by admin.bang-on | Sep 16, 2019 | News, Prepare, Protect
Counter Terrorism Policing is calling on students to remember three words that could save their life. Those starting or returning to college and university this month and are being urged to read Run, Hide, Tell advice, which explains what to do in the event of a...
by admin.bang-on | Sep 9, 2019 | News, Prevent
The UK’s most senior counter terrorism officer has urged the new Independent Reviewer of Prevent to ignore the strategy’s ‘malign detractors’ and see the ‘amazing work’ being done to protect people vulnerable to radicalisation. Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu’s...
by admin.bang-on | Aug 13, 2019 | News, Prepare, Protect
The Department for Transport (DfT) has issued brand new guidance designed to prevent terrorists getting access to commercial vehicles. In the last five years, changes in attack methodology has placed greater emphasis on simplicity and ease of access, meaning that...
by admin.bang-on | Aug 13, 2019 | News, Prevent
The government announced yesterday that Lord Carlile has been appointed as the Independent Reviewer of the Prevent programme, which safeguards vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. Prevent is one of the four strands of the government’s counter-terrorism...
by admin.bang-on | Aug 7, 2019 | News, Prevent
The Prevent programme is the UK’s ‘best chance’ of reducing the threat from terrorism, says the national head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu. Prevent aims to safeguard and support those most at risk of radicalisation through early...
by admin.bang-on | Aug 1, 2019 | News
Counter Terrorism Policing’s (CTP) specialist Terrorism Act (TACT) custody suites have been praised in a joint report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). Following the first ever independent...
by admin.bang-on | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Pursue
Police forces in England and Wales have increased the number of armed operations over the last 12 months in a bid to protect the public from the most dangerous criminals. New Home Office statistics released today, Thursday 25 July, show a 7 per cent (1,405)...
by admin.bang-on | Jul 17, 2019 | News
Since the Manchester Arena attack of 22nd May 2017, our thoughts have been with the families of those who lost loved ones and the hundreds who are struggling with serious physical injuries and deep psychological effects. They have always been central to our...
by admin.bang-on | Jul 16, 2019 | News
An inquest has found the three attackers, who killed eight people in 2017, in the London Bridge attack, were lawfully killed by police. Statement delivered by Commissioner Cressida Dick: In 2017, London suffered four terrible attacks – three of which claimed the...
by admin.bang-on | Jun 14, 2019 | News, Pursue
Counter Terrorism Policing’s Senior National Coordinator has warned the UK still faces an ‘unprecedented’ level of threat, despite arrest numbers falling in the previous 12 months. The Home Office’s quarterly release of statistics relating to the police’s use of...
