SAVE Network – SAVE Network

Message from CEO

I have worked for many years at the cutting edge of the policing, security and terrorism domains. I know from deep experience  how turbulent,  disruptive, and dangerous this age is for our global community.  We face many new and emerging harms like hate crime and various forms of extremism which sprout like poisonous mushrooms in our local communities.  These evolving societal harms include such things as fake news, social media ‘echo chambers’, cyber-crime scams, mass shootings, extremist threats, and terrorist attacks.

Traditional harms such as road/pedestrian/bike accidents, personal assaults, property crime, organised crime, illegal drugs, corporate and political corruption, as well as environmental disasters and health pandemics, are well supported by existing organisations like Neighbourhood Watch, Crime Stoppers, Emergency Management agencies and a range of regulatory institutions.

I specifically formed the Safety Alert Volunteer Enterprise (SAVE) network to equip local communities with safety alertness tools, knowledge and skills, to keep their community as safe as they can from not only, traditional societal harms, but more importantly from new and evolving harms that all too easily can take root, fester and grow in local communities to the point of eruption with devastating and often catastrophic consequences. Furthermore, integrating a ‘safety alertness’ approach enhances social cohesiveness in a community.

Dr. Geoff Dean