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Free Training To Help Protect The UK

An award-winning counter terrorism training course is now available to the public for the first time and police want you to sign up and sign up your...

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London Bridge Attack - Condolence Book Open

A book of condolence has opened at Guildhall Art Gallery on Monday December 2 (a vigil was also held in Guildhall Yard at 11:00am) people to express...

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Murder In the Cathedral - Bomber Caught Planning Attack

Last week (ending Nov 8) saw the official terrorism threat level in the UK lowered to 'Substantial' - meaning an attack is likely. Within...

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SCaN - See, Check and Notify Training FREE

The See, Check and Notify free security training package empowers staff to help protect your organisation from a range of threats say NaCTSO and the...

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What Is The Terror Threat Level And Why

The threat to the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) from terrorism now stands at 'Substantial'. The threat to Northern...

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Security Boss Guilty Of 22 Counts Of Fraud

A security boss has been found guilty of defrauding security operatives deployed at Heathrow and Tesco. Meanwhile the SIA has carried out a licence...

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Security Guard Jailed For Terrorism Plans

A security guard who downloaded manuals on how to make bombs using lightbulbs and tennis balls has been jailed for two years and two months. In a...

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Parliament Panic - Parking Ticket Fans Protest Flames

Tuesday October 1 saw a man douse himself in petrol outside Parliament and try to set himself alight in protest at a parking ticket. The Met has said...

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'IRA' Claim Parcel Bomb Responsibility In Correctly Coded Call

A claim has allegedly been made on behalf of the ‘IRA’ for the parcel bombs that were delivered to premises in the UK - using a recognised...

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London And Glasgow Parcel Bombs Linked To Ireland

The Met Police Counter Terrorism Command’s investigation into three improvised explosive devices at addresses in London on March 5 is...

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New Year, Old Story - Security Guard Is NY Stabbing Death Two

January 1 saw the Metropolitan Police launch a search for the murderer of a young security guard who, along with two colleagues and a party goer were...

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Westminster Vehicle Attack Man Held Until Monday

The Metropolitan Police have obtained a warrant of further detention in relation to the 29-year old man who drove a car into cyclists and pedestrians...

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Location, Location, Location - Find Staff Anywhere In Emergency Situations

A new App has been deployed that enables employers to instantly locate staff in event of terror attack other emergency. IncidentEye provides...

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Dos Santos Gets A Runout As Carlisle Go To Liverpool

Carlisle Support Services began a three-year contract in May with The ACC Liverpool Group, operators of ACC Liverpool, home to the BT Convention...

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Mother & Daughters Planned London Atrocity

A mother and her two daughters, who plotted to use knifes to carry out a Borough Market styled terrorist attack in London have been...

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Heathrow Under Siege - In-house Teams & Blue-Light Services Respond To Exercise

The Metropolitan Police, emergency services and Heathrow Airport carried out a major live-play exercise at Heathrow to test their joint response to a...

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Project Servator Goes London Wide

Project Servator, a policing tactic that is designed to deter, detect and disrupt all forms of criminal activity, including terrorism, has gone live...

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Security Briefing - Private Security Sector’s Role in Supporting the Police

An upcoming Security Briefing will cover the success of Project Servator and explore the partnership between the Police and the private security...

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Public And First Responders Given All Clear In Salisbury Nerve Gas Attack

Public Health England has given a statement following the suspected assassination attempt of a 60 year old former spy and a young lady near a...

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Jihadi Gary To Take A Three Year Break

A man from south London has been jailed for multiple terrorism offences following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism...

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CCTV Plays Major Role In Van Terror Murder Conviction

Darren Osborne who deliberately drove a van into people outside a north London mosque has been sentenced to life for murder and attempted...

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London, Manchester Could Have Been Stopped. Different Actions - More Arrests

Attacks in London and Manchester between March and June 2017 The UK is facing an intense threat from terrorism according to all that commented on...

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Schoolboy Planned Westminster-style Terror Attack

A teenager was convicted on November 27 of planning to drive a car into a crowd of people in Cardiff in a Daesh-inspired terror attack. Targets he...

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Guns, Drugs, Explosives & Manuals

A man has appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with terrorism offences. Warren Sneddon, 44, of Welwyn Garden City,...

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Happy Holidays - Roam Like Home and Travel Risk Plans Warnings

Organisations are not doing enough to ensure their travel risk strategies are fit for the 21st century realities of business travel and fulfil their...

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Dock, Shock and Crack

The night of Tuesday 25 July saw smoke visible for miles following a fire near the Royal Docks. Fire Brigade 999 Control Officers took around 35...

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Two On Trial - Two Convicted

Back garden chemist jailed A man who sold controlled chemicals from a back garden laboratory has been sent to prison. On 30 June at Hull Crown...

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Seven Held or Jailed for the Love of Hate

A young man, teenager Haroon Ali Syed, whose PIN code for his phone was 'ISIS' was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday June 3. He will...

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Get the Fire Brigade, a Touch of Class, a Brindley Forging, Stonehenge and Dover Castle

Cleveland Fire Brigade Cleveland Fire Brigade has let a contract to Robertson Facilities Management (RFM) on a four year duration, at...

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MI5 Lead Counter Terror Arrests

On Wednesday May 17, MI5 and the Met's Counter Terrorism Command arrested four men at an addresses in east London. The arrests are linked to...

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Ransomware - the Protection Racket

ThisWeekinFM has been making a racket about Cyber Security because vulnerabilities are exploited at a personnel and personal level - where FM's...

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Terrorist Act and Conspiracy to Murder

Three women have been formally charged with the preparation of a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder. They had been arrested as part of an...

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Update on Whitehall Knives Man and Turkey Deportee

A man, Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, arrested in Whitehall on 27 April for carrying knives appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday 10...

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A Week of Terror Arrests and Convictions

The week ending May 5 saw substantial activity from Officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15). Below, under Previous Reporting, we...

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Bank Holiday Monday - More Terrorism Arrests

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command arrested three young women on terrorism charges on Bank Holiday Monday. Two of the...

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Wham, Bam, It's Jail for Sam the Cufflink Man

As reported by much of the mainstream media on the morning of Tuesday May 2 (and first by ThisWeekinFM on March 22) a Cardiff man has pleaded guilty...

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Woman Shot in London Terror Raid

What is being described as an active terror plot has been foiled after police intervention saw one woman shot at a London address and six people...

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Knives Out at Westminster - Bombs in Oxford Street

On Thursday 27, just before 2:30pm, police tackled and hauled a man to the ground near to Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. He was arrested...

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Northern Ireland - IOD Placed at Primary School

A 'significant device' has been seized following a security alert outside Holy Cross Girls Primary School in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast...

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Old Hoax Caller Caught?

Detectives from the Kensington and Chelsea division have arrested an alleged hoax caller on Wednesday March 22. The a 36 year old man was picked-up at...

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Anchor's Away in Terrorism Boat Trial

The Metropolitan Police Service, along with emergency service partners, has carried out the first joint major live-play exercise to test their...

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Hive Talking - Parrett on Home Grown Terror

Islamist Terrorism an Analysis of Offences and Attacks in the UK (1998-2015) is a new research project from The Henry Jackson Society - the...

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Plod on the Pod - Counter Terrorism Stories

As part of the new Action Counter Terrorism campaign (Click Here), Counter Terrorism Policing has produced its first ever...

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The Jackson Hive and a New Terror Campaign

A new national police campaign is again asking the public to act on their instincts to help tackle terrorism. It comes as the country's threat...

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We Are the Champions Ma'm - Queen Opens NCSC

The Director of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) told HM the Queen "the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will aim to make the...

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Keystone Cops - Dim Squad Call Bomb Squad

A not so controlled explosion took place outside Workington Police Station on the morning of Thursday 2 (8:00am), destroying a 'suspicious'...

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Run, Hide and Save Lives - CitizenAID App Launched

A new system, designed to improve public resilience in the event of a major terrorist attack, has been launched. Using lessons learnt on the...

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Six People Arrested For Terrorism Offences

Monday morning of December 12 saw six people arrested on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act. Four men from Derby aged 22, 27, 35 and 36,...

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M Mouths Reality of UK Terror Threat

MI6's Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (or M is you are a fan of Bond movies) has been in post for just over two...

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IS Changing Tactics to Maintain Threat In Europe

As the so-called Islamic State (IS) loses ground in the Middle East, the pattern of its recent terrorist attacks in Europe suggests that it has...

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Watching Brief for Police and Public in Fight Against Terrorism

Teams of specialist police officers will be deployed to disrupt potential terrorist activity and crime in the London boroughs of Wandsworth and...

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UK Security Expo - Olympia This Week

Designing Out Terrorism - a one day event aimed at the property sectors is taking place at UK Security Expo, London Olympia, 30 Nov - 1 Dec. When...

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Midlands and London Counter Terrorism Arrests

Four men were charged with preparing for terrorist acts by West Midlands Counter Terrorism officers on Thursday 8 to appear at Westminster Magistrates...

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Armed Officers - First of 600 Arrive in Week of Tradegy

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan have announced the start of Operation Hercules in...

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The End of Innocence

The attack in the French city of Nice has brought a new dimension to Euro-terrorism. There are three characteristics of this contemptible deed...

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The Impact of Time - a Back to Basics Approiach

Security is a function of time. It is about detecting, recognising, identifying and causing time delay to an adversary to such an extent that...

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The Magic of Resilience

Since the BREXIT option was selected democratically by a majority of the UK population, the word ‘resilience’ has been used widely and...

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Istanbul Attacks - Another Lesson to be Learned

In light of the dreadful attack on Instanbul's Ataturk airport, SERIFM's Jeff Little says we need to stop with the referendum blues and party...

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A Lack of Situational Awareness in the Information Age?

We live in the so called information age. Numerous communication means are now open to us. And yet still, when things do go horribly wrong,...

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Mitigating Risk Against Active Shooters

Active shooters require relatively easy access to their intended targets and unimpeded ability to move around the venue space, writes Chris Annear....

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Cyber Security Awareness Training a MUST for All

Each and every security magazine or website I read further lowers my morale with regard to the risks associated with cyber crime. Every single...

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Euro 2016 - USA Issues Unusual Warning

The State Department issues warnings to Americans about the potential for terrorist attacks at major events, tourist sites, restaurants, commercial...

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Stormy Weather Ahead for UK Resilience Resources?

There can be few who can continue to deny the existence of climate change. Higher sea levels, regular flooding, the frequency of extreme weather...

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Safer Cities - a Complex, Global Issue

This article explores many of the challenges facing the global society and focuses on some of the many solutions that government, public and private...

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Drugs Funding Terrorism - Arrests Made

Two men suspected of funding terrorism were arrested early on Tuesday (May 17) and have now been bailed. The men - both aged 24 - were arrested at...

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Uprising - Stretched Services Can't Cope

Wednesday’s announcement that the threat level on the UK mainland from Northern Ireland related terrorism has been raised from...

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Soft Targets Need Hard Approach

With terrorists looking to attack the places where people come together to socialise to attract the biggest headlines and sense of fear - all at...

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Advanced Terror Plot Foiled - Four go to Jail

Four men were jailed on Friday April 22 for their parts in a conspiracy to commit a terrorist murder following an investigation by the Met's...

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SERIFM - the New Voice in FM Resilience

SERIFM will hold its first conference on Wednesday 28th Septermer 2016, London location to be advised. The initiative is spearheaded by TWinFM in...

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Birmingham Five - Terror Suspect Held in Major Coup

Five people from Birmingham have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of...

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Tax You Lot - Time to Put Your Money Where Your Clout Is

This morning’s announcement in Washington by UK Chancellor George Osborne that the five largest economies in Europe will in future share...

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Co-ordinated CCTV with a Better Focus

Jeff Little of SERIFM - Security and Resilience in FM (which will hold a major conference in September which you can attend - see below) says...

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Teresa May - Attack in the UK is Highly Likely

In what was the third time in her career she has stood before the Commons following a terrorist attack on the soil of a British ally, Teresa May said...

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Cool, Calm and Connected

The efforts of two members of staff a security team have recognised by British Land. Charles Nyeko and Mohammed Hamza Dhimen were recognised for...

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Manchester Bomb Plotter Jailed

On Tuesday, the BBC reported that a man who came from Pakistan to study in the UK has been jailed in the US for forty years. MI5 agents testified that...

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More Thoughts Following Paris Incidents

At the start of the week, ThisWeekinFM asked for comment on the events of Friday 13 in Paris (and Beirut the previous day). Read here what others have...

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Strong Sentence Sends Firm Warning

Yahya Rashid, who is just 19, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court to five years for terrorism offences on Wednesday for engaging in conduct with the...

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May and Camo's Amo is More Bluff and Bluster on Extremist Actions

A new counter extremism strategy launched this week is said (by David Cameron and Theresa May) to tackle the full spectrum of harms caused by...

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Two Charged with Terror Plans - One Accused of Planning UK Attacks

As reported in ThisWeekinFM last week, officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) arrested three men on...

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Terror Arrests in Herts and Beds

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) arrested three men on Tuesday afternoon (July 14) on suspicion...

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Terror Attack Exercise Goes Well - Real Explosion in the Vicinity

A major exercise to test the emergency services and Government response to a terrorist attack was held in central London over two days this...

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al-Shabaab - the Warning Signs of Alternate Threats

Whilst our attention has understandably been focussed on Islamic State and events in the Mesopotamian Basin, and indeed Europe, for the past few...

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Somali Terrorist Threat to Shopping Malls - TWinFM Reports

A video was released over the last weekend by the Somali extremist Islamic group al-Shabaab urging attacks on five shopping complexes. The video...

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MI5 - Three Deadly UK Terror Plots Foiled

Andrew Parker, the Director General of the Security Service (MI5) has given a speech to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on the challenges...

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Lone-Wolf Attacks - Lee Rigby - Mistakes Would Not Have Changed Outcome

The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of Parliament has today published its Report on the intelligence relating to the murder of Fusilier Lee...

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Canada - Two Terror Attacks Bring International Concerns

Canada, which has joined the US and UK in targeting IS in Iraq, has a growing problem with 'Muslim' extremism and the threat of guerrilla...

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Terror Suspects - Three In, Two Out

Counter terrorism officers arrested a further three men on 13 October. All three - aged 24, 21 and 25 were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in...

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Terror Tensions Trigger UK Threat

Anjem Choudary, a so-called Muslim extremist preacher and nine other men have been released on police bail following their arrest on terror related...

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Australia Moves to High Terrorist Alert

The Australian Government has had to move quickly this week against a fanatical group following information it received on a terrorist threat as well...

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Threat from International Terrorism is Severe

The Home Secretary has just announced (Friday 29 August) that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) has changed the threat level from...

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Bomb Scare Closes Brighton Town Centre After Suspicious Package Found

According to the Brighton Argos, Brighton town centre was closed this morning due to a bomb scare. The local paper reported: 'A...

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Letter Bombs Delivered to Seven Towns

The suspect package that closed Brighton town centre this morning has been confirmed as a letter bomb delivered to an army recruitment centre –...

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