Crowded Places are a Focal Point for UK National Counter Terrorism Strategy
June 18 2008 | 0 comment(s)
The National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NACTSO) of the UK, is a police unit co-located with the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure and funded by the Association of Chief Police Officers. The work of NaCTSO is primarily concerned with the "Protect" and "Prepare" strands of the UK government's CONTEST strategy, as reported on our blog
From the NACTSO webpage, the need to protect vulnerable crowded places becomes apparent:
"Attacks around the world have shown that terrorists will attack those targets they perceive as being attractive. Amongst the likely targets for international terrorists are locations with comparatively limited protective security measures which afford the potential for terrorists to cause mass casualties. The Protect strand is concerned with reducing the vulnerability of the UK and UK interests overseas to a terrorist attack. This covers a range of issues including, crowded places; protecting people going about their daily lives."
Therefore, the GSC's Crowded Places idea award is timely and likely to receive attention from UK, EU and US government officials who are charged with protecting crowded places. If you have a good idea to protect crowded places, enter our competition today and have a chance to win $10,000 Dollar in cash. Click here to Enter today!
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