Leading Change in Policing Conference 2012

CT Policing – Continuing to evolve.

Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick – Chair of ACPO TAM

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CT Operations Since 9/11 30 Mar 2004: Seven men arrested with 600 kg of ammonium nitrate fertilizer - (Op CREVICE)

3 Aug 2004: plot to attack financial district in USA. Dhiren Barot imprisoned for life - (Op RHYME)

7 Jul 2005: London bombings kill 56 people and injure 700 - (Op THESEUS)

21 Jul 2005: Failed London bombings - (Op VIVACE)

10 Aug 2006: Transatlantic airline plot - (Op OVERT)

1 Feb 2007: Plot to behead a British Muslim soldier - (Op GAMBLE)

29 Jun 2007: London car bombs and Glasgow Airport attack - (Op SEAGRAM)

7 Mar 2008 – Mohammed Hamid jailed indefinitely for recruiting terrorists – (Op OVERAMP)

27 Dec 2010 – Nine charged with Terrorism Offences in "Christmas bomb plot" – (Op GUAVA)

29 Sept 2011 – Seven charged in Birmingham for bomb plotting - (Op EXAMINE)

30 April 2012 – 4 charged with terrorist training/terrorist preparation offences – (Op ARGONAUT)

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Changes and Investments

• People – numbers, skills & relationships• Contest• Improved national functions• Streamlined governance (distributed model)• Interagency activity• Forensics• Prevent• IT/technology• Intelligence• Custody• Protective security• Firearms and surveillance

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Recent Focus has been on

• National Coordination and Tasking

• National Intelligence Handling Model

• National Interoperability

• IT/technology/communication development

• TAM Business Improvement

• Olympics

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National Network

Key

Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU)

Counter Terrorist Intelligence Unit

(CTIU)

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CT Within Policing

• Special Branch• Force response• BOCU activity

• Counter Terrorism Intelligence Units (CTIU)

• Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU)

• Counter-Terrorism Command (CTC)

• National specialist CT units

• CONTEST• SPR• ACPO CT/DE Strategy

Force / BCU capability

Common regional capability

Enhanced national capability

(located in regions)

National specialist capability

National CT strategy

International Liaison

International Operations

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Diversification of the Threat

Current national threat level - SUBSTANTIAL

Threat from:

• International Terrorism

• Northern Irish-Related Terrorism

• Domestic Extremism

• Broader world events

• Lone Actors

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Where we are

• New CT/DE National Strategy 2012 – 2015 implemented

• Network Improvement Intelligence Handling Programme 1

• National Interoperability programme completed

• National Coordination Centre

• NDEU Development/Capability enhanced

• Olympic + QDJ Preparedness

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Current Challenges

• Evolving threat

• Changes to the policing landscape

• Legislative reform (Liberty, Privacy, Security)

• Austerity/fiscal tightening

• IT and technology

• Complacency?

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Next Steps

• Operations! • Network Improvement Intelligence Handling Programme 2

• I.T development

• Home Office review of CT policing structures

• CT Futures Project – CC Chris SIMS

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Continuing to evolve - Preserving what works

Structural change should be guided by the following principles. That: • decisions are based on comprehensive, rigorous and evidence-based analysis

• operational effectiveness and management of risk are enhanced as a result

• the local to global “Golden Thread” of CT policing is preserved (from local communities within the UK through to a threat from overseas)

• our ability to flex and surge resources across policing is maintained

• trusted relationships built over many years are not weakened and continue to be fostered

• local policing continues to deliver and support the Counter terrorism effort

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Questions