5-11-09

On the 12th of Novemeber,UNICRI Security Governance/Counter-Terrorism Laboratory is organising its first information dissemination workshop in Lisbon, Portugal. Within the framework of the Public-Private Partnerships and Major Events Security initiative, UNICRI Laboratory organizes events to share information on PPP practices, models and tools developed in countries from all over the world.

In this first workshop dedicated to the Portuguese public and private sector, information on two projects on security awareness of the Netherlands will be shared with participants, who will have the chance to discuss this topic with others working in the field of security. The workshop will also include the interaction of Portuguese experts on the topic.

The workshop is designed for security professionals at managerial level and has been arranged for the Donors of the activities of UNICRI’s Laboratory in Lisbon and other relevant private partners and public authorities.

 

Security Awareness Training of the NCTb
(National Coordinator for Counterterrorism of the Netherlands)

The NCTb has developed and distributed an interactive Security Awareness programme/workshop for all the relevant organizations that are attached to the NCTb. Those organizations are part of the vital infrastructure or dealing with CBRN materials.

This NCTb-workshop includes a toolbox with a DVD, a manual and a workbook. The DVD contains three short movies presented by a Dutch TV-host and a trainer/adviser of the Police Academy of the Netherlands. In these clips they visit many companies and interview several people in whom everybody can recognize him or herself. The campaign concentrates on the human factor in awareness; CCTV and door locks will not work when people are not aware of possible threats and even better: aware of their capabilities. The campaign does not only focus on terrorism but on every form of malicious intent. Because of the low profile examples and the questioning situations, the DVD is very popular in the vital organizations.

 

SDR
(Search-Detect-React)

This practical training concept is developed to do predictive profiling on malicious intentions (criminal, terrorism and military) and gives participants very effective and easy-to-learn tools on scanning abnormal behaviour. The target group is very versatile, from the high-risk security force and the Military Police to the colleagues working at a reception. The revolution in this concept is that participants are trained to trigger the people in their environment, who then have to respond to that. Those with malicious intentions have appeared to react differently. The concept contains an interview strategy and ways to react when something is detected.

SDR won the Safety and Security Award of the Netherlands in 2009 with their results on the main airport in Amsterdam, where both public and private parties joined together in detecting malicious intentions. The result of this project was a successful national news item.

The SDR concept is developed by The International Security and Counterterrorism Academy (ISCA) in Israel and became in one year time a national standard for the Royal Military Police of the Netherlands.