by admin.bang-on | Jun 10, 2019 | News, Prepare, Protect
Counter Terrorism Policing are reaching out to festival-goers who will be attending live events in the coming months by launching the #BeSafeBeSound social media campaign as part of their ‘Summer Security’ initiative. While there is no intelligence to indicate an...
by admin.bang-on | May 29, 2019 | News
Police investigating a number of small incendiary devices sent via the post to locations in London and Glasgow earlier this year are appealing for anyone who may have information about the origins of the devices or who handled them, to come forward and help them with...
by admin.bang-on | May 20, 2019 | News, Prepare, Protect
West Midlands Police, together with partner emergency services, took part in a live-play training exercise last week to test response to a major incident. The exercise, which spanned three days between 14 and 16 May, took place at a number of locations across the...
by admin.bang-on | May 10, 2019 | News, Prepare, Protect
A training exercise to test the response of the emergency services to a terrorist attack took place Humberside over the past few days.Led by Counter Terrorism Policing North East, the exercise involved participants from a number of agencies, including regional police...
by admin.bang-on | May 2, 2019 | News, Prepare, Protect
Terror survivors have called for businesses and religious organisations to complete Counter Terrorism training to help protect the UK from future attacks. Natalie Tait and Joanette Fourie, both of London, have shared their own accounts of being caught up in the...
by admin.bang-on | Apr 18, 2019 | News
Wednesday, 17 April, marked the 20th anniversary of the Brixton Market nail bombing. It was the first of three nail bomb attacks committed over a two-week period – a homemade device was detonated in Brick Lane in east London on 24 April 1999, and another device...
by admin.bang-on | Apr 8, 2019 | News
The Government today has unveiled consultation on tough new measures to ensure the UK is the safest place in the world to be online.In the first online safety regulations of their kind, social media companies and tech firms will be legally required to protect their...
by admin.bang-on | Mar 29, 2019 | News
Britain is one of the safest and most prosperous countries in the world. Nonetheless, the complex challenges we and other countries face from terrorism and malign acts by foreign states are all too real. As we saw in Christchurch, attacks can happen at any time and in...
by admin.bang-on | Mar 26, 2019 | News
Police Dogs who supported emergency services during the London terror attacks at Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and Borough Market are being honored for their heroic actions by leading vet charity PDSA.Seven Police Dogs from the Metropolitan Police (Met) and...
by admin.bang-on | Mar 20, 2019 | News
On 19 March 2019, Survivors Against Terror’s Brendan Cox wrote a powerful piece for the Evening Standard about the effect that the mass media can have in promoting terrorism, its perpetrators and whatever vile ideology inspires them. This followed a sobering and...
