Page 37 - the SyI Quarterly 11

Security Community
Institute Community

professionals” would need to play in considering the risk of terrorist attacks and taking proportionate
and reasonable measures. He calls for a “multi-agency approach in terms of preparation and response
planning.”
CPNI SCaN This is a theme echoed by Professor Dr G. Keith Still from Manchester Metropolitan University and

speaker at this year’s Security Institute conference ‘Protecting People in Crowded Places’. Professor
Dr Still talks about the need for “planning, planning and planning”, robust risk assessment and the
provision of what he refers to as “appropriate training”.
“You don’t see what I see” The SCaN for All Staff training package is a tool to help owners and operators with training around the

risk of terrorist attacks, so that staff can be the eyes and ears for security and in a position to better
safeguard members of the public.

Figen Murray, OBE, whose son Martyn Hett was one of 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena terror
attack in May 2017, is also encouraging organisations to train their staff, because she believes it could
“You don’t see what I see. You see a busy station. I see an help with early detection. Figen, who campaigns for tangible changes to help ensure no other family
opportunity. You see people. I see numbers and impact, has to go through what hers did, said of the SCaN training: “It is so important for every single person in
disruption and chaos.” a company or organisation, irrespective of the role they play, because it is important to train ourselves
to be aware of suspicious behaviour, suspicious individuals, and suspicious packages we may see in
This is the chilling opening of the new SCaN for All Staff the course of our everyday lives. It may just be you who spots that one person who can be a danger to
film developed by the Centre for Protection of National all of us. It only takes one person to devastate people’s lives. Our lives were devastated through one
Infrastructure (CPNI). person’s actions.”
In the video, the ‘you’ refers to those working in publicly The SCaN for All Staff package is backed by the government, and has been welcomed by Security
accessible locations. And it is these people that will be that Minister Damian Hinds, who said of the launch: “I welcome the new SCaN training and would
much better at spotting suspicious activity after doing the encourage any business, large or small, to take a look and see how their teams can help play a role
See, Check and Notify (SCaN) training. in keeping the public safe. The training is free and simple, and clearly sets out how managers and
their staff can recognise suspicious behaviour and know what to do in response: a vital defence in
The ‘I’ in the video is the hostile through whose lens disrupting terrorist and other criminal activity.”
the viewer is trained. For the hostile, “information is
everything”. The SCaN for All Staff film trains the viewer SCaN for All Staff, including a video, facilitators notes and knowledge check, can be accessed online
to think about the information the hostile gathers and and delivered in-house, without having to rely on specialist trainers.
needs as part of their hostile reconnaissance. The central
message is that hostiles don’t turn up unprepared and, For more information and to find out more visit https://www.cpni.gov.uk/scan-all-staff.
therefore, disrupting their preparation is something
in the gift of anyone working in a publicly-accessible To access the free package directly, visit: https://scan.highfieldelearning.com.
location or crowded place (and not just a train station). It
is these people that understand the pattern of life in their
workplace and can be trained to spot anything out of the
ordinary.

The free package uses hard-hitting video content to
provide staff with an awareness of how to recognise
suspicious activity (see, check) and know what to do when
they encounter it (notify). SCaN for All Staff is part of a
wider SCaN training programme, which aims to support
organisations, venues and events to train staff to help
disrupt hostile reconnaissance – the information-gathering
terrorists and other criminals need to do to plan.
This training initiative is timely given the proposed Protect
Duty legislation, something that Peter Lavery FSyI, chair
of The Security Institute, commented on at the launch
earlier this year of the Institute’s new ‘Protecting People
in Crowded Places Special Interest Group’. He cites the
“special responsibility” owners and operators would have
under the Duty to safeguard members of the public
and the important role that “crowd safety and security

36