INTRA/PS/PS009Line management engagement
The involvement of managers in noticing and raising concern about the people they supervise, structured by a named route, a stated threshold for using it, and instruction in both. Unstructured, it is a manager’s instinct and reaches the program by chance.
| Control | Jurisdiction | Source | What it establishes | Prerequisite or recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended | United Kingdomwhere written | Ongoing Personnel Security: A Good Practice GuideNPSA · read 11 Aug 2026 | Good practice for personnel security through employment rather than at the door, holding that protective monitoring should be proportionate. | Line management is treated as the route by which concern reaches the program, which makes the manager part of the control. |
| Reported | Czechiawhere written | Redefining Threats: Extending the Threat Response Focus from External to Internal ThreatsHološka and Doucek · read 30 Aug 2026 | How the examination of an employee is divided between security, human resources, and legal, what a classification level governs once it has been applied, and which restrictions are placed on a person serving out notice when they cannot be placed on everyone. | The person’s own line manager usually takes part in the examination, and what they supply is the context of the activity that was observed rather than a judgment on it. |