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A growing challenge for Facilities Managers – Emerging Threats


By Philip Ingram MBE


As a car tore into barriers outside the palace of Westminster having knocked over several cyclists beforehand, the country held its breath, was this that start of another terror campaign like the one that tore across Europe and the UK in 2016 – 2017? Many cities across the globe were left reeling from a wave of extremism targeting people going about their normal lives and enjoying themselves and the often crudeness of the weaponry used, belied the sophistication of many of the attacks. 2018 has been successful for the security


services with a number of attacks being stopped, but the UK Counter Terror Police continue to remind everyone that they have approximately 600 active investigations going on with over 3000 people of immediate concern and another 20,000 on their radar! Many if not most of these investigations will be occurring in our cities and many of the subjects of those investigations are likely to be targeting our cities. However, 2018 will already


be remembered for a new type of attack, with the first use of a deadly, military grade nerve agent on the streets of the small sleepy English City, Salisbury. The nerve agent Novichok was used in an assassination attempt on a Russian former intelligence officer, Sergi Skripal and his daughter Yulia, in March. This incident, that


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could be from the pages of a John Le Carrie novel but is now a vehicle for greater public-private security cooperation with many of the 1200 police officers drafted in to secure contaminated sites, being replaced by security guards. The impact it has had on Salisbury is great but the impact such an incident would have on the streets of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow or Belfast is unthinkable. Additionally, we have seen an explosive


drone attack on the Venezuelan President recently the EU Counterterrorism co-ordi- nator, Gilles de Kerchove, told a conference at the Royal United Services Institute that terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS would soon turn to constructing biologi- cal weapons and possibly use drones to spread such infections. This year we have seen arrests in Germany linked to a plot to use the biotoxin Ricin in a terror attack. Its purity and quantity shocked the German security agencies. When asked about novel


threats and in particular Novichok,


Fraser Kennedy, Director of


Mitigation and Training with the London based Ultimate Security, said, “A clear and concise overview of how to


identify the effects of a Nerve Agent at the earliest opportunity would be warmly welcomed. Couple this with what to do in such an event to help protect oneself and


others and I think we would have a very useful training resource.” Keeping abreast of the threats, countermeasures, developing technologies and having a platform to discuss and share best practice is always a challenge for the security community. Developing this critical understanding is the remit of this year’s International Security Expo at London Olympia on 28 and 29 November 2018. With a specific free to attend conference on Facilities Management Security on the first day of the show. In addition to Facilities Management Security, there are 11 other free to attend conferences held over the 2 days and these conferences include: Retail, Hotel, Education, Maritime and Transport, CNI, Crisis Response and Business Continuity, Protecting Crowded Places, Night-time economy, Designing Out Terrorism, Cyber, Data and Information Security and Aviation and Border security. The show’s content is shaped by its 40+


strong Advisory Council of experts from across senior levels of the security com- munity including Government, Industry & Academia. This year it is expected over 12,500 people will visit from over 50 coun- tries with thematic and geographical zones to help visitors focus on relevant technologies. So, the content is excellent and relevant, and the networking opportunities are fantastic. With the rapidly changing threat landscape


the one place to come for 2 days to be brought up to speed with everything that is needed, is the International Security Expo in London’s Olympia on 28th and 29th November. This is one not to miss. Visit internationalsecurityexpo.com for further details and register to attend the free conference series.


Credit: Philip Ingram MBE


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