Security

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Security Counter Terrorism Science
TechnologyA Home Office perspective

• 10 October 2005
• Alan Pratt
• DirectorHome Office Scientific Development Branch

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What is important to the Home Office?

• OBJECTIVES
• People are and feel more secure in their homes
  and daily lives
• More offenders are caught, punished and stop
  offending
• Fewer peoples lives are ruined by drugs
• Legal migrants are welcomed because illegal
  immigration and abuse of the asylum laws are
  under control
• Communities and the voluntary sector are more
  fully engaged in tackling social problems, and
  there is more equality of opportunity and respect
  for people of all races and religions

Effective enforcement of our laws and borders
Active citizenship and cohesive communities
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Actions taken since 9/11

• Increased funding
• 85.5m to the NHS to counter bio-terrorism
• 56m to the Fire Service for decontamination
  programmes
• 132m to the Fire Service for search and rescue
  equipment
• 49m to the Metropolitan Police
• 12m to national police forces
• Tightened port, airport and border security
• Sped-up extradition processes
• Frozen assets of international terrorist
  organisations
• Increased joint-working and intelligence sharing
  internationally
• Increased the size of the Security Service to
  analyse and act on information
• Continued the exercise programme to deal with
  terrorism scenarios

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Cross Government Counter Terrorism Strategy
CONTEST
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• Addressing the causes of terrorism at home and
  abroad
• Legislation
• preventing extremism
• border security transport security

Prevent

• Protecting the UK
• critical national infrastructure
• sites which are at particular risk

• Response and recovery
• Government wide contingency  
• Resilience
• Response capabilities

Protect
Prepare
Pursue

• Disrupting terrorist organisations
• understand capabilities and intentions of
  terrorist organisations
• targeting terrorist funds
• legislation

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• Addressing the causes of terrorism at home and
  abroad
• Legislation
• preventing extremism
• border security transport security

Social science Understanding community tensions
and the causes of radicalisation
Prevent

• eBorders
• People screening
• Biometrics

• Explosives detection
• Baggage security screening
• Target hardening

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Cargo baggage screeningPeople, drugs,
explosives, weapons
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Alarm systems
Physical security
Prevent

• Protecting the UK
• critical national infrastructure
• sites which are at particular risk

Protect
CCTV
CBRN Detection
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Protecting from terrorism
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Evaluations

• Physical Electronic

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Intelligent CCTV
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Prevent
Protect
Forensics
Surveillance
Pursue
Data mining
Intelligence gathering

• Disrupting terrorist organisations
• understand capabilities and intentions of
  terrorist organisations
• targeting terrorist funds
• legislation

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Covert Surveillance
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Scenes of crime
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Operational research
Protective equipment
Prevent

• Response and recovery
• Government wide contingency  
• Resilience
• Response capabilities

Detection equipment
Protect
Prepare
Decontamination methods
Pursue
Communications
Evidence recovery techniques
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CBRNChemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear

• Modelling
• Detection
• Identification
• Consequence management

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Police Protection
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1. Impartial scientific advice

• Impartial and accurate technical advice
• Setting technical standards
• Internationally renowned

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2. Innovative technical solutions

• Broker between commercial manufacturers and
  customers
• We develop new technologies where off-the-shelf
  equipment is not available

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3. Frontline support

• Hands-on technical support for security
  operations
• Central stock of search and surveillance
  equipment
• Over 100 events supported in 2004

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Partnership

• Front Line
• Police, Fire service, Customs, Airports, etc.
• Other Government Departments
• Military, Transport, Security Services, Health
• Academia
• Direct RD partnerships
• Sector briefings
• Research Councils
• Industry
• Working in partnership
• Industry briefings
• Exhibitions

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Academia
Home Office
Industry
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The future

• Constantly monitoring new technologies
• Applied research in-house
• Always working with universities and industry

The problems are too big to tackle alone. What
more could we be doing together?
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