance and training brief, on request

Timeline

Typically 2 – 8 weeks, scope-dependent

Fee Structure

Fixed-scope per document family

Privilege

Plain-language operational, board-grade governance, or hybrid

A stack of production-ready policy documents on the advisory desk.
Advisory materials annotated with references to federal compliance regimes.

The qualification

Mr. Deetz served on the Presidential Protective Division and as the U.S. Secret Service's Resident Agent in Charge in Moscow — operating environments where the cost of a missed decision point was not measured in inconvenience. Crisis architecture is taught here, not theorized.

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