CitizenAID awarded for Counter Terrorism Initiative

UK Charity, citizenAID, has been recognized for its contributions to countering terrorism with a National award win at the Security & Counter Terror Expo 2018, held in London on Tuesday 6th March.

The charity, which scooped the National Counter Terrorism Project Award for its early response initiative, aims to help civilians ‘Be Prepared Not Scared’, by educating individuals, communities and organisations with the medical knowledge to help improve outcomes and save the lives of those injured by a deliberate attack, through the use of its informative smartphone app and pocket guide.

The Counter Terrorism Awards aim to highlight the contributions of organisations from the UK and overseas to reducing the threat from global terrorism, ranging from Counter Terror Policing to Counter Terror Education. Other winners included Mark Rowley, QMP, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, who received the Outstanding Contribution to Terrorism Award.

Brigadier Tim Hodgetts, Co-Founder of citizenAID, commented: “We’re both honored and delighted to receive this award, and would like to thank everyone who has helped us get to where we are today. There was strong competition in each and every category, so it was a pleasure to have been shortlisted alongside so many other incredible organisations, let alone win.”

Since its launch in January 2017, citizenAID has released a free smartphone app, online familiarization videos, a pocket guide and education materials for both adults and children. The charity has also launched a range of innovative and affordable equipment for use during emergency situations, such as its patented Tourni-Key product, which can control life-threatening bleeding.

“The success of citizenAID is determined by the communities and individuals who share information and help one another to understand what to do in a traumatic situation such as a bombing or shooting,” Tim continued. “Now more than ever, I believe that our message is essential – being prepared and ensuring the public understand how they can save lives really matters.”

citizenAID was founded by four highly experienced UK clinicians, Brigadier Tim Hodgetts, Sir Keith Porter, Andrew Thurgood and Colonel Peter Mahoney, who have endeavored to improve public resilience. In the event of a shooting, stabbing or bomb explosion, the initiative reinforces the priority of public safety, providing a simple, logical system that the public can follow.

It is designed to give the public valuable knowledge regarding communication with emergency services as well as how to prioritize and deliver life-saving first aid.

For more information or to make a donation, please visit www.citizenaid.org.

Security & Counter Terror Expo 2016: An international platform for global security

global security Counter Terror ExpoLeading event returns to London in April with a programme created to help those tasked with keeping global security, assets and businesses safe

Over recent years the threat of terrorism has increased exponentially and today terrorist activity is undertaken on an almost a daily basis. In 2015 alone, there were more than 380 recorded terrorist attacks by violent non-state actors for political or unknown motives.

These attacks are now wide reaching and intercontinental. The Nigerian government is just one example, it has been combating the ever increasing Boko Read more

Discussing New Counter Terror Strategies to Tackle Terrorism

Counter Terror ExpoHigh ranking security and emergency services officials will gather at World Counter Terror Congress to discuss future counter terror strategies

News that Isis is planning to set up training camps across Europe, provides further evidence that the threat from extremist organisations is not abating. Terrorist groups continue to threaten civilians from all walks of life and governments are under pressure to prevent future attacks without impacting the lives of their residents. Read more

Wrightstyle and a terrorist perspective

Wrightstyle, the leading UK steel glazing company, supplies glass and glazing systems worldwide to mitigate against fire or ballistic and bomb attack.  In the wake of the Boston and London atrocities, Denis Wright, Wrightstyle’s Chairman, provides a perspective.

Over the past few months terrorism has been much in the news, from the Boston marathon bombings to the murder of a British soldier in London. In the Middle East, Read more

Three Tests, Three Passes for Heald’s Surface Mount Sliding Bollard System.

Surface Mount Sliding BollardHeald’s HT1-Matador3 and HT1-Matador4 surface mounted sliding Bollard automated systems achieved PAS68:2010 zero penetration classification no less than three times in recent crash tests.
The system is available in two models: HT1-Matador3 and HT1-Matador4. Both comprise of two static outer bollards; the HT1-Matador3 has a single inner sliding bollard, and the HT1-Matador4 has two inner sliding bollards. Read more

Asia crime gangs can be brought to justice by using unique UK digital forensic technology

digital forensic technologyInnovative digital forensic technology that instantly identifies illegal activity over the internet could help law enforcers stem the growing threat of terrorism and organised crime across the Asia Pacific Region. Read more

TERROR CHALLENGES IN ASIA: THE TRILLION DOLLAR MARKET

Global spending on Homeland Security now stands at about $200 billion annually. But with budgets in Asia now set to increase by 30-percent in its trillion-dollar-plus market, where China, India, Japan and Saudi Arabia are closely followed by the South-East Asia tigers, the message is clear: Asia is already almost as big a market as the United States, which accounts for one third of the world’s Homeland Security expenditure.  But unlike the US, it’ll be a mistake to look at the security situation in Asia as one constant. Asia has many geostrategic regions, each with its own peculiarities, presenting challenges that are either indigenous or insurgencies that survive on cross border support.
The indigenous insurgencies and sometimes conflicts with communal divides have their roots in poor governance and corruption, ethnic inequalities and sense of persecution by the State. In India, these can be seen in the Maoist movement across the centre and the tribal insurgency in the north-east, whereas in Pakistan it is the Shia-Sunni divide, the Balooch insurgency and the Pashtun disaffection in the NWFP (Af-Pak region). Russia’s Chechen problem and China’s battle against discontent in Xinjiang, as well as the Kurdish problem across Iran, Iraq and Turkey all fall in these categories. These require a combination of police cum military operations adhering to the minimum-force dictum to contain the problem, backed with imaginatively delivered packages that address the core grievances of the locals, employment, education, housing and roads.
The second challenge is posed by proxy wars and trans-national threats. This is sometimes even used as an instrument of policy by certain countries, such as Pakistan’s support for cross-border groups that operate in Kashmir which has added momentum to the failures of New Delhi policies, or Islamabad’s support to the Taliban groups in Afghanistan. Likewise, Israeli support for the Jundullah to undermine the Iranian government and the Iranian support for Hezbollah in Lebanon, or more recently the anti-Bahrain and anti-Saudi groups in the Gulf, are prominent examples.
Finally, trans-national terror groups either linked with or inspired by Al-Qaeda – from Philippines to Iraq – have inspired their cadres with radical Islam. While Osama bin Laden has been eliminated and Al-Qaeda may be in tatters, his legacy continues to motivate suicide bombers from Pakistan to the Gulf States. The challenge they pose is still not insignificant, and most difficult to counter.

 

A heady cocktail of these threats have made Asia the world’s fastest-growing Homeland Security market. And Securing Asia 2012, a unique initiative to be held in London from 25th to 27th June at the QE-II Centre, will not only showcase the technologies and training methodologies that Asian countries need, but will bring together, for the first time, the buyers and the suppliers under one roof, to equip Asian countries for their battles ahead.

http://www.securingasia2012.com

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London plays host to Counter Terror Expo 2010

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Countering Terrorism in a Changed World

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At the 2010 event there will be three conferences, including one supported by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO).

The conferences feature over 75 internationally recognised speakers taking part in a range of key-note presentations, case studies, industry debates and panel discussions. Read more