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This leads onto new delivery methods. Currently, police have the lion’s share of CT awareness training and take a principal role in carrying out surveys in our top priority sites. This is unsustainable as the police CTSAs will be required to carry out more work prioritising vulnerable open spaces, rather than the traditional ‘managed’ sites which we have concentrated on in the past. In the future, we may well see those sites which are managed by large private organisations and which have a good standard of security having to look to the private sector for a level of CT assurance surveying and advice around new builds and the like. We are already looking at how we can work with government and academia to re-license former CTSAs and to set up a national standard for new private sector advisors in protective security. This is some way in the future but is an example of how the security landscape may well change as part of step change.
Two examples of step change are the work we are doing with youth and with sports organisations. We have launched ACT for Youth as a targeted part of our ACT – Action Counters Terrorism programme of raising awareness. This strand is aimed at improving awareness of teenagers.
Our sports engagement has been designed to improve standards of awareness and stewarding at major sports events and we are working very closely with the Premier League, English Football League and the RFU as well as with the Sport Ground Safety Authority, with whom we have a long and close relationship. All of these organisations have been receptive to working closely with us to develop new and better ways of improving safety and awareness.
Since the Step Change Summit in July at Guildhall in the City of London, we have seen no let-up in the tempo of terrorist activity or in our progressing of the step change programme. Six workgroups have been set up across transport, finance, travel, security and resilience, cyber and crowded places to devise a road-map of how we can work together more closely and effectively to improve protective security. The summit on 13th November will take the ideas from each of those workgroups and develop them into an action plan that will deliver a joined up improvement to our protective security.
Although step change as a project is new, the relationship between business and police is longstanding and enduring. Initiatives such as CSSC are going from strength to strength and I am confident that the future relationship will only improve as we progress the step change programme.
Supt. David Roney Deputy National Coordinator Protect and Prepare
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Police Officer PC Wayne Marques, who confronted three knife- wielding terrorists during the London Bridge Attacks, consequently, suffering severe life- changing injuries, is awarded the City of London Sheriffs’ Award for Bravery.
The Sheriffs’ Award was introduced shortly after the 2007 London tube and bus bombings to recognise outstanding acts of bravery by individuals from across the UK. Every year since then, the Sheriffs have sought nominations for individuals who have, without thought for their own safety, acted to confront danger in a selfless and inspirational way.
On the evening of Saturday 3rd June 2017, three terrorists drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then engaged in a knife attack on revelers enjoying the night- time economy in Borough Market. Eight people were killed and a further 48 injured. British Transport Police Officer PC Wayne Marques was on duty in uniform at London Bridge Railway Station. PC Marques is a probationary officer with less than two years’ police service with British Transport Police.
PC Marques heard a woman screaming outside the railway station, went towards the screams and saw people running along Borough High Street. He saw a man who was suffering from stab wounds being tended to by members of the public and then saw three attackers stabbing other members of the public with 8 to 10-inch-long knives. Equipped only with a standard issue expandable baton, PC Marques charged the attackers whilst they were stabbing yet another victim and began fighting for his life with all three. As a result, he was stabbed in the head causing bleeding which impaired his vision and received more stab wounds to his head, hands, hip and legs. He continued fighting until, as a result of his injuries, he lost consciousness. Shortly after, the attackers were shot by armed police officers. PC Marques was conveyed to hospital where he was treated for serious injuries. Caption for the picture:
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LtR: Chief Superintendent Martin Fry (BTP), Sheriff Neil Redcliffe JP, PC Wayne Marques, The Master WCoSP, Air Commodore Stephen Anderton
Spotlight on a security officer G
raham Bassett met with Andrew Pennicooke of Andrews International
who works on the Granary Square/King’s Cross Estate.
Andrew started with Andrews International about four years ago and has worked on the prestigious King’s Cross Estate for the same period. He attended Project Griffin training on site of this huge six-acre multi-tenanted estate looking after an eclectic mix of stakeholders with an annual footfall of around 8million. Andrew is also a qualified First Aider. With so many challenges on a site of this size and mixed use, Andrew needs to be on top of his game as a
front-line officer and ambassador for the business. He said, “Along with my other training, Project Griffin has provided me with additional awareness and confidence to deal with a variety of situations including reporting suspicious behaviour, plus you tend to look out for and notice more.” He also commented on how his training has helped
him with one of his passions – working with the public and his clients to help them where he can and keep them safe.
A keen advocate of Project Griffin, Andrew said, “I would recommend everyone to attend Project Griffin awareness training; it will help you in your job and career.”
Recently, Andrew and a colleague have been recognised and acknowledged with ‘special thanks’ for intervening and stopping what would have been a serious incident involving one of the estate’s stakeholders. Modestly. Andrew commented that he was “just doing my job”.
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