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As the waste management and recycling industry grows rapidly in response to environmental concerns, RMP look at the significant risks to local authorities, their staff and or contractors, and members of the public.
Protecting Buildings from Vehicle Attacks
Introduction – What is Terrorism?
The UK describe terrorism as ‘the use or threat of action, both in and outside of the United Kingdom, designed to influence any international government organisation or to intimidate the public and for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause’.
Examples can include:
- Serious violence against a person or damage to property
- Endangering a person’s life (other than the person committing the offence)
- Creating a serious risk to the health and safety of the public
- Action designed to seriously interfere with or seriously disrupt an electronic system.
It can take many forms including IED and bombs, biological, radiological, suicide, cyber, chemical and vehicles. The use of a vehicle as a weapon is where it can be used intentionally to injure and kill people. It is a low complexity methodology requiring little or no training which can make it harder to detect due to the lack of planning. Thankfully, vehicles used to attack buildings and the people within them are rare. Despite this they do, and have occurred, not just across the world but in the UK as well so complacency cannot be underestimated. People can commit these offences due to motivation that is racial, political, ideological and personal and is often a strategy rather than a random act of violence.
Sadly to maximise impact crowded places will often be seen as an attractive target. The Home Office (HO) describes a crowded place as ‘a location or environment to which members of the public have access that may be considered potentially liable to terrorist attack by virtue of its crowd density’. Places where large numbers congregate could be both permanent and temporary, large or small. The HO recognise this could include iconic buildings.
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