The Programme

Keynote Presentation

The challenge of Contest 2

• Determining what we have learnt since the first edition of Contest in 2003
• Examining the evolving threat of international terrorism and what factors are driving it
• Understanding the importance of the four main workstreams of the strategy – Pursue, Prevent, Protect and Prepare
• Developing ways to work within the constraints of 2009 with the need to optimise capital spend and drive down running costs

Keynote Presentation

Adopting the discipline of security throughout your organisational culture

• Understanding the discipline of security – covering all the protective layers of any operating environment including physical, technical and intelligence protection
• The benefit of hindsight, reviewing the history of attacks from Djakarta, Indonesia; Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; Amman, Jordan; Kabul, Afghanistan; Islamabad, Pakistan and Mumbai, India
• Identifying new threats including the use of guns by terrorists as seen during the attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel, Peshawar, Pakistan in June 2009
• Establishing the need for a change in strategy in high-risk locations
• The argument for security guards in potential terrorist target locations to carry weapons
• Uncovering the use of programmes to counter hostile reconnaissance and how to deal with the principal of target shifting

Andy Williams,
Regional Security Director,
UKI, Middle East, Africa and Continental Europe,
Marriott Hotels International Ltd, TURKEY

STREAM ONE
Integrating ‘the human factor’ to create more effective crowded area surveillance and CCTV monitoring.

STREAM TWO
Calculating risk and understanding The Corporate Manslaughter Act (06.04.2008) including the health and safety act

12:05

Chair for afternoon session
Dr Brooke Rogers
Lecturer in Risk and Terror in the King’s Centre for Risk Management (KCRM),
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, UK

Keynote Presentation

Counter Terrorism Strategies employed by the New York City Police Department following the lessons they learned in Mumbai

• What the choice of location of the attacks has taught us – dealing with choke points which could impede the authorities response
• Understanding the tactics used by the terrorists particularly the detailed pre attack surveillance
• Developing strategies to deal with the new use of weapons including : assault rifles, semi automatic pistols and grenades
• Identifying the new goals of a potential terror attack including hostage taking, media coverage and escaping
• Ensuring we are equipped to deal with attacks on symbolic targets including tourism sites and international sport venues
• Understanding the need for authorities to have detailed knowledge of the  internal layout of hotels and buildings
• Q & A Session

STREAM ONE
Technology for Crowded Places

STREAM TWO
Wide Area Places

Panel discussion with two keynote speakers chaired by Dr Brooke Rogers

The Human Rights perspective – the implications for civil liberty

• A critique of counter-terror law and practice in the UK with particular focus on the legislative and policy responses post 9/11
• Tackling the terrorism threat within the Rule of Law and in compliance with the human rights framework
• The future of counter-terrorism law and policy in the UK

Isabella Sankey
Director of Policy,
LIBERTY, UK

Chairman’s Summary of Day One and close

Introduction and opening remarks from the Chair
Robert  Whalley CB,
Consulting Senior Fellow International Institute for Strategic Studies, former Director for Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence,
Home Office, UK

Keynote Presentation

Developing a risk based approach to counter terrorism

• Understanding and managing the risk
• The  context and perspective of counter terrorism

Superintendent Malcolm Baker,
ACPO (TAM). UK

Outdated airport security is leaving the door open for potential attacks

• An urgent wake up call for the improved security of crowded areas from the lessons identified in the management of airport security
• Much security thinking is outdated and is aimed against hijackers with handguns, knives or grenades
• Improving airport security currently the archway metal detector doesn’t detect plastic, wood, glass or polycarbonate devices
• The training of operators is focused on procedure to avoid negligence, rather than facilitating the use of common sense
• Airlines are emphasising passenger facilitation but must not do so at the expense of passenger security
• In the recent past many attacks have happened in crowded areas where people are waiting for security checks
• Regular travelers need to be expedited through the security process, whilst in depth screening should focus on those with indeterminable intent
•  ‘Meeters’ and ‘greeters’ need to be excluded from crowded areas and queues
• Profiling is a proven methodology that embraces commonsense and the proactive identification of high risk passengers and, as such, must be deployed
• If we can deploy staff capable of determining "intent" for Customs and Immigration purposes, we can do so to enhance security too
• Q&A

Philip Baum,
Editor of Aviation Security International,
Managing Director of Green
Light Ltd, UK

STREAM ONE
Innovative approaches to maintaining airport security
Chair: Robert Whalley CB

STREAM TWO
Integrating security best practice in new build stadiums for
small and large sports events in Europe
Chair: Keith Weston QPM

Meeting the challenge of securing the 2012 London Olympics a joint presentation

• Aligning the Olympic Safety and Security Strategy with CONTEST 2 and outlining the details of how HMG works with RISC(UK Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community) to ensure industry’s contribution to CONTEST 2 is maximised
• Revealing the role of Industry Advisory Groups within OSCT(Office for Security and Counter Terrorism)
• Industry's contribution to 2012 via RISC and the IAGs (Independent Advisory Groups) contribution to the security of 2012.
• How innovation from industry is being encouraged to improve the effectiveness of safety and security for major events

Case Study of 2012 to include:  

• The reliance on industry as a key partner in CONTEST 2 as part of 2012
• The unparalleled co-operation at strategic level between OSCT-OSD and industry
• Engagement with industry in the planning process
• The legacy of 2012 for the safety and security industries.

David Evans
Project Director-2012 at the
British Security Industry Association (BSIA)

with
Steve Kemsley
Head of Industry Engagement
Office for Security and Counter Terrorism Olympic Security Directorate

• Developing at local level the necessary organizational and knowledge infrastructure for a permanent  public-private partnership (PPP) platform for counter terrorism, crime prevention and security governance activity
• Enhancing at local level mechanisms for effective internal and external communication including knowledge and information exchange
• Assisting in the identification of “local solutions for local problems” and thereafter assist in the development of joint working and resource utilisation activities
• Promoting crime prevention and proactive activity designed within a “security is an investment and not a cost” philosophy
  

Brian Powrie
QPM
UNICRI Senior Adviser on Security
Governance and Counter Terrorism

The role of the new Obama administration and any perceived change in policy towards terrorism

• The consequences of current military operations by the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan and the Afghanistan/Pakistan borders for extremists
• Perceptions of alienation and humiliation in the Islamic world either changing events for the better or not
• Will Jihadists become leaderless and fragmented, while sharing a common ideology or remain directed by Al Qaeda central?
• The extent to which the counter terrorism industry can be contained to stop the securitisation of society which then potentially loses its core values, for example Israel
  

Networking buffet lunch in the exhibition area

 Panel on identifying transferable lessons from the management of risk for Mass Transit Hubs

• Calculation of risk and tolerance levels for a mass transit system and its difference to an airport
• Assessment of intended benefit and the law of unintended consequences
• New thoughts on the role and value of technology in a given context
• The need to think through the role of the security officer in terms of deterrence and reassurance
• The operational management of risk
• Proportionate reaction eg not stopping the network because of a funny smell
• The importance of identifying international lessons and then putting them in a local context
• The terrorist is adaptive and opportunistic, the need to move on from 7/7 to next threat
• How to harden the target and make the transit system resilient for UK PLC

Adrian Dwyer OBE,
British Transport Police :
Security Specialist,
Mass Transit systems, uk

 A New York City Police Department analysis of the management of risk in mass transit systems.
Panel discussion on issues raised by delegates

Summary of Day One and Two by Conference Chairman Robert Whalley CB: close of conference