The Witness Protection Agency manages a Witness Protection Programme that takes necessary and reasonable actions to protect the safety and welfare of protected persons. This is done through various means including:

1. Physical and armed protection
2. Relocation; change of identity, or
3. Any other measure necessary to ensure the safety of a protected person.

Protection can also be done during court proceedings through:

1. Holding in “camera” or closed sessions
2. Use of pseudonyms
3. Redaction of identifying information
4. Use of video link, or
5. Employing measures to obscure or distort the identity of the witness.
6. Use of witness protection box