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Actions Counter Terrorism Awareness Elearning


In the next stage of the development of Project Griffin, NaCTSO has launched a new online elearning product for all UK based companies and organisations. This will replace the current industry self-delivery programme. The aim of ACT Awareness ELearning is to provide nationally accredited corporate CT guidance to help industry better understand and mitigate against the current terrorist methodology.


Project Servator across London Photo courtesy of Ministry of Defence Police


Project Servator National roll out reaches nine forces


Police forces across the UK are continuing to adopt Project Servator – a policing tactic pioneered by the City of London Police and the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and designed to deter, detect and disrupt a range of criminality, including terrorism.


In early April, it began operating across the entirety of London, including at London City and Heathrow Airports. This followed a successful pilot of two teams in the Metropolitan Police, which led to the force formally adopting the initiative and launching a number of additional teams.


The Met Police teams work in partnership with hundreds of colleagues from the City of London Police, British Transport Police and the Ministry of Defence Police to carry out deployments across the capital, including busy areas such as shopping centres, tourist attractions and transport hubs.


Range of resources


Project Servator sees the deployment of both highly visible and covert police officers, supported by other resources such as dogs, horses, firearms officers, vehicle checkpoints, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and CCTV.


The deployments can happen anywhere and at any time and include police officers specially trained to spot the tell-tale signs of individuals who may have criminal intent.


Superintendent Nick Aldworth, head of the Met Police’s Project Servator teams, said, ‘Every day, Project Servator officers enlist the help of businesses, security staff, community groups and members of the public to be vigilant and make it even harder for criminals, including terrorists, to succeed.’


Greater Manchester Police became the ninth UK police force to adopt Project Servator, with a launch at Manchester Airport at the end of April.


Inspector Alan Kelly, who leads the policing team at the airport, said: ‘This is a fantastic opportunity for us to engage with passengers, visitors and staff using the airport and to work with them and our airport security partners to keep everyone safe and add another layer of security to our existing policing methods.’


The National Project Servator Team, funded by Counter Terrorism Policing and based at the City of London Police, is supporting several other UK police forces working towards formally adopting Project Servator this year.


Find out more about Project Servator. www.cityoflondon.police.uk/community- policing/project-servator/Pages/Project-Ser vator.aspx


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This new approach recognises that businesses require an agile, measurable, low cost deployment, in bitesize chunks in a securely hosted environment to support the priorities to protect their people, brand and property.


It consists of six primary modules designed to teach staff about the threat to the public from terrorism and how to mitigate it, such as spotting the signs of suspicious behaviour and reacting to a firearms or weapons attack.


The course, which is fully interactive, can be taken at times to suit business needs and will give all those who complete the sections a nationally accredited certificate. The course modules are:


1. Introduction to terrorism 2. Identifying security vulnerabilities 3. Identifying and responding to suspicious behaviour


4. Identifying and responding to a suspicious item


5. What to do in event of a bomb threat 6. Responding to a firearms or weapons attack.


The Beta version has been trialled by 7,000 Marks and Spencer employees and around 14,000 from other companies working in the retail sector with very good feedback.


For more information about the ACT Awareness e-Learning package, and to find out whether your business qualifies for access to this free resource, visit www.gov.uk/government/news/act- awareness-elearning


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