Posts Tagged ‘Terror’

On Tuesday Police arrested a 40 year old dog handler working for a security company on the Olympic site in East London on suspicion of possessing explosives.  2 more arrests have been made in connection with this incident. A43 year old male was arrested in Wales on Wednesday on suspicion of possession of explosives. On Friday a 61 year old male was arrested in East London on suspicion of supplying an explosive substance.

The arrests were made by the OSSU (Olympic Site Support Unit) Police said that site safety had not been at risk

I would just like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy and safe 2011.

2010 has been an eventful year both for SPP Solutions and also for security in general. As we move into 2011 the threat certainly doesn’t diminish and this has been reflected in the Prime Ministers New Years address and also the recent Terror arrests in Cardiff Stoke and London.

Early in 2011 we are going to Germany to talk about Industrial Espionage and Travel Safety and are looking forward to being able to pass on valuable and timely information.

All that is left for me to say is Bon Voyage to 2010 and welcome 2011 with open arms in anticipation of a good year.

Thank You all and hope to see you all in 2011.

We have been publishing since this time last year (2009) that Britain was at risk of a Mumbai style attack. Back in 2009 a report appeared that suggested that Police were concerned that there was a Terror Cell in or around London that had the capability and resources to carry out such an attack. The threat never went away during 2010 but its only now that so much emphasis has been given to this topic with plans afoot to up arm and train the Police in offensive tactics. Giving them fully automatic weapons and training them to fire and manoeuvre.

In the past few days security forums and websites have been saying its a matter of “when and not if” there is a Mumbai style attack in Europe. Lets not be complacent about this threat. Any City is at risk. It doesn’t have to be London, Paris or Berlin. There is on constant in all of this and that is how long is it going to take to respond? In Mumbai over 160 people were killed in the first minutes. Could officers get to the scene and find fix and contact the Terrorist in minutes? this is the big unanswered question.

A court of appeal ruling has cleared the way for two international terrorism suspects to claim damages for having control orders wrongly imposed on them for three and a half years. The judgment also raises the prospect that a third suspect will not be prosecuted for breaching the terms of his control order, which has also been quashed. The ruling, by three appeal court judges headed by Lord Justice Maurice Kay, upholds a previous high court judgment that the control orders against the three men should not merely be revoked but quashed because they should never have been made in the first place. The control order case involves three terror suspects who, for legal reasons, can only be named as AE, AF and AN. The decision to quash their control orders followed a landmark high court ruling that none of them had been given sufficient disclosure of the evidence against them to support the home secretary’s claims that they were engaged in terrorism-related activities.

The Government has announced that £150m has to be saved. £87m of that has been wiped from the Counter Terror budget. Units around the Country will lose £62m.

This is a frightening turn. I’m sure the budget has been cut because there is little or no activity of a terrorist nature that is making the news and therefore what do they need all the money for? The reality is that there has been little in the news BECAUSE of the money. We don’t what attacks every week in the way that Pakistan does at the moment but we could well see more with the axing of 25% of the CT budget. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the UKs application to appeal its decision in a recent finding that Stop and Search powers used as part of Counter Terror legislation breached Human Rights.

The European Court held in Jan 10 that sect 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 violates Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (right to privacy and family life)

This ruling which is now absolute has thrown Stop and Search into disarray and the Home Secretary has ordered an urgent review of the powers. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

The ability of UK police to use counter-terror stop and search powers against peace protesters and photographers lay in tatters after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights.

The Strasbourg court ruled it was unlawful for police to use the powers, under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, to stop and search people without needing any grounds for suspicion.

The widely-drawn ruling said that not only the use of the counter-terror powers, but also the way they were authorised, were “neither sufficiently circumscribed, nor subject to adequate legal safeguards against abuse”.

The use of these powers has grown fourfold, from 33,177 times in 2004 to more than 117,200 in 2008.

The Metropolitan police have used them most, but 11 other forces in England and Wales also make routine use of them.

The Foreign Office has issued a warning strongly urging travellers not the visit the Northern Mali town of Timbuktu because of the fears of terrorism.

In June of this year a British tourist, Edwin Dyer was killed by a group claiming links to Al Qaeda.

The Foreign Office has said the threat of terrorism, and specifically kidnapping is now high and have advised to stay away from the whole of Northern Mali.

Several Westerners have been kidnapped in recent months and held for ransom.

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A suicide bomber who was detonated in the same room as a Saudi Prince who is in charge of counter terror is believed to have had the explosive device inside himself. The device is believed to have been detonated by mobile phone.

The bomber, a Saudi Al Qaeda fugitive said he was ready to give himself up but would only give himself up to the prince. The prince agreed and the fugitive was given safe passage to a rendezvous in Jeddah. Once in the same room he was detonated. The prince was unharmed and only the bomber died. The device left a considerable crater and its believed the saving grace was that the blast went downwards.

Security and Intelligence chiefs are extremely worried at this turning point as it renders airport security metal detectors useless.

Peter Neuman of Kings College London says the case will be studied intensively, and that there are “tremendous implications for airport security with the potential of making it even more complicated to get on to your plane”.

“If it really is true that the metal detectors couldn’t detect this person’s hidden explosive device, that would mean that the metal detectors as they currently exist in airports are pretty much useless,” he said.

You can call the Anti Terror hotline on:

0800 789 321



If you are in Hampshire and witness suspicious activity you can call the above number or you can call Hampshire Constabulary on

0845 045 45 45



In any event if you believe the situation to be so serious then call

999 immediately