Joe Waring, CPP

U.S. Station Manager | Executive Protection, Investigations & Crisis Response

Joseph T. “Joe” Waring, Jr. is a security, protective-operations, law-enforcement, investigative, and crisis-response professional whose career has focused on protecting people, resolving high-risk situations, and helping organizations make sound decisions when conditions are uncertain and consequences are significant.

As Salus Solutions’ U.S. Station Manager, Joe helps lead domestic protective operations and coordinates executive protection, protective intelligence, investigations, security support, logistics, and incident response for clients and organizational leaders operating throughout the United States. His work connects Salus’s global operational network with local law-enforcement, security, intelligence, and response resources, helping ensure that clients have experienced support before, during, and after critical events.

Joe brings extensive law-enforcement experience to that role. During his service with the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas, he worked in patrol and other public-safety assignments and advanced to the rank of sergeant. His career included involvement in crisis intervention, behavioral and mental-health response, peer support, hostage negotiation, critical-incident operations, and the complex interpersonal situations that require law-enforcement officers to balance safety, communication, judgment, and restraint.

That experience developed a professional philosophy centered on de-escalation, communication, preparation, and disciplined decision-making.

Joe became deeply involved in hostage and crisis negotiation, a discipline that requires understanding behavior, rapidly developing reliable information, establishing communication under extreme stress, and finding workable solutions when conventional responses may increase risk. He participated in advanced negotiation training and served from 2014 through 2018 as a board member of the Texas Association of Hostage Negotiators, contributing to the professional community responsible for advancing negotiation capability across Texas law enforcement.

His work in behavioral and crisis response is reinforced by his qualification as a Mental Health Peace Officer. That background gives Joe practical experience working at the intersection of security, mental health, behavioral indicators, crisis intervention, and public safety—areas that increasingly overlap within workplace violence prevention, insider-threat programs, executive protection, and organizational security.

Joe’s approach recognizes that not every threat is best addressed through enforcement or physical intervention.

Sometimes the most effective security response begins with recognizing abnormal behavior.

Sometimes it requires intelligence.

Sometimes it requires communication.

Sometimes it requires de-escalation.

And sometimes it requires decisive protective action.

Understanding the difference is a capability built through experience.

Following his law-enforcement career, Joe expanded his work into private security, investigations, and protective operations. He is a licensed private investigator, licensed diplomatic and executive protection officer, Texas-licensed Personal Protection Officer, Private Investigator Manager, Mental Health Peace Officer, and Certified Protection Professional (CPP).

These credentials complement his operational background and allow him to work across law-enforcement, investigative, corporate-security, and executive-protection environments.

At Salus, Joe applies that experience to the protection of executives and leaders whose organizations are responsible for critical infrastructure, essential services, and high-value operations. His responsibilities can include advance work, protective intelligence, movement planning, local liaison, security coordination, investigations, incident response, contingency planning, communications, logistics, and the integration of local resources with Salus Station Managers and specialists elsewhere in the world.

That role is particularly important because executive protection at Salus is not treated simply as close physical protection.

Protection begins with understanding the environment.

It requires knowing the threats, identifying vulnerabilities, monitoring changes, understanding local conditions, coordinating reliable resources, developing contingencies, and ensuring that the protective team can respond when an incident moves beyond the original plan.

Joe helps bring those pieces together in the United States.

His background also supports several additional Salus disciplines, including protective intelligence, investigations, insider-threat preparedness, active-shooter and workplace-violence programs, crisis communications, training, security assessments, and incident response.

These areas overlap more than they may initially appear.

A developing insider threat may first present as a behavioral concern.

A personnel issue can become a security problem.

A mental-health crisis can become a workplace emergency.

A threat against an executive may require both investigation and protective operations.

An active incident can require law enforcement, security, medical response, communications, intelligence, and executive decision-making simultaneously.

Joe’s career has repeatedly placed him at those intersections.

His negotiation background is particularly relevant to Salus’s approach to crisis communications and response. Effective communication during a crisis is not simply about producing a message. It requires understanding what people are doing, why they are doing it, what information is reliable, what actions may escalate the situation, and what information decision-makers need next.

That same principle applies to protective operations.

Protection is most effective when it is proactive rather than reactive.

Joe works to identify potential problems before they become incidents, establish communication and coordination before resources are urgently needed, and ensure that protective teams understand both the mission and the people they are responsible for protecting.

Within the broader Salus organization, Joe also contributes his experience to the multidisciplinary expertise supporting Salus THIRA.

Salus THIRA examines risk by identifying threats and hazards, giving those threats operational context, establishing required capabilities, assessing existing capability, identifying meaningful gaps, and determining which improvements will most effectively change the organization’s risk profile.

Joe brings a particularly practical perspective to that process.

From a law-enforcement, investigative, and protective-operations standpoint, an organization does not possess a capability simply because it has a written policy, purchased security equipment, or contracted with a service provider.

The real question is:

Will it work when something actually happens?

That requires looking at people, training, communication, intelligence, authorities, equipment, procedures, decision-making, interoperability, and the ability to operate under pressure.

Joe helps Salus clients and stakeholders examine those questions through the lens of someone who has spent much of his career working in environments where theoretical capability and actual capability can produce very different outcomes.

His experience is especially valuable when Salus THIRA examines executive protection, workplace violence, insider threat, behavioral indicators, physical security, law-enforcement coordination, crisis intervention, investigations, emergency communications, active threats, and protective intelligence.

Joe’s role also reflects the operating philosophy behind Salus Solutions.

Salus brings together professionals from different disciplines because complex incidents rarely remain confined to one discipline. Security professionals, investigators, intelligence personnel, emergency managers, law-enforcement officers, medical responders, technical specialists, and organizational leaders may all be required to solve different parts of the same problem.

As U.S. Station Manager, Joe helps connect those resources to the mission.

His work is grounded in a simple principle:

Understand the situation. Communicate clearly. Protect the people. Use the right capability. And be prepared to act when the situation changes.