Police in training for 'Mumbai-style' gun attack in UK
A "scoop" by the BBC's Security Correspondent, sub-titled:
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UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police training to prepare for any future "Mumbai-style" gun attack in a public place.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11622218
The most interesting part is the embedded interview with an ex-SAS officer and listen to last few seconds.
Moderator's Note: I have changed the title (October 2010) to reflect the posts on the impact of the attacks.
UK military join UK police?
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Originally Posted by
carl
David:
The ex-SAS officer said UK patrol officers would need military training in order to effectively respond to such an attack... I would guess that a lot of combat experienced men have been or are entering our ...American police a valuable human resource with which to combat a Mumbai style attack. Would it be the same in the UK?
Carl,
I think the numbers of ex-military recruits to the UK police has dropped substantially in the last twenty years, partly as our military has shrunk, some have joined the PMC sector and the police has gone "up market" for college graduate-level education. A lot of UK firearms officers have no military background. Plus the police have not been recruiting large numbers and many now expect not to recruit for sometime - "cuts" in public spending (13% budget cut for my own employer, in one year).
Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story
Thanks to LWOT posting for drawing attention to this long article by a website I know of and rarely visit:
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Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica has produced a lengthy profile of Sajid Mir, the shadowy Pakistani figure with close links to Pakistani security forces who reportedly ran the 2008 Mumbai attacks for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Link:http://www.propublica.org/article/pa...e-untold-story
Some of the article on a quick read is not new.
Mumbai: US LE on lessons learnt
Via an Indian contact an article in the magazine of the Intl. Assoc. Chiefs of Police, reporting on a LAPD & Las Vegas PD visit to Mumbai: http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/m...issue_id=22011
Under 'More Questions than Answers' subtitle:
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To effectively learn from the lessons of Mumbai, police leaders must ask themselves these questions:
How effectively can your agency’s personnel observe, record, collect, process, interpret, and share suspicious preoperational terrorist activity?
How efficiently could your communications (9-1-1) center process the volume of phone calls, and what is the realistic communication and interaction between police, fire, and emergency medical services (EMS) under these circumstances?
How does your communications center relay real-time tactical information to your intelligence/fusion center?
How will your intelligence/fusion center relay actionable intelligence to the field commanders from police, fire, and EMS?
What response capability do you have from a regional perspective? Does your current response protocol involve only SWAT/tactical teams? Does your multiagency response protocol involve multiple venues in a coordinated attack?
How will the fire and emergency medical services react when facing an armed threat as well as active fires and wounded victims?
I recommend checking an Indian outlook:http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analy...ath-of-attacks
Having lived in Manahattan and Boston, I agree.
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tequila
Personally I don't think the AR in a car is a good idea or necessary...
The Northeastern corridor is unusual...
Pistols only for the Police work, light and high speed rail work, single payer medical care can work.
Having also lived in suburbs of other large cities in the South, Midwest and on the West Coast, it's a very different world. Small towns are yet more different -- for all those things. Huge nation, one size won't fit all.
Even for Cops, METT-TC -- and training -- make a difference. :wry:
Pakistan’s ISI On Trial….In Chicago
A commentary by SWC member Zenpundit on his blog site:http://zenpundit.com/?p=3942
I don't suppose the Federal Prosecutor thought the trial would be in a vacuum, but the lack of coverage and an official stance is puzzling.
Chicago trial: lessons learnt?
A fuller title 'Chicago Terrorism Trial: What We Learned, and Didn’t, About Pakistan’s Terror Connections' and a quick summary:http://www.propublica.org/article/ch...rned-and-didnt
The role of the informant remains murky and other parties confidence in how the USA managed him and what was gained is hardly secure.
Behind the latest Mumbai attacks: patience
An IISS expert was interviewed on the latest Mumbai attacks on BBC Radio 4 and the Q&A is here:http://www.iiss.org/whats-new/iiss-voices/?blogpost=213 *Broken link and IISS archive search failed*.
One wonders if the local group the Indian Mujahedeen decided it was time to re-appear, five years after their devasting attack on Mumbai trains, having been up-staged by the LeT attack?
My comment is contested by a RUSI analyst, partly as the Indian Mujahedeen are not an independent group due to their links to Let, ISI and others. A longer commentary, with an interesting graph on attacks in India, with Mumbai the focus:http://www.rusi.org/analysis/comment...4E1EAAC92F3AD/
The Mumbai Model and the threat of urban terrorism
A FP article which reviews the prospects for complex urban assaults, with many links within and worthy of adding here:http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts...rban_terrorism
To date there have been no repeats of Mumbai in the West and rightly the author reminds us that we are the lucky ones:
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The terrorist attacks in Kabul, Mumbai, and Pakistan constitute gruesome evidence of the important role of sound command and control and intelligence in dealing with the urban adversary's potential for operational disruption in crowded cities.