About the Author

STEVEN C. MILLWEE, CPP, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SecurTest, Inc., founded in 1978. Mr. Millwee is the author of The SecurTest System of over 300 applicant and employment questionnaires. He is the co-author with labor attorney John-Edward Alley of The Threat From Within: Workplace Violence.

Mr. Millwee specializes in workplace violence prevention and intervention, crisis management, employee misconduct such as theft, sexual harassment, and management and employee training to defuse the potential for workplace violence or employment liability. He is one of today's most dynamic, highest rated speakers on workplace violence and leadership development. Mr. Millwee is also the author of two training manuals on criminal investigation, polygraph and interview and interrogation techniques. He is listed in Who's Who In Leading American Executives.  He was founding member of the editorial board for Loss Prevention Professional

Mr. Millwee has testified as an expert witness in the fields of workplace violence, negligent hiring, retention, screening, security, polygraph, and police procedures.  He is a crisis management consultant to many American corporations conducting violence and threat assessments. He is the author of SecurViolence and SecurThreat, custom threat assessment questionnaires.

Mr. Millwee was an adjunct college instructor for over eight years at St. Petersburg Junior College, the Florida Institute for Law Enforcement and the Tampa Police Academy. While a college instructor, he was certified through The Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Training.

Mr. Millwee is a nationally known expert in human resource screening, theft and fraud by employees, workplace violence, interview and interrogation. He is Board Certified in Security Management as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) through ASIS International.  The CPP distinction demonstrates a significant level of competency in the security profession through arduous testing, background qualifications and the promotion of high standards of professional conduct.

Mr. Millwee lectures nationally on human resource and security issues. He lectures with the Council On Education In Management, American Society for Industrial Security, National Safety Council, Building Owners Management Association, Society for Human Resource Management, and Institute of Business Law (California State University, Los Angeles), Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), among others. He has also addressed the National Food Service Security Council on workplace violence prevention and employment practices. His highly rated lectures include screening of applicants and employees, workplace violence, defusing disgruntled and violent workers, domestic violence, negligent security, employee theft, fraud prevention, employee investigations, hostage survival, robbery survival, negligent hiring and retention, interview and interrogation, leadership development, and written testing.  Mr. Millwee has authored chapters in the comprehensive IBL Employment Regulations manual about employment practices and workplace violence.

Mr. Millwee's expertise and techniques are listed in the 1997, 1998 and 2002 editions of Best Business Practices, published by the American Society for Industrial Security. A well-published author, his most recent articles are:

If You Don’t Ask, You May Not Find Out!  LossPrevention June 2001

      Shopping for Honest Employees!  Carlson Report for Shopping Center Management August 2001

      I Just Want It To Stop! Security Management (March 2001)

      Defining a Leader. ASIS Dynamics (September/October 2000)

You Have Not...Because You Ask Not: Cost-Effective Screening That Works! Security, Technology and Design (February 2000)

      How Can Security Get Inside the Door? Security Management (December 1999)

Previously, Mr. Millwee was the lead detective in the Unsolved Murder Unit of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Tampa, Florida. He was responsible for all murder investigations that remained unsolved over six months. Mr. Millwee formerly was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. He served in law enforcement seven years.

In over 28 years of helping corporations and government agencies defuse hostile or threatening employees, no incidents of retaliatory violence have occurred using the methods and counsel offered by Mr. Millwee. Moreover, The SecurTest System has never been successfully challenged in court since it uncovers objective biographical "confessions" that are of "business necessity" versus attempting to predict the future. The plaintiff dismissed the only court challenge on the eve of his deposition.

Mr. Millwee has over 34 years experience in interview, interrogation, investigations, testing and management. He holds a BA from the University of South Florida in Criminology.

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