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NaCTSO and Evidence-based Policing

… to improving the safety and security of the public at all ‘Publicly Accessible Locations’. To achieve this, various levers and engagement …
Keywords: PALs Guidance , Research , Evidence , Protective Security , Preparedness

Terrorist use of Bladed or Blunt Force Weapon (BBFW) in the UK

… motivated by an Islamist ideology will likely occur in publicly   accessible places, whereas Extreme Right-Wing terrorists … ideology and have mostly occurred in publicly accessible locations. For example, the 2017 marauding attack took place …
Keywords: Blunt Weapons , Blunt force weapons , Threat , PALs , Attack Methodology

Analysis Insights for the Christmas Period

… when places of entertainment, shopping venues and other publicly accessible locations (PALs) are busy but also for it being religiously …
Keywords: Threat analysis , Risk , Threat

Self-Initiated Terrorists (S-ITs)

… This could include using bladed weapons such as knives. Publicly accessible locations and religious institutions are the most likely …
Keywords: Self-Initiated Terrorists , Attack Methodology , Threat analysis , Intelligence , Prevent , Weapon , Ideologies , Target , Extremist

Complex attacks

… that attackers nearly always target civilians at multiple locations as they move through busy city centres. This … response, at the required scale and at multiple locations. Nevertheless, as with all types of terrorist …
Keywords: Attack , Attack Methodology , Threat , Threat analysis , PALs , Self-Initiated Terrorists

Unintended Consequences Research: Identifying the Impact of NaCTSO Public-Facing Products and Campaigns

… element of analysis. This included only those that were publicly accessible and pertinent to the themes that emerged from …
Keywords: Counter Terrorism Policing , Consequences , Unintended Consequences , Research , Awareness

Relevance of ‘EVIL DONE’ to the current UK threat landscape

… framework). In the event of an attack in Great Britain, locations that are more exposed, occupied, and further from … posited eight components to predict the vulnerability of locations to terrorism (i.e., how attractive they are as … weighing up the costs and benefits of attacking particular locations as assumed by the ‘EVIL DONE’ framework. As the …
Keywords: Evidence-based policing , Research , Evidence , Protective Security , publicly accessible locations , EVIL DONE , Situational Crime Prevention , Academia , Terrorist targeting

Threat from Drones in the UK

… over prisons, near to airports, and other sensitive locations.   How have drones been used by terrorist groups? … in the UK can carry out attacks that are presently more accessible, more effective and cheaper than using UAVs. …
Keywords: Drones , Threat analysis , Threat , UAV

Directed and enabled attacks

… attack will focus on ‘soft’ targets - those that are easily accessible to the public and relatively unprotected, and …
Keywords: Attack , Attack Methodology , Terrorist threat , Emergency Planning

Terrorist use of Fire in Attacks

… In October 2020, forest fires broke out in multiple locations in Hatay province in southern Turkey. …
Keywords: Fire as a weapon , Attack , Attack Methodology , FAW , Arson , Terrorist Attack , Fire , Weapon