United Kingdom – Project Griffin

Project Griffin was established six years ago by the City of London police, responsible for security in the UK capital’s financial district, which has been repeatedly targeted by terrorists. It is made up of four key activities:
- Awareness days for private security officers, delivered by the local police. These focus on how to recognise, respond to and report suspicious activity such as terrorist surveillance of a potential target.
- Online refresher courses which maintain participants’ interest and skills and enable formal accreditation.
- Regular communication between police and security officers, either by conference call, SMS message or e-mail, to ensure current intelligence and incident reports are disseminated in a timely manner.
- Emergency deployments: private security officers who have undergone Griffin training may be used by police to support them in responding to incidents, for instance in establishing and manning cordons.
Critical Infrastructure Security and Protection: The Public-Private Opportunity
White Paper by CoESS – Confederation of European Security Services © December 2010 9
Project Griffin has been rolled out to approximately half the police forces in the UK as well as to ports and airports, which have specialist security arrangements. It has also attracted attention in the United States, Australia and Singapore.
Souarce: http://www.coess.org/