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Communities Defeat Terrorism Lessons about working together. Dick Fedorcio Director of Public Affairs Metropolitan Police Service. Date Arial 14pt. Body copy Arial 20/32pt. MPS / National resources. CONTEST National Policing Plan ACPO (TAM) Strategic Plan. International Operations. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Communities Defeat TerrorismLessons about working together

Dick Fedorcio

Director of Public Affairs

Metropolitan Police Service

Date Arial 14pt

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Body copy Arial 20/32pt

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MPS / National resources

• Special Branch• Force response• BCU activity

• Counter Terrorism Intelligence units (CTIU)

• Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU)

• Counter-Terrorism Command (CTC)

• National specialist CT units

• CONTEST• National Policing Plan• ACPO (TAM) Strategic Plan

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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Recent Threat Level History

• 1 August 2006 introduced as Severe

• 10 August 2006 raised to Critical (Op Overt)

• 13 August 2006 lowered to Severe

• 30 June 2007 raided to Critical (Op Seagram)

• 4 July 2007 lowered to Severe

• 20 July 2009 lowered to Substantial

• 22 January 2010 raised to Severe

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Threat Levels

• Low - an attack is unlikely

• Moderate - an attack is possible, but not likely

• Substantial - an attack is a strong possibility

• Severe - an attack is highly likely

• Critical - an attack is expected imminently

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The digital trend...

Body copy Arial 20/32pt

• 1,000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte

• 1,000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte

• 1,000 terabytes = 1 petabyte

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The digital trend....

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Hi-tech challenges

• 2010 1Tb £60 10 years

• 1994 340Mb £600 6 hours

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Since 11 September 2001….

1,661 terrorism arrests across the UK including:

Alva, Clackmannanshire, Birmingham, Bristol, Crawley, Dewsbury, Exeter, Gloucester, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle, Norfolk…….

230 people have been convicted of terrorism related offences

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Forest Gate

June 2006

Major counter terrorism op

‘Credible Intelligence’

Raid in Landsdown Road, Forest Gate

Chemical explosive device

‘250 officers involved’

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Friday 2 June 2006

Suspect shot

Search of house begins

Initial statement released at 07.00

Extensive media interest

Mobile phone images being sent to the media

from local residents.

Briefing with stakeholders takes place

Leaflet prepared for residents

‘IPCC investigation limits what we can say’

Pooled media interview with Peter Clarke 13.00

‘Not Prepared to Discuss’

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Weekend Press

Media vacuum

Speculation

Community impact

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Monday 5 June 2006

Daily Mail – ‘Police won’t find a thing’

Guardian – ‘More questions than answers’

Daily Star – ‘Cover up fury’

Peter McKay, Daily Mail….

‘Scotland Yard might have another disaster on its

hands…police more concerned with media management

than proper investigation.’

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Community Impact

Community briefings/meetings

BOCU commander meets with

community leaders

Community Together bulletins

Media interviews with local people

Protests and demonstrations

Running commentary from legal team

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Urgent Review

Reviewed statement/strategy ‘250 officers’ What about the ‘what ifs’ ? Lack of police presence ‘IPCC investigation limits what we can say’ No rebuttal Misinformation quickly became fact Extensive criticism from ethnic minority media Head of News, Chief Press Officer, Senior Press Officer SO

all on holiday !

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And then…..

Brothers released without charge

Nothing found in-house

Loss of community confidence

Demands for an apology

Brothers press conference

MPS apologises to local

community two weeks later

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New Counter Terrorism Strategy = OpCI

Operation }

Community }

Investigation }

Borough Borough CommanderCommander

Head of Anti-Terrorist Head of Anti-Terrorist BranchBranch

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Under the Spotlight

MPA Scrutiny of MPS media handling Evidence from Met officers, journalists and community reps ‘Reluctance of the MPS to engage with media and to share

information created an information vacuum, subsequently filled with rumour….’

‘Neither MPS or IPCC were willing to comment on fevered speculation….

‘Over use of not prepared to discuss’ ‘MPS needs to be aggressive and quick to challenge

incorrect information.’ Nine Recommendations

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Learning from our Mistakes

New Counter Terrorism Media Strategy

Protocol between MPS/IPCC

Enhanced Media Monitoring facilities

Communities Press Team

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