ICx Awarded Detect-To-Protect Contract for Mass Transit Security
ICx Technologies, Inc. has been awarded a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contract to participate in a FY2010 mass transit security pilot programme. The
focus of this pilot deployment is to test new sensors that can rapidly detect and identify the potential release of a bio-threat agent as part of the DHS S&T Detect-to-
Protect (D2P) Project. The D2P Project is focused on developing rapid biological detection technologies and sensor network architectures for indoor environments.
For this pilot deployment, a network of rapid response bio-detectors will be evaluated in a mass transit system.
As part of the programme activities, ICx will provide IBACTM real time biological aerosol threat monitors and additional advanced prototype sensor hardware.
The IBAC is a continuously operating indoor or outdoor monitor that provides early warning of an airborne biological agent attack. The IBAC facilitates the process of
identifying bio-terror agents to allow timely containment, treatment and remediation.
Axis’ Network Cameras Secure Sydney Suburban Rail
Axis Communications has won the contract to supply network cameras for Sydney’s new Waratah train suburban fleet. The total installation order is estimated at
about 7,000 network cameras. The installation will begin before the year end and is expected to continue for the next three to four years.
Each train will have around 100 Axis networked cameras ensuring that the full length and breadth of each carriage can be monitored to provide enhanced security
and safety for commuters.
The palm-sized Axis 209MFD-R network cameras have been specifically designed for mass transit and are flat, discreet and tamper resistant. Designed specifically
for handling vibrations, humidity, dust and temperature fluctuations that is typical of mass transit vehicles, the cameras are connected via Power over Ethernet (PoE)
using the train’s communication network, which eliminates the need for separate power cables.
Ghanaian Delegation Visit Doncaster for National Security Training Centre Launch
The head of the Ghana Airport
Company took part in the official
opening of the of UK’s National
Security Training Centre
(NSTC).
British Member of Parliament
Caroline Flint officially opened
the centre, based at Robin
Hood Airport, and toured the
new training centre, which will
provide the United Kingdom with
a national centre of excellence
for the provision of high quality
aviation security training.
Redline Aviation Security,
founders of the NSTC, invited
key figures from Ghana to the opening of their state of the art facility. Redline maintains an office in Accra along with strategic partners, Yahuda Security.
Redline and Yahuda are planning on running courses in Ghana and are pioneering an aviation security instructor exchange programme.
All training and support services are regulated and directed by the Department for Transport and are under the auspices of the UK National Aviation
Security Programme.
Helen Gripton, the Redline Threats Officer and veteran of recent air campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan went on to explain “It is our belief that the
aviation security industry needs both the facilities and the training equipment that allow for robust, reliable and repeatable training in scenario-led situations
to prepare them adequately.”
“Through the centre, we aim to ensure the best possible security training by thinking ahead regarding what the real threats are and giving appropriate
and holistic training, ensuring everybody is working from the same policies.”
The size and capacity of the NSTC caters for such training where real X-ray equipment and Walk Through Metal Detectors (WTMD) are utilised for
practical exercises and role-play. This aspect of the training is where Redline believe the fundamental difference in security officer competence occurs.
The ability for trainees to actually experience a situation and allow it to develop, safely, to a conclusion that assesses the trainee’s ability to recognise,
act and contain a threat situation is fundamental was demonstrated when the team at the NSTC re-enacted a situation for the benefit of their guests
present at the opening.
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