Counter terrorism policing are urging as many places of worship as possible to sign up to a free online course about terrorism safety called ‘ACT awareness’ (Action Counters Terrorism).
Nick Aldworth, a Chief Super Intendent and the National Coordinator for the ‘Protect and Prepare’ programme, told Premier: “We now have an opportunity to broaden our reach and to provide a service to faith establishments that perhaps we haven’t necessarily been able to push before.
“ACT awareness e-learning is an online product that we can make available to faith establishments to help both those who run the establishment but also those who worship at them, to understand what terrorism is and how to prepare for it and, I hope it doesn’t happen, but how to respond to it if it does happen.”
“I think it’s very important for me to say that, you know, there is no reason to believe that a faith community in the UK will be attacked but, you know what, it’s really important in this day and age that everybody understands what they need to be prepared for.”
The course teaches those who sign up about current methodology of terrorism, how to mitigate against it and to understand how terrorists often operate.
The modules available are:
- Introduction to Terrorism
- Identifying Security Vulnerabilities
- How to Identify and Respond to Suspicious Behaviour
- How to Identify and Deal with a Suspicious…
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