Guidance

Crowded places guidance

Guidance on increasing the protection of crowded places from a terrorist attack.

• From: National Counter Terrorism Security Office
• Published: 2 November 2020

This publication was withdrawn on 30 May 2022

For the latest, up to date versions of NaCTSO guidance, please visit www.protectuk.police.uk. This NaCTSO page is no longer updated.

Documents

Introduction: Crowded Places

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Managing Risk, Business Continuity

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Threat Levels and building response plans

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Communication

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Unattended and Suspicious items

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Good Housekeeping

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Attack Methodology: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)

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Attack Methodology: Vehicle bombs

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Bomb Threats

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Chemical, Biological and Radiological (CBR) attacks

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Marauding Terrorist Attack (MTA): RUN. HIDE. TELL.

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Countering Threats from Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS)

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Vehicle as a weapon

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Physical security

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Evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, protected spaces

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CCTV

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Access control

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Search Planning

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Mail handling

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Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM)

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Digital built assets and environments

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Personnel and People Security

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Personnel security training and good practice

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Hostile Reconnaissance

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Document awareness

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Guidance for commercial vehicles and hire companies

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Personal security

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Overseas travel advice

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Cyber Security

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Access Control Checklist

ODT, 11 KB

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CCTV Checklist

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Crisis Response Kits Checklist

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Cyber Checklist

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Emergency and Business Continuity Checklist

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Ethane Checklist

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Good Housekeeping Checklist

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Personnel Security Checklist

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Search Planning Checklist

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Suspicious Behaviour Reporting Form

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Bomb Threats Checklist

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Details

The UK faces a real threat from terrorism and crowded places remain an attractive target.

Crowded places include shopping centres, sports stadia, bars, pubs and clubs which are easily accessible to the public and attractive to terrorists.

This guidance has been written to help those charged with security at crowded places mitigate the threat and help make the UK less vulnerable to an attack.

For site specific advice relating to your premises, contact your CTSA or use the non-emergency police telephone number 101.

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Published 2 November 2020